A home user may not need all of these features, but many of them are very useful when you are exposed to them on OS X ("offline folders" or "roaming user profiles"/ vs dotMac, sacalable processor/multiprocessor support). All home users are different, but you get alot more for free with Panther than with XP home.
Deciding the value of an OS based on the needs of a particular application can be misleading.
That $499 price point is just a starting point. After purchasing a keyboard, mouse, USB hub, and wifi adapter, it ain't as cheap
After buying that XP Pro license, some movie editing software, some music software, that magical non-existant piece of software that keeps you from ever getting any virus ever, a video card with dedicated VRAM, a 6-pin firewire card, a USB hub, and a wifi adapter, that Dell ain't as cheap.
Respectfully, I don't think this is an adequate solution. One of the things that makes the Internet content-rich and broadly opinionated medium is the accessibility (and forgiving nature) of HTML to the average user, and each browser's relative tolerance to malformed code. I think an important part of keeping HTML free (as in speech) is keeping it readable with the eyes and writable with the fingers in its source format, without a required authoring program acting as intermediary.
When you let people markup their own text, you will run into some non-spec pages, but the alternatives for a non-pro seem pretty poor:
use Word to make your web pages (we're talking beginners, here)
Try to hand-hack it, get XML PARSING ERROR 5 or six times (darn you Safari, even if you're right), and eventually give up because you never see that paragraph tag you forgot to close.
To specifically respond to your point, IF no browser rendered broken pages, all pages would be correctly built, BUT, only about a quarter of them would exist, only professional ones would look nice, and the pages extant would represent the views of far fewer numbers of people.
You most certainly can. The address book application provides no functionality to iChat, they merely look at the same repository of data. I'm running iChat right now, talking to buddies, and iChat is in the trash, and activity monitor shows it not running.
Does one need outlook to edit an MSN Messenger contact? Messenger users please respond.
It perhaps should be noted that "foo.app" in this example is not actually a directory, as far as the FS is concerned; foo.app is a file, strictly speaking, and its contents are chunks therein. MacOS treats bundle under certain contexts as a directory. Under other contexts, perilously, it treats bundles only as a files.
Peculiarly, you can cd into a bundle, but if you cp or ftp put a.app bundle, you will strip away it's resource fork in the process. Apple provides CpMac and MvMac to movie files without destroying their resource forks. Apple is fixing this permanently in 10.4, real soon now.
But, alas, this is not a "What's wrong with OS X" thread...
I'm not sure many EULAs would be enforcibile, if push came to shove, since (at least under Anglo-saxon law) a contract requires a meeting of the minds; the two parties agreeing to the contract have to both understand it in the same way, and both sides must go to reasonable lengths to make sure the other understands.
Given the length of some of these, their complexity, the ease with which they can be "agreed" to, the indifference of both sides (the buyer in reading, the publisher in making sure the buyer reads). I doubt many would stand in court.
But, if something doesn't stand in court, that means at least it GOT to court, and the parties could afford to argue over it. Many end-users can afford it, and so they're stuck.
Vegas is nice, 'cept it don't run on Mac, nor can it matchback to film, and nobody uses it for onlining.
Sony has issues whenever they try to sell a product that's supposed to work with someone else's workflow- they'd much rather reinvent the wheel (slightly square, with an axle diameter of x nano-furlongs). Yes I know Sony didn't invent Vegas, but they are not developing it in such a way that would help it get into the pro market. Many Vegas users just use it for its audio editing.
Premiere can at least generate and EDL, and Final Cut can make a film list and export AAF/OMF/XML. Of course, a lot of low-end finishing is starting to be done in FCP, obviating any need to export.
Sure they are still a monopoly but competition is competition. The only way Microsoft can really dethrone google is if they come out with a better internet search engine.
They could do that if they wanted, but it's much easier to just build a knockoff search engine and make it the OS default. It also helps to put a cute little alias to its URL on the desktop that says "Search the Internet!"
I know no one it taking this seriously, but when the gender of a person is indeterminate or conditional, an established practice is for the author to use his own gender.
Hence, I, a male, use "his own gender" in the previous sentence, while a female writer would use "her." It would be safe to assume that the author of the Spotlight article was female.
the Aironet installer is creating one with 775 me:staff permissions...
This is clear example of where 3rd party driver/install software can break the "sane" security model of Unix.
It seems that this would be hard to fix, if you are shipping your machines with optional root accounts. If an installer needs to modify the/Library/StartupItems folder, and there is no root user on the machine, the installer would be stuck until the operator decided to create one.
The problem is, Apple doesn't want the average user to HAVE to create one. And I agree with them. Troublesome, though.
They'll be the most expensive place to buy Sony products, only carry home electronics (no computers or parts), and be staffed by people who know all the buzzwords but have little idea what they mean.
Where's a $100 flying fader panel with Linux drivers?
Audio and Linux don't mix. Or do they? Anyone who knows, please respond.
You're unlikely to find flying-fader anything for less than a thousand USD. The celebrated Mackie HUI is no longer with us, but Mackie Universal Control is cool, and talks to everything.
Positively beautiful piece of equipment, if it did Midi it would be a great replacement for my MIR midi controller (which I use to control Pro Tools transport and to tweak my reverb). I particularly like the Tron-style buttons.
It doesn't seem to support MIDI, and I ask, WHY? I'm all for adoption of open standards, but is not MIDI, or even MTS, open and available for anyone to implement? I loooked up OSC and it looks very promising, but it is completely absent from Digidesign's or Logic's or Nuendo's web sites. This is a severe hinderance and makes the tool almost useless to people who do alot of post-production work, which would seem to be where their core audience is, given what I bet it costs.
This said, I bet Digidesign, if inclined, could make up a Personality file to allow this thing to control Pro Tools.
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Also, I'm the first assistant at a post-sound house in LA--whose name is beneath the threshold of mention-- and I'm finding that with Control-24s, Pro Controls and other such gear every editor needs their own physical network segment, otherwise the LAN melts down. Desktop busses were invented for a reason, why don't they use them?
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This would be much better as 1394, or... USB 2. There, I said it.
PS. The OSC web site says that OSC has a PHP interface!
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Notice the PC beside it. Makes for easy copying.
I think XP Pro is a more even comparison, feature by feature, with OS X 10.3.
A home user may not need all of these features, but many of them are very useful when you are exposed to them on OS X ("offline folders" or "roaming user profiles"/ vs dotMac, sacalable processor/multiprocessor support). All home users are different, but you get alot more for free with Panther than with XP home.
Deciding the value of an OS based on the needs of a particular application can be misleading.
Netcraft reads that macworldexpo.com, 24 hours later, is STILL down. Maybe they just gave up and pulled the plug.
Who would go to the expo site? It's just sales-brochure type stuff. The blogs are where people get validated!
That $499 price point is just a starting point. After purchasing a keyboard, mouse, USB hub, and wifi adapter, it ain't as cheap
After buying that XP Pro license, some movie editing software, some music software, that magical non-existant piece of software that keeps you from ever getting any virus ever, a video card with dedicated VRAM, a 6-pin firewire card, a USB hub, and a wifi adapter, that Dell ain't as cheap.
With all respect.
Did they ever get that thing into production, aside from doing Linpack?
I seem to remember it being the TV business, from HST's Generation of Swine.
Respectfully, I don't think this is an adequate solution. One of the things that makes the Internet content-rich and broadly opinionated medium is the accessibility (and forgiving nature) of HTML to the average user, and each browser's relative tolerance to malformed code. I think an important part of keeping HTML free (as in speech) is keeping it readable with the eyes and writable with the fingers in its source format, without a required authoring program acting as intermediary.
When you let people markup their own text, you will run into some non-spec pages, but the alternatives for a non-pro seem pretty poor:
use Word to make your web pages (we're talking beginners, here)
Try to hand-hack it, get XML PARSING ERROR 5 or six times (darn you Safari, even if you're right), and eventually give up because you never see that paragraph tag you forgot to close.
To specifically respond to your point, IF no browser rendered broken pages, all pages would be correctly built, BUT, only about a quarter of them would exist, only professional ones would look nice, and the pages extant would represent the views of far fewer numbers of people.
NPR reports this as being the last American plant. Are foreign manufacturers (BASF, etc) still making 1/4 inch?
You most certainly can. The address book application provides no functionality to iChat, they merely look at the same repository of data. I'm running iChat right now, talking to buddies, and iChat is in the trash, and activity monitor shows it not running.
Does one need outlook to edit an MSN Messenger contact? Messenger users please respond.
Parent is correct
It perhaps should be noted that "foo.app" in this example is not actually a directory, as far as the FS is concerned; foo.app is a file, strictly speaking, and its contents are chunks therein. MacOS treats bundle under certain contexts as a directory. Under other contexts, perilously, it treats bundles only as a files.
Peculiarly, you can cd into a bundle, but if you cp or ftp put a .app bundle, you will strip away it's resource fork in the process. Apple provides CpMac and MvMac to movie files without destroying their resource forks. Apple is fixing this permanently in 10.4, real soon now.
But, alas, this is not a "What's wrong with OS X" thread...
It found a couple copies of the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Nothing. I'm very shocked.
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howaboutabeowulfclusterof ZAP! ^D
I'm not sure many EULAs would be enforcibile, if push came to shove, since (at least under Anglo-saxon law) a contract requires a meeting of the minds; the two parties agreeing to the contract have to both understand it in the same way, and both sides must go to reasonable lengths to make sure the other understands.
Given the length of some of these, their complexity, the ease with which they can be "agreed" to, the indifference of both sides (the buyer in reading, the publisher in making sure the buyer reads). I doubt many would stand in court.
But, if something doesn't stand in court, that means at least it GOT to court, and the parties could afford to argue over it. Many end-users can afford it, and so they're stuck.
Vegas is nice, 'cept it don't run on Mac, nor can it matchback to film, and nobody uses it for onlining.
Sony has issues whenever they try to sell a product that's supposed to work with someone else's workflow- they'd much rather reinvent the wheel (slightly square, with an axle diameter of x nano-furlongs). Yes I know Sony didn't invent Vegas, but they are not developing it in such a way that would help it get into the pro market. Many Vegas users just use it for its audio editing.
Premiere can at least generate and EDL, and Final Cut can make a film list and export AAF/OMF/XML. Of course, a lot of low-end finishing is starting to be done in FCP, obviating any need to export.
What do we do?
I will happily keep my treo 270, still a fantastic smartphone for my needs, and will wait for next year.
Sure they are still a monopoly but competition is competition. The only way Microsoft can really dethrone google is if they come out with a better internet search engine.
They could do that if they wanted, but it's much easier to just build a knockoff search engine and make it the OS default. It also helps to put a cute little alias to its URL on the desktop that says "Search the Internet!"
MLA Style Guide. Of course, unfortunately for me, it ain't on the net.
I know no one it taking this seriously, but when the gender of a person is indeterminate or conditional, an established practice is for the author to use his own gender.
Hence, I, a male, use "his own gender" in the previous sentence, while a female writer would use "her." It would be safe to assume that the author of the Spotlight article was female.
At least Apple didn't use the singular "they."
Awesome, I finally have a use for that Emacs NES cartridge I got all those years ago at Funcoland.
the Aironet installer is creating one with 775 me:staff permissions... This is clear example of where 3rd party driver/install software can break the "sane" security model of Unix.
It seems that this would be hard to fix, if you are shipping your machines with optional root accounts. If an installer needs to modify the /Library/StartupItems folder, and there is no root user on the machine, the installer would be stuck until the operator decided to create one.
The problem is, Apple doesn't want the average user to HAVE to create one. And I agree with them. Troublesome, though.
They'll be the most expensive place to buy Sony products, only carry home electronics (no computers or parts), and be staffed by people who know all the buzzwords but have little idea what they mean.
America does not need another Radio Shack!
Where's a $100 flying fader panel with Linux drivers?
Audio and Linux don't mix. Or do they? Anyone who knows, please respond.
You're unlikely to find flying-fader anything for less than a thousand USD. The celebrated Mackie HUI is no longer with us, but Mackie Universal Control is cool, and talks to everything.
...are they selling this thing yet, or what?
Positively beautiful piece of equipment, if it did Midi it would be a great replacement for my MIR midi controller (which I use to control Pro Tools transport and to tweak my reverb). I particularly like the Tron-style buttons.
It doesn't seem to support MIDI, and I ask, WHY? I'm all for adoption of open standards, but is not MIDI, or even MTS, open and available for anyone to implement? I loooked up OSC and it looks very promising, but it is completely absent from Digidesign's or Logic's or Nuendo's web sites. This is a severe hinderance and makes the tool almost useless to people who do alot of post-production work, which would seem to be where their core audience is, given what I bet it costs.
This said, I bet Digidesign, if inclined, could make up a Personality file to allow this thing to control Pro Tools.
Also, I'm the first assistant at a post-sound house in LA--whose name is beneath the threshold of mention-- and I'm finding that with Control-24s, Pro Controls and other such gear every editor needs their own physical network segment, otherwise the LAN melts down. Desktop busses were invented for a reason, why don't they use them? This would be much better as 1394, or... USB 2. There, I said it.PS. The OSC web site says that OSC has a PHP interface!