If my aim is to change the world, what do I stand to gain by stifling development of my own invention?
Here's a better question: If your aim is to change the world, what the fuck are you doing wasting time answering questions from a bunch of morons on Slashdot?
I'm curious to know why you think it's okay to go back and
"fix" mistakes and flaws in older movies. You might as well colorize black and white movies.
Interesting to note that iTunes is still a Carbon application (pause it in gdb and do a backtrace if you don't believe me -- it's calling WaitNextEvent, not NSApplicationMain). So it appears WebCore can be used from either Carbon or Cocoa apps.
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...the whole point of a lossy compression format is to replicate the orginal uncompressed format in the truest manner while keeping file size to a minimum.
Where "truest" means "truest as far as the listener can tell". In other words, perceived quality.
Quicktime, Colorsync, Quickdraw 3D (damn them for killing it), Quickdraw GX (ditto), Newton handwriting recognition, etc.
I'm sure you could try to come up with some ham-fisted reasons why you think those don't matter, but save it. People who actually know what they are talking about (i.e., not you) know better.
That's a pretty uninformed assessment. See David K. Every's excellent essay on the subject for some relevant info.
Although one factor he fails to emphasize enough is that, for various political and business reasons, Apple was forced to start over several times (first Pink, then Copland, etc.)
Unfortunately, alot of people have problems with the audio. Basically, the problem is that the new quicktime movies use aac (advanced audio codec) audio instead of mp3 like older quicktime files.
Actually, most of the older trailers used a QDesign codec for sound, not MP3.
You're probably not going to get an answer, because the editors seem to take a very adversarial relationship with their readers. Criticism of any kind is usually met with hostility, smug condescension, or indifference (sometimes all three). They laugh and giggle and snicker when people like you get pissed off at them, then later do it whatever it was again on purpose just to get another rise out of you.
Biting the hand that feeds them, and failing to take pride in their work. A winning combination!
Again, one would question the need. Exactly whose bandwidth do you think you're saving? I'm getting multimegabyte per second download speeds from the official site. Do you really think the BT "community" can improve on that? Or would really need to even if it could?
Now, as far as spatially oriented interfaces being insufficient for the task of managing many thousands of files... there is something to that. The old Finder would have absolutely choked on certain computing situations common now (giant nested MP3/photo folders, for instance). It just doesn't scale to that many files cleanly.
You couldn't be more wrong. I've seen people with thousands of files in a single folder on the classic Mac OS that they were able to navigate just fine. List view and type select made it easy to manage huge numbers of files. It didn't "choke". It scaled.
Every time I see somebody who thinks they've got the "serious work" situation that breaks the old-style Mac Finder, it turns out they just think it can't be done because they've never seen it done.
Yes, but at many companies, they seem to know (even if many people are too bummed out to acknowledge this) that the business cycle will come around again. And they are terrified that all the good people will scatter as soon as times get better. At my company, HR was even holding focus groups to find out what employees thought the company could do to keep morale up.
Well, of COURSE I'm kidding. Jeez, it really sucks when you have to explain the joke to people. I was trying to illustrate the absurdity of the parent post's blanket statement. I guess I failed.
You are not a paranoid lunatic. You are absolutely right. Your little essay should be printed out and taped to the foreheads of all those morons who constantly quote John Gilmore. Ever since I first started hearing idiots claim the internet "can't be controlled" back in the late 1990s, I knew some group of corporations would come along one day and prove otherwise. That day is rapidly approaching.
...(of Why Unicode Won't Work On The Internet fame)...
In other words, a complete and utter moron.
Seriously, after that Unicode article of his, anyone who knows anything about i18n can tell you this fellow is an idiot who does not do his research, and doesn't understand the things he does research. Just ignore him.
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You'd be surprised how much stuff in Mac OS X is AltiVec optimized. Even memcpy gets a boost from it. It's a lot more than just a "gimmick".
Here's a better question: If your aim is to change the world, what the fuck are you doing wasting time answering questions from a bunch of morons on Slashdot?
I'm curious to know why you think it's okay to go back and "fix" mistakes and flaws in older movies. You might as well colorize black and white movies.
Interesting to note that iTunes is still a Carbon application (pause it in gdb and do a backtrace if you don't believe me -- it's calling WaitNextEvent, not NSApplicationMain). So it appears WebCore can be used from either Carbon or Cocoa apps.
Where "truest" means "truest as far as the listener can tell". In other words, perceived quality.
Correct. Unless something big changes (like MS decides to provide out-of-the-box support for it), Ogg will never take off.
Not a double-standard, just a plain old lie.
Quicktime, Colorsync, Quickdraw 3D (damn them for killing it), Quickdraw GX (ditto), Newton handwriting recognition, etc.
I'm sure you could try to come up with some ham-fisted reasons why you think those don't matter, but save it. People who actually know what they are talking about (i.e., not you) know better.
Although one factor he fails to emphasize enough is that, for various political and business reasons, Apple was forced to start over several times (first Pink, then Copland, etc.)
There is a little-used IMAX "HD" format that is 48fps, but standard IMAX is 24fps, just like theatrical 35mm.
Biting the hand that feeds them, and failing to take pride in their work. A winning combination!
- They allow one company to control all the boards.
- They know people manipulate the boards, but trust them anyway.
- From the sound of it, they use them as their sole source of information in many cases.
Not smart. Not smart at all.Again, one would question the need. Exactly whose bandwidth do you think you're saving? I'm getting multimegabyte per second download speeds from the official site. Do you really think the BT "community" can improve on that? Or would really need to even if it could?
It's the model where programmers actually get paid. Boy that sure is silly!
Your first problem is actually believing something that appeared in a Slashdot story writeup.
So you mean any jackass with a home video camera can book his crappy Star Wars fanfic in a theater? Why, that's going to be fucking Utopia!
You couldn't be more wrong. I've seen people with thousands of files in a single folder on the classic Mac OS that they were able to navigate just fine. List view and type select made it easy to manage huge numbers of files. It didn't "choke". It scaled.
Every time I see somebody who thinks they've got the "serious work" situation that breaks the old-style Mac Finder, it turns out they just think it can't be done because they've never seen it done.
Yes, but at many companies, they seem to know (even if many people are too bummed out to acknowledge this) that the business cycle will come around again. And they are terrified that all the good people will scatter as soon as times get better. At my company, HR was even holding focus groups to find out what employees thought the company could do to keep morale up.
Well, of COURSE I'm kidding. Jeez, it really sucks when you have to explain the joke to people. I was trying to illustrate the absurdity of the parent post's blanket statement. I guess I failed.
Yeah, all serious graphic artists use the command line version of Photoshop.
Michael Powell dissented, dummy.
You are not a paranoid lunatic. You are absolutely right. Your little essay should be printed out and taped to the foreheads of all those morons who constantly quote John Gilmore. Ever since I first started hearing idiots claim the internet "can't be controlled" back in the late 1990s, I knew some group of corporations would come along one day and prove otherwise. That day is rapidly approaching.
IBM deserves no end of crap about their behavior. "I'm only going to play one match, and if I win, I will retire undefeated!Ha ha!!"
In other words, a complete and utter moron.
Seriously, after that Unicode article of his, anyone who knows anything about i18n can tell you this fellow is an idiot who does not do his research, and doesn't understand the things he does research. Just ignore him.