"The one thing I've never understood is the relationship between OpenDarwin and the distribution concerns."
OpenDarwin distrubute software. They call it DarwinPorts.
OpenDarwin is a project launched in April 2001 which works towards porting BSD-style software to Darwin, and features a crown jewel of DarwinPorts. OpenDarwin was founded by Apple, although they now have no control over the project's operation. Jordan Hubbard is one of many Apple employees closely associated with the project.
"GNU-Darwin almost seems to be hindering the entire Mac OSS unix community."
Virtually no-one in the Macintosh community cares about GNU-Darwin.
GNU-Darwin is a project founded by a person that goes by the name proclus. This proclus character spends a fair majority of his time replying to valid criticism of his project on sites such as Slashdot and MacSlash. Unfortunately, this time would be much better spent working on the actual GNU-Darwin project; GNU-Darwin has nothing to offer that hasn't already been done better by either OpenDarwin or Fink.
"This almost surreal splintering can do nothing but harm the overall effort of ported OSS software for the Mac."
What splintering? GNU-Darwin is totally irrelvant.
GNU-Darwin are not even involved with Metapgk, an alliance formed between DarwinPorts, Fink, and Gentoo. All the major packaging groups in the Macintosh community are part of this alliance.
"If we can't agree that the PPC is the heart of the Mac, than what can we agree on?"
That GNU-Darwin isn't going to exist much longer.
DarwinPorts is going to be a part of Panther, and OpenDarwin is assured of a bright future. Fink and Gentoo are part of Metapkg, so all porting work that OpenDarwin does will help those projects as well.
GNU-Darwin is totally insignificant, has virtually no support in the Macintosh community, and is let by someone with a warped view of reality. When it inevitably disappears, no one will care.
Daring Fireball offers well-written opinions about Apple-related topics. It would have been nice of pudge to provide a few links to supposedly biased pieces that Gruber has written, instead ignorantly pointing at the front page.
Of course, it can be difficult linking to things that don't exist...
"$1599US for a powerbook12 is $2451 australian, with a direct currency conversion - something that will always be under the real cost due to importing, our taxes etc."
Still, the Australian base powerbook12 is $3995. $1500+ difference.
You were a little too quick for them. The Australian Apple Store has since updated following the price drops, and a base 12" PowerBook is now $3099.
Sure, that's still a huge markup of over $600, but it's not quite the $1500 figure you came up with.
Apple have bought CPUs from IBM for years. The modern example is the G3; most of the later G3 models are from IBM. The current iBook still uses an IBM G3.
You're obviously talking about the PowerPC 970, but if Apple use that it will not be the first time they've sourced chips from IBM.
Re:Planned Ogg support?
on
Neuros Review
·
· Score: 1
"OK, I'm just grouchy because every indication is that all the useful software updates in the new ipods are not going to be ported back to the old versions (i.e. mine!)."
Err, MPEG-4 AAC support was just added to your iPod.
Sure, the new On-The-Fly playlists and the new games weren't, but I'm much happier with the new codec. The fact than even the original 5GB iPod that was released in 2001 now supports the new codec is awesome.
Linux has defaults now?
on
Neuros Review
·
· Score: 1
So I'm going to have lots of Oggs soon, because that is the default under Linux.
Since when has Linux had a default audio codec?
MPEG-4 AAC is why Apple will never support Vorbis
on
Neuros Review
·
· Score: 1
"Or the fact that until two months ago WMA was second to MP3, in marketshare, but now (with something like 3 million tracks sold) AAC is #2, despite only 3% of the potential market?"
Exactly. And in that time, Apple also have their users migrating to MPEG-4 AAC, with the help of iTunes 4 and their shiny new.m4a extension.
Apple want people using components of MPEG-4, not some random audio format that really isn't supported by any of the big players of the industry.
It's in Apple's best interests for MPEG-4 to take off. And that's why neither iTunes or iPod will ever officially support Vorbis.
If there's anyone out there that could find something that doesn't work with the Game Boy Player, it would have to be you, yerricde:)
I'd feel pretty safe in saying that anyone with just standard, old, and boring official games that are simple cartridges that don't use any special features would work. Of course, fancy things like pinball games with vibrators, tilting games, cameras, printers, third-party keyboards, AM/FM tuners, mp3 players, and other "lesser known" hardware and games may have problems.
The majority people wouldn't hit those problems, though. The people that do have fancy things would most likely have older Game Boy hardware around anyway, and could just use that.
Or yes, they could hack something together to make it work! That's half the fun, afterall!;)
The Game Boy Player is the piece of hardware that is going to be bundled with GameCubes, and it supports Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and original Game Boy software.
Ground-based combat isn't exactly new to the Starfox series.
After completing the difficult task of earning a medal on Venom while playing the game in expert mode, Starfox 64 (or Lylat Wars, as it is know in the PAL market) gave you the option to choose to fight on foot in multiplayer. You could also choose to be a tank after earning a medal on Venom in standard mode. See here for more information.
However, Starfox 64's multiplayer could hardly be considered all that great, so I hope that Namco have done a much better job. This is one game I'm really looking forward to...
All of the Super Mario All-Stars games are already available on the on the Game Boy Advance, in some form:
Super Mario Bros is available for the Game Boy Color (and therefore the GBA) as Super Mario Bros Deluxe. It also includes the so-called "Lost Levels" (SMB2J).
Super Mario Bros 2 is available for the GBA as Super Mario Advance.
Super Mario Bros 3 is going to be available for the GBA as Super Mario Advance 4.
Super Mario World is available for the GBA as Super Mario Advance 2.
Also, the tracks from Super Mario Kart can be unlocked in Mario Kart Super Circuit for the GBA. And Yoshi's Island is also available for the GBA as Super Mario Advance 3, although it's not one of the games you mentioned.
So you can get All-Stars on the Game Boy Advance, it's just going to be spread across a lot of cartridges. You'll never see them all on one cart though - Nintendo do exist to make monkey after all.
Personally, I think there's a better option: Just play them all on my decade old SNES...
"Polymer notes are also more durable than paper notes (lasting around four times as long), are cleaner and more hygienic, and can be recycled at the end of their useful life into a range of plastic products."
I can vouch for their strength first-hand. It's rare to see a damaged note, and it's not really possible to accidentally rip them. Oh, and they're waterproof, so leaving notes in pockets bound for a washing machine isn't too much of a problem...
I guess in that case they can read the number, or feel for the size differences of the notes. Someone has to find a problem with every system, don't they?;)
It is an interesting point though; I wonder if there was any study into the colours used on the notes and the way people suffering colourblindness perceive them. A quick Google search didn't find anything about it...
Of course, that would just lead to people counterfeiting the old ones instead.
Here in Australia our first polymer note was introduced in 1990, and throughout the following decade all currency was upgraded. 13 years on and paper notes have totally disappeared from circulation.
The old paper notes may still be legal tender, but you'd likely trade them for polymer at a bank because a stores nowadays are incredibly wary of paper notes. There's a good chance you'd be asked for a 'normal' polymer note instead, or even refuse to accept it.
I don't understand the mentality with many of the comments on this story. The old notes will soon disappear from public use, and using them will only draw attention to you. Counterfeiting the older currency quickly becomes pointless.
Why paper? Polymer notes last longer, are much harder to damage, and are much more difficult to counterfeit. Also, adding extra anti-counterfeiting measures such as transparent windows, micro-print, and watermarks is simple.
Why so much green? All the US notes are green, which makes distinguishing between denominations take longer than it should. If the notes were coloured, only a quick glance would be required to check denomination, especially for people with vision impairment.
To speak from my own experience in Australia, it's been all polymer notes since 1990. Each note is a different colour and length, doesn't rip, and is terribly difficult to counterfeit.
I'm just surprised this new $US20 isn't polymer. The technology works - why not use it?
"A previous Apple update fixed a DNS bug where large DNS reponses (typically from Akamai-based sites) would get dropped. The most notable victim was Apple itself.
10.2.6 appears to re-introduce this bug, making Safari pretty much useless for me."
Slashdot Mirror
Fosters Light Ice is a totally different beer. Fosters Larger is the swill advertised internationally as the beer of choice in Australia.
But yes, VB is undoubtedly the most popular beer in Australia.
I am an Australian and no-one here drinks Fosters Larger.
Are you sure these friends of yours are actually Australian, because they're totally and utterly incorrect.
OpenDarwin is a project launched in April 2001 which works towards porting BSD-style software to Darwin, and features a crown jewel of DarwinPorts. OpenDarwin was founded by Apple, although they now have no control over the project's operation. Jordan Hubbard is one of many Apple employees closely associated with the project.
Virtually no-one in the Macintosh community cares about GNU-Darwin.
GNU-Darwin is a project founded by a person that goes by the name proclus. This proclus character spends a fair majority of his time replying to valid criticism of his project on sites such as Slashdot and MacSlash. Unfortunately, this time would be much better spent working on the actual GNU-Darwin project; GNU-Darwin has nothing to offer that hasn't already been done better by either OpenDarwin or Fink.
What splintering? GNU-Darwin is totally irrelvant.
GNU-Darwin are not even involved with Metapgk, an alliance formed between DarwinPorts, Fink, and Gentoo. All the major packaging groups in the Macintosh community are part of this alliance.
That GNU-Darwin isn't going to exist much longer.
DarwinPorts is going to be a part of Panther, and OpenDarwin is assured of a bright future. Fink and Gentoo are part of Metapkg, so all porting work that OpenDarwin does will help those projects as well.
GNU-Darwin is totally insignificant, has virtually no support in the Macintosh community, and is let by someone with a warped view of reality. When it inevitably disappears, no one will care.
Daring Fireball offers well-written opinions about Apple-related topics. It would have been nice of pudge to provide a few links to supposedly biased pieces that Gruber has written, instead ignorantly pointing at the front page.
Of course, it can be difficult linking to things that don't exist...
At least I'm now prepared for the moment someone does claim that Panther will not operate on G3s, and I've added yet another screenshot to the pile...
Your belief that Panther doesn't run on G3 systems is incorrect.
Panther runs just fine on my Late 2001 iBook, and here's the screenshot to prove it.
Perhaps you need a new source of Macintosh information...
It's not just European units. It seems to be all iPods outside of the United States.
I know that personally, my first generation 10GB model iPod was volume dropped, and I'm in Australia.
I wonder if Tycho was thinking about this when he said that...
...for Microsoft Office.
Even with Internet Explorer gone, the need for Office remains.
Sure, that's still a huge markup of over $600, but it's not quite the $1500 figure you came up with.
Apple have bought CPUs from IBM for years. The modern example is the G3; most of the later G3 models are from IBM. The current iBook still uses an IBM G3.
You're obviously talking about the PowerPC 970, but if Apple use that it will not be the first time they've sourced chips from IBM.
Sure, the new On-The-Fly playlists and the new games weren't, but I'm much happier with the new codec. The fact than even the original 5GB iPod that was released in 2001 now supports the new codec is awesome.
Apple want people using components of MPEG-4, not some random audio format that really isn't supported by any of the big players of the industry.
It's in Apple's best interests for MPEG-4 to take off. And that's why neither iTunes or iPod will ever officially support Vorbis.
If there's anyone out there that could find something that doesn't work with the Game Boy Player, it would have to be you, yerricde :)
;)
I'd feel pretty safe in saying that anyone with just standard, old, and boring official games that are simple cartridges that don't use any special features would work. Of course, fancy things like pinball games with vibrators, tilting games, cameras, printers, third-party keyboards, AM/FM tuners, mp3 players, and other "lesser known" hardware and games may have problems.
The majority people wouldn't hit those problems, though. The people that do have fancy things would most likely have older Game Boy hardware around anyway, and could just use that.
Or yes, they could hack something together to make it work! That's half the fun, afterall!
The Game Boy Player is the piece of hardware that is going to be bundled with GameCubes, and it supports Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and original Game Boy software.
No hacky GB-bridge type thing required.
Ground-based combat isn't exactly new to the Starfox series.
After completing the difficult task of earning a medal on Venom while playing the game in expert mode, Starfox 64 (or Lylat Wars, as it is know in the PAL market) gave you the option to choose to fight on foot in multiplayer. You could also choose to be a tank after earning a medal on Venom in standard mode. See here for more information.
However, Starfox 64's multiplayer could hardly be considered all that great, so I hope that Namco have done a much better job. This is one game I'm really looking forward to...
So you can get All-Stars on the Game Boy Advance, it's just going to be spread across a lot of cartridges. You'll never see them all on one cart though - Nintendo do exist to make monkey after all.
Personally, I think there's a better option: Just play them all on my decade old SNES...
I guess in that case they can read the number, or feel for the size differences of the notes. Someone has to find a problem with every system, don't they? ;)
It is an interesting point though; I wonder if there was any study into the colours used on the notes and the way people suffering colourblindness perceive them. A quick Google search didn't find anything about it...
The old paper notes may still be legal tender, but you'd likely trade them for polymer at a bank because a stores nowadays are incredibly wary of paper notes. There's a good chance you'd be asked for a 'normal' polymer note instead, or even refuse to accept it.
I don't understand the mentality with many of the comments on this story. The old notes will soon disappear from public use, and using them will only draw attention to you. Counterfeiting the older currency quickly becomes pointless.
Why paper? Polymer notes last longer, are much harder to damage, and are much more difficult to counterfeit. Also, adding extra anti-counterfeiting measures such as transparent windows, micro-print, and watermarks is simple.
Why so much green? All the US notes are green, which makes distinguishing between denominations take longer than it should. If the notes were coloured, only a quick glance would be required to check denomination, especially for people with vision impairment.
To speak from my own experience in Australia, it's been all polymer notes since 1990. Each note is a different colour and length, doesn't rip, and is terribly difficult to counterfeit.
I'm just surprised this new $US20 isn't polymer. The technology works - why not use it?
Since when has that been the case?
My late 2001 iBook has built-in FireWire, and it didn't ship with a FireWire cable.
See the bold text? SafariNoTimeout fixes that.