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Tiger Early Start Kit
EccentricAnomaly writes "If you can't wait until next spring for the official release of next version of Mac OS X, Apple is offering a Tiger Early Start Kit to those willing to pay $500 for an Apple Developer Select Membership. And if you don't want to spend the money, they've also added a developer overview page describing some of the guts of Mac OS X v10.4."
That is a mac fans wet dream.
Strange, I thought that was to see Jobs best Ballmer in a naked, sweaty cage match.
Wow the guys over at Everquest will be jealous!
Apple went from a pascal based operating system (OS9) to a fully functional, hyper powerful OS in less than 10 years.
Huh, Microsoft has had 20 years and still isn't there.
Apple has gone to it in more like 5 or 6 years.
Evolution or ID?
Or, you can just download it for free with bittorrent.
aka Tubcat.
What's a developer?
Mac charged for OS 8, 9, X, X.1, etc.
Do you mean Apple? As an inanimate object, wouldn't it be kind of hard for "Mac" to charge for anything?
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
That would be awesome. You could have 64-bit Tiger [Java] on top of 64-bit Tiger [OS X]. Tiger sex all the way!
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Sounds pretty good, the only thing more I would ask for are...
A Developer commentary track:
{booting OSX} "Ding! Welcome to the developers edition of OSX. I'm Joe Schmo, lead designer of Aqua, and with me I have Jim Bob of Core Graphics. We've got some great stories here for you! You'll see that it's starting up services, let me tell you about a time old Jim was writing one of those and the power went out after a fifteen hour coding session..."
And of course "Deleted comments - too hot for public release!"
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Now then, if you were actually an Mac user, rather than a Windows apologist looking for a asshat line of attack, you'd realise that you don't need to buy every version of software that comes your way. It sounds like you skipped Windows Me. Similarly many Mac users skip some OS releases if the particular features in that release aren't that important to them.
No, no, no that's nasty DNA business.
Watch those pesky acronyms. They are entirely different things.
=tkk
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
This situation combined with MS's propensity to re-invent themselves technologically while remaining compatible with billions of existing pieces of software creates a logical nightmare! I do not envy MS that task.
This, however, does not excuse their many lapses in on-tiem feature delivery or their generally buggy and somtimes poorly designed software. I'm just trying to look at it from a computing monopoly's viewpoint. Poor babies. :)
Taft
maybe a laptop/hat? Perfect for those starving graphic artists in their cold-water garrets...
hmm... external heatsink for commercial pc's... I'm gonna claim first post on that in case anyone gets greedy later on. Bookmark this thread =p
A wet dream is not one in which you piss youself.
Assuming the iSight is on and looking at the user, a background daemon could look for middle finger patterns and then, if it detects one, dismiss the current modal dialog in the active application if one exists.
;-).
Sounds like a fun hack
Yeah, and it'll have 64 tits, errr, bits.
There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know.
There's some nasty NDA business going on.
You can't even talk to other devs about Tiger if you have it.
How do you know? Do you have it?
It's called Bittorrent ;-)