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10.4 on Display at FOSE
CmdrStone writes "Just thought I'd post to let people know that while at FOSE today in the Washington, D.C. Convention center I lingered at the Apple pavilion / booth. To my surprise every machine had 10.4 running. The build number matches the build number found on the rumor sites; 8A428. Does this presage Tiger hitting the shelves soon? Personally, my main interest was how much iSync was expanded to support more devices, phones, etc. The Apple rep confirmed that the number of devices has expanded. He lamented that his Symbian phone, the Nokia 9500 Communicator, still was not included in the supported phones. He did tell me that he was able to tether his Powerbook and get online via his 9500's T-Mobile connection."
Anybody manage to make off with a hard drive from one of those Macs, image it and make a .torrent of it?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful final build?
English is easier said than done.
Let's hope he doesn't keep his contact list and amateur pr0n synced à la Paris Hilton.
sulli
RTFJ.
A product that is due to come out soon may be coming out soon. Stay tuned for updates.
Starsucks
Bah, who needs a torrent?? What this report is missing is the big-cat codename. What could it be? Puma's been done (back in beta) so no Red vs Blue jokes there... Lynx probably won't happen. Perhaps 10.4 Ocelot could glean some Metal Gear Solid humor but it's a bit too niche, even for Slashdot ("Damn!") plus not very catchy, it being more than two syllables.
Ultimately they'll probably go for Leopard or Cheetah, the former offers Jaguar's pimp visual stylings to the (quartz) extreme while the latter would seem to indicate... uhh... Well that one stumped me.
But were I given my choice, I'd probably go for Lyger, the illegitimate bastard child of two different species, unable to further propagate itself, but still something you don't want to get angry.
To any who might think this is flamebait, Nah, I've been using Macs since I was 2. Bring on the jokes.
Yup...
AAAGGGH!!! Ok... last line....
it's not difficult to see why this stuff is so freakin' cool
Long day walking the floor at FOSE
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
Rumor Site: What the next OS you're releasing? Apple: OS X Liger. Rumor Site: What's a liger? Apple: It's pretty much our favorite OS. It's like Panther and Tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic. Rumor Site: Oooooh
The Splintered Mind - Overcoming
FACT! Ligers actually exist (despite their whimsical use in Napoleon Dynamite): http://www.tigers-animal-actors.com/about/liger/li ger.html
FWIW: I'm also waiting on the release of 10.4 before ordering a powerbook
...are now moving in your direction.
For one thing, it's been 18 months since the last one. And for another thing, we actually get things we can use in these things, as opposed to Microsoft's tendency to sell you things which *reduce* your ability to use your computer. But thanks for playing.
I wish tiger would run on my intel i830 mobo too... think it needs more then 64M ram, maybe?
So... would being an FTE with DOS make you a Frickin' Teledildonics Engineer with the Department of Sex? Or a Faster-Than-Everything with Denial-of-Service? I am not really clear on that point.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
If you're going to change it, might as well finish it off:
:-)
Tyger! Tyger! Burning Gold
In the burners to be sold.
What immortal slot or tray
Could load thee come time for GA?
In what distant road or skies,
Might come the discs that makes search fly?
On what wings to us do speed,
A Dashboard to hold small things we need?
And what shoulder and what art,
Can automate the things that aren't?
Why it's Automator - pretty sweet!
Should I buy it? In a beat!
As you can tell by the last verse it's about time for me to give up
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So your point is that Apple is making more progress more quickly than any other OS vendor you can name, frequently giving us the choice to upgrade to improved features, speed, security, and stability... and you for some reason feel that people would be upset by this?
Oh, I guess maybe you mean users of all non-Apple OSs. Yeah, I suppose they do have a pretty damn good reason to be grumpy.
There are no tiger attacks in my area and it's all because this rock I'm holding keeps the tigers away.
Well would you please put down your rock so that we can have Tiger already?!
At least they're honest enough to admit that they think it's their computer and not yours - when you look at the desktop and see My Computer that's them laying claim to the hardware that you got to pay for.