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Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC
DonaldGelman writes "Apple has just announced a 30-inch Studio Display capable of displaying a resolution of 2560x1600. The display requires a new Nvidia card with 2 parallel DVI connections. The display is going to retail for $3299 in August, and the Nvidia card for around $599." Jobs also announced new 20- and 23-inch displays, for $1299 and $1999 in July. All three feature a new aluminum enclosure, and DVI. Also from WWDC...
Jobs also previewed Tiger, with Spotlight (fast iTunes-like searching in all apps, and systemwide), Dashboard (Konfabulator-like widgets combined with Exposé for fast showing/hiding), Automator (visual AppleScript, combining prewritten actions into scripts), H.264 code for QuickTime (high definition scalable video from MPEG), iChat AV conferencing (up to 10 for audio, four for video), RSS reading in Safari, Core Image and Core Video (realtime filters at the core OS level), and system-wide Sync Services. All of this is extensible (except for iChat conferencing), with SDKs available for developers.
There's a lot here, and a more detailed description is forthcoming. Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005.
another round of stuff I either can't afford or am not willing to pay for, but at least we can all take about how innovative Apple is in design some more. I love ya' Apple, but this whole move where you basically abandonded the mid-range can't really be good for business.
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GNAA Leaks Info about Apple's Next Major OS
Los Angeles, Ca - With only 3 days left before Steve Jobs announces the new features in Apple's next major version of OS X, version 10.4, codenamed "Tiger", GNAA members Gary Niger (known as JesuitX on the Internet), and pending member Ron Delsner leaked screenshots of the upcoming Operating System to the popular mac rumor's site MacRumors.com. See the discussion thread for this at The MacRumors forums.
Gary said at the press conference, "We know the gay niggers couldn't wait until Monday to see these new features, so Ron and I took the initiative and gave them to MacRumors.com ourselves."
Ron Delsner was quoted as saying "I hope the GNAA recognizes my effort to help the gay niggers of the world. I would hope they offer me membership."
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Really this is just another expensive toy from apple, what i'd really like to see is an x86 port of their operating system, so this way i could have a stable, widely supported operating system and not have to purchase hardware at retail value and up.
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Make up your mind: populism or perfection?
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Yeah, I think they'll be lucky to sell one. There market share in computers is already well under 2%, since you can get a PC for 600 bucks and the cheapest Mac is over a grand.
From people who bought G5 systems for their advertised 64-bit workstation features, if an update to 64-bit Tiger isn't provided for free by Apple, I would not be at all surprised to see a class action suit against Apple.
Sorry. It's not. You're lying.
They cost to much.
Why does everything keep getting more expensive?
Its a fucking TV.
Notice how the TV industry has figured out how to get us to pay $5000 for a new tv, where as before it only cost $1000 at most for a nice big tv?
Dont tell me its supply and demand. The demand is huge... so could the sales... if they sold these things at the lowest possicle price to cover cost and profit.
$4000... bah. Fuck off apple. I'll stick with my dual sony 21s that already cost me 2grand each.
Apple can toot their horn however they like -- they're a different company offering a different product. Shit, one of the features in Tiger is "improved SMB" support...can you tell me which OS had that first? As for the multitasking dig...cooperative and preemptive multitasking are two separate and valid ways of performing the same task. In an ideal world, where you could rely on the foreground app always being well written and knowing to execute background tasks during halt cycles, cooperative multitasking worked quite well. Unfortunately, the world is not ideal.
I think during the 1990s, most of Apples' choices were merely "do the opposite of the mainstream." So we got RISC instead of CISC, SCSI instead of IDE, PCI instead of AGP, a single mouse button paradigm, ADP instead of serial, etc. Everybody else did preemptive, so apple went cooperative. All about thinking different(ly) I guess.
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How about they just make the iPod not blow chunks? I mean, get real, the only thing it has going for it is that it's "cute", and iTunes.
I shelled out (on a whim) $400 of hard earned money on the one I got, and I was extremely dissapointed.
It had:
* Crappy battery life (not even as much as the claimed 8 hours -- more like 5) On top of that, the piece of crap never really shuts off, so even while "off" it's still eating battery life.
* Not very good sound (I've heard better from iRiver, et al.) -- horrible standard ear plugs.
* VERY crappy interface (the latest model has touch sensitive buttons, which makes it a total pain to use while riding a bike, hiking, or any other time your finger might be a bit shaky. Buttons would be a much better.)
* Only supports ACC and MP3 (no Ogg, WAV, etc.)
* Craptacular materials for the faceplate that get seriously scratched by soft plastics.
* Very Pricey - Other companies (such a iRiver) are putting out cheaper players that have tons more features (optical in/out, onboard mic, etc.) and storage (40GB for $50 less than a 20GB iPod).
I dumped mine after only a week.
So, why not ask for a non craptacular iPod to develop for before you ask for the SDK?
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Huh? No it's not. It's a piece of crap. There's no benefit in having a big screen just for the sake of it. The value comes in being able to display more information. But the quoted resolution is easily achievable on a standard 21" CRT. The larger screen size simply displays the same amount of data at a lower resolution (around 100dpi). For a much lower price, you can get a large (24") CRT that will display significantly more information. Can't understand who would be buying Apple's new 30" screen myself. Or not at that price, anyway. For a display in a corporate foyer, then maybe it'd be worth considering. But not for real uses where people actually work with it.
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San Francisco, California - Just three days after being the first in the world to leak photos of Apple's upcoming revision to MacOS X, version 10.4, Steve Jobs announced to the world facts about the new Operating System consistent with information leaked by elite GNAA operator Gary Niger and prospective member Ron Delsner.
"We've pulled it off!", noted Niger during Jobs' announcement at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. "The GNAA plan was clever from the start with this one I think. When we received our leaked copy of the OS, we knew that by releasing only partial information and some screenshots, the association people would make with the GNAA would lead them to believe the screenshots were fake. Now that Steve 'Rim' Jobs has verified everything we leaked, we have managed to fool the entire Mac community. In essense, a few hundred thousand people have been trolled, a few hundred thousand people have lost. Though I do wish they have a nice day"
"I don't think it could have worked out any better; Every single one of the features shown in our screenshots, particularly Dashboard, which everybody called as fake, was demoed by Jobs. This is my revenge for being beat up on the rent", quoted Ron Delsner on being approached by reporters. "I've been wanting to join the Gay Nigger Association of America for quite some time, and knew that I help pull off something big if they were to let me in."
Delsner was right, as upon hearing this, Gary Niger immediately produced a vial of what he called the "Holy Gay Nigger Seed" from his front pocket, and asked Ron to kneel, at which time the Seed was poured upon Ron's head, making him an official member of the GNAA. Noticing the television cameras present in the press room, Gary cited that this was in fact the first televised induction of a member into the GNAA.
"But back to the troll", Niger said quickly after. "I had a sneaking suspicion that the homosexual caucasians of the Mac community would feel threatened by the GNAA's massive nigger cocks and immediately cast doubts upon any screenshots we produced for them. I saw this as an opportunity to troll hundreds of thousands of people. It just goes to show that GNAA is greater than j00, and that fristage postage is mine."
And Niger certainly did not fail it, as can be seen from the following excerpts taken from various Internet website's covering the leak:
ThinkSecret.com - "In fact, it was the source that led many users to call the shots fake; the information in that story, as well as this one, was provided by Gary Niger and Ron Delsner of the GNAA, an organization that deals in crapfloods and Slashdot trolling."
AppleInsider.com - "Enjoy the photoshop work. I seriously don't think Apple would be so crazy to use those jargons."
MacRumors.com - "Hmm... Information by "Gary Niger" of GNAA. Sounds too stupid to be true. And that dashboard thing? Hogwash me thinks ..."
MacRumors.com - "I immediately thought of them when I saw "GNAA". Anyone who reads Slashdot would be familiar with them - they put big spam posts everywhere. Yes, and it doesn't surprise me. I don't think the screenshots are real (at least not the Dashboard ones), but I have no trouble believing the PDF."
Kim Kap Sol on AppleInsider.com said "I can guarantee those are fake." He then continued by saying "Hello I R Korea KEKEKEKE OMG ZERG RUSH GOGOGOGO ^_^"
Gary's reply to this was "Way to make a complete idiot of yourself you dog-eating douchebag."
Steve Jobs was unavailable for comment immediately following the keynote address, though WWDC attendee and GNAA member Porfa noticed "A cute wiggle in Jobs' ass as he walked away."
About Apple
Apple Computer is the creator of the Macintosh, popularly known as the "gay computer". 87% of GNAA members are Mac users. Founded in 1974 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple was nearly out of business in the mid 90's, when Jobs was re
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