Porting iTunes to Windows isn't exactly breaking Apple's business model. Remember that QuickTime has existed on Windows forever and continues to do so. The iTunes music format is a QuickTime 6 (integrated into MPEG-4) standard (yeah standards!). Also, offering the iPod for Windows fits into all of this nicely.
Multimedia has been one of Apple's decent successess (ie. Final Cut Pro, iDVD, etc.) and thank God Steve Jobs recognizes it and is strategically leveraging it.
Yeah, but the systems are pretty had to find
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Athlon MP Reviewed
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I've thought for a while that the new Athlon MP systems would make great desktops--especially with what a dog the P4 is. The funny thing is that almost nobody actually makes an Athlon multiprocessor desktop. A few places make servers. Otherwise you're *almost* required to build a system from scratch. (It's doable, but still a pain.)
One online company that did have decent looking systems was Xi Computing, in case you're interested.
Out Last, Best Hope for a Good Windowing Framework
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XFree & Rendering
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· Score: 1
Thank God for this timely work. I can only hope other developers embrace it and start incorporating it (when available) into GDK and Qt libraries. Fonts have always sucked in X unless programs tried to anti-alias 'in vitro' which is a waste of good processing cycles.
I'm guessing this might also take advantage of more accellerated hardware.
Keep up the good work!!!
I'm sorry, but all of this privacy stuff sounds like paranoia to me. I'd be happy if companies that I might actually be interested in could get their ads to me, rather than companies I couldn't care about.
The junk mail I get from "Windows Magazine" or "Windows NT Administration Conferences" or home furnishing catalogs or other BS I don't want.
If there's a product I might be interested, I wouldn't mind hearing about it. In fact, I'd be happy to fill out a detailed profile survey if it would keep companies (whom I'm not interested in) from wasting my time.
I haven't heard about the Stevens book yet, but I just found it on Amazon. I agree that this is a terrific book. Between "Beginning Linux Programming" and "Linux Application Development" by Johnson and Troan, I've been able to get in touch with my inner-geek. Seriously though, it's made it possible for me to write some great utilities. For those of us who are out of college and don't have any collegues at work able to write anything but VB (yack!) book like this make it possible to get our foot in the door.
I'm glad to see the GTK+ info included. For anyone who wants to do GUI programming, another fantastic book for getting started is "GTK+/Gnome Application Development" by Havoc Pennington.
I agree that the recent witch-hunting has been overboard and reactionary. The stories I've heard recently are horrible. But for the administration of a school which is responsible for the student body, I imagine some sort of profiling is necessary to identify those students who might need some counceling or intervention.
There were some items on the list that would make me take note if I were a school counsellor. Especially things like use of bullying, drug use, not responding to critisism, etc. Although a good half of the items on the list would target "geeks", the other half made some good sense.
It's not the use of profiling but the blind misuse of profiling that needs to be examined. I know that a stupid school admin might have noticed that I played Dungeons & Dragons and immediately assumed I was dangerous, but someone with half a brain would notice that I (and most geeks) would obviously apply.
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Porting iTunes to Windows isn't exactly breaking Apple's business model. Remember that QuickTime has existed on Windows forever and continues to do so. The iTunes music format is a QuickTime 6 (integrated into MPEG-4) standard (yeah standards!). Also, offering the iPod for Windows fits into all of this nicely.
Multimedia has been one of Apple's decent successess (ie. Final Cut Pro, iDVD, etc.) and thank God Steve Jobs recognizes it and is strategically leveraging it.
I've thought for a while that the new Athlon MP systems would make great desktops--especially with what a dog the P4 is. The funny thing is that almost nobody actually makes an Athlon multiprocessor desktop. A few places make servers. Otherwise you're *almost* required to build a system from scratch. (It's doable, but still a pain.)
One online company that did have decent looking systems was Xi Computing, in case you're interested.
Thank God for this timely work. I can only hope other developers embrace it and start incorporating it (when available) into GDK and Qt libraries. Fonts have always sucked in X unless programs tried to anti-alias 'in vitro' which is a waste of good processing cycles. I'm guessing this might also take advantage of more accellerated hardware. Keep up the good work!!!
I'm sorry, but all of this privacy stuff sounds like paranoia to me. I'd be happy if companies that I might actually be interested in could get their ads to me, rather than companies I couldn't care about.
The junk mail I get from "Windows Magazine" or "Windows NT Administration Conferences" or home furnishing catalogs or other BS I don't want.
If there's a product I might be interested, I wouldn't mind hearing about it. In fact, I'd be happy to fill out a detailed profile survey if it would keep companies (whom I'm not interested in) from wasting my time.
I haven't heard about the Stevens book yet, but I just found it on Amazon. I agree that this is a terrific book. Between "Beginning Linux Programming" and "Linux Application Development" by Johnson and Troan, I've been able to get in touch with my inner-geek. Seriously though, it's made it possible for me to write some great utilities. For those of us who are out of college and don't have any collegues at work able to write anything but VB (yack!) book like this make it possible to get our foot in the door.
I'm glad to see the GTK+ info included. For anyone who wants to do GUI programming, another fantastic book for getting started is "GTK+/Gnome Application Development" by Havoc Pennington.
I agree that the recent witch-hunting has been overboard and reactionary. The stories I've heard recently are horrible. But for the administration of a school which is responsible for the student body, I imagine some sort of profiling is necessary to identify those students who might need some counceling or intervention.
There were some items on the list that would make me take note if I were a school counsellor. Especially things like use of bullying, drug use, not responding to critisism, etc. Although a good half of the items on the list would target "geeks", the other half made some good sense.
It's not the use of profiling but the blind misuse of profiling that needs to be examined. I know that a stupid school admin might have noticed that I played Dungeons & Dragons and immediately assumed I was dangerous, but someone with half a brain would notice that I (and most geeks) would obviously apply.