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Rendezvous, Microsoft And Apple
serendigital writes "MacCentral reports that a BusinessWeek article entitled: 'A Rendezvous with Redmond?' has -- with Rendezvous -- created an actual threat to Microsoft. As reported by MacCentral, it's interesting to note that BusinesWeek's 'Byte of the Apple' columnist Charles Haddad is on temporary leave and this article was written by a substitute columnist."
That's what she said.
I can't believe I actually posted this. Wait...Yeah, I can.
"You walked into a room bearing a laptop running Jaguar (the latest version of the OS X operating system) with a wireless networking (Wi-Fi) card, and you could instantly see the iTunes music files of everyone else in the room with a similar setup."
AWESOME!!!
-H. Rosen
Wait, you wouldn't NEED a beowulf cluster, with the Rendezvous-enabled programs CPU-shifting the work in your office.
Could the Belle of Cupertino and the Stud of Redmond be the hottest new couple on the Siliconwood stage? That's what this gossip reporter tried to find out this week, but alas there was little 411 to be found as intimate confidantes of both parties were tight lipped and mum!
Apple and Microsoft we heard to be discussing a "rendezvous" of some sort. Could it be merely a business deal, or a romantic entanglement? Une telle excitation!
Only time will tell, sassy tech fans! Maybe Microsoft can only tell us how Apple signs a contract. But if the stars favor romance as Valentine's Day (every geek's FAVORITE holiday!) approaches, perhaps Microsoft will learn if Apple cries out or sighs softly or squeals like a pig as she, well, consummates the deal, if you know what I mean.
And I know you know, you naughty voyeurs! ;-) Une fessée sur le fond pour vous!
--- Ban humanity.
Yeah, that could replace e-mail as way of communicating. Just think about it. instead of typing you use your voice.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
>> but also a phone jack that you could plug your telephone into
you mean like a modem?
to email me: take my
Funny, earlier you said it was a 300MHz Mac. Maybe the problem is the interface between the chair and the keyboard.
If you hurry, you might be able to get one in time to save Valentine's Day.
Great! Now I can play Breakout, Super Breakout and Photoshop easily!
Mmmm.. Donuts
Read at -1. Find out what THEY don't want you to know!
.sig, and discovered only that there are more functional illiterates on /. than I had ever imagined.
For my own amusement, I took the suggestion of your
Is that what THEY didn't want me to discover?
Neopets - the best free game on the Int
Yeah, but it could be better.
...Bill's boxes to Steve's elegant machines.
from the article:
This is the kind of subjectivity that has no place in real journalism. Zealots are Apple's real threat. So many people hear "Apple" and think "using a Powerbook at a Starbucks, sipping a latte, dressed in black." Apple users are art-fags to them, and derogatory comments about "Windoze" aren't going to do anything but make it worse.
How about some fucking objectivity? Lemmie give you a tip, Sparky - people will take you more seriously when you say "Apple's new technology poses a real threat to MS" if you don't follow it with "I'm getting a sex change so I could maybe have Steve's baby"
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Maybe he means scraping the registry for the shattered corpse of an unsucessfully uninstalled program? Or perhaps he means the constant rebooting even in XP. Or, maybe, just maybe, it is Bonzi Buddy that is meaningful to him.
If you *Really* wanted to support your claim that you can't do anything meaniful with a Mac, you'd have noted that you posted your comment from one.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Paperclip? That's the most out-of-date trolling I've seen in a while, LOL. Here let me finish for you:
What if they spell 'incompetent' as 'incompitent'? Can he then remain on his 'pedistal'?
"You could get promiscuous with strangers: you could pair and exchange a song on the same short bus ride."
And strangers will be following you around as you walk the streets, trying to download the last few megabytes of that Metallica album.
graspee
This is great! You could set up a rendezvous-enabled console app that would be able to describe to you the services available to you in whatever room you were in. Just imagine the possibilities! Let's say you took your laptop to a new company...
*user walks into a room*
Frobozz Magic Smoke Company Lobby
You have entered the lobby of the Frobozz Magic Smoke Company. This building was constructed in the year 1998, by ten thousand slaves working for the Great Underground Empire, to hold the offices of the workers designing and implementing new forms of magic smoke.
> look
You see two broken web terminals, a secured file server, and a print server. One of the secretaries is chatting about how she got her nails done the other day.
*user walks north into the Human Resources department*
Human Resources
The Human Resources department of the Frobozz Magic Smoke Company is widely considered to be the cruelest, most inhuman lot of soulless minions ever to serve the will of evil.
> look
You see two printers, a Sybase server, a Graphite G4, a speed-hole G4, and a voicephone.
> look G4
Do you mean the Graphite G4 or the speed-hole G4?
> graphite
The Graphite G4 is sharing two directories, marked 'music' and 'porn', and has 82% CPU free.
The potential is amazing! Go Apple!
--Dan
Turn on speech recognition. Use your voice to type an email, and send the email. It's pretty cool, and you can even tell your email program to attach an mp3 file of your voice. If you prefer real-time, just do this through IRC. But what would be really cool is if we can think of a way to have real-time voice-to-voice communication over the phone lines without having to use a computer. Now that would be the killer app.