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Girlfriend in a coma (Score:4, Funny)
I wasn't here when Apple did a lot of those earlier [...] server exploration [...] I look at that as a dream when, you know, Apple was in a coma.
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Server in a coma (Score:2, Interesting)
As I recall, it was loud like a sports car, too.
I used it to telnet to other stuff, making it the most expensive VT100(-ish) terminal I've ever seen.
But the hardware was pretty cool.
Back on topic, anyone catch the guy from Genentech talking about running Blast in a "massively parallel fashion", then going back and saying "well I can't say we're massive at this point, but we're parallel"?
Maybe they'll make a big XServe if the little one works out?
quicktime pro (Score:1)
Apple does this more often. Also some hi-res trailers are only downloadable with the Pro version.
Are QT sales not what they expected?
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:quicktime pro (Score:2)
I know like the trailers on the the starwars site for example.
I'm just wondering if I buy QT5 Pro.
What happens when they launch QT6 (Already announced).
Re:quicktime pro (Score:1)
You are really just buying a key to unlock features of quicktime that already exist in the program (ever try looking around inside the program with ResEdit on the classic OSes? You can see what I mean). In the past, the same key would transfer with the upgrade. I doubt apple will change that practice.
Re:quicktime pro (Score:2, Informative)
In the past, Apple's Quicktime Pro keys are good for one full upgrade of Quicktime. When I bought my key for QTPro3, I could install QT4 and get the Pro features as well. It wasn't until QT5 came out that I had to re-purchase the key again.
Re:quicktime pro (Score:1)
This actually forced me to downgrade to QT 4 until a lot of the movie trailers started coming out in 5 only or had major sound problems in 4. Finally I gave in and paid again (yeah, I'm a sucker).
If I didn't have QT Pro now and didn't need it urgently, I'd wait for QT 6 to come out just to be safe.
Re:quicktime pro (Score:2)
So I'm a little worried.
What exactly is the use of pro?
I just bought it becaus I'm tired of not being able to watch the larger size videos.
Yes I'm a bigger sucker
Re:quicktime pro (Score:1)
Re:quicktime pro (Score:1)
I personally use Quicktime only to view net-videos. For all editing and other stuff I use other software. The 42+ euros just for better resolution is just not worth it! This really is yet an other example of money-hungry-sales-oriented-idiocy. All Apple is doing is shooting it's own foot - again!
This kind of policy only turns people away from Quicktime to competing (free) viewers, or to use pirated versions of Quicktime Pro! I cannot see how this is in the interests of Apple?
Personally I usually just skip the videos that require Quicktime Pro. I wouldn't bother to use a pirated version, and certainly am not willing to pay the 42 euros for it. - After all I'm not going to miss out on anything important...
Re:quicktime pro (Score:2, Insightful)
Whether that justifies the price they charge, I won't debate, but that is, at least in part, the reason for the charge. Hey, they're a business. There is no moral reason thay should not charge to provide you with something of value.
Chimera used instead of IE (Score:5, Interesting)
I was pretty suprised when I noticed that not only was Phil Shiller not using IE for his Xserve demos durin this introduction, but he was using Chimera [mozdev.org] instead! This was pretty brave considering that chimera is only at version 0.28 ;-)
<conspiracy theory>Could this mean that Apple may dump IE in the future in favor of chimera once it's finished?</conspiracy theory>
Go Chimera! Go Phil! Go Steve!
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:2, Informative)
Chimera, as it evolves, will arguably be the Mozilla incarnation to use. Yet another amazing gemstone of technology made possible my Apple and Mac OS X.
blakespot -- iPodHacks.com [ipodhacks.com]
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:2)
Of course, for demos like this, Chimera just looks better, 'cos it's got anti-aliased fonts and native widgets.
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
go Chimera!
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
I'm not sure how long it's been like this, or how significant it is, but the but livepage.apple.com is now pointing to home.netscape.com. Of course, IE is still the default browser, but when you open it the first time it takes you to netscape.
Buddhist (Score:1)
Re:Buddhist (Score:1)
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
Once you activate the http1.1 and pipelining preferences in Mozilla you will see Chimera like performance albeit w/o the lovely Aqua theme (I've switched to AlumiteX via 'Themer: Anche' myself... lovin' it). Mozilla still has a few bugs as well but for overall UE it now rates above Chimera... we'll see what the future holds.
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
Microsoft MacBU has said that a major upgrade is in the works for IE on Mac though, sooo ya never know.
Re:Chimera used instead of IE (Score:1)
I'd check it out right now except that I am at work.
The Future? (Score:1)
The question conserning jaguar (Score:1)
It seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. If I was to order 40 Xserves that wouldn't arrive to June and then have to pay $1500 (Canadian) for each server in two months to get it to the updated OS then I would wait the two months and get jaguar bundled with the Xserve.
Am I missing something besides the fact that the only people that would buy it between June and August are the ones that really need the Xserves (they likely would already have another system - say with dell - in place) or the people that don't mind eating up such a large bill in two months.
Re:The question conserning jaguar (Score:1)
Anyway, the things come with the OS license already. As Steve was so pleased to point out, the competition offers more expensive, inferior servers without the software licenses.