Funny enough, iTunes appeared on my computer after an outage in our corporate systems management software. We were not told about this (either the outage or iTunes). Right now I'm working on the assumption that someone tried to deploy quicktime and failed horribly.
In middle school we had a room with various apple II computers from II+ to a single IIgs on the wall around the edge. The keyboards were so bad that I believe I came out of that class a slower typist than I went in.
You know what I can do in a standard text editor but not in vi/vim/emacs? Edit text without a manual or cheat sheet. It's like using Visual Studio to edit autoexec.bat, a total waste. Linux/unix is the only OS I've ever used that the default text editor is impossible to understand by looking at it. MSDOS had EDIT.COM (and I often wished someone would port it to Linux), old Macs had SimpleText and TeachText, OSX has TextEdit, Windows has Notepad. Linux comes with vi, where it can be easier to start X with a broken configuration limited to 640x480 and use gvim.
You can download OpenOffice.org Aqua for Intel and PowerPC with the bonus of native OSX widgets (no X11). They currently only have 3.0.1 and tend to lag behind the main releases.
Classic is/was not an abstraction layer. When you start classic, you can open a window where you watch Mac OS 9 boot, just like Virtual PC. After it finishes loading, the window disappears and Classic apps are displayed on the desktop, same as any other. An old enough Macintosh can boot from the System Folder used for Classic.
You may be thinking of the Carbon API, which was available under 9 and X. There is no translation involved; Carbon applications are native in both 9 and X.
Rosetta is a binary translation layer, like you said. Apple did the same thing when moving from Motorola 68k CPUs to PowerPC.
My home router exists at 192.168.0.1, and that is much easier than 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 for first time setup or troubleshooting every other year.
I am not a network admin; I transfer files between computers so infrequently that it is easier to look up what has which IP address than try to remember all the stupid little tricks of samba file sharing.
If the hard drive dies, yes you are screwed. No argument there. But it doesn't matter because that's what you paid for.
It sounds like you don't get it, because in the GP's post he said they purchased one license for one installed copy. That means you get one installed copy, and no more. If you really need this software on three computers, you have to buy three copies/licenses. If the company offers a "as many simultaneous installations as you want" license, that may be better for your 3 computer scenario; if they only offer "one installation" licenses, maybe you shouldn't buy that product.
For example, Mac OS X upgrade retail boxes come in two versions: single user and family pack (up to 5 computers). Just because they have the same DVDs and there is no authentication check doesn't mean its legally/morally OK to buy the single user box and install it on every computer you have.
Small correction: Virtual PC for Macintosh is a dead product. It only ever was released for PowerPC Macs. If you run it on an Intel Mac, you would be emulating an x86 on an emulated PPC on a real x86! Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox and Q (based on qemu) are the ones I know about for Intel Macs.
I don't know about that.
My parents bought an extended warranty for the 1987 Plymounth minivan we had. All the interior stuff worked great the whole life of the vehicle, but we had at least three major issues during the extended warranty period.
First was some incident that required replacing all 6 fuel injectors and some other related bits.
Second was the automatic transmission died and was replaced with a new one.
Third was various drive train components falling off in someone else's driveway.
It's not quite the same thing, but that warranty paid for itself several times over.
Ballmer's plan to acquire 100 startups in 5 years is still sketchy
What kind of a plan is that? No wonder Microsoft is losing its way.
Compare and contrast with the business plan of Steve Jobs, which I think can be summed up as "make great products"... ... and sell them at premium prices
You make some good points that I don't necessarily disagree with. That said,
Perez Hilton is a great early example of what most of tomorrow's celebrities will look like Truly, we are doomed.
organic, diverse, earning money by giving their "art" away for cheap or free, and making money from ads and sponsorships, while handling their own distribution straight to the people. You're joking right? Please tell me you're joking. Paris Hilton does nothing but consume oxygen that could be put to better use.
Linux will "support gaming" once games are supported for Linux. Linux has OpenGL, OpenAL, all the illusionary walls are market-made. Linux is a platform to build on without the fear of being obsolete in 2 years. DOS games nowadays run on DosBox, as do early Windows games. Even XP needs tweaks to run Win9X games. How is targeting a moving sucky platform preferable to one that is open? Easy. Games sell for 6 months tops. You get the initial sales, you get the money. After that it's tough shit if it won't work after next Windows Update(tm). I have used Linux since 1994, but work in the IT industry. I am constantly amazed by the amount of BULLSHIT the windows folks put up with. For weird quirks "shit happens" is the most common reply. The problem that I see is that Linux has a checkered past at best regarding games, which people tend to shy away from. My personal experience is this: I tried installing some older linux games (Loki Unreal Tournament and I think Sim City 2000 or something like that...) just two years ago; Unreal Tournament installed okay, but the game clock ran ~3x realtime. That is, for each real world second three game seconds elapsed. Nothing I did or could find on the internet altered the 3x factor in the slightest. The other game installed, but crashed immediately. The internet workarounds got me to a different crash, which there seemed to be no fix for. Say what you will about Windows, but I can take a Starcraft CD (released 1997, and still for sale today) and pop it into any machine running NT 4, 95, 98, 2000, XP, and maybe even Vista (haven't tried personally) with a fairly high certainty of success. With Linux it is a chore to get a game running on a given computer period, let alone a few years later when things have changed radically, yet again. I'm willing to admit that Starcraft is an example of excellence (the Mac version runs on MacOS 7.6 through OS X 10.4) but there are FAR more games that run properly on NT-based windows than there are games that run on Linux, period, let alone well-written games for Linux. I never experienced "DLL-hell" with Windows (I've been using since 3.1); it happens almost every time when trying to use programs that don't come with a given Linux distribution.
My Windows game may be obsolete in the next version or two of Windows. This is acceptable.
My Mac game may not work with the next major overhaul of the operating system, or change in CPU architecture. This is acceptable.
My Linux game may not work at all in the future because the entire sound system has been rewritten. It may not work now because my distribution likes a different (sound, video, package management, etc) subsystem. Even if it does install and work, it may still not work properly. This is not acceptable.
Besides, with the complexity of modern games, computers, drivers, operating systems, etc. sometimes shit does happen. It just happens WAY more frequently on Linux when games (or non-distro software, or wireless networking, or...) are involved.
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Safari.app is not required for the proper functioning of Mac OS, and you can delete it like any other application. You aren't forced to use it.
Funny enough, iTunes appeared on my computer after an outage in our corporate systems management software. We were not told about this (either the outage or iTunes). Right now I'm working on the assumption that someone tried to deploy quicktime and failed horribly.
In middle school we had a room with various apple II computers from II+ to a single IIgs on the wall around the edge. The keyboards were so bad that I believe I came out of that class a slower typist than I went in.
You know what I can do in a standard text editor but not in vi/vim/emacs? Edit text without a manual or cheat sheet. It's like using Visual Studio to edit autoexec.bat, a total waste. Linux/unix is the only OS I've ever used that the default text editor is impossible to understand by looking at it. MSDOS had EDIT.COM (and I often wished someone would port it to Linux), old Macs had SimpleText and TeachText, OSX has TextEdit, Windows has Notepad. Linux comes with vi, where it can be easier to start X with a broken configuration limited to 640x480 and use gvim.
I wouldn't say defending. I would be perfectly happy to have EITHER the extended forever copyright abolished OR the studio execs tossed in the clink.
Can't we please have both?
Perhaps they should be penalized at the same ratio as a p2p file sharer is.
That's okay, they'll just put it on their Visa.
It's not the OS that causes bootup slowness anyway but rather the 5400RPM honey-encrusted hard-drives that slow things down.
Maybe you should find a better place for the beehive?
(and everyone with a credit card and a pulse is a potential consumer)
Wow, you know some picky marketers...
Hey! Macs have updateable firmware, too.
You can download OpenOffice.org Aqua for Intel and PowerPC with the bonus of native OSX widgets (no X11). They currently only have 3.0.1 and tend to lag behind the main releases.
Classic is/was not an abstraction layer. When you start classic, you can open a window where you watch Mac OS 9 boot, just like Virtual PC. After it finishes loading, the window disappears and Classic apps are displayed on the desktop, same as any other. An old enough Macintosh can boot from the System Folder used for Classic.
You may be thinking of the Carbon API, which was available under 9 and X. There is no translation involved; Carbon applications are native in both 9 and X.
Rosetta is a binary translation layer, like you said. Apple did the same thing when moving from Motorola 68k CPUs to PowerPC.
Intent matters. It's not the tool, it's the act!
We gun owners say the same thing. Many people don't care or understand the difference.
Maybe you should cut down on the spicy food?
My home router exists at 192.168.0.1, and that is much easier than 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 for first time setup or troubleshooting every other year.
I am not a network admin; I transfer files between computers so infrequently that it is easier to look up what has which IP address than try to remember all the stupid little tricks of samba file sharing.
If the hard drive dies, yes you are screwed. No argument there. But it doesn't matter because that's what you paid for.
It sounds like you don't get it, because in the GP's post he said they purchased one license for one installed copy. That means you get one installed copy, and no more. If you really need this software on three computers, you have to buy three copies/licenses. If the company offers a "as many simultaneous installations as you want" license, that may be better for your 3 computer scenario; if they only offer "one installation" licenses, maybe you shouldn't buy that product.
For example, Mac OS X upgrade retail boxes come in two versions: single user and family pack (up to 5 computers). Just because they have the same DVDs and there is no authentication check doesn't mean its legally/morally OK to buy the single user box and install it on every computer you have.
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Small correction: Virtual PC for Macintosh is a dead product. It only ever was released for PowerPC Macs. If you run it on an Intel Mac, you would be emulating an x86 on an emulated PPC on a real x86! Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox and Q (based on qemu) are the ones I know about for Intel Macs.
I don't know about that. My parents bought an extended warranty for the 1987 Plymounth minivan we had. All the interior stuff worked great the whole life of the vehicle, but we had at least three major issues during the extended warranty period. First was some incident that required replacing all 6 fuel injectors and some other related bits. Second was the automatic transmission died and was replaced with a new one. Third was various drive train components falling off in someone else's driveway. It's not quite the same thing, but that warranty paid for itself several times over.
How about a jog wheel / thumb wheel that actually allowed different speeds of movement
You mean like the iPod click wheel, used from the 4th gen to present?
I honestly can't tell if you're incredibly insightful or just adding words after one another. My brain hurts either way.
I am altering the EULA. Pray I do not alter it any further.
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My Windows game may be obsolete in the next version or two of Windows. This is acceptable.
My Mac game may not work with the next major overhaul of the operating system, or change in CPU architecture. This is acceptable.
My Linux game may not work at all in the future because the entire sound system has been rewritten. It may not work now because my distribution likes a different (sound, video, package management, etc) subsystem. Even if it does install and work, it may still not work properly. This is not acceptable.
Besides, with the complexity of modern games, computers, drivers, operating systems, etc. sometimes shit does happen. It just happens WAY more frequently on Linux when games (or non-distro software, or wireless networking, or