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Sun supplies a Windows implementation of Java...	1,259 Views / 11 Replies
Sun supplies a Windows implementation of Java themselves because a Windows implementation is absolutely crucial and Microsoft ain't gonna do it. Apple is not that far behind. They take Sun's code,...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 17, 2003 at 04:01 PM, in macOS

Office for Macintosh can preserve and transmit...	1,482 Views / 13 Replies
Office for Macintosh can preserve and transmit Word macro viruses. They don't affect the Mac itself, but they can turn its copy of Office into a carrier. If you do a lot of Word document sharing...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 8, 2003 at 08:29 PM, in macOS

Bluntly: The first couple releases were put out...	3,112 Views / 66 Replies
Bluntly: The first couple releases were put out by NeXTies. After OS 9 died, the OS 9 programmers were folded into the OS X group, and lo and behold, OS X started sprouting all kinds of OS 9-like...
Posted by Amorph, on Oct 17, 2003 at 11:06 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: Re: Wishlist for OS X as a Platform	1,915 Views / 32 Replies
Wrong. At least in the US. The US Supreme Court ruled that taping was fair use in Sony vs. Universal because it had a valid non-infringing use. Copyright law, until very recently, allowed you to...
Posted by Amorph, on Oct 6, 2003 at 02:39 PM, in macOS

*sizeof (void ) == 4 translates: The size of...**	5,090 Views / 30 Replies
sizeof (void *) == 4 translates: The size of a generic pointer (a variable capable of containing the address of anything in memory) is equal to four characters (a character, in C, traditionally...
Posted by Amorph, on Sep 11, 2003 at 10:11 PM, in macOS

The ADC connector draws 130W all by itself....	3,468 Views / 17 Replies
The ADC connector draws 130W all by itself. That's probably the culprit. (That's why hooking up a VGA monitor might give you a better picture.)
Posted by Amorph, on May 2, 2003 at 02:13 PM, in Mac Desktops

Fortunately I didn't say that. I said that the...	3,173 Views / 50 Replies
Fortunately I didn't say that. I said that the new case design introduced no new functionality. It's still the same Antec case, right? There's nothing wrong with that, but it refutes drmcnutt's claim...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 23, 2003 at 05:27 PM, in Mac Desktops

Nice topic switch. ;) But the Alienware case,...	3,173 Views / 50 Replies
Nice topic switch. ;) But the Alienware case, while quite nice looking for a PC case, adds absolute zero to either form or function, because it's literally exactly the same case. The internal layout...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 23, 2003 at 02:38 PM, in Mac Desktops

IBM will cheerfully offer Opterons, Itanics, PPC...	2,395 Views / 16 Replies
IBM will cheerfully offer Opterons, Itanics, PPC 970s, and whatever else their customers might take a fancy to. They're not at all averse to selling other people's hardware, as long as they get...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 22, 2003 at 05:35 PM, in Mac Desktops

Huh? I'll give Alienware points for...	3,173 Views / 50 Replies
Huh? I'll give Alienware points for branding, and for at least producing something that doesn't look cheap and flimsy, but what on Earth are they contributing to form or function? The case is bog...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 22, 2003 at 01:17 PM, in Mac Desktops

Click on the User Center link under the banner...	15,742 Views / 158 Replies
Click on the User Center link under the banner ad. Click on Edit Profile. You'll see a box labelled Signature. Click the Submit Modifications button. Whatever you put in the signature will now appear...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 14, 2003 at 01:57 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: Adobe Optimization	2,285 Views / 30 Replies
Since when is After Effects "well threaded?" The whole point of this thread is that it isn't. If AE was well threaded, it would see an average 50%-80% performance increase on a dual-processor...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 7, 2003 at 12:17 PM, in Mac Desktops

It would be hardly less accurate to say that both...	3,451 Views / 59 Replies
It would be hardly less accurate to say that both are layered on top of CoreFoundation. In some cases, Carbon is "below" Cocoa, but in others they're just two different views of the same underlying,...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 4, 2003 at 05:34 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Finder to be a COCOA App?	3,451 Views / 59 Replies
However, Apple will probably still continue moving toward Cocoa just because the speed hit is worth the more rapid development and smaller, cleaner codebase. If there's a reason to rewrite the...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 3, 2003 at 05:57 PM, in macOS

It's not quite that simple, because Intel throws...	2,285 Views / 30 Replies
It's not quite that simple, because Intel throws lots of money, and lots of engineers, at Adobe. Apple doesn't. So in this case, Intel has their thumb firmly on Adobe's scales. This has nothing to...
Posted by Amorph, on Apr 2, 2003 at 04:38 PM, in Mac Desktops

So HFS doesn't support metadata? Metadata is...	15,742 Views / 158 Replies
So HFS doesn't support metadata? Metadata is data about data. Where it is stored is an implementation issue, not a defining trait.
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 27, 2003 at 06:10 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: A 'Classic Mode' in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther?	4,091 Views / 80 Replies
So you're asking Apple to rework the "chain of responsibility" provided by the Quartz server into the flat event model used by MacOS, all transparently within the Cocoa frameworks? Not gonna happen....
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 17, 2003 at 04:39 PM, in macOS

Actually, I didn't. I knew it was in process, but...	4,091 Views / 80 Replies
Actually, I didn't. I knew it was in process, but that's it. Time to go digging, I suppose. Thanks. :)
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 17, 2003 at 04:20 PM, in macOS

I/O FireWire Device would be my guess.	5,461 Views / 44 Replies
I/O FireWire Device would be my guess.
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 16, 2003 at 09:32 PM, in macOS

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Posted by Amorph, on Mar 16, 2003 at 02:06 PM, in macOS

Define "better". Right now, Classic is done the...	4,091 Views / 80 Replies
Define "better". Right now, Classic is done the way it's done because the #1 reason for its existence is compatibility. There are some crucial things that it can't do (like run Mac OS device drivers)...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 16, 2003 at 01:51 PM, in macOS

Not to mention all the code that assumes that it...	4,091 Views / 80 Replies
Not to mention all the code that assumes that it can draw directly to the screen, and does so (draw into an offscreen GWorld and use CopyBits() to splat to the screen). Not to mention all the custom...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 13, 2003 at 12:26 AM, in macOS

Not really. Large fans don't have to spin as fast...	1,152 Views / 12 Replies
Not really. Large fans don't have to spin as fast to move the same amount of air, and a lot of the noise problem has as much to do with the frequency of hte noise as with the amplitude: 40dB at 200Hz...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 11, 2003 at 02:59 PM, in Mac Desktops

To obfuscate something is to make it unclear. In...	689 Views / 4 Replies
To obfuscate something is to make it unclear. In this case, since Java is interpreted (or dynamically compiled) the source is visible to the client - which, if you're paranoid about people learning...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 11, 2003 at 02:51 PM, in Developer Center

This, in fact, describes the bulk of the...	7,206 Views / 101 Replies
This, in fact, describes the bulk of the performance improvements in AW 6 from the original release up to 6.2.4. The original release spammed the OS with 6000+ events per second; by 6.1, I think it...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 11, 2003 at 02:44 PM, in macOS

I am aware of what the issues are, thanks. :) ...	7,206 Views / 101 Replies
I am aware of what the issues are, thanks. :) What I would like is, in fact, what you elaborated: The factoring of common code between Carbon and Cocoa and OSA into CoreFoundation. This would...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 10, 2003 at 12:18 AM, in macOS

OK, what I'd like: Sync'd with FreeBSD 5,...	7,206 Views / 101 Replies
OK, what I'd like: Sync'd with FreeBSD 5, and the latest stable gcc. X11, polished up and ready to go, and installed with the Dev Tools (because who intends to use OS X as a workstation UNIX...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 7, 2003 at 04:12 PM, in macOS

Because most Macs are still worth the premium....	2,890 Views / 61 Replies
Because most Macs are still worth the premium. The exception, increasingly, is the PowerMac. It's not that they suck, as anyone who's read a thread started by a new PowerMac owner can see. It's that...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 3, 2003 at 12:13 PM, in Mac Desktops

My point exactly. If Apple isn't charging a...	2,890 Views / 61 Replies
My point exactly. If Apple isn't charging a huge premium for their most attractive products, where do you get the idea that they'll charge for a product that is basically a solution to a problem? ...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 2, 2003 at 08:13 PM, in Mac Desktops

Except, as I've noted, for the ones that are: The...	2,890 Views / 61 Replies
Except, as I've noted, for the ones that are: The notebooks are priced aggressively now, too. Fred Anderson said several quarters ago that Apple was aiming for marketshare over margin, and that...
Posted by Amorph, on Mar 1, 2003 at 09:32 PM, in Mac Desktops

They did much of that for the Cube, and it was...	2,890 Views / 61 Replies
They did much of that for the Cube, and it was still one of the highest-margin machines in their lineup. Furthermore, they need to goose falling sales, especially in the pro lines. They're not...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 28, 2003 at 05:32 PM, in Mac Desktops

Intel won't release speed upgrades any faster...	7,924 Views / 178 Replies
Intel won't release speed upgrades any faster than they have to. The quicker they burn through the effective range of a particular model, the less profit they make. The only reason they've gone as...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 27, 2003 at 10:36 PM, in Mac Desktops

Umm, I've never heard it stated that way. For one...	1,261 Views / 14 Replies
Umm, I've never heard it stated that way. For one thing, all busses have less actual than theoretical bandwidth to varying degrees and for various reasons, but I've never heard anyone say, for...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 27, 2003 at 02:47 AM, in Mac Desktops

The 970's bus - called GigaBus by IBM - is...	1,261 Views / 14 Replies
The 970's bus - called GigaBus by IBM - is clocked at 1/4 the speed of the CPU, and double-pumped. So a 1.6GHz 970 has a 400MHz bus that operates at an "effective" 800MHz. The 900MHz number comes...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 26, 2003 at 05:23 PM, in Mac Desktops

Unfortunately, the buyer in many cases is a big...	3,071 Views / 57 Replies
Unfortunately, the buyer in many cases is a big distributor like Ingram Micro, and a machine can in fact sit in their warehouses for a while before a reseller buys it from them to sell through a...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 25, 2003 at 11:31 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Your various I/O devices, ports and the PCI and...	1,261 Views / 14 Replies
Your various I/O devices, ports and the PCI and AGP busses can all access the RAM without going through the frontside bus, so what the DDR RAM allows the memory controller to be able to do is to...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 25, 2003 at 11:20 PM, in Mac Desktops

PDF has no provision for transparency.	2,028 Views / 35 Replies
PDF has no provision for transparency.
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 24, 2003 at 03:03 PM, in macOS

Re: What is a good memory app for OS X?	647 Views / 4 Replies
OS X is not OS 9. Technically, there is no free RAM in OS X, because any RAM not in use is used by the OS to cache files in a sort of reverse virtual memory (or, to use an OS 9 metaphor, a RAM disk),...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 12, 2003 at 12:15 AM, in macOS

Re: slipjack	1,622 Views / 15 Replies
I know After Effects doesn't know anything about multiple processors, and I doubt the others do either. Your complaint then would be with the software developers. However, I expect that Apple's...
Posted by Amorph, on Feb 3, 2003 at 03:11 PM, in Mac Desktops

If the rumored descriptions about the -RM suffix...	1,499 Views / 24 Replies
If the rumored descriptions about the -RM suffix are true, it will support DDR by default, since it will have an on-die memory controller and connect to the rest of the board via RapidIO instead of a...
Posted by Amorph, on Jan 23, 2003 at 05:03 PM, in Mac Desktops

That sounds oddly precise. BTW, where are...	2,647 Views / 48 Replies
That sounds oddly precise. BTW, where are people getting the idea that the 7457 is DDR capable? As far as I've been able to tell, it's just a die-shrunk 7455. We might see bus speeds of 167MHz and...
Posted by Amorph, on Jan 18, 2003 at 06:09 PM, in Mac Desktops

Considering that 17" LCDs are now only nominally...	1,961 Views / 29 Replies
Considering that 17" LCDs are now only nominally more expensive than 15"'s, and LCD prices are plummeting... maybe. But I might be influenced by untrammeled lust for an iMac with a big screen. ;)...
Posted by Amorph, on Jan 1, 2003 at 05:03 PM, in macOS

Actually, Win XP has had TCP/IP over FireWire for...	2,310 Views / 38 Replies
Actually, Win XP has had TCP/IP over FireWire for a while now. If Apple's going to paddle them, it'll be in finding a way to exploit it usefully. Right now it's on Windows the same way USB was on PCs...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 8, 2002 at 05:31 PM, in Mac Desktops

When haven't they? And what does that have to do...	1,729 Views / 35 Replies
When haven't they? And what does that have to do with the transition to OS X? "Apple is listening" doesn't mean "Apple is doing everything exactly the way everyone wants them to." It does mean...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 8, 2002 at 01:31 PM, in macOS

Disclaimer: I'm more of a C guy than Objective-C....	2,011 Views / 6 Replies
Disclaimer: I'm more of a C guy than Objective-C. That said: If you're passing to a function that expects int * parameters, you pass the addresses of ints: int row, column; [matrice...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 7, 2002 at 04:03 PM, in Developer Center

As many people as want to. The rest can probably...	1,729 Views / 35 Replies
As many people as want to. The rest can probably figure out that Apple actually is making more effort to solicit their opinions than I can remember them doing in, oh, the last two decades or so. ...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 7, 2002 at 03:35 PM, in macOS

I think Simon's on to something, except that he's...	836 Views / 14 Replies
I think Simon's on to something, except that he's either got the G4 sporting two MaxBusses or two L3 cache busses. It would probably be simpler to have two G4s, each with its own MaxBus, fed by...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 6, 2002 at 05:48 PM, in Mac Desktops

Ah. Because the die size shrinkage is a square of...	2,310 Views / 38 Replies
Ah. Because the die size shrinkage is a square of the process shrinkage, correct? No wonder they're going to migrate it swiftly to .09 micron. :) 1.2 - 1.6GHz is in line with...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 6, 2002 at 03:31 PM, in Mac Desktops

Ah, yes. I had misremembered. mea maxima...	7,571 Views / 110 Replies
Ah, yes. I had misremembered. mea maxima culpa on that one. Still, it sounds like two 970s is a viable alternative to one HT P4.
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 6, 2002 at 01:42 PM, in Mac Desktops

That article raised some interesting points that...	2,310 Views / 38 Replies
That article raised some interesting points that run counter to conventional wisdom: They shrugged off the slower bus, pointing to the G4's significantly faster cache. They considered the G4...
Posted by Amorph, on Dec 6, 2002 at 12:51 PM, in Mac Desktops

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