The author is a "known" MS Shill. He'll often post "Screenshots" that are either complete mockups of features or given to him by MS employees to post and passes them off as his own experience.
How can you review mockups that don't actually exist?
But he gets paid because even though his articles are usually horribly inaccurate, they bring in a *lot* of readers. After all, this one was/.'ed.Sigh.
Let's take it from the cynics view, shall we? This guy's job is to "understand" the Pros and Cons of Linux and OSS. He then reports the Cons to the marketing department and they use it in their anti-Linux campaign. And with the Samba stuff, his team is looking for fundamental ways MS can break interoperability. In such a way the Samba team can't fix it. Either because it is fundamental or it's been patented or MS can otherwise block its inclusion.
I tend to always look at all MS statements as being part of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" mantra.
And what's that saying? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
The mere rumor that there MIGHT be DRM onboard means I'm not buying one when they come out.
yeah, but you wouldn't buy one anyways. That's the problem with all these people that say "if apple just did this and that, I'd buy one." No, you wouldn't. Apple could sell OS X for $19.95 and you still wouldn't buy it.
It is actually working for them since almost every single rumor out there is wrong. About what the kits come with, what they don't come with, et cetera. This goes to show that most of the people that do have the devkits are keeping their mouth shuts.
The rumors out there are likely "Well, I heard from this one guy... that attended WWDC on a Student Scholarship that the dev kits..."
The fact that it's already been confirmed that iLife '05 ships on the Intel Macs? Did you even watch the WWDC keynote you're referring to? Jobs' entire presentation was done on the Intel Mac.
They do, do they? Where was it confirmed? And at what point in the keynote did Jobs ever show off anything but iPhoto and iTunes? http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/ There's the keynote. Go ahead, tell me where.
and FWIW, I was at the keynote. What's in the dock during the keynote is all that comes with the dev kits.
If your default boot disk is available then a normal Mac doesn't take anytime looking for other boot devices. These Intel dev Macs do support booting from USB drives so that is not the case anyway.
What makes you think they support booting from USB drives?
OSX kernel extensions are very rare. Almost no program uses them except Norton products(anti-virus and disk doctor). I recommend staying away from Norton stuff for this reason and using Alsoft's Disk Warrior. Third party kernel extensions are a bad idea on any OS.
Uhm, I hope you realize that apple includes many as well that aren't exactly usable on these Dev kits. Such as Bluetooth kexts, ATI kexts (or Nvidia kexts), Airport kexts, netboot, FWTDM kexts, Audio kexts (there are 8 audio kexts loaded on my G5), CHUD kexts, fan control kexts, slew, voltage, sensor kexts, and other kinds of kexts that either lack the hardware or software support on the Intel Dev Kits.
Then for third party kexts there are Logitech Drivers, Norton Utilities kexts, Virtual PC kexts, the Ambrosia kext, DiskWarrior kexts, and many other third party drivers and kexts that shouldn't be loading at startup and shouldn't even be kexts but are.
What features are lacking?? The Intel dev Macs have Firefox, iPhoto, iDVD, and Quicktime installed. The average user may install some extra dashboard widgets and a driver or two, but I doubt that would add more than a couple seconds to boot time.
What makes you think these dev kits have either iDVD or Firefox installed on them? Did you see iDVD in use during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote?
See above for a large list. You don't need to load a kext for hardware that doesn't exist.
Yes, the other factors are that the dev kits don't support any kind of special features. It's standard PC BIOS so it doesn't have to bother to search any of the many other places/buses a standard mac can boot from.
Also, since plugins cannot be emulated, there is no way for anyone to install kernel extensions that slow down the boot times of OS X.
In other words, the speed these people think they're seeing are actually do to a horrific lack of features.
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Except it doesn't. Look at the documentation for said function. It does permit you to specify a color key (just like GIF) but using a color key isn't per pixel alpha by any stretch of the imagination. It's just saying "turn off *all* pixels of this color to off".
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No, Windows doesn't support per pixel alpha levels. Just per window alpha. And when you do set per window alpha, weird things happen if you drag a non-transparent window over a transparent one (sometimes the image of the non-transparent one will be "embedded" in the transparent one).
It's probably more like you'd be jumping into a version of 1978 that always existed, one in which the range of possibilities included you coming into that 1978. No biggy. Just par for the course.
Not sure what you mean by it's free if you paid for a dev toolkit. It's part of Xcode 2.1 and Xcode can be downloaded freely by anyone. There is no charge to get an ADC account. And Xcode 2.1 will be included on new macs and likely on the 10.4.2 refresh DVDs. So no need to purchase anything but a mac. (you don't even need to buy a mac to get it, either).
Well, seems that people are fighting back. blogs.msdn.com has been/'d. I guess community server can't handle the load from slashdot. Doesn't say much about Microsoft's products, does it?
Correct, and there is no reason for them to be. Making them 64-bit would increase RAM usage, slow down generalized applications, and eat up HD space (since OS X is a universal install).
The speed gains seen on x64 systems are not there because it is 64-bit. They are there because of the massive other changes to the processor such as double the general purpose and SSE registers. Compiling as 64-bit just tells the processor you don't care about backwards compatibility so the compiler will use the extra registers and instructions on the x64 chips.
dang it. I though and was hoping this article was about Brandon Heat, a former mafia hit man (and second in command basically) come back to life to kill the person that betrayed the family...
No, this deal could mean the end of the multiverse as we know. Much of what was driving these two companies was their never ending battle to do the other one better. Many conventions, documentation, "classes" compared one company's product to another and if one company was lacking a feature the other had, they'd try to outdo it by a large margin.
Now, what silly patent/legal battle do we have to watch that occurs between two behemoths that basically were the entire industry.
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The author is a "known" MS Shill. He'll often post "Screenshots" that are either complete mockups of features or given to him by MS employees to post and passes them off as his own experience.
/.'ed.Sigh.
How can you review mockups that don't actually exist?
But he gets paid because even though his articles are usually horribly inaccurate, they bring in a *lot* of readers. After all, this one was
And it has picture in picture!
Don't see a lot of marketing fluf
Then you obviously aren't paying attention.
Let's take it from the cynics view, shall we? This guy's job is to "understand" the Pros and Cons of Linux and OSS. He then reports the Cons to the marketing department and they use it in their anti-Linux campaign. And with the Samba stuff, his team is looking for fundamental ways MS can break interoperability. In such a way the Samba team can't fix it. Either because it is fundamental or it's been patented or MS can otherwise block its inclusion.
I tend to always look at all MS statements as being part of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" mantra.
And what's that saying? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Cisco, for example, has complied with this new rule before it even existed.
The mere rumor that there MIGHT be DRM onboard means I'm not buying one when they come out.
yeah, but you wouldn't buy one anyways. That's the problem with all these people that say "if apple just did this and that, I'd buy one." No, you wouldn't. Apple could sell OS X for $19.95 and you still wouldn't buy it.
It is actually working for them since almost every single rumor out there is wrong. About what the kits come with, what they don't come with, et cetera. This goes to show that most of the people that do have the devkits are keeping their mouth shuts.
The rumors out there are likely "Well, I heard from this one guy... that attended WWDC on a Student Scholarship that the dev kits..."
The fact that it's already been confirmed that iLife '05 ships on the Intel Macs? Did you even watch the WWDC keynote you're referring to? Jobs' entire presentation was done on the Intel Mac.
They do, do they? Where was it confirmed? And at what point in the keynote did Jobs ever show off anything but iPhoto and iTunes? http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/ There's the keynote. Go ahead, tell me where.
and FWIW, I was at the keynote. What's in the dock during the keynote is all that comes with the dev kits.
If your default boot disk is available then a normal Mac doesn't take anytime looking for other boot devices. These Intel dev Macs do support booting from USB drives so that is not the case anyway.
What makes you think they support booting from USB drives?
OSX kernel extensions are very rare. Almost no program uses them except Norton products(anti-virus and disk doctor). I recommend staying away from Norton stuff for this reason and using Alsoft's Disk Warrior. Third party kernel extensions are a bad idea on any OS.
Uhm, I hope you realize that apple includes many as well that aren't exactly usable on these Dev kits. Such as Bluetooth kexts, ATI kexts (or Nvidia kexts), Airport kexts, netboot, FWTDM kexts, Audio kexts (there are 8 audio kexts loaded on my G5), CHUD kexts, fan control kexts, slew, voltage, sensor kexts, and other kinds of kexts that either lack the hardware or software support on the Intel Dev Kits.
Then for third party kexts there are Logitech Drivers, Norton Utilities kexts, Virtual PC kexts, the Ambrosia kext, DiskWarrior kexts, and many other third party drivers and kexts that shouldn't be loading at startup and shouldn't even be kexts but are.
What features are lacking?? The Intel dev Macs have Firefox, iPhoto, iDVD, and Quicktime installed. The average user may install some extra dashboard widgets and a driver or two, but I doubt that would add more than a couple seconds to boot time.
What makes you think these dev kits have either iDVD or Firefox installed on them? Did you see iDVD in use during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote?
See above for a large list. You don't need to load a kext for hardware that doesn't exist.
Yes, the other factors are that the dev kits don't support any kind of special features. It's standard PC BIOS so it doesn't have to bother to search any of the many other places/buses a standard mac can boot from.
Also, since plugins cannot be emulated, there is no way for anyone to install kernel extensions that slow down the boot times of OS X.
In other words, the speed these people think they're seeing are actually do to a horrific lack of features.
Except it doesn't. Look at the documentation for said function. It does permit you to specify a color key (just like GIF) but using a color key isn't per pixel alpha by any stretch of the imagination. It's just saying "turn off *all* pixels of this color to off".
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No, Windows doesn't support per pixel alpha levels. Just per window alpha. And when you do set per window alpha, weird things happen if you drag a non-transparent window over a transparent one (sometimes the image of the non-transparent one will be "embedded" in the transparent one).
I think it looks a lot more like Safari.
IE7: http://www.flexbeta.net/gsurface/ie7/ie72.jpg
Safari: http://www.unsanity.org/rosyna/imgs/safarirss.png
Pretty much identical. Actually looks like MS is trying to figure out how to organize the right area so it doesn't look like such a blatant ripoff.
It's probably more like you'd be jumping into a version of 1978 that always existed, one in which the range of possibilities included you coming into that 1978. No biggy. Just par for the course.
Not sure what you mean by it's free if you paid for a dev toolkit. It's part of Xcode 2.1 and Xcode can be downloaded freely by anyone. There is no charge to get an ADC account. And Xcode 2.1 will be included on new macs and likely on the 10.4.2 refresh DVDs. So no need to purchase anything but a mac. (you don't even need to buy a mac to get it, either).
Yeah. Prove how useful you are to the company and how much you deserve to keep your job by not working!
Well, seems that people are fighting back. blogs.msdn.com has been /'d. I guess community server can't handle the load from slashdot. Doesn't say much about Microsoft's products, does it?
Yeah, I'm evil.
And people wonder why americans are so fat. In america, those kinds of burgers are labeled "Jr."
Yes, if goatse.cx is porn...
But either way, if you installed Paranoid Android (direct link) it will ask you to approve the url. And it is opensourced too.
No, it isn't in beta yet. It hasn't reached beta status yet.
Carbon and Cocoa are not 64-bit.
Correct, and there is no reason for them to be. Making them 64-bit would increase RAM usage, slow down generalized applications, and eat up HD space (since OS X is a universal install).
The speed gains seen on x64 systems are not there because it is 64-bit. They are there because of the massive other changes to the processor such as double the general purpose and SSE registers. Compiling as 64-bit just tells the processor you don't care about backwards compatibility so the compiler will use the extra registers and instructions on the x64 chips.
If by steal you mean legally came to an agreement with xerox. Then yes.
dang it. I though and was hoping this article was about Brandon Heat, a former mafia hit man (and second in command basically) come back to life to kill the person that betrayed the family...
Good point and all. But what's a menulet? Some word you just made up? They're called menu extras.
Then again, these MAC things weird me out. I need to get a new Apple when MAC announces them.
No, this deal could mean the end of the multiverse as we know. Much of what was driving these two companies was their never ending battle to do the other one better. Many conventions, documentation, "classes" compared one company's product to another and if one company was lacking a feature the other had, they'd try to outdo it by a large margin.
Now, what silly patent/legal battle do we have to watch that occurs between two behemoths that basically were the entire industry.
Hmm, I wonder if font book is scriptable.
Also, Playing DVDs in the dock is by far the only reason I am getting Tiger.