G4 - biography
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G4techTV Canada, E!G4 launched on April 24, 2002.It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and owned by G4 Media (which, in turn, is owned primarily by Comcast).G4 is available in 62 million cable and satellite homes in the United States.The name "G4" originally stood for the four generations of video games (text, sprites, polygons and textures).Early days
G4 was created by Comcast and Insight Communications in 2002.Icons focused mainly on developers, gaming publishers, and famous franchises in the industry such as Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Everquest, Valve Software, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Will Wright (game designer).G4 was originally led by Charles Hirschhorn, a former president of Walt Disney Television and Television Animation.He expected video game creators themselves to eventually produce programming for the network.Hirschhorn intended G4 to become a vehicle for unconventional advertising.In 2002, G4 offered advertisers "wide latitude to place their products on G4's programs, and even allowing their commercials to appear as if they're a part of the program."G4 also offered what was called a "2 minute unit" which was an advertising package played as if it were part of a G4 program that was long enough to run an entire movie trailer.G4 also offered to sell the right to have a game showcased on the show "Pulse".Vulcan Ventures) sold TechTV to G4 Media (owned primarily by Comcast), who then merged both channels to soon become G4TechTV.Charles Hirschhorn of G4 was put in charge of the combined entity.Silicon Valley) also seemed very foolish to many.However, on the network's affiliate in Canada, the TechTV name still remains strong (along with some original TechTV programming and more), and the channel is also still known as G4TechTV Canada.Also reported was a managerial decision to decrease G4's emphasis on video game coverage, in favor of a shift toward a male general interest programming format, reminiscent of Spike.The programming format mostly consists of syndicated material.Its website address in lieu of the slogan "Videogame TV" was introduced and gradually replaced the existing logo over the next few months."So what we're doing now is expanding G4 from a network solely defined by videogames to one inspired by them."In addition to its programming, G4, along with Earth911 recently launched an electronic waste recycling campaign called Gcycle.Consolidation
Comcast, the parent company of both G4 and E!Networks, announced on October 12, 2006, that it would consolidate its west coast entertainment operations, including G4, E!Style into a new group headed by the person who had formerly run the E!It was announced that the upper management of the G4 network would relocate to the E!Network's LA office and that there would likely eventually be layoffs within the management of G4 as operations were consolidated.Comcast Entertainment Group, also said that in the long run the organization would look at colocating G4's television production facilities with those of E!Harbert gave his opinion that the focus of the channel on "gaming has been demonstrated as being too narrow."He also gave assurances that while G4 might change, it would not become extinct.Design Studios Onesize and yU+Co are teaming up to rebrand the G4 network.G4 has, in the past, boasted about its willingness to go beyond the traditional limits of advertising on the network.The willingness of the network to sell advertisements inside of program content as well as efforts in the past to sell coverage of products on shows to companies raises questions about the honesty of all content on G4.Play and Attack of the Show!Star Trek: The Next Generation.In addition, certain syndicated programming shown on G4 have been controversial to some degree.Sci Fi Channel and G4 have purchased the rights to broadcast reruns of Lost beginning Fall 2008.G4 Personalities
The list of current G4 personalities also includes the two remaining employees from TechTV that are highlighted in bold.Play, Gaming correspondent on Attack of the Show!Kristin Holt (host of Cheat!Layla Kayleigh (anchor of "The Feed" on Attack of the Show!G4 Media and Rogers Media.Also, because of CRTC programming regulations, some programs that air on G4 in the U.G4techTV Canada is very different from its American counterpart because of these CRTC regulations.While G4techTV focuses on technology programming and related lifestyle programming that TechTV originally had, G4 has been heading into a male orientated programming direction with less of an emphasis on gaming and more on male general interests.Original G4 logo (2002), used in combination with mascots of the network.February 2005) when it was merged with TechTV, under the moniker, G4techTV."Videogame TV" is used instead of "G4TV.G4 logo used from February 2006 to March 2007.The Rise and Fall of G4 (Part 1).Coming to G4: The Man Show?.The Rise and Fall of G4 (Part 3).The Rise and Fall of G4 (Part 4).Banzai' sparks protests in US."Lost" Reruns Land at Sci Fi, G4, Yahoo!This page was last modified on 23 February 2008, at 18:59.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.The Power Mac G4 was a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple between 1999 and 2004.It uses the PowerPC G4 (PPC74xx) series of microprocessors.White) computers (minus the ADB port), in a "graphite" colored case and with the new PowerPC 7400 (G4) CPU.In December 1999, the entire Power Mac G4 line was updated to the AGP motherboard.Announced in July 2000 the Power Macintosh G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) that added dual processors came to the lineup.The AGP Power Macs were the first to include an AirPort slot and DVI video port.The code name Sawtooth was used.It was also the first personal computer to include Gigabit ethernet as standard.RAM and Zip drives were optional on all models.These models also introduced Apple's proprietary Apple Display Connector video port.Apple's name for this series is the Power Mac Gigabit Ethernet.Some of these models have ATA controllers with 48 bit LBA for hard drives larger than 128 GB.GHz model would be the last Power Mac G4 the company offered to the public after the announcement of the new Power Mac G5, introduced in June 2003.The models were noted for their noisiness, earning them the unofficial designation "Windtunnel G4" in some circles.The last real update to the Power Mac G4 line was on 28 January 2003 offering dual 1.FireWire 800 connector, optional integrated Bluetooth, and optional integrated AirPort Extreme.These were also the first Power Macs that could not boot into Mac OS 9.August 2002 Power Mac G4 because of perceived demand for Mac OS 9 machines.Italics indicate discontinued products.See also Apple hardware before 1998.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Apple Lossless Decoder)
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Portable Camino 1.If your processor is a G4 and the version number is 7450 or higher, you can run this build.Edited: As far as I know these builds will work as expected with nearly any G4 processor.PowerBooks and PowerMacs, I think) may not work.EST): I just built a new version of Firefox 1.December 1, 2005 3:07 PM
oooh, i think i'm gonna likey this.Jenkins said on December 1, 2005 3:17 PM
This is a very nice site.Thanks for a friendly and entertaining experience.Brian said on December 1, 2005 4:10 PM
Looking forward to giving this a try.Does anyone know how to get the required libraries short of installing DevTools?AMSR said on December 1, 2005 6:41 PM
You say 7450 or higher.What about the powerbooks that have 7447 CPUs?Is that likely to see a benifit from this build?Neil replies: (December 1, 2005 9:29 PM)
Should work with the 7447's, but I'm not positive as I don't have one of those models.O3 and many of the other performance related flags.Neil replies: (December 2, 2005 12:29 AM)
Sorry, Joe, but I'm not going to build and post something I can't test.Quang Minh said on December 2, 2005 2:05 AM
Deerpark seems to work better for FF 1.G4PowerBook with the 867 Mhz processor.Darren Cornwell said on December 2, 2005 5:01 AM
God, leave the poor guy alone, if he doesn't want to do a new build (which he can't test) then leave him alone.Joel Pan said on December 2, 2005 5:07 AM
Running without problems (so far) on a Mac Mini (G4 7447).Thank you very much for all your trouble.Aaron said on December 2, 2005 8:43 PM
Anyone know of an easy way to import my bookmarks from Camino to Deer Park?This build runs great on my PowerBook 17 (1.That's quite an improvement.Nagualito said on December 3, 2005 11:39 PM
10.Powerbook 1Ghz
Obviously I am running a G4
but I see no difference at all.However, both as rocket sleds
compared to Safari.Check it out and add your own reasons for switching (although you've actually created builds of Firefox, so that pretty much puts you into the l33t Firefoxer category anyways...December 4, 2005 12:48 AM
What does optimizing for the G4 do?December 4, 2005 1:01 AM
Killer!And it is great that all your settings and bookmarks are kept!!Ted Mielczarek said on December 4, 2005 1:35 AM
Hi,
Judging from an email I've received, you may not have enabled canvas support in your build.December 4, 2005 2:34 AM
ah excellent!!!I'd like to able to use extensions such as Tab Preview which is just so handy if you tab around.Jure said on December 4, 2005 6:25 AM
Nice work.Any chance of optimized thunderbird builds?Eric said on December 4, 2005 9:29 AM
The only problem I see, is the known problem of firefox 1.But i would say nice work on the G4 optimized, this app is alot more responsive than the standard release, and hopefully this bug will be fixed on the Mozilla side very soon, then maybe a new build of this can be released, then it will be the far superior browser for anyone with a G4.December 4, 2005 3:31 PM
thanks a lot for this build.What kind of optimizations should I be concerned with applying?Many thanks for all your hard work on this, the application responds much better than the unoptimized FF 1.Joe said on December 5, 2005 9:38 AM
What command line options did you use ...G4 what should I type?December 7, 2005 12:01 PM
really awesome, but the tab preview extension and foxpose extension doesn't seem to work with this build.James said on December 8, 2005 6:48 PM
Thank you very much for this.First of all it really does seem very much nippier than the official build, and secondly it gets rid of one of the Firefox quirks that really irritated me; that you could not open a new Firefox window while your existing window was minimised.Now the only thing I really miss from Safari is having access to the built in OSX spellcheck.Also destroyed my previous Firefox 1.Normal Firefox works fine again after reinstalling it.Does Deer Park alter my personal settings so much?December 11, 2005 2:20 PM
I just installed Deer Park but each time I open it up I get a message saying "cannot open because of chrome registration failure."Neil replies: (December 13, 2005 3:02 PM)
Actually, this is the release version.On the sidebar to the left, I only get the WebCT icons, not the text with the names of the icons.The sidebar WevCT does not expand fully as in Firefox before ver.Marcus Kazmierczak said on December 19, 2005 1:13 PM
I'm using it on a Powerbook G4 500mhz, which is the first run of the Titantium PowerBooks, circa 2001.CPU model number, System Profiler says:
PowerPC G4 (11.Guillermo said on December 19, 2005 8:40 PM
The build I downloaded doesn't have the "G4" in the icon.It showed once I copied it to the Applications folder.Fang Jin said on January 15, 2006 3:09 PM
it's faster than the regular firefox 1.G4 powerbook, but it's still lot slower than opera 8.G4 optimised 8s
Opera 5s
p.Thankful said on January 17, 2006 11:26 PM
Thanks for the builds!Any chance that we can get a G4 optimized build of that?Jijoe Vurghese said on April 19, 2006 11:14 AM
Any chance of getting a G4 optimized build of the recently released Firefox 1.Thanks for signing in, ', commenter_name, '.If you're seeing this message, you won't be able to post a comment.Intel Macs
Another micro update, this time with OS X 10.Reproduction or use of any editorial or pictorial content in any manner is prohibited without express written permission of G4
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