Apple's management really need to gather up their courage and actually establish some guidelines for approval. It seems apparent to me that such guidelines don't exist at all, even inside Apple, so the staff responsible for approval of apps have to make their own guess. Whether your app gets approved depends on the personal opinion of whichever random Apple staffer it was whose desk it came across, which would be why Apple's policy seems so inconsistent.
I was talking to a stereo repair guy in San Diego when a woman brought in an old record player, which happened to have the 16RPM speed available on it. He said that those records were pretty much just used for speech due to the low speed, and were mostly religious sermons recorded by preachers and sent out to their "flock" in the 1950's. (Presumably they switched to tape once that became common and affordable.)
That's exactly the kind of movie that I want to see in the theater anyway - going to see it in IMAX tonight in fact. I don't know how anyone can stand watching a movie like that from a crappy cam DIVX. (Although, that's how I watched Deuce Bigalo 2, and the funniest part of that movie was seeing the silhouettes of people getting up to go to the bathroom.)
I'm also going to go to the theater for the Arrested Development movie when it comes out, not just because I can't wait to see it but also to do my part to encourage the further production of GOOD movies. Just bought the Series on DVD, voting with my dollars in a positive way.
If they want to stop piracy, they need to MAKE BETTER MOVIES!
Perhaps not; but then there'd be tons of complaints from the "community", and the CentOS folks could just pool their money and buy a copy anyway.
Really, I doubt RedHat has a problem with this; the reason people buy RHEL is for the support.
It's all (I believe) GPL, so they HAVE to provide the source, and there's nothing to prevent someone else compiling and releasing it as CentOS does. They'll just have to deal with it.
I get the impression that a lot of people are thinking of "compression" in terms of WAV -> MP3. Here it means amplitude compression, reducing the dynamic range: quiet and loud sounds approach the same (louder) level in order to make the CD sound louder, which is apparently more appealing to dumb-ass teens who like Britney and her ilk.
Technically CD's should sound much better than vinyl, but in reality they often don't because of this decision made in the mastering process by the studios. If you want to hear how good a CD can actually sound, listen to the Cowboy Junkies "The Trinity Session" CD.
I've been gradually digitizing my vinyl collection from a decent Sony turntable and burning them onto CD. It then sounds just as good as the vinyl, including the wide dynamic range characteristics, but also the normal background noise which I reduce as much as possible by cleaning the record carefully beforehand. It certainly sounds no worse at all than just playing the vinyl.
Having paid extra for the superdrive in my Mac Mini, I'd say don't bother; just get an external 5.25" drive in an enclosure.
The Superdrive is a crappy Matsushita that craps out after a year or so and can't handle ripping other regions anyway. I swapped in a Pioneer KR06 (a slim, slot-loading drive) and it's also crapped out - can't handle CD's anymore (though it still does DVD's fine - go figure; turns out it's a common problem with this model - crappy CD laser).
I did what those who are savvy have been recommending and got an external Pioneer 112 drive in a Firewire enclosure, and it's working fine.
I've come to the conclusion that slim DVD burners are just too unreliable.
A coworker of mine has a Macbook with Vista installed in Parallels; when the Vista VM is "idle" and showing no CPU activity, OSX shows Parallels using up to 25%! Note that this does not happen with XP, Solaris 10, or Linux VMs.
Perhaps that is why Vista eats notebook batteries so much faster than XP? It's always, secretly busy doing something.
32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives can kill anyone they want! 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives with all of my body (including my pee pee).
If they can get the "typing" speed up to something reasonable, this system could allow for those who've suffered from tendonitis or carpal-tunnel syndrome to keep working.
A friend of mine is on disability and working only part time due to severe tendonitis caused by typing, and I know he'd jump at the chance to use this if it meant that he could go back to working full time. (Getting disability payments in California is like pulling teeth every month, and you definately have to "lawyer-up" to get them.)
It might have, but I got it for $100 on eBay a few years ago. By now you could probably get one for almost nothing; amazing how quickly technology depreciates.
I installed XP Pro on an old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT with a 120Mhz Pentium, memory maxed out at 144MB (actually a decent amount for that generation of hardware), drive upgraded to 6GB. The machine originally ran Windows 3.11, had a 500MB drive, and 16MB RAM.
Microsoft dropped support for the Tecra's Chips&Technologies video chipset, so I used the driver from Win2K; also didn't support acceleration at 24-bit (worked but with pretty slow screen drawing) so set it to 16-bit color, worked great.
Machine has a CDROM but BIOS won't boot from it so I had to boot the WinXP install floppies which you have to download from Microsoft; different set of disks for XP Pro and XP Home.
Not going to win any speed records, but quite useable.
$600 for the mini isn't insane because you're paying for the miniaturized components; it's in the same price ballpark as, for example, the Shuttle PC.
The problem is that Apple doesn't offer a regular-sized, consumer-level Core2Duo-based tower computer. The Mac Pro certainly doesn't count because it's Xeon-based, high-end workstation hardware and you pay for that.
Wrong; it's a driver/firmware issue. LBA48 support could have been added via a firmware patch but Apple chose not to do that. The fact that the HiCap driver from Intech works (see http://www.speedtools.com/index.shtml) proves that the hardware is capable. It's also proven by the fact that the IDE driver in Linux has no problem accessing large drives on those controllers (just make sure your kernel is in a/boot partition within the first 128GB on the disk). It's a software problem, not a hardware one.
The only reason that OSX cannot access large drives on those controllers without the Intech driver is that Apple deliberately probrammed the IDE driver to limit itself upon detecting a limited controller firmware, in order to ensure data integrity when mixing OSX and Classic environments on the same drive.
"the incident that led to the banning of lawn darts was mostly a result of the combination of lawn darts and beer."
I find it kind of annoying that the wikipedia article didn't describe what actually happened; nor did I have any luck googling for the incident, just got repeats of the above quote.
Anybody know what actually happened? I'd like to judge for myself the merit of the ban, rather than just hearing vague hype.
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Apple's management really need to gather up their courage and actually establish some guidelines for approval. It seems apparent to me that such guidelines don't exist at all, even inside Apple, so the staff responsible for approval of apps have to make their own guess. Whether your app gets approved depends on the personal opinion of whichever random Apple staffer it was whose desk it came across, which would be why Apple's policy seems so inconsistent.
Do they claim to be from France?
... can it run IRIX? :)
I was talking to a stereo repair guy in San Diego when a woman brought in an old record player, which happened to have the 16RPM speed available on it. He said that those records were pretty much just used for speech due to the low speed, and were mostly religious sermons recorded by preachers and sent out to their "flock" in the 1950's. (Presumably they switched to tape once that became common and affordable.)
That's exactly the kind of movie that I want to see in the theater anyway - going to see it in IMAX tonight in fact. I don't know how anyone can stand watching a movie like that from a crappy cam DIVX.
(Although, that's how I watched Deuce Bigalo 2, and the funniest part of that movie was seeing the silhouettes of people getting up to go to the bathroom.)
I'm also going to go to the theater for the Arrested Development movie when it comes out, not just because I can't wait to see it but also to do my part to encourage the further production of GOOD movies. Just bought the Series on DVD, voting with my dollars in a positive way.
If they want to stop piracy, they need to MAKE BETTER MOVIES!
Thank you for responding and sticking up for yourself. I wish that more women would do likewise instead of just quietly leaving, as you say.
Perhaps not; but then there'd be tons of complaints from the "community", and the CentOS folks could just pool their money and buy a copy anyway. Really, I doubt RedHat has a problem with this; the reason people buy RHEL is for the support.
It's all (I believe) GPL, so they HAVE to provide the source, and there's nothing to prevent someone else compiling and releasing it as CentOS does. They'll just have to deal with it.
I get the impression that a lot of people are thinking of "compression" in terms of WAV -> MP3. Here it means amplitude compression, reducing the dynamic range: quiet and loud sounds approach the same (louder) level in order to make the CD sound louder, which is apparently more appealing to dumb-ass teens who like Britney and her ilk.
Technically CD's should sound much better than vinyl, but in reality they often don't because of this decision made in the mastering process by the studios. If you want to hear how good a CD can actually sound, listen to the Cowboy Junkies "The Trinity Session" CD.
I've been gradually digitizing my vinyl collection from a decent Sony turntable and burning them onto CD. It then sounds just as good as the vinyl, including the wide dynamic range characteristics, but also the normal background noise which I reduce as much as possible by cleaning the record carefully beforehand. It certainly sounds no worse at all than just playing the vinyl.
Having paid extra for the superdrive in my Mac Mini, I'd say don't bother; just get an external 5.25" drive in an enclosure.
The Superdrive is a crappy Matsushita that craps out after a year or so and can't handle ripping other regions anyway. I swapped in a Pioneer KR06 (a slim, slot-loading drive) and it's also crapped out - can't handle CD's anymore (though it still does DVD's fine - go figure; turns out it's a common problem with this model - crappy CD laser).
I did what those who are savvy have been recommending and got an external Pioneer 112 drive in a Firewire enclosure, and it's working fine.
I've come to the conclusion that slim DVD burners are just too unreliable.
A coworker of mine has a Macbook with Vista installed in Parallels; when the Vista VM is "idle" and showing no CPU activity, OSX shows Parallels using up to 25%! Note that this does not happen with XP, Solaris 10, or Linux VMs.
Perhaps that is why Vista eats notebook batteries so much faster than XP? It's always, secretly busy doing something.
I also liked it; maybe because I never even played the game and saw it as just an entertaining Sci-Fi flick.
32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives can kill anyone they want! 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw a 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drive totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you don't believe that 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives have REAL Ultimate Power you better get a life right now or they will chop your head off!!! It's an easy choice, if you ask me.
32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives are sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants. I can't believe it sometimes, but I feel it inside my heart. These guys are totally awesome and that's a fact. 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives are fast, smooth, cool, strong, powerful, and sweet. I can't wait to start yoga next year. I love 32GB SanDisk Flash hard drives with all of my body (including my pee pee).
I agree that the dollar-sign substitution thing has grown old, but somehow "MICROS~1" still makes me smile :)
If they can get the "typing" speed up to something reasonable, this system could allow for those who've suffered from tendonitis or carpal-tunnel syndrome to keep working.
A friend of mine is on disability and working only part time due to severe tendonitis caused by typing, and I know he'd jump at the chance to use this if it meant that he could go back to working full time. (Getting disability payments in California is like pulling teeth every month, and you definately have to "lawyer-up" to get them.)
It's a series of tubes.
It might have, but I got it for $100 on eBay a few years ago. By now you could probably get one for almost nothing; amazing how quickly technology depreciates.
That laptop would probably have run tolerably without WindowBlinds, which can really slow down a machine.
I installed XP Pro on an old Toshiba Tecra 500CDT with a 120Mhz Pentium, memory maxed out at 144MB (actually a decent amount for that generation of hardware), drive upgraded to 6GB. The machine originally ran Windows 3.11, had a 500MB drive, and 16MB RAM.
Microsoft dropped support for the Tecra's Chips&Technologies video chipset, so I used the driver from Win2K; also didn't support acceleration at 24-bit (worked but with pretty slow screen drawing) so set it to 16-bit color, worked great.
Machine has a CDROM but BIOS won't boot from it so I had to boot the WinXP install floppies which you have to download from Microsoft; different set of disks for XP Pro and XP Home.
Not going to win any speed records, but quite useable.
$600 for the mini isn't insane because you're paying for the miniaturized components; it's in the same price ballpark as, for example, the Shuttle PC. The problem is that Apple doesn't offer a regular-sized, consumer-level Core2Duo-based tower computer. The Mac Pro certainly doesn't count because it's Xeon-based, high-end workstation hardware and you pay for that.
Heh Heh, I enjoyed that episode, especially Kirk's flagrant violation of the Prime directive!
The 24-inch iMac comes with either a GeForce 7300 GT 128MB or a GeForce 7600 256MB.
I bet you can't replace the video card in that!
Wrong; it's a driver/firmware issue. LBA48 support could have been added via a firmware patch but Apple chose not to do that. The fact that the HiCap driver from Intech works (see http://www.speedtools.com/index.shtml) proves that the hardware is capable. It's also proven by the fact that the IDE driver in Linux has no problem accessing large drives on those controllers (just make sure your kernel is in a /boot partition within the first 128GB on the disk). It's a software problem, not a hardware one.
The only reason that OSX cannot access large drives on those controllers without the Intech driver is that Apple deliberately probrammed the IDE driver to limit itself upon detecting a limited controller firmware, in order to ensure data integrity when mixing OSX and Classic environments on the same drive.
"the incident that led to the banning of lawn darts was mostly a result of the combination of lawn darts and beer."
I find it kind of annoying that the wikipedia article didn't describe what actually happened; nor did I have any luck googling for the incident, just got repeats of the above quote.
Anybody know what actually happened? I'd like to judge for myself the merit of the ban, rather than just hearing vague hype.
According to this, "no serious injuries have been reported".