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No, no. That keynote is next week.

I'm going to go ahead and pimp the Michael Bartosh Memorial Scholarship here since there are so many MacWorld links in that anyway.

Here's what I know of and/or could find for the ones I didn't.

• Aaron Hillegas
• Adam & Tonya Engst
• Amit Singh
• Andrina Kelly
• Andy Ihnatko
• Ben Wilson
• Brent Simmons
• Dan Frakes
• Danny Goodman
• David Pogue
• Drunkenbatman
• John Gruber
• John Siracusa
• Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch
• Josh Wisenbaker
• Michael Bartosh
• Mike Breeden
• Nigel Kersten
• Ray Barber
• Ric Ford
• Rich Siegel (Bare Bones SW)
• Rob Griffiths
• Rosyna Keller
• Scott Knaster
• Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster)

Unfortunately, it seems that Slashdot has a limitation on the minimum number of characters per line. So I can't just create a nice, simple list, but instead need a significant amount of text to pad out the list, so that I can make it past the filters being used. But I'm still not there yet... sooner or later I will (20.4 is still too few). I'm probably going to have to type a whole lot of crap in here just to deal with the 25 names that are only a few characters each. (and I tried removing returns from the message, but it didn't seem to help at all)

The keynote is on Tuesday, 10 January, not Monday.

1. The "Big Dance" link is broken on the ZDNet site. Here's what you want... (Macworld!)

2. Who's "Jason the Greek"? No dice on my initial search. Do I live in a cave? (You don't have to answer that.)

...is to be showcased at MacWorld San Francisco next week, at ATI's own booth (#2217). Personally I'm more anxious to see it that all the alleged "headless eMacs" and "80G iPods". I'm not sure if you can call it vaporware, it was rather a product that missed its deadline for a couple of weeks (and since it was mid-December, availability was delayed to early January).

Hmmn.

I love working on an OSS, but I think future Linux Worlds should try to make a better effort to attract end-users. I understand some companies might not want to be on the exibition floor if they are not going to increase sales, but the second you find out I am an end-user (not a developer/IT Manager/Purchase Order Manager) you should not give me polite push to the .org pavilion. I spent a lot of time updating my skills, and I plan to spend more time attempting to evangelizeing to people that migt attent future LWs (even in Boston) who might be in a position to make a large scale purchase.

Look a how that other Bi-Annual IDG Conferences value end-users.

1. Be Microsoft.
   
2. For months and/or years, constantly emit a steady stream of announcements about your upcoming iPod competitor, and how many amazing features it will have, and how it will do absolutely everything concievable, and how it will be out Real Soon Now.
   
3. Put out a small media blitz about this on the day that Apple is widely rumored to release a new iPod.
   
4. Fewer people buy iPods, because they're holding back, waiting for the uber-product Microsoft is supposedly going to release in six months, cutting into Apple's profits.
   
5. (Optional) Release something vaguely iPod-like sometime in 2006 with a small subset of your originally slated features.
   
6. Profit! (Although only from your operating systems and office software divisions.)
   

it's possible

the rumors have been around for months

I still think the point is valid, though, concerning the potential release or announcement of new hardware. The PowerMac line hasn't been updated in quite a while and I doubt Steve Jobs would allow anyone else to make any important new hardware announcements (PPC970 boxen? One hopes...)

You're also correct that New York is actually a more sensible location for the East Coast Expo, given the concentration of advertising, television, print media there. I don't have to like it though. Damn you. But they are in fact moving to Boston in 2004... which Jobs objected to vigorously.

Guess it does :)

If this is true, it probably means the PowerPC 970 is going to be ready to ship in Macs for MWNY.

Figure Jobs is going to announce the iMac III at MacWorld next week? His keynote speech is scheduled for 9:00AM this Tuesday morning, the 7th.

Hey, thanks for not only linking the article, but also linking cnet. With this great hint, I was all by myself able to fill in the missing links to macworld, apple, Microsoft, and Mac OS X. Someday, maybe this stuff will be easy enough for new users to figure out all on their own.

Bah. Like it's hard to fake. There are several options on this page, but it seems like the easiest would be the User Group Media category. Anybody with a copy of Quark or InDesign and the name of a local usergroup could fake a newsletter within an hour or so. A resourceful person could pull it off easily enough. It wouldn't be all that much harder or more expensive to fake letterheads and business cards for some bogus local newspaper or something. I'm not saying I think the ban is a good idea, far from it. I think it's bloody stupid. Just like the Lisa. But also like the Lisa, it's fairly easy to work around or ignore. Yeah, if you're Ryan Meador you want to go to MWNY with MOSR on your badge. So what. It's not like they can't go at all or anything, hardly the end of the world.

Apple is just hurting itself. Their rabid fans/sites have kept them alive through software & hardware droughts. This policy won't keep the big boys from publishing rumors and I doubt it will have any effect on the rumor sites

cold hard cash to piss away at macworld

geek on

You can install Linux on a Power Mac. Other OS's have been ported too.

And for open-source fans, what if you want to customize your OS?

With OS-X being FreeBSD based, the source for it is included. I don't know of anyone actually making changes to this and having it work, but I suspect it's possible to make some changes to the non-proprietary portions of the OS.

As for hardware, who says a company cant stock up on spares? You can buy hardware components from Apple. Power supplies, CD ROM/RWs, video, audio, etc. You can buy that stuff from them just as easily as any other vendor or architecture.

I do agree that being tied to Apple hardware sucks, but I find the OS-X I use at work very useful. My co-workers also do. We have 3 Macs with OS-X on them in our lab. And one guy uses Mac hardware with Linux OS.

Like I said earlier, you pay a lot, but you get results. With some x86 hardware, the line "You get what you pay for" often applies. You don't see many Mac people saying that.

For software, many companies (MS included) are porting softare apps over to OS-X. Just about any GNU tool will also port, thanks to a FreeBSD base. Someone mentioned problems for guis. QT is developing a library for OS-X that will allow porting of apps written for other platforms over to OS-X. Bottom line is that there is plenty of software available for OS-X.

As for those benchmarks, see the keynotes from the MacWorld Expo from a few weeks ago. MacWorld Expo should have them.

I suspect BSD's market share will significantly grow beginning possibly as soon as next week.

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