The giant spider Ungoliant had that unlight going thing some four Ages ago!
I'm pretty sure hers wasn't electric though, and the whole chance of having her devour you sort of made it impractical. Not to mention the whole giant spider thing.
DVD Studio 1.5 was a steaming pile of **** and at $999 was a poorly layed-out, extremely confusing and unfinished application, basically it was little better than the raw app Apple picked up from Macromedia.
Half a version number and $500 less you have DVD Studio Pro 2, a complete rewrite that is easy to use, very well organized and works as advertised. The later versions get even better.
Apple seems to know when to throw away a dead end project and start again (Copland ring a bell?), and although I personally don't think Apperture is all that bad, I did think that it was too expensive at the original $499 price. I expect great things from Apperture 2.0
Pictures will go upto 10 megapixels but it will stop there. Video might go upto 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that. Our humans senses will cease to notice any further difference.
We are already way beyond those two milestones - 4K resolution (4096x2160) is common in movie production (16TB for a 2 hour film), Uncompressed 10bit SD video clocks in at 27 Megabytes per second and 16 megapixel digital still cameras like the EOS-1DS Mark II from Canon are quickly replacing film for a lot of photographers, not to mention the 22 Megapixel Digital Backs from Leaf or Phase One.
I don't see 4K resolution making it into the living room anytime soon, but 12 or 16 Megapixel consumer cameras aren't too far off. 750GB will look quaint in a few years.
I can tell you that that is not a rat, but a beaver.
Microsoft has nothing to lose.
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Microsoft should be the scene of many high fives (Granted, they would be clumsy, nerd high fives) if Apple facilitates a way to get Windows working in a virtual machine in the new Intel Macs - Microsoft would win because it would mean another copy of Windows sold and Apple would win because that many more would-be switchers would finally have their last objection to getting a Mac removed.
There's a mind-boggling selection of specialty software that runs in Windows that will never get ported to the Mac, and it's very easy to imagine a near future where Windows XP takes a role very similar to X11 today - That of providing a compatibility layer for apps that for whatever reason never get around to being made native to OS X.
The only ones who would stand to lose and should be nervous are the brand name and beige box PC builders, particularly Dell, who easily could see their half of the education market disappear overnight.
Computers are now consumer items and as such are designed with consumers in mind, not anal-retentive "efficiency is all" types.
For example, most people care how their cars look first, how they perform second. If you can mix both of these selling points then you have a market winner.
Same thing applies to computers and other tools - Take a stroll through a home improvement store and look at how much industrial design goes into power tools these days, looks sell and this author doesn't seem to get it. An electric drill doesn't have to be colorful and aerodynamic, but that's what sells.
People have graphical screen savers and desktop backgrounds because they enjoy the personal touch it gives their systems and eye candy effects are something that users simply enjoy. Call it beads and shiny baubles, but that's what consumers want.
While an efficient, well written application can have its own aesthetic value, one that combines those qualities with a visually pleasing and interactive front end will garner the most attention and desire from the end users.
Complaining that you can't do "productive work" because of some visual effect that might happen when you close a window or launch a program means that either your "productive work" is too boring to hold your attention, or maybe you have ADD or perhaps you need to disable that fireworks screensaver as a desktop background.
You could go always back to a CGA video card if the shiny bothers you so much.
Thanks for the test file. I downloaded with Safari, but have "Open Safe Files" turned off it did nothing after download.
I then unzipped the file and had a look at it in the Column view of the Finder, at this stage a normal jpeg would have been previewed, but the Finder had the file listed as "Terminal Application", but I think that most Mac users tend to use List or Icon view though, which would force them to open the file, activating it.
I then emailed myself the file with Mail.app 1.3.11 (In 10.3.9) and after the receiving the email I was warned that "Heise.jpg is an Application and could contain viruses, etc". after I attempted to save the attachment - It also did not preview in the mail message (Obviously)
Seems that this type of vulnerability is most likely to affect mid-level users who are somewhat reckless with their clicking and think they know better than new users who read and "cancel" every message box for fear of breaking their computers or advanced users who realize at a glance that the.jpg does not "feel" right.
The lack of FireWire 800 - External FW800 hard drives are great and very popular with Powerbook users, why give it up? Put the controller where the now gone modem used to be.
The ExpressCard/34 slot chosen by Apple is not form factor compatible
with current PCMCIA cards - No more Verizon 3G wireless broadband until (And if) they release a compatible card - BAD, BAD, BAD!
The 2.3Ghz G5 mid-range model should still hold it's own against the new Core Duo Macs in CPU performance based on Apple's own Cinebench benchmarks and xlr8yourmac.com's benchmarks of G5 systems.
Also, any PowerMac G5 still has the benefit of holding much more RAM and a second hard drive, which is getting to be more and more important for high end video and music, and don't forget that for Pro users the G5 based machines run at native speeds and not at the slower speeds that Rosetta apps have to run on Intel Macs. Until every Mac app is Intel native most Pro users are better off sticking with G5's.
I just priced a Dell laptop with relatively the same specs and the price came up to $2621 for a 9400 with a 17" screen (They don't offer a Core Duo with a 15.4" screen) And it's still a fucking Dell. So how's the Mac overpriced?
What part of "It's faster than the G4" and "We tried, but couldn't fit a G5 in it" don't you get?
CorelDraw can import & export dxf & dwg files from AutoCAD and others, something that most other graphic editing programs can't do.
It also comes with a very good vector trace program, which was probably used to generate the program for that laser cutter. A similar process is used by many machine shops to generate G-Code CNC programs out of vectorized scanned drawings - Scan in the drawing, covert to vector with Corel Trace, clean up the excess nodes, export in dwg format to your CAM program then convert to G-Code for your CNC machine.
This "event" has the destructive potential of 10 Megdorks. (The first GenCon had an effect of 8.5 Megadorks) - Only a Linucon or a Furvert convention is deadlier.
Both girls tentatively scheduled to attend refused comment.
Over a gig of videos on that site and the 3 random ones I watched were total shit - Lots of Blue vs Red wannabe clones and some boring footage of Halo matches.
Other than the fact that it will be open sourced this Xara looks like a big rip-off of Deneba Canvas.
Haven't seen any features in it that Canvas hasn't had for the last 4 + years. (Other than maybe the ability to work reliably, which kept me off of Canvas )
Microsoft, and sadly, the average public sector IT guy who's mostly interested in keeping his job than Doing The Right Thing (TM) will be quick to blame Apache and Oracle as being not Windows compatible and not the other way around.
I foresee a loss for both Oracle and Apache and a gain for both MS-SQL and IIS, unless they have a very enlightened IT director.
It is axiomatic that the commercial colonization of new frontiers, real or virtual, must be accompanied by hyperbolic rhetorical claims that are clearly perceived after-the-fact as transparently propagandistic and whose vastly inflated humanitarian forecasts are unrecognizable when compared to the inevitable outcome.
Mod me down -5 Offtopic Idiot, but it took me 3 or 4 readings of that sentence to figure out what the hell he's is talking about, an I'm still not sure.
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The giant spider Ungoliant had that unlight going thing some four Ages ago!
I'm pretty sure hers wasn't electric though, and the whole chance of having her devour you sort of made it impractical. Not to mention the whole giant spider thing.
On second thought I like your idea a lot more.
Core 2 Duo - Revenge of the Chip
Core Duo! Part Deux
Double Double (In talks with In-N-Out over naming rights)
DVD Studio 1.5 was a steaming pile of **** and at $999 was a poorly layed-out, extremely confusing and unfinished application, basically it was little better than the raw app Apple picked up from Macromedia.
Half a version number and $500 less you have DVD Studio Pro 2, a complete rewrite that is easy to use, very well organized and works as advertised. The later versions get even better.
Apple seems to know when to throw away a dead end project and start again (Copland ring a bell?), and although I personally don't think Apperture is all that bad, I did think that it was too expensive at the original $499 price. I expect great things from Apperture 2.0
We are already way beyond those two milestones - 4K resolution (4096x2160) is common in movie production (16TB for a 2 hour film), Uncompressed 10bit SD video clocks in at 27 Megabytes per second and 16 megapixel digital still cameras like the EOS-1DS Mark II from Canon are quickly replacing film for a lot of photographers, not to mention the 22 Megapixel Digital Backs from Leaf or Phase One.
I don't see 4K resolution making it into the living room anytime soon, but 12 or 16 Megapixel consumer cameras aren't too far off. 750GB will look quaint in a few years.
I can tell you that that is not a rat, but a beaver.
Microsoft should be the scene of many high fives (Granted, they would be clumsy, nerd high fives) if Apple facilitates a way to get Windows working in a virtual machine in the new Intel Macs - Microsoft would win because it would mean another copy of Windows sold and Apple would win because that many more would-be switchers would finally have their last objection to getting a Mac removed.
There's a mind-boggling selection of specialty software that runs in Windows that will never get ported to the Mac, and it's very easy to imagine a near future where Windows XP takes a role very similar to X11 today - That of providing a compatibility layer for apps that for whatever reason never get around to being made native to OS X.
The only ones who would stand to lose and should be nervous are the brand name and beige box PC builders, particularly Dell, who easily could see their half of the education market disappear overnight.
I say bring it on!
Keep it. All you need is an ADC to DVI Adapter
I have a 5 year old 17" and a 4 year old 20" Cinema ADC display that look just as good as the day I got them.
Computers are now consumer items and as such are designed with consumers in mind, not anal-retentive "efficiency is all" types.
For example, most people care how their cars look first, how they perform second. If you can mix both of these selling points then you have a market winner.
Same thing applies to computers and other tools - Take a stroll through a home improvement store and look at how much industrial design goes into power tools these days, looks sell and this author doesn't seem to get it. An electric drill doesn't have to be colorful and aerodynamic, but that's what sells.
People have graphical screen savers and desktop backgrounds because they enjoy the personal touch it gives their systems and eye candy effects are something that users simply enjoy. Call it beads and shiny baubles, but that's what consumers want.
While an efficient, well written application can have its own aesthetic value, one that combines those qualities with a visually pleasing and interactive front end will garner the most attention and desire from the end users.
Complaining that you can't do "productive work" because of some visual effect that might happen when you close a window or launch a program means that either your "productive work" is too boring to hold your attention, or maybe you have ADD or perhaps you need to disable that fireworks screensaver as a desktop background.
You could go always back to a CGA video card if the shiny bothers you so much.
Thanks for the test file. I downloaded with Safari, but have "Open Safe Files" turned off it did nothing after download.
.jpg does not "feel" right.
I then unzipped the file and had a look at it in the Column view of the Finder, at this stage a normal jpeg would have been previewed, but the Finder had the file listed as "Terminal Application", but I think that most Mac users tend to use List or Icon view though, which would force them to open the file, activating it.
I then emailed myself the file with Mail.app 1.3.11 (In 10.3.9) and after the receiving the email I was warned that "Heise.jpg is an Application and could contain viruses, etc". after I attempted to save the attachment - It also did not preview in the mail message (Obviously)
Seems that this type of vulnerability is most likely to affect mid-level users who are somewhat reckless with their clicking and think they know better than new users who read and "cancel" every message box for fear of breaking their computers or advanced users who realize at a glance that the
"I didn't want a stinkin' MacStinkinBook anyway! Stoopid Apple!"
...Nice troll.
.mp3's and CD rips are still DRM free in both iTunes or WMP.
Last I checked my
I made a 45nm chip meself, but I sneezed and I haven't been able to find it since.
The lack of FireWire 800 - External FW800 hard drives are great and very popular with Powerbook users, why give it up? Put the controller where the now gone modem used to be.
The ExpressCard/34 slot chosen by Apple is not form factor compatible with current PCMCIA cards - No more Verizon 3G wireless broadband until (And if) they release a compatible card - BAD, BAD, BAD!
The 2.3Ghz G5 mid-range model should still hold it's own against the new Core Duo Macs in CPU performance based on Apple's own Cinebench benchmarks and xlr8yourmac.com's benchmarks of G5 systems.
Also, any PowerMac G5 still has the benefit of holding much more RAM and a second hard drive, which is getting to be more and more important for high end video and music, and don't forget that for Pro users the G5 based machines run at native speeds and not at the slower speeds that Rosetta apps have to run on Intel Macs. Until every Mac app is Intel native most Pro users are better off sticking with G5's.
What the hell are you talking about?
I just priced a Dell laptop with relatively the same specs and the price came up to $2621 for a 9400 with a 17" screen (They don't offer a Core Duo with a 15.4" screen) And it's still a fucking Dell. So how's the Mac overpriced?
What part of "It's faster than the G4" and "We tried, but couldn't fit a G5 in it" don't you get?
The ravenous rat hordes from Rat Mountain was listed as the #2 disavantage.
CorelDraw can import & export dxf & dwg files from AutoCAD and others, something that most other graphic editing programs can't do.
It also comes with a very good vector trace program, which was probably used to generate the program for that laser cutter. A similar process is used by many machine shops to generate G-Code CNC programs out of vectorized scanned drawings - Scan in the drawing, covert to vector with Corel Trace, clean up the excess nodes, export in dwg format to your CAM program then convert to G-Code for your CNC machine.
If the Earth is in one of those time vortex things do I get paid overtime?
This "event" has the destructive potential of 10 Megdorks. (The first GenCon had an effect of 8.5 Megadorks) - Only a Linucon or a Furvert convention is deadlier.
Both girls tentatively scheduled to attend refused comment.
Over a gig of videos on that site and the 3 random ones I watched were total shit - Lots of Blue vs Red wannabe clones and some boring footage of Halo matches.
Anything in there with an actual story?
Other than the fact that it will be open sourced this Xara looks like a big rip-off of Deneba Canvas.
Haven't seen any features in it that Canvas hasn't had for the last 4 + years. (Other than maybe the ability to work reliably, which kept me off of Canvas )
Exactly what I was going to post.
Microsoft, and sadly, the average public sector IT guy who's mostly interested in keeping his job than Doing The Right Thing (TM) will be quick to blame Apache and Oracle as being not Windows compatible and not the other way around.
I foresee a loss for both Oracle and Apache and a gain for both MS-SQL and IIS, unless they have a very enlightened IT director.
I'm going back to the radio. I can just fire up an old Nintendo to get this kind of "music"
A subtle biblical change of liquid composition has happened to Australian Linux somewhere between an article earlier today and this current one...
Mod me down -5 Offtopic Idiot, but it took me 3 or 4 readings of that sentence to figure out what the hell he's is talking about, an I'm still not sure.