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Panther Released into the Wild
u2fan00 writes "Those fortunate enough to have an Apple Store near them were in for a treat last night -- crowds! Oh, and also Panther. Check out the local reactions, photos and stories from some stores across the nation."
That looked like what happens to distro FTPs when a new release is out. Now they just need a physical equivalent to BitTorrent.
I believe it should be called either FleshTorrent or Orgy.
Weird, Just got panther installed, launched safari and set slashdot to my homepage, and I see this artical.. weird.....
Well I must say panther is awesome, but linux is much nicer on my mac....
and last nights apple store here in buffalo ny sucked, they only handed out dog tags. Not even a free tshirt!!
keanmarine.com
Real men download their OSs.
I'm quite sure spike lee owns intellectual property in the letter "X". Especially in that font and on a black background, jeez....
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
This picture cracked me up.
Wow Apple fans sure are a rabid lot :-)
You'd have thought from the queues that the shops were giving away free drugs!
How do people get so addicted to a piece of computer software ?
It least it is not Jaguar, which was inexplicably named after a failed Atari game system.
I haven't anything like that since people lined up to RETURN Windows ME!
All this over a stupid cat? Maybe I'd wait in a line that long if it was a penguin!
Oh, when will that day arrive....
Well, I saw your article and I immediately ran down to my local Mac place (McDonald's that is... I really wish you guys would not use the short name.). Anyway, I asked them if I could please have the new Panther Burger. They called security and threw me out! Can you believe that?
P.S. Don't bother asking them for any apples either.
Freudian slip by Apple in that tech note.
Just open it and use the "Show" pop-up menu to see the "Network Port Configuration". Then, uncheck "AirPort" and check "Built-In Ethernet". Click on "Apple Now" to save your settings.
heh.
Apple Now! Sounds like a special move in Street Fighter or Streets of Rage (whoa, retro).
They're sort of a baby Fry's, but more expensive and nowhere near as good.
:)
If you think Fry's is good, I'm going to have to disregard your whole message, and perhaps even put you on my Foes list.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
... Sales of Apple's new OS dubbed "Panther" slowed to a crawl Saturday as 90 percent of Mac owners purchased the software the night before...
I planned on inserting something witty here but never got around to it.
It singlehandedly erased all my negative engrams upon first usage.
I commonly have ten applications and 25 windows open. Expose rocked my freakin' world. When I tied it to the right side button on my Intellimouse, my brain trancended to a spiritual level shared only by archangels and certain select saints. Once I came down from that, I had a full and satisfying orgasm with every subsequent use.
I AM NOT EXAGGERATING!
Well, OK, maybe a little.
Oh, and the new customizable finder bar in conjunction with the dock makes life good.
And for the first time I find labels cool. I never even used those back in the ghastly pre-OSX days.
--- Ban humanity.
You want mouse pads? I think those are over in section B-12 isle 13. What you want to do is head north past the snack stand, being sure to pick up some bottled water since you?re going to get parched on this journey. If you reach a pile of returned VIA motherboards you?ve gone to far and need to turn around and go back until you see the adult DVD rack. Turn right at the DVDs and head west until you reach the refrigerators. Then go south to the cell phones, back north to the motorized scooters, turn right at the Tesla coil go up the stairs to the TV display and ask for a guy named Jack, he totally knows where the mouse pads are.
I swear I've found the remains of lost shoppers in some of the unused corners of the stores.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you PC fanatics? I have recently upgraded from a Dell Dimension desktop running at 500 MHz to a new P4 3.3 GHz running WinXP and Red Hat to help me at my freelance gig where I copy a 17 MB stick of butter
from one folder on the hard drive to another folder, over and over, all day long, day in and day out, for no reason whatsoever. On the P4 I spent about 6 millennia trying to install Leisure Suit Larry 3. 6 millennia. At home, on my Vic-20 running on a gigantic steam-based generator, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this P4, the same operation would take about 2 nanoseconds. If that.
In addition, during this butter transfer, my PocketPC will not work. KaZaa has ground to a halt. Even Explorer is straining to keep up as I type this. Beyond that, I've been left impotent, crying on the floor as passersby on the street below point, laugh, and deride my choice of computing platform.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a PC that has run faster than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, despite the P4's higher protein content. My TI-80 with 8kb of RAM running a poorly coded, bug-ridden, home-brewed OS that has a broken leg and no input method runs faster than this P4 machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that WinTel is a superior platform.
PC weenies, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a PC over scribbling with invisible ink on homemade parchment.
Educational copies of Mac OS X are /still/ full versions. They're $69, and contain no differences from what you'd buy on a shelf somewhere at ChumpUSA or an actual Apple Store.
Full version, just cheaper.
I know this because Tyler--er, because I used to work for a university.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Several tribesmen slaugtered.