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Cringely Predicts Apple to Ship OS X for Any PC
boosman writes "In his current column, and in a similar op-ed piece in The New York Times, Robert X. Cringely predicts that Apple 'will announce a product similar to Boot Camp to allow OS X to run on bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware.' I dissect why this is unthinkable and challenge Cringely to a public bet on the subject."
Random blogger issues challenge to PBS columnist / NYT editorialist!
ASCII animation at 11pm...
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Using the mouse shouldn't be more complicated than masturbation.
...and I want a Pony...
Dvorak, Cringely and Jobs and all the Apple fans should take part in a public mass debate about this.
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Linux is shaping up to be better and better at being user friendly and desktop quality. Apple will have to compete with that. Are you high, man?
ACME Septic. We're #1 in the business of #2.
With regards to missing standard keys, could you be more specific? Are you referring to "Prt Scr," "Sys Rq," etc? Which keys are missing that are considered "standard"?
Well, there's this funny looking key between "Alt" and "Ctrl" on my USB keyboard that doesn't seem to do anything under OSX....
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.
Humm...but getting them in one place at one time would be tough. So it would be better to do it via a newspaper or something. But that's so 20th century. If only there was some kind of web site, dedicated to tech issues, where anyone who wanted to could come in and post an opinion, for everyone else to read....
Pity it hasn't been invented yet.
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The students are getting treats a lot more than you think -- all the students pressing "B" are getting the thought-treat "I'm screwing this dude's research up...uh huhuhuhuh..."
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
When you have to start guessing what you meant, you should know its time to shut the shope and go home.
You have a very high opinion of gold.
It's missing the Windows key ...
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I also have to say that it's entertaining watching you Mac Guys struggle with the Cognitive Dissonance of Apple shipping a largely standard PeeCee (which is apparently something you don't really understand anyway). Time to move on to "Acceptance" because mental gymnastics is not going to make it go away!
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
Essentially he has become an Ann Coulter of the computer industry. Same gig, different arena.
Although he doesn't (yet) advocate rounding up Apple users and putting them in camps.
must... stay... awake...
"When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?" -- John C. Dvorak
Classic. Absolutely classic.
I should have known better. However, the point remains that you're the one who's failing to understand nor appreciate the issues behind the design.
Are you sure you wouldn't be happier with an IBM Selectric? After all, your keyboard of choice is missing the white-out and line-feed keys.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
I certainly can. It's really too bad that you can't also. The excited squeals of mac users as they rush to flipflop again and proclaim microsoft the greatest company ever and the only one with elegant, usable interfaces. Oh, you should see the joy on their faces too. They look so happy as they wait in line for the midnight release of Microsoft WindowsOS. Really warms my heart to see such genuine happiness. Oh look, one of the little maclets has gotten away from his mother and is snuggling up against an xbox 360. SHE'S BUYING IT FOR HIM! He's so happy he's doing a little dance. It's so beautiful, I wish you could see it, nuggetman.
The Farewell Tour II
Over the last few years, and especially since Apple switched to x86 and even more since Boot Camp was released, I've watched the usual suspects here on Slashdot rip Apple for not selling OSX on generic PC hardware. To be very honest, I don't think those people would ever be happy, whatever one were to do for them, but it did occur to me that one way that Apple can really swing in extra cash is for Applw to make a generic grey box PC ITSELF! That's right, for Apple to make a bog standard cheapo PC with mutiple drive bays, numerous free PCI and PCIe slots, in a cheap as shit case from GuShangHoo or where ever in China and sell it along with OSX for all the motherfuckers who complain here constantly about not being able to get cheap hardware.
It would be an interesting experiment.
I'd like to nominate you to be the slashdot representative in this debate, since clearly your public mass debating skills are second to none.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
So, for the curious among us... were you lying?
-fred
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