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Mac OS X Tiger Accidentally Shipped Early
boarder8925 writes "Engadget reports: 'In many places around the world, Mac fans and Apple distributors received a shipment they weren't quite expecting: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger arrived at the door a full eight days ahead of schedule for some lucky folks who pre-ordered. Vendors PCMall/MacMall and ClubMac gave pre-order customers a treat by unleashing the OS ahead of schedule, quickly followed up by a 'recall' of the copies from PCMall.'"
Feature 201: It's early !
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I just want to know who were the people that returned the copies, so I can laugh at them. somethign like that.
If you are located within 50 miles of Cupertino and listen very carefully (I actually had to turn off my computer to cut the fan noise), you can actually hear Steve Jobs yelling!
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
But Microsoft will ship Longhorn...oh...just a wee bit late, so on average...the world is OK
you insensitive PC power drainer.
Torrent please
It turns out that ut's not an 8 day early copy of OS X, it's a 1 year 8 day early copy of Longhorn.
Beep beep.
...that Longhorn will be out earlier than expected? Cool!
Maybe Microsoft could have something that closely resembles this feature in Longhorn =)
So.. this must be how my girlfriend feels when I.. uh.. arrive ahead of schedule. :|
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Hey this is Apple, clearly this is a new and innovative shipping concept, designed to be aesthetically plesing to the user.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
QUICK! Sell it on E-BAY!
Science without religion is lame.
Eeek , TypO .. Aloud should be allowed.. Sorry bout that I was typing this whilst thinking about something else
Fcat
"The editors don't break stories, they repost stories and the users comment on it. "
Oh they break them. Sometimes into little pieces.
No /. reader would turn their computer off longer than it takes to reboot.
Anyways, my point is, doesn't Apple (or other software companies,) have a similar policy regarding the release of their product and preorders? If not, perhaps they should.
I think the issue is that no OS companies are USED to shipping early. It's a contingency they're not prepared to deal with!
Duke Nukem Forever will average everything out when it finally goes gold.
Anyway, I installed it already, and oh man, it is everything I thought it was going to be. Actually, those ten improvements (Spotlight, Dashboard, Automator, etc.) that everyone's talking about are all pretty cool, but the OS really is significantly faster and smoother than 10.3.x. And a lot cool stuff is changed under the surface. Check the man page for cp, etc., and you'll see what I mean.
Don't forget the levitation thing tha... oops. Nevermind. Just got my C&D letter.
Aloud should be allowed.. Sorry bout that I was typing this whilst thinking about something else
Just thinking about it or saying it allowed?
":)" says:
Hello, I'm mister quotes! When put around certain words, I imply that my use of the word is not 100% correct!
For example, you are a very "clever" person!
Bye!
Damn straight. They repost stories from CNet, New York Times, Blogs and uhh... sometimes SlashDot itself.
Sorry. Sometimes you have to reach for the low hanging fruit...
Sunny
Be my Friend
You should switch to Debian. We don't have release dates.
A feature that Microsoft can't copy!
OSX Tiger Came Prematurely
See, that's what I like about Longhorn...He's Mr. Slow-n-Easy...Just like Barry White.
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
The new edition will be much snappier.
And then the 5lbs block of Cocaine shows up, and you're screwed. :P
$0.02 (CDN)
If Apple really wanted to cut piracy on Tiger, they would include a sticker on the disc that says "Don't steal Tiger."
Plus, it supports the claim of the Apple fan club that Apple already had invented this product earlier.
What keeps me going is my inertia.
True enough, but the fact that I'm getting porn spam on an address I created specifically for the shuffle even though I didn't give them permission to redistribute my address doesn't endear them to me.
extracting Longhorn as we speak
<wrmachine> lame
<psaux> your mom
<wrmachine> see, i don't install beta anything unless i'm beta testing a game
<wrmachine> nor do i install software i don't intend to use
<psaux> I'm installing it in Virtual PC
<psaux> I want to see what's done right and what's done wrong, so that I can give the verbal smackdown to people who are all bitching about things they don't know what they're talking about
<wrmachine> ya i figured it'd be on a virtual pc, but still
<wrmachine> laaaame
<wrmachine> my mom made banana bread
<psaux> does your mom want to help me test my longhorn?
<psaux> it's stable and fast, and it can stay up for months without a problem
<wrmachine> i bet it'll crash as soon as i boot it
I don't really know what orking is, but a cow-orker is not someone I'd associate with.
I saw that very same sticker at the Zoo the other day. I don't know why they even bother, people are gonna do it anyway!
% mkdir
% ls -dF
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
Trying to recall OS X 10.4 now is like trying to catch a tiger by the tail.
No. A customer who wants something stupid should not be catered to. Allowing them to continue to exist is about my limit.
Check the man page for cp, etc., and you'll see what I mean.
I CAN'T "check the man page for cp" for another 8 days, you insensitive clod!!
It's basically a timing error. Well, Microsoft's own website explains, on a page devoted to this bug:
- This bug will prevent Windows 2000 from starting up.
- In order to fix it, you have to install SP4.
- In order to install SP4, you must be able to get Windows started up.
In other words, you can see that Microsoft is really looking out for you. Sons of bitches.Oh, did you know who actually made most of super-US bimbo Britney Spears smash hits? A swede called Max Martin. Go figure!
Oh, sure. You swedes are great at all that stuff, but who do you need to actually provided the bimbos? America, that's who!
Hey, wait a sec...
Yeah... had something similar happen, but in my case it was a second iPod Photo 60gb.
This was a while ago, and they never figured out they sent me 2, so they never asked for it back. My reasoning was that if they asked for it back and paid the shipping, I would send it back posthaste.
Still, I felt really guilty about it, and my wife insisted that we send it back. So... I gave it to her, instead. To assuage our mutual guilt, first I loaded it with 1000 pictures of homeless orphans, and the saddest 14.500 songs I could muster.
Well, not really. Once I remembered that I had once spent roughly $12k (!) on a IIfx system in Apple's darkest days (and $10k on an 8500, 6 years later), I viewed it more as a little "thank you" for being a loyal customer for so many, many years. Also, I had already spent 7.5 hours on the phone with them trying to clear up a different shipping snafu, so it was kind of like a reimbursement for my time.
Oh, who am I kidding? I'm a bad, bad person. On the bright side, considering that I illegally downloaded the vast majority of my 30,000-or-so MP3s, well, I'm guilty of much bigger crimes.