mbabauer said:
a) Maybe we're a bit sceptical that this will work well..
or
b) We're terrified witless at the privacy implications if this does work well!
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Apple Spotlight Patents Hinting at Leopard?
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a) Maybe we're a bit sceptical that this will work well..
or
b) We're terrified witless at the privacy implications if this does work well!
whatever they do, for god's sake don't call it 'iFinder'. eurgh!!!!!
i already have a ton of annoyingly named 'i' somethings in my application, the last thing we need id a clone of Microsoft's: "my computer, my documents, my this, my that". of course its mine, whose else would it be?....
Phil
i already have a ton of annoyingly named 'i' somethings in my application, the last thing we need id a clone of Microsoft's: "my computer, my documents, my this, my that". of course its mine, whose else would it be?....
Phil
phil989 said:whatever they do, for god's sake don't call it 'iFinder'. eurgh!!!!!
i already have a ton of annoyingly named 'i' somethings in my application, the last thing we need id a clone of Microsoft's: "my computer, my documents, my this, my that". of course its mine, whose else would it be?....
Phil
Why should they change the name, they'll just say "and we have a brand new re-designed Finder"
One more reason to be anti-patents...
I think nested smart folders (i.e. nested search results) would be a neat addition to the Finder. Having said that...
This idea DOES NOT deserve patent protection. There is PLENTY of prior art in this area. It is yet another example of lawyers taking advantage of a U.S. Patent Office that will grant a patent for anything. (I'm seriously considering filing for a patent on the process to make babies and then charging the entire human race when they "process" together.)
I'm normally very pro-property rights, pay for all my software, music, and movies, and am a strong defender of copyrights and commercial software. But I'm sick of Apple and Microsoft and the rest trying to patent every little obvious idea they think will earn them another buck. Nested searching...been there, done that Apple. Spend more time making spotlight work well so people can actually use it, and less time trying to patent everything.
This is almost as bad as Microsoft trying to patent IsNot. What's next? Apple will patent 1's and Microsoft 0's and we'll see if they can each create an OS using one half of the digits available in the binary system.
I think nested smart folders (i.e. nested search results) would be a neat addition to the Finder. Having said that...
This idea DOES NOT deserve patent protection. There is PLENTY of prior art in this area. It is yet another example of lawyers taking advantage of a U.S. Patent Office that will grant a patent for anything. (I'm seriously considering filing for a patent on the process to make babies and then charging the entire human race when they "process" together.)
I'm normally very pro-property rights, pay for all my software, music, and movies, and am a strong defender of copyrights and commercial software. But I'm sick of Apple and Microsoft and the rest trying to patent every little obvious idea they think will earn them another buck. Nested searching...been there, done that Apple. Spend more time making spotlight work well so people can actually use it, and less time trying to patent everything.
This is almost as bad as Microsoft trying to patent IsNot. What's next? Apple will patent 1's and Microsoft 0's and we'll see if they can each create an OS using one half of the digits available in the binary system.
I've only used Tiger a few times, and maybe I just didn't see it but...
Is there a "Selection" search like in Panther? You know, in the Finder tool bar you can choose to search "Everywhere", "Local Disks", etc?
I always find the Selection search very useful. Does Spotlight have this in the finder search bar?
Is there a "Selection" search like in Panther? You know, in the Finder tool bar you can choose to search "Everywhere", "Local Disks", etc?
I always find the Selection search very useful. Does Spotlight have this in the finder search bar?
Grrr.. I'm gunna need an Intel Mac by next year, so I can take full advantage of the new OS!
Hopefully, Leopard will still run on older PPC machines. Although if it didn't run on my G3, I'd be fine with that. I'm hoping to see early (800 MHz are earlier) G4 support.
Hopefully, Leopard will still run on older PPC machines. Although if it didn't run on my G3, I'd be fine with that. I'm hoping to see early (800 MHz are earlier) G4 support.
Abercrombieboy said:
I think you are half right. It will run slower but the compiler (xcode uses gcc) does a good job of optimizing for the PPC and wil continue to be at least as good. In fact gcc is getting better at this al the time.
As someone who has maintained software for muliple platforms I can tell you they will be highly motivated to keep a singfle code base with as few processor specific things as possable. Every time the code splits you double your on-going test and maintenace effort and this effort must be continues to the "end of time".
What will likely happen is the engineers at Apple will thing "we can do XXX now because we have fast CPUs" so they do XXX and of course it still works on the G3. 10 years ago they never would have concidered doing complex SQL querries in the background as a user types. SQL was something you did on those big machines in the server room, but now it's easy to do on a litle Intel powered MBP.