Not entirely true...AOL Messenger and ICQ come to mind, though your probably right that the userbase is the real objective. People giving up ICQ didn't move to AIM, they moved to MSN Messenger. So AOL basically lost users to Microsoft.
Microsoft-Yahoo? People will move to Google and hosting (with services) will move to Amazon.
My "Yahoo mail" account was acquired in 1998, I know the exact time since I cancelled my Hotmail account right after MS bought them. The day this deal works, I am packing and going to somewhere else. Lots of people thinking exactly what I think and I am sure Yahoo lost users just by this "proposed deal" in the news. If it actually happens, they better tell their FreeBSD servers to prefetch deluser command;)
Firefox 3 is now stable enough and faster enough to justify using it as a primary browser (in spite of the warnings, and in my opinion.) Safari 3 is nice, but in my experience Firefox 3 is faster. I don't use Camino any more because I think Safari 3 had begun to make speed gains on Camino.
I have more problems with Firefox 3 on Windows 2000 than I do on OS X. Nasty redraw bug that I think has its origins in the W2K drawing subsystem somewhere. How many years it took for them to use native OS X controls? Colorsync? Firefox has some focus issues and they also think the loudmouth minority in their community makes wise choices/suggestions. If you check the journal's comments (from the article), you will understand what I try to mean.
ACRONYMS! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING! Seriously though, your post was really hard to read. When you referred to OS X as "X", I was thinking "X Windows". Please, for the sake of everyone here and Slashdot reputation, declining or not, refrain from using such atrocious techniques. Really, who uses "%" instead of typing "percentage"? It's not that hard. Speaking about "X", Apple X11.app on Leopard has some amazing performance level, it seems it uses every single evil undocumented , secret API to make Konqueror 3.5.8 (not 4 even) draw even faster with less CPU than Safari on some cases. Until this massive scandal uncovering, I had no clue about its reasons. Now I know, Apple also hits Firefox via superfast X11 Konqueror, Opera 9.x and 9.5beta which is Qt4 application itself.
Oh give me a break, if you use an undocumented API for something that does not mean you "cripple" other pieces of software. It's not like OS-X says "oooo Firefox, quick make it run twice as slow". Grow up. Firefox developers have no right to speak about OS X too.
On my Quad G5 with MS Virtual PC 7, I noticed something by accident. I clicked "Yahoo Mail Beta" in IE 6 while emulating X86 and Windows XP same time. You can guess that my hand was on Apple to force it quit since that monster Ajax thing can bring natively (!) running Firefox 2 on OS X down to its knees.
Guess what? It loaded FASTER on IE 6 running on emulated x86. First thing I did was trashing Firefox.app in my Applications and installing Opera 9 as a old favorite, alternative browser.
I wish I was a OS X developer knowing OS internals and possible reasons for that scandal performance. First of all, I heard they don't use OS X native Text Rendering to begin with. It can't display Turkish chars right no matter what you do too. I mean, Apple actually purchased licenses of MS Fonts from Microsoft and they are included in Leopard now. "Evil MS fonts" is not excuse anymore, Opera 9.2.6 or 9.5.beta can display them fine. Guess what else displays them fine with total 3% CPU on a site like Digg? KDE Konqueror 3.5.8 installed by Fink project running under unstable OS X Leopard X11! Is it another Apple conspiracy? (!):)
...asking what you're going to give him in return for ripping off his plan that brought Apple back into technical leadership.:) Apple could dare to do it, MS can't. Read the archive.org pages from OS X 10.0 period, people, their core customers (including professionals) _hated_ OS X. Apple could stand to all those flaming, loss of developers, advanced developers having to re-learn things. It really needs courage.
There are posts from people who are clearly technical saying "What the hell? Ship MacOS 10 already. This junk doesn't work at all!"
Apple is a company which can actually warn its _own_ core system parts to keep up with times. Like: 27.02.2008 13:33:07 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Notice launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd:/etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
It is a polite warning for now, in a year or so, it will say very harsh things and later, it will say "I am not loading it".:)
Can MS do such things? As long as they can't do, they will have these issues. Dark tactics like pushing NBC to show Olympics site to SilverLight having people etc. will keep them in business though.
The biggest cable TV company in the US, known for horrible treatment of their customers and un-friendliness twoards P2P technology Obvious question from non Americans: Why don't you guys switch to other ISP? For most foreigners, USA is the land of free economy, not even having a govt. TV from start.
Well Comcast doesn't do business in the EU. Second I was involved in tv project in an EU country. They could have purchased out software for $8000 a copy so there total cost would have been under $100,000. Instead they spent six million dollars to write their own. It didn't work so they paid us to come over there and tell them what they did wrong. I think we made more money than if they had just bought the software to start with. So I would put that down to "We will see." As a foreigner in Istanbul, I have even learned about Verizon Fiber offering thanks to Comcast attack to Bittorrent. Is there anything, any billion dollar public relations/advertisement project that would teach even a Turkish guy from Istanbul, never planning to go USA about their competitors Fiber offering?
People on IRC started to suggest "connection reset by peer" guys are Comcast subscribers. As a joke of course, some are real. Comcast users actually started to buy expensive network diagnostics tools and blame everything to their ISP.
Was there anything else their worst enemy/rival could do? Think about it.
I expect even DOCSIS guys start to explain things and threaten them. They are hurting/risking cable internet, the entire standard, billions of dollars in it. There are people who chooses xDSL over Cable because they think it is possible on Cable networks but not DSL.
Anyway, genie is out of bottle... All TV professionals know about the Bittorrent.com or Vuze.com distribution models and consider them, like a separate channel. Lets see what happens when WB releases Titanic High Def on P2P and they conspire those poor torrent downloaders.
There has been increasing commentary on the relative scarcity of bandwidth, and how web 2.0 (or whatever you'd like to call it) with increased video and interactive content is putting more and more strain on existing internet infrastructure. Can anyone offer insight into whether user to server or server to users to users puts less stress on internet infrastructure? There is a huge possibility that a popular TV show gets downloaded entirely INSIDE ISP, with almost zero outside bandwidth wasted with P2P technologies. In fact P2P is doing them a huge favour.
A good P2P client will first check the nearby peers (even including LAN on Azureus) and opt-in for them rather than other IP blocks.
I think Comcast like ISP's are very afraid about another thing. What if a huge , credible TV starts doing Bittorrent, makes money from it without those amazing price E class connections they sell? Redundancy? What is more redundant than 200.000 copies on all continents? Speed? So who will buy a insane$/month massive fiber from them?
If they are after old fashion Web 2.0 waste, I would start with Youtube/Flash. Using HTTP/TCPIP along with ordinary HTTP GET is a thing of pre Real Player 1.0 thing. That is the worst method you would ever find to distribute media. Of course they won't mention it since Google is looking. I am blaming MS Windows Media division for being anti everything non windows, Apple for packing Quicktime with iTunes (still!), Real for doing evil things in past. Here is the result, 2008, we are "streaming" (!) a FLV file as it downloads to our browser.
You guys have been whining about windows security for years.
Now that ms is actually trying to do something about it, you're whining and giggling with glee even more.
Half the problem is that the software *relies* on the inherent insecurities of previous incarnations of the OS. Many of these problems are coming to light because programs that EXPECT to run with admin rights and do what the hell they please, can't.
What, Vista hasn't been around long enough for the software authors to make sure their software runs on it?
I, for one, won't be running any software that gives me a hard time installing or running it on Vista. And I won't be blaming MS. You don't know the funny thing... The software vendors mentioned ALREADY DID the changes, waiting for SP1. People are in automatic attack MS mood it seems.
Trend (Micro) gets the real money from Enterprise/Mail server type of things, including various Unix/Linux type stuff. They are already used to such restrictions I guess.
I agree that they probably fulfilled their minimum obligation, but it would be great to see a much higher degree of co-operation between the vendors of minority browsers. By all means attack MS in this way, but play nice amongst the good guys. There are very advanced developers at Opera too, remember these guys manage to code a 90 KB J2ME single binary which may work in hundreds of millions of mobile phones (Opera Mini) or a browser small enough to run on various kinds of Symbian smart phones.
Also these guys are browser developers, same job...
I am near sure they see some potential issues on Mozilla source sometimes and silently inform them about them. If this happened, I can understand their frustration about a hit from "nice guys".
Of course, these are guesses only and I don't even run Opera until they release 9.26/9.50 final on OS X Leopard.
Unless one side suddenly blows away the other, I don't see this ending. It may breed innovation, but said innovation only seems useful for this one problem. As far as I followed, most Bittorrent based "inventions" were done because of attacks by dark companies (media defender), fake seeders etc. Comcast is practically DOS attacking their own customers so someone finds a workaround for it. If it is good enough, all those bittorrent clients will adopt it in no time and they will end up with horrible publicity, paranoid customers, FCC investigation for nothing. Technical karma:)
That's one down. Now we just need to decommission the VC-1 codec that snuck in the back door of Blu-ray. Don't need it. Don't dream. See the amount of "windows media only" stuff even after Flash made breakthrough. I went to NASA TV and I was pushed incompatible wmedia junk embedded to page. A Billion dollar budget US Govt. agency which runs open source. I had to click "Real" very fast so my Safari browser won't crash.
Who can claim windows media is superior to quicktime/real/vlc/flash mpeg 4 or h264? Sad fact is, it is there somehow, for some reason.
MS will do every kind of dirty trick to make sure VC-1 stays. They want every studio have at least 1 windows machine just to encode their junk. VC-1 encoding can be done on OS X too but it is pricey compared to Windows.
Sony has a longhistory of behavingbadly. Industry professionals don't hate Sony. That is the company which produced HD Betacam back in 1998 and tied every professional product to some mpeg/smpte standard even while they had absolute, earned monopoly like Original/Digital Betacam. With the power they had in Betacam SP, they could simply release Betacam HD in a different container and studios/Tvs would still buy it. They didn't. They also tied the HD camera format to (pro) MPEG 4.
I don't know if any Studio professional gives shit to couple of PSP, an Audio CD from Sony Records scandals. For them, PSP is record breaking selling device enough to re-consider the UMD releases, Sony Records is doing well with sales etc.
They are the guys deciding what format should win. 50 GB of space to fill with "uncompressed 24bit PCM", interactive features coded on J2ME/Java (which they already have expertise, phone market), NO MICROSOFT, support of Apple matters. As Toshiba have zero expertise in professional audio/video, they didn't understand what it means to team with Microsoft against Sony and Apple same time. If I was Toshiba, I would give up right after Apple declared support to competing format. Apple and Sony are "big boys" in media market.
Just like how those economies of scale kicked in and made all those high-def LCD screens so cheap? Sorry to rant on a tangent but I'm still waiting for LCD prices to drop like they're supposed to before I think about high-def disc formats.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Because, you know, 4-5 years ago, a 1080p 42" LCD would have cost $4,000. Today, if you pay more than $1,000 for a major brand, you've paid too much.
A 75% reduction in cost over a few year period is not enough for you? I think it's time to admit that you're probably just a cheapskate. Also consider this. 720P is enough for most people and it has enough resolution to convince people of "higher quality". 720P is 1280x720. Almost all monitors (including CRT) can hit that.
People forget that they already have a HDTV display they stare at. Computer monitor. No need for thousands of dollars "image post processing" "deinterlacing" chipsets including displays. The content is already 720p or 1080p, downscaling is easy.
At last resort, HDCP LCD monitor will do it. That is in case they stupidly, actually believe HDMI can stop people and waste millions of dollars.
exactly. Apple is always pushing the edge so there are problems that need to get worked out. I want an iPhone but I am going to wait until after the SDK and possibly the next version of the phone to ship. The bulk of the bugs and annoyances will be gone.
The big difference between MSFT and Apple. Apple fixes the holes(most of the time) and MSFT adds another layer of paint to cover over the holes. Leopard architecture has no problem, it is ages ahead of Tiger IMHO. Thing is, it was a bit rushed and getting slowly to the point of most stable OS X ever (10.5.2 wise). I see insane things every day such as Konqueror on Leopard X11 using comical 3% CPU while browsing a messy site such as Digg.
Vista's architecture is broken. MS will never admit it or can't change it knowing thousands of software will stop working. Apple actually sends out threatening messages to developers at console such as "This will work in 10.5.x but will raise exception in future" when they insist using a older method. Imagine MS doing such a thing.
Apple will just correct the performance etc. bugs on Leopard. MS needs to dare to rm -rf win32 just like Apple did back in 2001.
If your backup volume is filled your fscked anyway.
never ever cut your backup storage space short. That is why I think array of firewire drives (or case) connected to a lowest end Mac (e.g. second hand Mac mini G4) setup as a growing RAID set could make more sense than a time capsule or pref hacks.
Mini should have max memory and directly connected via copper. It has other uses too, such as setting up Fink and installing squid etc. type of things.
I wonder if Leopard server can be installed to Mini G4. That would be the "luxury" solution too.
Apple intentionally destroyed the ability to theme in leopard by radically changing the UI rendering system and refusing to release a relevant api.
this, along with the lack of options to turn off the safari/'downloaded app' nag screens and the removal of split term view, is a slap in the face to advanced users.
for god sake apple, even windows me had better theming support than leopard offers. At least make an API available to let third party devs offer theming tools, especially considering leopard is by far the UGLIEST os since os9.x If I want uniform grey i'll move back to detroit! Someone on Versiontracker called it "Ex Soviet block style";)
Well, they say Unsanity will ship APE for Leopard one day as well as Shapeshifter. So here comes the days of getting blamed for every single crash because you have dared to change your "Steve Jobs says it looks cool" look.
So, face the reality, Apple doesn't like people changing how their OS X looks. It looks like a PR or almost political thing rather than a technical issue. As result, you hack your dynamic library loader. Every idiotic developer who doesn't have a clue about "threads" will blame you for it. You will still have chance to disable APE and reproduce same crash to developers face.
All this because some suit at Apple doesn't like idea of unique OS X widgets. Funny is, they don't know the Apple history enough. It was always the same deal. Apple locks UI, some developer finds a way to change UI (Kaleidoscope), people download it enough to make it top download. Same people get blamed for hacking their UI in case a problem occurs.
Perhaps some should code a hardcore hack such as backing up OS files, replacing them with new ones for theme change. It _is not_ safe. It has never been. That is why APE exists or Kaleidoscope existed on pre OS X.
Windows 95 "Plus!" introduced the themes to Windows 95. Poor thing could change colour scheme, couple of icons, mouse pointer and wallpaper but it was Windows 95. The most advanced desktop UI on planet can't change a single colour scheme without getting hacked. Not funny even.
I would just like to take this time to rub in the fact I never once had to see that transparent menu. At first I just thought that it might only be slightly transparent, and that the beta users were just exaggerating the problem, so I tried it with a checked background, and sure enough it was completely solid. The reflective doc was there in all it's shinyness, but no pixel were leaking through my menu bar. I don't if it was a PPC/Intel thing or if Apple just deemed my video card too pathetic to get the see-through goodness, by my Leopard install has had an opaque menu since the day I installed it.
So, neener-neener:P It is not a thing to be happy about:) It means Leopard decided your graphics card is weak to do transparent menu opengl thing. It is same deal on my Mac Mini G4 too and guess what G4 is connected to? A Plasma HDTV.
A logical explanation to transparent menu bar: Apple had reports of "screen burn" because of a white menu on top of the screen 24/7, decided to do it so as wallpaper changes hourly (generally on plasmas, good trick), the menu bar will change too.
You also notice the top menu bar is dark grey, it is the most friendly thing to Plasma and LCD if you have to display a thing 24/7.
Deal with Plasma is: It is good with moving images but if you show an image at exact location with exact colours for a long time, there is a huge possibility to get "burn in". Burn in can be recovered by full white or moving grey pattern but... If you really meet with the "real", evil burn in, there is no recovering back. No guarantee cover either.
LCD has the same problem but it must be days or weeks to occur. Also their "move image 4 pixels" trick is designed for TV station logos (see below), it is near worthless for Apple menu.
Your TV station doesn't do "colour cycle" or "slightly animated" or "almost transparent" logo for nothing, they do especially for Plasma owners so they won't be watching "same channel" in case logo burns there.:)
leopard betas supported AEBS/time machine usage. Do you have anything to size a regular Time Machine drive B-Tree and metadata sizes? I got Disk Warrior here, it says 1.1 GB. A Disk Warrior session on a TM drive, even directly connected to actual quad CPU , 4.5 GB RAM machine takes more than 1 hour. Not bitching, it is why I paid for Disk Warrior, to actually figure what it will do first.
I wonder if Apple did some real life tests with various configurations and concluded chip based AE/USB drive connection can't handle such a complex arch on drive?
BTW- hope nobody uses this as opportunity for "HFS+ is crap" thing. I am speaking about 1.1 MILLION files inside hundreds of thousands of directories on a regular USB external drive which loses at "USB2" point alone.
If Apple concluded the USB on AE is way weak to handle that load which a workstation struggles, they should have declared it to public. It would end the conspiracy theories.
It is not the code quality we talk about. If you think about it, Leopard is the most rushed OS Apple ever released.
I'm thinking about it, but I cannot conceive of a single way it might be true.
There are some actual people (not at Digg etc, Usenet!) who asks where the hell is OS X Leopard DVD serial number since they can't imagine a company NOT asking them a serial number. Guess the OS they switched from?
It's easy to not need a serial number when you have the luxury of a hardware dongle.
Hardware dongle? I didn't know Leopard was free upgrade for existing customers so paid around $200 for family license. It is NOT copy protected too. In fact- I did a local disk image of it to hard drive using Apple Disk Utility just in case a DVD accident happens.
It is basically "We trust you" attitude of Apple. They could be also SAVING money and prestige since no "My product serial doesn't work" or "My company clients shut themselves off" phone calls needed.
I think we got the news. Yes, Vista is badddd... We need a redundant tag if we don't have one already.
Move along now, nothing to see here. It is not the code quality we talk about. If you think about it, Leopard is the most rushed OS Apple ever released. Thing is, how they treat customers even after Vista sales seems getting higher thanks to Lemming type customers and OEMs.
If a company told me "You have to prove me you are not a thief", I would simply re-package it, give it back.
I did, back in 2003, switching to OS X and G5 1600. Didn't lose anything at all even with PowerPC. Now the alternatives are lot more credible. They shouldn't dare to treat people like that.
There are some actual people (not at Digg etc, Usenet!) who asks where the hell is OS X Leopard DVD serial number since they can't imagine a company NOT asking them a serial number. Guess the OS they switched from?
Sounds to me like they just made WGA consistent with the rest of the OS. Isn't spyware (forget that lawyer made up term) something:
1) Installs itself with false promises , e.g. "We will make your internet and system faster with better features!" 2) Steals private data which you would normally NEVER provide if you had a chance to think twice. 3) Tortures your user experience and break your system if you ever attempt to get rid of it?
So, by definition, WGA enabled Windows is spyware and I don't blame MS for it. There is a company who makes easier, faster, better products and they got significant market share at least on portables now. It is not like "Install Linux and./configure" anymore. Also user friendly distros like Ubuntu exists.
If considerable amount of MS customers got rid of it or simply rejected using Windows only because of WGA, you would see WGA fade away in weeks, no less.
I was using Windows back in 2002-2003 era and I can't see a reason why WGA or Customer Experience service isn't considered plain spyware.
Of course if you act like a lemming, you will be treated like a lemming. After OS X, Intel Switch which made Mac very credible thanks to popularithy, distros like Ubuntu... Why do we blame MS anymore? It is end user/customer to blame. Let them sit with their WGA bugging OS who treats them as a thief.
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Microsoft-Yahoo? People will move to Google and hosting (with services) will move to Amazon.
My "Yahoo mail" account was acquired in 1998, I know the exact time since I cancelled my Hotmail account right after MS bought them. The day this deal works, I am packing and going to somewhere else. Lots of people thinking exactly what I think and I am sure Yahoo lost users just by this "proposed deal" in the news. If it actually happens, they better tell their FreeBSD servers to prefetch deluser command
(Thanks to a hotmail victim friend)
Safari 3 on OS X Leopard:
Hotmail: "This is hotmail light version, to get all hotmail features upgrade to Internet Explorer 6"
Yahoo: "Yahoo mail beta works with Safari 3 now!"
That is the difference between MS and Yahoo.
I have more problems with Firefox 3 on Windows 2000 than I do on OS X. Nasty redraw bug that I think has its origins in the W2K drawing subsystem somewhere. How many years it took for them to use native OS X controls? Colorsync? Firefox has some focus issues and they also think the loudmouth minority in their community makes wise choices/suggestions. If you check the journal's comments (from the article), you will understand what I try to mean.
Seriously though, your post was really hard to read. When you referred to OS X as "X", I was thinking "X Windows". Please, for the sake of everyone here and Slashdot reputation, declining or not, refrain from using such atrocious techniques. Really, who uses "%" instead of typing "percentage"? It's not that hard. Speaking about "X", Apple X11.app on Leopard has some amazing performance level, it seems it uses every single evil undocumented , secret API to make Konqueror 3.5.8 (not 4 even) draw even faster with less CPU than Safari on some cases. Until this massive scandal uncovering, I had no clue about its reasons. Now I know, Apple also hits Firefox via superfast X11 Konqueror, Opera 9.x and 9.5beta which is Qt4 application itself.
Oh wait! It is open source
On my Quad G5 with MS Virtual PC 7, I noticed something by accident. I clicked "Yahoo Mail Beta" in IE 6 while emulating X86 and Windows XP same time. You can guess that my hand was on Apple to force it quit since that monster Ajax thing can bring natively (!) running Firefox 2 on OS X down to its knees.
Guess what? It loaded FASTER on IE 6 running on emulated x86. First thing I did was trashing Firefox.app in my Applications and installing Opera 9 as a old favorite, alternative browser.
I wish I was a OS X developer knowing OS internals and possible reasons for that scandal performance. First of all, I heard they don't use OS X native Text Rendering to begin with. It can't display Turkish chars right no matter what you do too. I mean, Apple actually purchased licenses of MS Fonts from Microsoft and they are included in Leopard now. "Evil MS fonts" is not excuse anymore, Opera 9.2.6 or 9.5.beta can display them fine. Guess what else displays them fine with total 3% CPU on a site like Digg? KDE Konqueror 3.5.8 installed by Fink project running under unstable OS X Leopard X11! Is it another Apple conspiracy? (!)
...asking what you're going to give him in return for ripping off his plan that brought Apple back into technical leadership.There are posts from people who are clearly technical saying "What the hell? Ship MacOS 10 already. This junk doesn't work at all!"
Apple is a company which can actually warn its _own_ core system parts to keep up with times. Like:
27.02.2008 13:33:07 com.apple.launchctl.System[2] Notice launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd:
It is a polite warning for now, in a year or so, it will say very harsh things and later, it will say "I am not loading it".
Can MS do such things? As long as they can't do, they will have these issues. Dark tactics like pushing NBC to show Olympics site to SilverLight having people etc. will keep them in business though.
Second I was involved in tv project in an EU country. They could have purchased out software for $8000 a copy so there total cost would have been under $100,000. Instead they spent six million dollars to write their own. It didn't work so they paid us to come over there and tell them what they did wrong. I think we made more money than if they had just bought the software to start with.
So I would put that down to "We will see." As a foreigner in Istanbul, I have even learned about Verizon Fiber offering thanks to Comcast attack to Bittorrent. Is there anything, any billion dollar public relations/advertisement project that would teach even a Turkish guy from Istanbul, never planning to go USA about their competitors Fiber offering?
People on IRC started to suggest "connection reset by peer" guys are Comcast subscribers. As a joke of course, some are real. Comcast users actually started to buy expensive network diagnostics tools and blame everything to their ISP.
Was there anything else their worst enemy/rival could do? Think about it.
I expect even DOCSIS guys start to explain things and threaten them. They are hurting/risking cable internet, the entire standard, billions of dollars in it. There are people who chooses xDSL over Cable because they think it is possible on Cable networks but not DSL.
Anyway, genie is out of bottle... All TV professionals know about the Bittorrent.com or Vuze.com distribution models and consider them, like a separate channel. Lets see what happens when WB releases Titanic High Def on P2P and they conspire those poor torrent downloaders.
A good P2P client will first check the nearby peers (even including LAN on Azureus) and opt-in for them rather than other IP blocks.
I think Comcast like ISP's are very afraid about another thing. What if a huge , credible TV starts doing Bittorrent, makes money from it without those amazing price E class connections they sell? Redundancy? What is more redundant than 200.000 copies on all continents? Speed? So who will buy a insane$
If they are after old fashion Web 2.0 waste, I would start with Youtube/Flash. Using HTTP/TCPIP along with ordinary HTTP GET is a thing of pre Real Player 1.0 thing. That is the worst method you would ever find to distribute media. Of course they won't mention it since Google is looking. I am blaming MS Windows Media division for being anti everything non windows, Apple for packing Quicktime with iTunes (still!), Real for doing evil things in past. Here is the result, 2008, we are "streaming" (!) a FLV file as it downloads to our browser.
Of course messing with Torrent guys is easy.
Now that ms is actually trying to do something about it, you're whining and giggling with glee even more.
Half the problem is that the software *relies* on the inherent insecurities of previous incarnations of the OS. Many of these problems are coming to light because programs that EXPECT to run with admin rights and do what the hell they please, can't.
What, Vista hasn't been around long enough for the software authors to make sure their software runs on it?
I, for one, won't be running any software that gives me a hard time installing or running it on Vista. And I won't be blaming MS. You don't know the funny thing... The software vendors mentioned ALREADY DID the changes, waiting for SP1. People are in automatic attack MS mood it seems.
Trend (Micro) gets the real money from Enterprise/Mail server type of things, including various Unix/Linux type stuff. They are already used to such restrictions I guess.
Also these guys are browser developers, same job...
I am near sure they see some potential issues on Mozilla source sometimes and silently inform them about them. If this happened, I can understand their frustration about a hit from "nice guys".
Of course, these are guesses only and I don't even run Opera until they release 9.26/9.50 final on OS X Leopard.
Who can claim windows media is superior to quicktime/real/vlc/flash mpeg 4 or h264? Sad fact is, it is there somehow, for some reason.
MS will do every kind of dirty trick to make sure VC-1 stays. They want every studio have at least 1 windows machine just to encode their junk. VC-1 encoding can be done on OS X too but it is pricey compared to Windows.
For people feeling sad because "Evil" Sony has won, read that press release, just the beginning to figure what would have happened if Toshiba/MS HD-DVD won.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/apr07/04-15VC1NABPR.mspx
I don't know if any Studio professional gives shit to couple of PSP, an Audio CD from Sony Records scandals. For them, PSP is record breaking selling device enough to re-consider the UMD releases, Sony Records is doing well with sales etc.
They are the guys deciding what format should win. 50 GB of space to fill with "uncompressed 24bit PCM", interactive features coded on J2ME/Java (which they already have expertise, phone market), NO MICROSOFT, support of Apple matters. As Toshiba have zero expertise in professional audio/video, they didn't understand what it means to team with Microsoft against Sony and Apple same time. If I was Toshiba, I would give up right after Apple declared support to competing format. Apple and Sony are "big boys" in media market.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Because, you know, 4-5 years ago, a 1080p 42" LCD would have cost $4,000. Today, if you pay more than $1,000 for a major brand, you've paid too much.
A 75% reduction in cost over a few year period is not enough for you? I think it's time to admit that you're probably just a cheapskate. Also consider this. 720P is enough for most people and it has enough resolution to convince people of "higher quality". 720P is 1280x720. Almost all monitors (including CRT) can hit that.
People forget that they already have a HDTV display they stare at. Computer monitor. No need for thousands of dollars "image post processing" "deinterlacing" chipsets including displays. The content is already 720p or 1080p, downscaling is easy.
At last resort, HDCP LCD monitor will do it. That is in case they stupidly, actually believe HDMI can stop people and waste millions of dollars.
The big difference between MSFT and Apple. Apple fixes the holes(most of the time) and MSFT adds another layer of paint to cover over the holes. Leopard architecture has no problem, it is ages ahead of Tiger IMHO. Thing is, it was a bit rushed and getting slowly to the point of most stable OS X ever (10.5.2 wise). I see insane things every day such as Konqueror on Leopard X11 using comical 3% CPU while browsing a messy site such as Digg.
Vista's architecture is broken. MS will never admit it or can't change it knowing thousands of software will stop working. Apple actually sends out threatening messages to developers at console such as "This will work in 10.5.x but will raise exception in future" when they insist using a older method. Imagine MS doing such a thing.
Apple will just correct the performance etc. bugs on Leopard. MS needs to dare to rm -rf win32 just like Apple did back in 2001.
never ever cut your backup storage space short. That is why I think array of firewire drives (or case) connected to a lowest end Mac (e.g. second hand Mac mini G4) setup as a growing RAID set could make more sense than a time capsule or pref hacks.
Mini should have max memory and directly connected via copper. It has other uses too, such as setting up Fink and installing squid etc. type of things.
I wonder if Leopard server can be installed to Mini G4. That would be the "luxury" solution too.
this, along with the lack of options to turn off the safari/'downloaded app' nag screens and the removal of split term view, is a slap in the face to advanced users.
for god sake apple, even windows me had better theming support than leopard offers. At least make an API available to let third party devs offer theming tools, especially considering leopard is by far the UGLIEST os since os9.x If I want uniform grey i'll move back to detroit! Someone on Versiontracker called it "Ex Soviet block style"
Well, they say Unsanity will ship APE for Leopard one day as well as Shapeshifter. So here comes the days of getting blamed for every single crash because you have dared to change your "Steve Jobs says it looks cool" look.
So, face the reality, Apple doesn't like people changing how their OS X looks. It looks like a PR or almost political thing rather than a technical issue. As result, you hack your dynamic library loader. Every idiotic developer who doesn't have a clue about "threads" will blame you for it. You will still have chance to disable APE and reproduce same crash to developers face.
All this because some suit at Apple doesn't like idea of unique OS X widgets. Funny is, they don't know the Apple history enough. It was always the same deal. Apple locks UI, some developer finds a way to change UI (Kaleidoscope), people download it enough to make it top download. Same people get blamed for hacking their UI in case a problem occurs.
Perhaps some should code a hardcore hack such as backing up OS files, replacing them with new ones for theme change. It _is not_ safe. It has never been. That is why APE exists or Kaleidoscope existed on pre OS X.
Windows 95 "Plus!" introduced the themes to Windows 95. Poor thing could change colour scheme, couple of icons, mouse pointer and wallpaper but it was Windows 95. The most advanced desktop UI on planet can't change a single colour scheme without getting hacked. Not funny even.
So, neener-neener
A logical explanation to transparent menu bar: Apple had reports of "screen burn" because of a white menu on top of the screen 24/7, decided to do it so as wallpaper changes hourly (generally on plasmas, good trick), the menu bar will change too.
You also notice the top menu bar is dark grey, it is the most friendly thing to Plasma and LCD if you have to display a thing 24/7.
Deal with Plasma is: It is good with moving images but if you show an image at exact location with exact colours for a long time, there is a huge possibility to get "burn in". Burn in can be recovered by full white or moving grey pattern but... If you really meet with the "real", evil burn in, there is no recovering back. No guarantee cover either.
LCD has the same problem but it must be days or weeks to occur. Also their "move image 4 pixels" trick is designed for TV station logos (see below), it is near worthless for Apple menu.
Your TV station doesn't do "colour cycle" or "slightly animated" or "almost transparent" logo for nothing, they do especially for Plasma owners so they won't be watching "same channel" in case logo burns there.
I wonder if Apple did some real life tests with various configurations and concluded chip based AE/USB drive connection can't handle such a complex arch on drive?
BTW- hope nobody uses this as opportunity for "HFS+ is crap" thing. I am speaking about 1.1 MILLION files inside hundreds of thousands of directories on a regular USB external drive which loses at "USB2" point alone.
If Apple concluded the USB on AE is way weak to handle that load which a workstation struggles, they should have declared it to public. It would end the conspiracy theories.
Sigh. Please, bring back the 6 month waits for Aspyr & the rest to do a proper version. It also means no PowerPC support unfortunately.
It is not the code quality we talk about. If you think about it, Leopard is the most rushed OS Apple ever released.
I'm thinking about it, but I cannot conceive of a single way it might be true.
There are some actual people (not at Digg etc, Usenet!) who asks where the hell is OS X Leopard DVD serial number since they can't imagine a company NOT asking them a serial number. Guess the OS they switched from?
It's easy to not need a serial number when you have the luxury of a hardware dongle.
Hardware dongle? I didn't know Leopard was free upgrade for existing customers so paid around $200 for family license. It is NOT copy protected too. In fact- I did a local disk image of it to hard drive using Apple Disk Utility just in case a DVD accident happens.It is basically "We trust you" attitude of Apple. They could be also SAVING money and prestige since no "My product serial doesn't work" or "My company clients shut themselves off" phone calls needed.
How do you know what data is sent since it is all encrypted? A person much more knowledgeable than me wrote about it at http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/#story1
It does every single thing a spyware does and additionally, it is written by the same company who got access to your entire kernel source.
Move along now, nothing to see here. It is not the code quality we talk about. If you think about it, Leopard is the most rushed OS Apple ever released. Thing is, how they treat customers even after Vista sales seems getting higher thanks to Lemming type customers and OEMs.
If a company told me "You have to prove me you are not a thief", I would simply re-package it, give it back.
I did, back in 2003, switching to OS X and G5 1600. Didn't lose anything at all even with PowerPC. Now the alternatives are lot more credible. They shouldn't dare to treat people like that.
There are some actual people (not at Digg etc, Usenet!) who asks where the hell is OS X Leopard DVD serial number since they can't imagine a company NOT asking them a serial number. Guess the OS they switched from?
1) Installs itself with false promises , e.g. "We will make your internet and system faster with better features!"
2) Steals private data which you would normally NEVER provide if you had a chance to think twice.
3) Tortures your user experience and break your system if you ever attempt to get rid of it?
So, by definition, WGA enabled Windows is spyware and I don't blame MS for it. There is a company who makes easier, faster, better products and they got significant market share at least on portables now. It is not like "Install Linux and
If considerable amount of MS customers got rid of it or simply rejected using Windows only because of WGA, you would see WGA fade away in weeks, no less.
I was using Windows back in 2002-2003 era and I can't see a reason why WGA or Customer Experience service isn't considered plain spyware.
Of course if you act like a lemming, you will be treated like a lemming. After OS X, Intel Switch which made Mac very credible thanks to popularithy, distros like Ubuntu... Why do we blame MS anymore? It is end user/customer to blame. Let them sit with their WGA bugging OS who treats them as a thief.