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MacHack On, Despite WWDC Rescheduling
ddtstudio writes "Apple moved its Worldwide Developers Conference -- a Mecca for Mac programmers -- a few months to make a new OS preview available, which caused enough consternation as developers had to change air tickets and hotel reservations. But now WWDC is only a few days before MacHack, a long-standing, more 'underground' get-together in Michigan. What to do? Apparently MacHack will go on, says, eWeek's Matthew Rothenberg."
oh no!!!!! what WILL we do?!
Dear Apple,
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
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Sincerely,
Harry Rodman
Vice-president
Homosexual Liaison Services
Apple Computer, Inc.
... not months. It was originally scheduled for the next-to-last week in May, and now it's scheduled for the next-to-last week in June. That's not a couple of months, thats a month.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)
Apparently pudge can't do anything right... May->June is a few months in his mind. He reads into things and posts false explanations of articles. He should be banned from editing slashdot.org articles as most conversation it spawns is about what a moron he is.
Apple will start the 'iHack' conference, run it concurrently, and piss off everyone at MacHack.
Does this mean that profesional graphic designers, desktop publishers, industry professionals and programmers for major corporations will have to choose between attending the WWDC or MacHack?
Truly, the decision must be wracking their souls right now.
MacHack has traditionally been held around the 3rd week of June, if only because it gave people to recover from the end of college classes and get started with summer work, and to assimilate the new information released at WWDC that year. This year, WWDC follows MacHack and so any Panther Hacks will difficult to demonstrate without breaking your Privacy agreements with Apple.
It also signals a possible change in support from Apple executive management regarding MacHack. The O'Reilly Macintosh Conference held last year in October may gaining favor, or this may just represent a rescheduling of WWDC to represent the major Apple Summer Conference as Apple and MacWorld management work out their differences. However, many Apple programmers like going to MacHack, which has a more laid-back atmosphere, which encourages people to interact, create and program original new things, which get shown off at the Hack Contest. WWDC is a much more passive event, where people only have a chance to sit and listen and occasionally ask a question or make a comment.
I am glad to see MacHack staying the course, and making accommodations for people, but there is weekend during which people can fly from Detroit to California.
If people do have to make choice between MacHack and WWDC, I would prefer that Apple send me a refund and allow me to go to MacHack, and perhaps send me the DVD of the WWDC sessions.
Perhaps for the WWDC diehards, Apple could send Steve Jobs jet to bring us back to California for WWDC. I am sure more developers are upset with Apple for changing WWDC with only 2 months notice. There will be alot of unhappy hotel managers in San Jose, and a lot of busy hotel staff in San Francisco as they prepare for over 20,000 developers to descend on SF for WWDC.
Everybody has Powerbooks, so the MacHack Overtime Bus could focus on making the winning hacks even more useless.
Yahoo says it's a 36-hour drive.
One day they'll tell legends about that trip.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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