That is a hopeless situation since even MicroSD and mem stick people are lying. That fake thing really matters more when you buy a 2 GB (!) MicroSD. You end up like having ~1900 MB space. On a smart phone it really matters.
1080p videos and the sound accompanying them (generally 5.1) are gigantic. Soon the uncompressed sound will be an option too as they race with BluRay.
Even the trailers at Quicktime which are massively 2 pass H264 encoded are huge, about 120 MB each.
Of course I wouldn't buy a noisy, unreliable and slow 1.5 TB drive. 5 drives as single volume (for non critical data) using OS X'es own softraid functionality (or ZFS if they implement) makes more sense to me.
Seagate Barracuda has been long known for excellent speed and reliability for high workstation workloads, not huge capacity. They made it a generic thing with range from 80 GB (the real one) to 1.5 TB.
Lets hope we don't see a 2 TB Cheetah with horrible transfer speeds.
They should give up everything in hand and design an actual accessible hybrid drive with an innovative cache mechanism. I am not speaking about the 32 MB cache, something else... Like a cache which has clue about filesystems in use etc. With Laptops taking over the scene and UPS sells for $50, that dinosaur RAM cache mechanism must change.
Sound guys of movie business need a small screen and light laptop too.
and this: "And if your a DJ trying to make a living - you should be buying pro level gear to give your self every advantage. You have to pay to play."
You have no clue about my system do you? Or how much money a professional sound engineer does? I am sorry that I hurt your cult feelings about my disgrace to our God's offering.
Pro people have begun got sick of Apple and their offerings because of Starbucks types like you.
My professional sound and DJ friends are still running their G4 powerbooks because they are 12" and they got firewire. In fact, if you watch any music TV for a long time, it is guaranteed that you will see the 12" Powerbook. They also make a brand new 15" Macbook "Pro" money overnight or in one hour based on the project/happening.
I bet you must be wondering how come that rich newspaper "still" uses Quark on OS 9 too.
You forget something. It is not a local TV event, it is the biggest deal which you can air on TV. There can't be small anything. As a person in TV industry, I must say there is no chance. Olympics and World Soccer Championship are 2 events which "blank" cheques float around.
They used MS Silverlight just because they got sponsorship from MS, MS paid for servers, operating system structure and other stuff. They always do it. I remember MS Wmedia guys bugging us and other TV stations to implement windows media giving up our perfectly running Real Networks servers on Linux. We asked for the price of such a Windows server, they said "Oh it will be free". "So the wmedia server?" , it is free too. One small issue, we should agree not to serve quicktime and real options anymore.
If we agreed, the current guys wouldn't be serving to millions of devices with Real, 3G, Flash and MP4 content right now. They use Helix server now on Solaris I heard.
Windows Media division of MS is one of the most dirty playing divisions of them. They are also the ones responsible for "evil" period of Real Networks and that tiny Quicktime icon in Windows taskbar.
To understand why Snow Leopard won't be supporting PPC, especially PPC 64 bit, you need to learn some processor history and ASM basics such has registers. Don't use Apple while apologising for Microsoft's completely clueless developers and their lack of development on multiple platforms.
Basically, PPC has same amount of registers and commands in both 32bit and 64bit mode since it was designed with 64bit in mind unlike Wintel x386. You should thank AMD for those extra registers and CPU features in 64bit mode. Needless pure 64bit means slow down on PPC.
but it doesn't support PowerPC OS X? The platform which is supported by Adobe?
Who runs Silverlight department at MS? I mean who is in charge of such an amazing decision? If there was a single way to prove MS can't be trusted on Mac, they achieved it. Also no, not everyone (especially design companies) upgraded to Intel Mac. MS doesn't know their product developer market at all. I am sure lots of graphics they use in PR etc. are designed on Mac G4 (not even G5!) machines.
Go to any page at *.microsoft.com with IE, you will be amazed. They suggest people to install silverlight in a complete drive-by download fashion. Even if your system is horribly broken and you need support, you will be spammed to install silverlight. They didn't even bother to set a cookie (No Thanks is top right corner IN GRAY) so you will be prompted forever until you say yes.
They are using trojan/spyware install tactics. They are that pathetic.
They are very late to scene. Adobe Flash 10 will become the standard in streaming soon. Not just the embedded videos, they seem to have bought that real networks auto network sensing/switching patent and included it in Flash 10. That patent is free for GNU/open source projects btw.
I wouldn't be surprised if your joke becomes true. E.g. Windows and IE is crafted in some way that people will have to choose Silverlight. Or a mysterious issue effecting Adobe Flash or Quicktime.
MS is really capable of doing such stuff. See how they begun to render XHTML fine right after Opera ASA sued them. Did they code entire w3c standard in couple of weeks? No, they just removed --disable-w3c from compile flags;)
I can understand C and C++ people but I feel pity for anyone cancels their SVG/Flash project buying their claims.
So what? MS paid them high amounts of money or even setup the entire hosting for free, they switched to Silverlight in cost of audience and possibly future scaling to devices, mobiles, multiplatform future.
At least by dropping PowerPC support even at early stages, they gave the ultimate "wake up" signal to long time Mac users.
Mac users got the signal, versiontracker numbers and lack of comments should make anyone cry. I have never seen any software from a big name ignored by users. One more thing, Adobe Soundbooth I think. It was released as Intel only too.
The amazing thing is, they are so clueless that they don't know the graphics designers are the most conservative people to upgrade their systems. Adobe knows it very well. They buy RAM, lots of RAM, faster and bigger disks, high end monitors but not CPU. CPU (system for Mac) is the last upgraded one.
I got a fairly cheap "Logitech Wingman Force 3D" which has features you want and has force feedback which even works on OS X without drivers.
You better look for it. BTW if you are a Mac/Linux user, excuse the junk logo flood (Vista etc) written on packaging. It may seem like Windows only device to you but it is not. You won't have OS X drivers because Apple already includes them since 10.2 days.
I think they made the ultimate joke by dropping support to a plugin which is installed on 99% of computers and capable devices.
Leave them alone. If they needed MS Sponsor money in exchange of losing audience, they are probably going out of business soon. They may sell the domain to planets first Silverlight only porn video site I tell you!
And what kind of a huge audience did NBC lose? By using Silverlight they closed the door to portables, iPhone, millions of phones can do Youtube video, 3G playing capable devices...
If the idiots decided that won't get fired, I can predict the 2012 easily. "Olympics will air in Silverlight 10, Moonlight users are in version 9 so they won't be able to watch it"
Eclipse and Graphics Designer/UI designer in Adobe Flash sense doesn't calculate here. I asked a very advanced Flash designer about Eclipse, he asked back "Isn't that thing Java guys use?"
I have no clue how would MS Visual Studio would work for them either.
I can't care even if I want to since it is not available for PowerPC macs. They didn't even bother to run a basic uname -a sh script in installer on some 2.x beta and PPC users also ended up with a non working plugin in their Internet Plugins folder.
Of course, Adobe on the other hand released Flash 10 final which does multi core/cpu processing even on G4 Macs along with GPU acceleration (in graphics sense). Lets not forget their entire creative suite (recently shipped) not only runs on PPC macs, it runs better thanks to GPU acceleration.
BTW on Intel Mac, you got 2 ways to create Silverlight content. Eclipse (yes, that Java one) or Parallels/Bootcamp Windows.
Can we care or take it serious? Would Adobe care? I don't think so.
If Microsoft kept their own tool up to date (Registry Doctor), Registry Cleaner wouldn't happen. Or just a (light cleaning) option in System. It was obvious that registry cleaning craze (which THEY started) would be abused some day.
I think MS got ashamed of registry needing cleaned or something.
All MS needed to do is keep the GUI tool accessible to user. In System Tools or something. People actually gets tricked by trojan promising a feature which their system already does when it is really necessary.
It is also a good one to show differences between Apple and MS. Since 10.2 (or earlier) Apple and developers deal with needless "permission repair". It was invented mostly as a security tool and the fact that MacOS-->OS X UNIX has huge differences regarding file permissions. You know, evil '666' type of flags. So, they added it to OS X. It became something like phantom fix for every issue, there are people who runs it before and after each update. Apple figured it and instead of fighting their own community (and open door to malware), they OPTIMISED the process. Tiger "repairs permissions" faster than ever! Is it needed? Hell no, in 99.99% of cases. They just improved the mythical "I am fixing my OS" experience of their users (customers).
What MS had to do was provide a basic tool which does the same thing using the Core OS function, a good progress bar. Or perhaps make the own functionality less conservative (scanreg.ini)
For people interested, here is the documentation of actual registry cleaning core command of Windows.
Space. Space requirements is the issue and carrying it around becomes a problem when you move it everywhere since you are a DJ for example. They need smaller and lighter laptops. A music studio these days looks like a galactic spaceship control panel and the last thing you need is a big laptop to put there. All you see is Protools or other audio program in fullscreen anyway.
The ideal is 12" or 13" , 10" is too small and 15" is too big. You can't use internal audio for field recording or realtime playback so you need a firewire m-audio device. You also need a separate external disk which will only used for data, system temp files, log file, swapping and even spotlight are unacceptable. So that disk has to be high performance with minimum CPU overhead and that is when firewire kicks in.
What I don't get is Nokia and Webkit love/hate relationship. They were all fine with Opera browser and dropped it for Webkit and even their Europe pages doesn't render fine on ANY webkit based browser including the S60 browser which is a huge deal.
You may have heard the Symbian S60 browser based on Webkit. It only worked for buying 2 years old Opera 8.65 mobile for me at least.
I am just saying be careful what you wish for regarding Webkit and Nokia. Webkit can be implemented in awfully wrong ways.
Believe or not, Symbian has gigantic market share. Even Nokia's dropped (500k) S60 sales are 16 million last year.
I am not saying they shouldn't ship to WinMO, they should also release Symbian version same time. They shouldn't make mistake of Opera ASA which costed them entire Symbian userbase (they aren't aware yet!).
By buying iPhone you agreed that you will only use Apple browser and Apple approved software on device.
Even on poor orphan Symbian UIQ3, I have 4 browsers to select from.
What we don't need is Mozilla or Opera people spending that time to that locked device (I reject to call it smartphone) while Symbian and Windows mobile, Linux certainly needs a better browser.
If I was a Intel only Mac users, I would still watch companies and gigantic open source organisations release system requirements.
Do they claim to race with Adobe Flash like MS does but ship Intel only Mac products like Silverlight 2? Pass. They aren't serious. Is the game Intel only while it doesn't need that CPU speed in fact? It is a Windows game, pass.
The reason I bought Graphic Converter and Vuescan to my G5 Apple back in 2003 was basically seeing those single coders were still supporting OS 9 and not abandoning their users. Not like I could even boot to OS 9 even if I wanted to.
"Converged mobile device shipments (S60 phones) were 15.5 million (down from 16 million in Q3 2007) including 9 million Nseries and 3 million Eseries devices."
This comes from Nokia only. There are many other vendors producing Symbian handsets. When Symbian becomes open source and free, you may even see it on current J2ME "dumb" cheap phones.
As Opera did the unimaginable by not releasing Opera 9 beta for Symbian and now enjoying Windows Mobile bug reports rather than their own issues and as I remember Mozilla released a Windows Mobile version one time, I am just saying... Don't do same mistake again.
Unless Apple tells you privately that they will make it possible to release a full feature browser on iPhone, don't spare a byte of coding to it too.
Point is: Don't ignore Symbian. Especially for currently unrealistic iPhone or MS controlled Windows Mobile.
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People tries to make sense of running Windows on a Super Computer and also being sad for what has Cray , the creator UNICOS has become.
Hard to joke about sad things you know.
Beowulf is not possible too, it is a "Windows supercomputer".
Well, I bet couple of dinners with some IT admins will generate sales for it just like how they got convinced to install Windows to a .edu .
That is a hopeless situation since even MicroSD and mem stick people are lying. That fake thing really matters more when you buy a 2 GB (!) MicroSD. You end up like having ~1900 MB space. On a smart phone it really matters.
1080p videos and the sound accompanying them (generally 5.1) are gigantic. Soon the uncompressed sound will be an option too as they race with BluRay.
Even the trailers at Quicktime which are massively 2 pass H264 encoded are huge, about 120 MB each.
Of course I wouldn't buy a noisy, unreliable and slow 1.5 TB drive. 5 drives as single volume (for non critical data) using OS X'es own softraid functionality (or ZFS if they implement) makes more sense to me.
Seagate Barracuda has been long known for excellent speed and reliability for high workstation workloads, not huge capacity. They made it a generic thing with range from 80 GB (the real one) to 1.5 TB.
They make up great model names and make it a generic thing with horrible speed issue. Look at this mess yourself: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/
Lets hope we don't see a 2 TB Cheetah with horrible transfer speeds.
They should give up everything in hand and design an actual accessible hybrid drive with an innovative cache mechanism. I am not speaking about the 32 MB cache, something else... Like a cache which has clue about filesystems in use etc. With Laptops taking over the scene and UPS sells for $50, that dinosaur RAM cache mechanism must change.
Sound guys of movie business need a small screen and light laptop too.
and this:
"And if your a DJ trying to make a living - you should be buying pro level gear to give your self every advantage. You have to pay to play."
You have no clue about my system do you? Or how much money a professional sound engineer does? I am sorry that I hurt your cult feelings about my disgrace to our God's offering.
Pro people have begun got sick of Apple and their offerings because of Starbucks types like you.
My professional sound and DJ friends are still running their G4 powerbooks because they are 12" and they got firewire. In fact, if you watch any music TV for a long time, it is guaranteed that you will see the 12" Powerbook. They also make a brand new 15" Macbook "Pro" money overnight or in one hour based on the project/happening.
I bet you must be wondering how come that rich newspaper "still" uses Quark on OS 9 too.
You forget something. It is not a local TV event, it is the biggest deal which you can air on TV. There can't be small anything. As a person in TV industry, I must say there is no chance. Olympics and World Soccer Championship are 2 events which "blank" cheques float around.
They used MS Silverlight just because they got sponsorship from MS, MS paid for servers, operating system structure and other stuff. They always do it. I remember MS Wmedia guys bugging us and other TV stations to implement windows media giving up our perfectly running Real Networks servers on Linux. We asked for the price of such a Windows server, they said "Oh it will be free". "So the wmedia server?" , it is free too. One small issue, we should agree not to serve quicktime and real options anymore.
If we agreed, the current guys wouldn't be serving to millions of devices with Real, 3G, Flash and MP4 content right now. They use Helix server now on Solaris I heard.
Windows Media division of MS is one of the most dirty playing divisions of them. They are also the ones responsible for "evil" period of Real Networks and that tiny Quicktime icon in Windows taskbar.
To understand why Snow Leopard won't be supporting PPC, especially PPC 64 bit, you need to learn some processor history and ASM basics such has registers. Don't use Apple while apologising for Microsoft's completely clueless developers and their lack of development on multiple platforms.
Basically, PPC has same amount of registers and commands in both 32bit and 64bit mode since it was designed with 64bit in mind unlike Wintel x386. You should thank AMD for those extra registers and CPU features in 64bit mode. Needless pure 64bit means slow down on PPC.
but it doesn't support PowerPC OS X? The platform which is supported by Adobe?
Who runs Silverlight department at MS? I mean who is in charge of such an amazing decision? If there was a single way to prove MS can't be trusted on Mac, they achieved it. Also no, not everyone (especially design companies) upgraded to Intel Mac. MS doesn't know their product developer market at all. I am sure lots of graphics they use in PR etc. are designed on Mac G4 (not even G5!) machines.
Go to any page at *.microsoft.com with IE, you will be amazed. They suggest people to install silverlight in a complete drive-by download fashion. Even if your system is horribly broken and you need support, you will be spammed to install silverlight. They didn't even bother to set a cookie (No Thanks is top right corner IN GRAY) so you will be prompted forever until you say yes.
They are using trojan/spyware install tactics. They are that pathetic.
They are very late to scene. Adobe Flash 10 will become the standard in streaming soon. Not just the embedded videos, they seem to have bought that real networks auto network sensing/switching patent and included it in Flash 10. That patent is free for GNU/open source projects btw.
I wouldn't be surprised if your joke becomes true. E.g. Windows and IE is crafted in some way that people will have to choose Silverlight. Or a mysterious issue effecting Adobe Flash or Quicktime.
MS is really capable of doing such stuff. See how they begun to render XHTML fine right after Opera ASA sued them. Did they code entire w3c standard in couple of weeks? No, they just removed --disable-w3c from compile flags ;)
I can understand C and C++ people but I feel pity for anyone cancels their SVG/Flash project buying their claims.
So what? MS paid them high amounts of money or even setup the entire hosting for free, they switched to Silverlight in cost of audience and possibly future scaling to devices, mobiles, multiplatform future.
At least by dropping PowerPC support even at early stages, they gave the ultimate "wake up" signal to long time Mac users.
Mac users got the signal, versiontracker numbers and lack of comments should make anyone cry. I have never seen any software from a big name ignored by users. One more thing, Adobe Soundbooth I think. It was released as Intel only too.
The amazing thing is, they are so clueless that they don't know the graphics designers are the most conservative people to upgrade their systems. Adobe knows it very well. They buy RAM, lots of RAM, faster and bigger disks, high end monitors but not CPU. CPU (system for Mac) is the last upgraded one.
I got a fairly cheap "Logitech Wingman Force 3D" which has features you want and has force feedback which even works on OS X without drivers.
You better look for it. BTW if you are a Mac/Linux user, excuse the junk logo flood (Vista etc) written on packaging. It may seem like Windows only device to you but it is not. You won't have OS X drivers because Apple already includes them since 10.2 days.
I think they made the ultimate joke by dropping support to a plugin which is installed on 99% of computers and capable devices.
Leave them alone. If they needed MS Sponsor money in exchange of losing audience, they are probably going out of business soon. They may sell the domain to planets first Silverlight only porn video site I tell you!
And what kind of a huge audience did NBC lose? By using Silverlight they closed the door to portables, iPhone, millions of phones can do Youtube video, 3G playing capable devices...
If the idiots decided that won't get fired, I can predict the 2012 easily. "Olympics will air in Silverlight 10, Moonlight users are in version 9 so they won't be able to watch it"
Eclipse and Graphics Designer/UI designer in Adobe Flash sense doesn't calculate here. I asked a very advanced Flash designer about Eclipse, he asked back "Isn't that thing Java guys use?"
I have no clue how would MS Visual Studio would work for them either.
I can't care even if I want to since it is not available for PowerPC macs. They didn't even bother to run a basic uname -a sh script in installer on some 2.x beta and PPC users also ended up with a non working plugin in their Internet Plugins folder.
Of course, Adobe on the other hand released Flash 10 final which does multi core/cpu processing even on G4 Macs along with GPU acceleration (in graphics sense). Lets not forget their entire creative suite (recently shipped) not only runs on PPC macs, it runs better thanks to GPU acceleration.
BTW on Intel Mac, you got 2 ways to create Silverlight content. Eclipse (yes, that Java one) or Parallels/Bootcamp Windows.
Can we care or take it serious? Would Adobe care? I don't think so.
If Microsoft kept their own tool up to date (Registry Doctor), Registry Cleaner wouldn't happen. Or just a (light cleaning) option in System. It was obvious that registry cleaning craze (which THEY started) would be abused some day.
I think MS got ashamed of registry needing cleaned or something.
BTW look at the "registry doctor" results on Google, that thing is really out of hand
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=tr-tr&q=microsoft+registry+doctor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (All results not malware, just 99% of them)
All MS needed to do is keep the GUI tool accessible to user. In System Tools or something. People actually gets tricked by trojan promising a feature which their system already does when it is really necessary.
It is also a good one to show differences between Apple and MS. Since 10.2 (or earlier) Apple and developers deal with needless "permission repair". It was invented mostly as a security tool and the fact that MacOS-->OS X UNIX has huge differences regarding file permissions. You know, evil '666' type of flags. So, they added it to OS X. It became something like phantom fix for every issue, there are people who runs it before and after each update. Apple figured it and instead of fighting their own community (and open door to malware), they OPTIMISED the process. Tiger "repairs permissions" faster than ever! Is it needed? Hell no, in 99.99% of cases. They just improved the mythical "I am fixing my OS" experience of their users (customers).
What MS had to do was provide a basic tool which does the same thing using the Core OS function, a good progress bar. Or perhaps make the own functionality less conservative (scanreg.ini)
For people interested, here is the documentation of actual registry cleaning core command of Windows.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183887/en-us
Space. Space requirements is the issue and carrying it around becomes a problem when you move it everywhere since you are a DJ for example. They need smaller and lighter laptops. A music studio these days looks like a galactic spaceship control panel and the last thing you need is a big laptop to put there. All you see is Protools or other audio program in fullscreen anyway.
The ideal is 12" or 13" , 10" is too small and 15" is too big. You can't use internal audio for field recording or realtime playback so you need a firewire m-audio device. You also need a separate external disk which will only used for data, system temp files, log file, swapping and even spotlight are unacceptable. So that disk has to be high performance with minimum CPU overhead and that is when firewire kicks in.
What I don't get is Nokia and Webkit love/hate relationship. They were all fine with Opera browser and dropped it for Webkit and even their Europe pages doesn't render fine on ANY webkit based browser including the S60 browser which is a huge deal.
You may have heard the Symbian S60 browser based on Webkit. It only worked for buying 2 years old Opera 8.65 mobile for me at least.
I am just saying be careful what you wish for regarding Webkit and Nokia. Webkit can be implemented in awfully wrong ways.
What about Konqueror on that device? Impossible?
Believe or not, Symbian has gigantic market share. Even Nokia's dropped (500k) S60 sales are 16 million last year.
I am not saying they shouldn't ship to WinMO, they should also release Symbian version same time. They shouldn't make mistake of Opera ASA which costed them entire Symbian userbase (they aren't aware yet!).
By buying iPhone you agreed that you will only use Apple browser and Apple approved software on device.
Even on poor orphan Symbian UIQ3, I have 4 browsers to select from.
What we don't need is Mozilla or Opera people spending that time to that locked device (I reject to call it smartphone) while Symbian and Windows mobile, Linux certainly needs a better browser.
If I was a Intel only Mac users, I would still watch companies and gigantic open source organisations release system requirements.
Do they claim to race with Adobe Flash like MS does but ship Intel only Mac products like Silverlight 2? Pass. They aren't serious. Is the game Intel only while it doesn't need that CPU speed in fact? It is a Windows game, pass.
The reason I bought Graphic Converter and Vuescan to my G5 Apple back in 2003 was basically seeing those single coders were still supporting OS 9 and not abandoning their users. Not like I could even boot to OS 9 even if I wanted to.
"Converged mobile device shipments (S60 phones) were 15.5 million (down from 16 million in Q3 2007) including 9 million Nseries and 3 million Eseries devices."
This comes from Nokia only. There are many other vendors producing Symbian handsets. When Symbian becomes open source and free, you may even see it on current J2ME "dumb" cheap phones.
As Opera did the unimaginable by not releasing Opera 9 beta for Symbian and now enjoying Windows Mobile bug reports rather than their own issues and as I remember Mozilla released a Windows Mobile version one time, I am just saying... Don't do same mistake again.
Unless Apple tells you privately that they will make it possible to release a full feature browser on iPhone, don't spare a byte of coding to it too.
Point is: Don't ignore Symbian. Especially for currently unrealistic iPhone or MS controlled Windows Mobile.