If you're wondering why they don't make "true color" images, it's because "true" colors aren't scientifically useful. They choose the color filters very carefully to give them the most useful images for seeing certain things, not so that you can get "true color" pictures.
But then I read the second part of your comment and realized nothing I say will be understood.
You really think they're going to let a throwaway line from 2 decades ago end one of their most popular series? It's easy to get around - for example, that was a rule enforced by the Time Lords, who are no more.
FTL drives don't belong on that list. They're a whole other category of pipe dream. The others are attainable with high tehcnology (maybe not that far ahead of ours) - but FTL appears to be flat out impossible.
Really expensive hard drives will be much bigger in 4-5 years than really expensive hard drives are now!
In 4-5 years, almost no one will be spending $750 on a hard drive. The prices of hard drives have dropped from $5000 to under $100, even for a decently sized drive.
Steve Jobs' obsession with style and the holistic approach of complete solutions doesn't seem compatible with the nuisance of acquiring a new platform and having to dilute its efforts in the audio/video market.
But isn't that what happened 8 years ago when Apple acquired NeXT? NeXTSTEP became OS X.
If this rumor were to pan out (which would be cool, if unlikely) Apple would probably create a stripped-down OS X to use on the Palm hardware.
If nothing else, I wish Palms actually sync'd properly with OS X (including the older Palm OS's - a simple patch to Palm Desktop would do the trick, but it's not the case)
the guys who develop the GUI portion of FireFox don't have good taste, or at least not the same aesthetic sense as people who use and enjoy the Mac.
Wha? Firefox is the prettiest cross-platform app I've ever seen. Granted, I use a lot of Cocoa apps that are nicer-looking... but cross-platform applications have different standards to hold to.
All technology is just old technology combined in one package. Sometimes made smaller, or higher quality, etc, but that's all progression of technology is: combining old things in new, smarter ways.
The Internet? Old phone lines and circuitboards and computers combined in a new package. PDA's? Batteries and processors and LCD's and digitizers. Every new software rogram that comes out? It's all made of zeroes and ones... old technology.
Anytime something new comes out, you can break it down into its base components and claim it's nothing new.
Any Mac app will still run on the Intel chips. However, the PowerPC-only ones will run slower. The figure quoted at WWDC last year was about a third of its native speed.
The advantage of the PowerMac is its expandability and replaceable graphics cards and the like, as it's always been. Who will be buyng them? Simple: Executives who throw money at any and all computing problems because more expensive is always better. They've formed the bulk of the Powermac's market as long as the iMac has existed, and will continue to do so.
Try to actually use one. Use the iApps. Use Safari. Use Terminal. Tinker. Play. Break stuff and fix it. The system is so much cleaner, more logical than Windows (and with a few exceptions, Linux)... and of course far easier on the eyes than anything else out there.
(You are absolutely right about Java, though. It's pretty poorly integrated.)
Regarding the application menu being at the top: look up Fitt's Law. It's far easier to shoot the cursor to the top of the screen or the corner than it is to aim the mouse at a 24-px-tall bar. That's the main reason for the menu being the way it is.
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A site based entirely around speculation about Apple, could change its position on something? Say it ain't so!
May I remind you, Apple itself claims things that won't be true in 6 months (we won't make a flash ipod, for example)
The iPod nano and shuffle are cheaper and smaller than the other iPods. That's utility in and of itself. It's mere coincidence that they are more stylish, too.
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If you're wondering why they don't make "true color" images, it's because "true" colors aren't scientifically useful. They choose the color filters very carefully to give them the most useful images for seeing certain things, not so that you can get "true color" pictures.
But then I read the second part of your comment and realized nothing I say will be understood.
.....the world's tallest midget?
You really think they're going to let a throwaway line from 2 decades ago end one of their most popular series? It's easy to get around - for example, that was a rule enforced by the Time Lords, who are no more.
....buuuuuuut..... they don't HAVE Blu-Ray drives....
FTL drives don't belong on that list. They're a whole other category of pipe dream. The others are attainable with high tehcnology (maybe not that far ahead of ours) - but FTL appears to be flat out impossible.
At that distance, its year would be many hundreds of years long. It'll take a long time to see any change in position visually.
However, if a female CR editor wanted to test the morning after pill by getting herself pregnant, that would be fine!
Creepy, but fine.
OS X lets you turn it off in system preferences.
CD's? you mean those things you put in to iTunes?
;-)
Oh, you must mean "looking at the iPod screen to find the album you want."
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Really expensive hard drives will be much bigger in 4-5 years than really expensive hard drives are now!
In 4-5 years, almost no one will be spending $750 on a hard drive. The prices of hard drives have dropped from $5000 to under $100, even for a decently sized drive.
Steve Jobs' obsession with style and the holistic approach of complete solutions doesn't seem compatible with the nuisance of acquiring a new platform and having to dilute its efforts in the audio/video market.
But isn't that what happened 8 years ago when Apple acquired NeXT? NeXTSTEP became OS X.
If this rumor were to pan out (which would be cool, if unlikely) Apple would probably create a stripped-down OS X to use on the Palm hardware.
If nothing else, I wish Palms actually sync'd properly with OS X (including the older Palm OS's - a simple patch to Palm Desktop would do the trick, but it's not the case)
the guys who develop the GUI portion of FireFox don't have good taste, or at least not the same aesthetic sense as people who use and enjoy the Mac.
Wha? Firefox is the prettiest cross-platform app I've ever seen. Granted, I use a lot of Cocoa apps that are nicer-looking... but cross-platform applications have different standards to hold to.
That was my point about the OP's post exactly.
I can see you in 1903:
Was that directed at me, or the grandparent?
this is old technology combined in one package.
SURPRISE!
All technology is just old technology combined in one package. Sometimes made smaller, or higher quality, etc, but that's all progression of technology is: combining old things in new, smarter ways.
The Internet? Old phone lines and circuitboards and computers combined in a new package.
PDA's? Batteries and processors and LCD's and digitizers.
Every new software rogram that comes out? It's all made of zeroes and ones... old technology.
Anytime something new comes out, you can break it down into its base components and claim it's nothing new.
Any Mac app will still run on the Intel chips. However, the PowerPC-only ones will run slower. The figure quoted at WWDC last year was about a third of its native speed.
The advantage of the PowerMac is its expandability and replaceable graphics cards and the like, as it's always been. Who will be buyng them? Simple: Executives who throw money at any and all computing problems because more expensive is always better. They've formed the bulk of the Powermac's market as long as the iMac has existed, and will continue to do so.
Also, if enough essence is crammed into any given substance, the very nature of it is changed, allowing incredible transformations to be performed.
But be careful, or you might end up losing your right arm and left leg. Not that those automail ones are bad, mind you.
I have yet to find a site that works in IE5 that fails in Firefox and/or Safari.
Much like Microsoft's Mac media player versus programs like VLC.
Yeah, she's back in now - she just missed out on the first few episodes due to Amanda Tapping being pregnant.
Except that it's not a virus. It doesn't spread by itself.
It's just garden-variety rootkit/malware.
when I tested some Java apps on a Mac.
There's your problem.
Try to actually use one. Use the iApps. Use Safari. Use Terminal. Tinker. Play. Break stuff and fix it. The system is so much cleaner, more logical than Windows (and with a few exceptions, Linux)... and of course far easier on the eyes than anything else out there.
(You are absolutely right about Java, though. It's pretty poorly integrated.)
Regarding the application menu being at the top: look up Fitt's Law. It's far easier to shoot the cursor to the top of the screen or the corner than it is to aim the mouse at a 24-px-tall bar. That's the main reason for the menu being the way it is.
A site based entirely around speculation about Apple, could change its position on something? Say it ain't so!
May I remind you, Apple itself claims things that won't be true in 6 months (we won't make a flash ipod, for example)
The iPod nano and shuffle are cheaper and smaller than the other iPods. That's utility in and of itself. It's mere coincidence that they are more stylish, too.
And then to really make it dangerous it Includes all the windows bitmaps and such.
Wow, that's impressively bad.
Headaches for geeky relatives of any mother are going to increase tenfold.
The beginning of the end was when Apple introduced the Unified look when Tiger debuted.
This is actually a slightly modified Unified - somewhere between that and Metal.
They will be releasing a third, smaller model soon, the Game Boy Micro.
Frankly I think it looks pretty sweet for those of us who don't already have a GBASP or DS.