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Inside OS X Mavericks
rjmarvin writes "Apple's era of naming OSs after big cats is over. The Mavericks wave is rolling in, and the first four developer previews have given an inside look at the cutting-edge OS. Users and developers have almost entirely positive things to say about Mavericks, from faster speed and improved stability to new features like iBooks and iCloud keychains. While some installation concerns and errors have arisen, developer preview have improved version by version, and Mavericks is looking good."
They better hope Dr. Light doesn't work for Microsoft.
Yup. Apple is following Microsoft for a change. Not only in tabletifying their OS but also in their naming of it.
I remember Jobs way back in the cat era poking fun at Vista's pre production name "Longhorn" and now they name their own OS "Mavericks" which as every QI watcher knows was originally a term describing unbranded cattle.
So is this all a hidden homage to Tucows or a comment on how they see their customers?
It seems strange that they have the same feature with the same name that essentially does the same thing on both platforms yet they are incompatible with eachother.
I think this guy has managed to use the word "nigger" in his posting more times than it is used in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn". While that is kind of an anti-achievement, I think he has also more than adequately demonstrated his lack of gray matter between his ears. He's probably depressed because it's still hard to get Twinkies.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
No, the naming scheme is in reference to self-identified groupings of American politicians.
Mavericks refers to John McCain and Sarah Palin, who considered themselves renegade "maverick" politicians unbeholden to traditional power structures.
The next OS Release will be OS X "Wankers" featuring American politicians who went off the deep end with sexual and/or other humiliating exploits, ie. Spitzer, Weiner, and that Idaho guy soliciting gay sex in a gas station restroom.
Look for OS X Teabaggers in 2015, featuring the crew that helped tank the American economy through gross ignorance and populist pandering, not to mention wanton obstructionism.
Finally, about 2017 we can enjoy OS X Convicts, featuring Rod Blagajevitch from Chicago, and those other former pols doing hard time, usually for trafficking of influence, narcotics evations, money laundering, and all those other things that add salt and pepper to democracy.
If this were Usenet, I'd killfile the lot of you.
Well that would explain why it got noticeably slower.