Ok – so maybe I’m missing the point about Microsoft’s Cleartype technology, but I just spent a couple of hours today staring at my screen and wondering if I needed to get my eyes checked as everything looked fuzzy. Seems that the Cleartype font-smoothing had been enabled somehow, and instead of crisp text on my screen I had fuzzy/blury text. Doesn’t seem that great to me, although I think it’s more benefit on LCD screens, not CRT.
UK High Street electronics retailer to stop selling 35mm cameras
UK High Street electronics store, Dixons, have announced that they will no longer sell 35mm cameras after the current stock has been sold.
This is a sure sign that regular 35mm cameras are destined for their place in history, to be replaced by the currently available digital cameras.
Sony PS3 may support Apple Mac OS X Tiger
This posting on AppleInsider website suggests that because of the similarity between the PowerPC based Cell processor that will power the PS3 and the current PowerPC based hardware support in Mac OS X, it will be possible to run the Apple operating system on a PS3.
There has already been some speculation that the PS3 will come preinstalled with a flavor of Linux on it’s harddrive, but this is now in question since it is uncertain whether the PS3 will ship including a harddrive, mainly for cost reasons. However the harddrive addon is likely to be an option, and since the PS3 is expected to offer media server capabilities, then the harddrive is essential.
It was also speculated earlier that Sony and Apple would form a partnership so that future Appple Mac releases could be built around IBM, Sony and Toshiba’s Cell processor, which is based on the PowerPC currently powering todays Mac. This is now unlikely since Apple have announced that they are moving to an Intel powered platform and dropping support for PowerPC processors.
BEA plan to support scipting languages on server software
BEA Systems, developer of one of the leading Java Application Servers, Weblogic, have annouced that they are planning on supporting other development languages on the server software, and not just Java.
In particular, they are planning on supporting various scripting languages for the development of aplications to be deployed to their server, namely Jython (a Java flavor of Python), and even possibly Cold Fusion.
This is an interesting change of direction for an applicaiton server vendor who up until this point has been primarily focused on Java, and reinforces the fact that scriptig languages are gaining popularity in the development community.