Guess where Giampaolo has been working since 2002.
Sigh.
No, I'll never guess, tell me. I can't imagine that since I bought a book in an esoteric field by the guy I might have kept up to date with what he's doing at Apple, oh no, I gave it away, I do know where he's working after all. Damn.
Your answer to 3), however, is ridiculous. Sending HTTP requests for retrieving files? Sheesh.
I agree - http is a ludicrous RPC/LPC mechanism - thank god no-one else uses it like that.
HTTP for file requests is ridiculous, but of course wanting MS to restructure their Entourage database into 10s of thousands of flat files because Spotlight only supports plain files is the height of reasonableness.
Since none of those apply, while both GDS and Spotlight have to do with searching files, the former is just a fancified local file searching engine. The latter is a true tool for deep, fast, thorough search of information.
See above.
You are in essence saying that Microsoft's MSN Search Tool brings just about everything Microsoft's WinFS was supposed to bring.
That would be true if I bothered to keep up to date on pre-announced technologies that seem to be a long way off. As someone who's been around since MS promised us this in Cairo, I tend not to bother. As it is, I have no idea if that is what I said. It was certainly not my intention - again, you're putting words into my mouth.
Oh and also, I'm sure BeOS/BFS fans will want to have a word with you.:-P
fx: raises eyes to copy of Dominic Giampaolo's book on the design of the Be file system on his bookshelf, and figures that we're probably done here.
Well, to be fair, it's fairly reasonable of them not to want to split up their database into squillions of tiny flat files, isn't it?
As dumb as you think their response sounds, the excuse that "Spotlight isn't designed to work like that" rather makes me think, "Well, why not? Have Apple not heard of databases?"
Although in the interests of fairness, Google Desktop Search currently has a similar limitation.
Well, that really depends on how much s/he cared about their data/settings, and how sure s/he was that the Archive install wouldn't screw up half-way through.
Having said that, I would probably use the Archive install - just after I've backed up my data myself:-).
It's absolutely painless and I've never seen it fail once.
Ah, Engineer's Induction:-)
A friend and I once spent a day trying to install Jaguar onto a vanilla Mac. It's not always foolproof.
No indentation. Sometimes two or three statements on a line. Random line spacing. No Comments. No use strict. No use warnings. No variable declarations whatsoever. Variable names like $a, $b, etc. Moreover, he'd turned what is about a 10 line Perl script into a good solid 50+ lines of code. Augh!!
This is the correct answer - I once worked with a C programmer who sucked a fair bit, and got confused by things like header files.
He'd ask me to come and work out why his "includes weren't working", so I'd track down what was going wrong where. I'd usually give a running commentary on how I was debugging and fixing the problem, so he could learn. Usually about halfway through watching me, he'd get bored and wander off, maybe to get a coffee, or just talk to someone at the other end of the office. If he didn't reappear within a minute, I'd just leave him to it and get on with my work instead.
He never learned to fix stuff, but he did stop asking me for help, so it was a win for me.
The original Bondi iMac was what pushed USB into the mainstream. No one was doing it, then Apple pushed it with their iMac, and then everyone realized what a great idea it was.
Sigh.
Or, back in the real world, various small fry PC vendors like, oh, I don't know, Gateway (to name but one) were shipping systems with USB way before the iMac.
But because Apple did it, everyone realised what a great idea it was. Yeah, that's how it happened. There weren't already many USB devices on the market or anything.
(The history is that the first iMac was released in late '98. By that time many PCs had already been supporting USB via Win95 OSR2 for a while. It was a bit crap, but Windows 98 fixed USB support...so Microsoft released their second version of USB support in the same year that the iMacs came out. But I just know we're going to get into an argument about what 'mainstream' is now.)
I don't know if you realize it, but to most modelers accuracy is paramount. I've known people who've spent hours researching the exact proper shade of color to use on a subject just to be accurate.
Because as we all know, the primary focus of plane manufacture in the war was making sure the paint colours were all perfectly consistent, and that there was a Pantone definition for Meschersmitt Blue #2, etc.
That was my initial reaction when I heard about ClearType, but I believe the main advance of ClearType was exploitation of the layout of LCD panels - i.e. that you have RGBRGBRGB pixel rows, so you can do sub-pixel anti-aliasing by addressing the LCD pixels directly using colour components (instead of just shades of grey). This is why you can see faint colour fringing on ClearType text - because it's setting a pixel to be e.g. a shade of blue rather than just a shade of grey.
This gives you 3x the horizontal resolution to play with, which I believe was novel when MS patented it.
Integrated Instant Messaging/Video Chat: Tiger will feature a souped-up version of iChat. Microsoft will embed Windows Messenger (a sister to MSN Messenger), which also will likely feature video-chat.
Woah, I'd better tell my friend to stop showing me pictures of his new baby over MSN Messenger. We didn't realise you couldn't do video chat in MSN Messenger yet.
Please tell me when Messenger gets the video chat feature, and we can start doing that again.
Up comes a list of personal profiles I've created. I pick the one I'm willing to share with the store, select how much device storage I'm willing to let the store have on my USB device, punch a button, and I'm done!
Just curious - what colour is the sky in your world?
MD (Sony MiniDisc) would have been good but they didn't want to license it for the PC.
Sony used to do an external MD-based data drive for PCs - but it cost like 500 dollars. Even at the time, for the amount of storage you got, it was ludicrously expensive.
I sometimes wonder how Sony manage to sell anything.
And the Real stuff for editing tags was fine, as far as I recall. Amazingly, the library was also playable under Real Jukebox. (mp3s being playable is innovation? This is what I mean about fluid definitions of innovation.)
What did it do that software like Winamp or Real Jukebox didn't?
(Yes, Real Jukebox used to be good - it's hard to believe, I know. They've screwed it up since, of course - well, they wouldn't be Real otherwise would they? We would have got all edgy if they hadn't fscked it up.)
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So, pretty human then?
Sigh.
No, I'll never guess, tell me. I can't imagine that since I bought a book in an esoteric field by the guy I might have kept up to date with what he's doing at Apple, oh no, I gave it away, I do know where he's working after all. Damn.
I agree - http is a ludicrous RPC/LPC mechanism - thank god no-one else uses it like that.
HTTP for file requests is ridiculous, but of course wanting MS to restructure their Entourage database into 10s of thousands of flat files because Spotlight only supports plain files is the height of reasonableness.
No. Pretty sure that nothing I said would lead anyone to believe that, either.
Yes.
Yes.
See above.
That would be true if I bothered to keep up to date on pre-announced technologies that seem to be a long way off. As someone who's been around since MS promised us this in Cairo, I tend not to bother. As it is, I have no idea if that is what I said. It was certainly not my intention - again, you're putting words into my mouth.
fx: raises eyes to copy of Dominic Giampaolo's book on the design of the Be file system on his bookshelf, and figures that we're probably done here.
You're right. They're totally unrelated pieces of technology and people will never use them in similar ways.
Damn that nasty media.
Well, to be fair, it's fairly reasonable of them not to want to split up their database into squillions of tiny flat files, isn't it?
As dumb as you think their response sounds, the excuse that "Spotlight isn't designed to work like that" rather makes me think, "Well, why not? Have Apple not heard of databases?"
Although in the interests of fairness, Google Desktop Search currently has a similar limitation.
Having said that, I would probably use the Archive install - just after I've backed up my data myself :-).
Ah, Engineer's Induction :-)
A friend and I once spent a day trying to install Jaguar onto a vanilla Mac. It's not always foolproof.
But...but...TMTOWTDI! :-)
This is the correct answer - I once worked with a C programmer who sucked a fair bit, and got confused by things like header files.
He'd ask me to come and work out why his "includes weren't working", so I'd track down what was going wrong where. I'd usually give a running commentary on how I was debugging and fixing the problem, so he could learn. Usually about halfway through watching me, he'd get bored and wander off, maybe to get a coffee, or just talk to someone at the other end of the office. If he didn't reappear within a minute, I'd just leave him to it and get on with my work instead.
He never learned to fix stuff, but he did stop asking me for help, so it was a win for me.
Hey Buddy, I recently moved my processor performance from 800MHz to 3.2GHz, and let me tell you I notice a difference. :)
Sigh.
Or, back in the real world, various small fry PC vendors like, oh, I don't know, Gateway (to name but one) were shipping systems with USB way before the iMac.
But because Apple did it, everyone realised what a great idea it was. Yeah, that's how it happened. There weren't already many USB devices on the market or anything.
(The history is that the first iMac was released in late '98. By that time many PCs had already been supporting USB via Win95 OSR2 for a while. It was a bit crap, but Windows 98 fixed USB support...so Microsoft released their second version of USB support in the same year that the iMacs came out. But I just know we're going to get into an argument about what 'mainstream' is now.)
Never gonna happen (I hope). Douglas hated that green thing.
Where's the "-1, Car Analogy" mod when you need it?
Because as we all know, the primary focus of plane manufacture in the war was making sure the paint colours were all perfectly consistent, and that there was a Pantone definition for Meschersmitt Blue #2, etc.
(Sorry)
Well, if not, you're probably way overdue for returning that big statue :-)
And it came 2nd one year in Edge magazine's "Hardware Innovation of the Year" award.
For me, that finally confirmed that Edge were a bunch of idiots - they gave runner up in a hardware innovation award to a 4Mb RAM pack.
That was my initial reaction when I heard about ClearType, but I believe the main advance of ClearType was exploitation of the layout of LCD panels - i.e. that you have RGBRGBRGB pixel rows, so you can do sub-pixel anti-aliasing by addressing the LCD pixels directly using colour components (instead of just shades of grey). This is why you can see faint colour fringing on ClearType text - because it's setting a pixel to be e.g. a shade of blue rather than just a shade of grey.
This gives you 3x the horizontal resolution to play with, which I believe was novel when MS patented it.
Of course, YMMV, etc. This is all from memory.
Because MSN Messenger can do it. Has been able to for quite a while now.
Probably best to check things like this first.
Woah, I'd better tell my friend to stop showing me pictures of his new baby over MSN Messenger. We didn't realise you couldn't do video chat in MSN Messenger yet.
Please tell me when Messenger gets the video chat feature, and we can start doing that again.
While your whole comment indicates that you may have missed the point.
Just curious - what colour is the sky in your world?
Sony used to do an external MD-based data drive for PCs - but it cost like 500 dollars. Even at the time, for the amount of storage you got, it was ludicrously expensive.
I sometimes wonder how Sony manage to sell anything.
Yeah, I heard that was bad.
Talking of weird TV you see on holiday, if you're ever in France, see if they're showing Starsky and Hutch.
Starsky and Hutch talking in French is just so...wrong. But strangely compelling.
You said iTunes, but you meant SoundJam, right?
And the Real stuff for editing tags was fine, as far as I recall. Amazingly, the library was also playable under Real Jukebox. (mp3s being playable is innovation? This is what I mean about fluid definitions of innovation.)
Sounds fairly standard to be honest - Real Jukebox did all that stuff you're describing.
I'm not sure "runs on a Mac" counts as innovation, so my original point stands.
I see they didn't keep all the SoundJam features for iTunes then :-)
What did it do that software like Winamp or Real Jukebox didn't?
(Yes, Real Jukebox used to be good - it's hard to believe, I know. They've screwed it up since, of course - well, they wouldn't be Real otherwise would they? We would have got all edgy if they hadn't fscked it up.)