Your aren't alone. A lot of people are sticking with Snow Leopard due to its speed, stability, and more importantly, its ability to run PowerPC apps. http://lowendmac.com/roundtable/12rt/038-snow-leopard.html
A similar situation exists with Tiger, the last PowerPC version of OS X that can run Classic and runs much faster than Leopard ever did on those machines.
or a basic PCL driver for that matter. Both are established printer standards at this point. Airprint appears to use PDF, which many printers support direct raster of nowadays, but does it in a non-standard way as opposed to using standard IPP, which many printers also support.
Its an Audi MMI 3G+ system with Google Earth and Audi Connect GSM, new for 2012&13 models. It was sourced from Harman-Becker. It likely shares some hardware design with the older 3G system from 2009.
I would have thought flash would already be in cars given the shock and temperature requirements. I was surprised to hear a 2.5" drive in the dash of my car powering the navigation system.
They did sell it as "Coca-Cola II" for a few years after the whole fiasco. Whats interesting is that Coca-Cola eventually made a diet version of the "Coke Classic" formula called Coke Zero. Diet Coke junkies didn't revolt because they still sell it side by side.
I got the same lecture when I toured the local incinerator 15 years ago. Who thought watching garbage burn was so exciting? There wasn't any worries about running out of garbage either, that place was pretty busy. Even some of the byproducts of burning garbage were recycled. The remaining soot is turned into asphalt fill. The plant itself is self sustaining running off the electricity it produces.
This depends on where you live. Most NYC area supermarkets carry a wide selection of fresh breads and other baked goods. Its pretty dire in places like the southeastern US though. I land up bringing loaves of rye bread to relatives in North Carolina when I visit. The one supermarket local to them seems to be catching on though, they now stock good Italian style bread imported from New Jersey.
Most of those DSL providers were likely competitive local exchange carriers, not resellers. The baby bells made their life hell since they had to "share" their central office with them and allow their equipment to be set up. Most of the CLECs went bankrupt because of it.
Nope, the neither the GSM version nor the CDMA version support LTE Band 13. You might be able to pull off voice and 3G EVDO on the Sprint version (their phones may be locked), but no 4G.
All LTE devices on VZW have SIM cards. They lock their phones by their unique network requirements as they won't work on the other LTE carriers in the Us without multiple band support. The voice part of their phones is still CDMA2000 and they use LTE on 700Mhz Band 13. AT&T uses LTE on 700Mhz Band 17 and 1700Mhz Band 4 with voice using GSM/HSPA.
Did WINE ever support Real Mode Win16 applications? There were so few Windows 1.x/2.x apps out there that I highly doubt it. Some apps written for Windows 2.1 and up seem to be dual mode, supporting both Real and Standard (286) Mode of Windows.
I actually have a device that uses the 29000, a Laserwriter upgrade board. Runs PhoenixPage (postscript level 2 clone). Most early RISC chips found a home in printers instead of general-use computers.
Run Windows 3.1x in DOSBox. It actually works surprisingly good. Windows 8 32-bit out of the box has 16-bit app support turned off by default, maybe that was the problem? Overall the NTVDM/WoW subsystem really hasn't changed since the XP days, if anything Win16 is a more stable target then Win32!
Windows Vista/7 supports touchscreens. Is there some sort of standard hardware interface for them now that only 8 supports? Also Windows 8 adds native USB 3.0 support. New hardware support is incremental if anything. Not big changes like the USB and ACPI in Windows 98, or OS wide plug-and-play support in Windows 95.
I seem to recall hearing the same thing around here when Windows ME was about a year old too. Lo and behold, the next release from MS made Microsoft more money and embedded them further into the end user culture more than any other product ever has.
Not quite. Windows 2000 was already out for the enterprise and 98SE was perfectly fine for home use. All ME did was bring 98SE to feature parity with Windows 2000 and removed "Boot to MS-DOS".
Its actually more bloated. Another less advertised "feature" of Windows 8 is the fact that the Desktop Window Manager can't be turned off. If you don't have 3D compatible video drivers running (rare these days), it uses software rendering. It is why the lightweight "classic" theme was killed off. This is also a major break in backwards compatibility with picky Windows 98/2000/XP apps. Microsoft dropped any sort of compatibility mode for anything pre-Vista as a result, the modes in Windows 7 went all the way back to Windows 95! Yet, they killed off Aero, the one nice thing about the hardware accelerated window manager!
Its good at clean up in some cases, but not prevention. Most people don't pay for the full version with the real time protection. Most of the malware out there actively targets it and prevents it from running as well.
I had one of those heuristic false positives come up with Symantec Endpoint.... from the April Fool's xkcd comic of all things. Turns out that it flagged the font downloaded by the comic as a potential risk using a long patched exploit in the font rendering system.
What annoys me with Metro apps is that they live in a separate world from standard desktop apps. You don't see them on the taskbar. The Metro task switcher doesn't show multiple desktop apps either, just "Desktop". Luckily Alt+Tab still cycles between all running apps. Full screen Metro apps are just goofy on a 1920x1200 display.
Keep in mind that Windows 8 Pro includes downgrade rights to Windows 7. Yes, its a PITA to do the activation, but you'll still be legal. Drivers shouldn't be an issue for everything except for perhaps the touch screen if the computer has one. I haven't looked at any Windows 8 machines, but I suspect that the touch screens likely use USB HID class drivers.
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Your aren't alone. A lot of people are sticking with Snow Leopard due to its speed, stability, and more importantly, its ability to run PowerPC apps. http://lowendmac.com/roundtable/12rt/038-snow-leopard.html
A similar situation exists with Tiger, the last PowerPC version of OS X that can run Classic and runs much faster than Leopard ever did on those machines.
or a basic PCL driver for that matter. Both are established printer standards at this point. Airprint appears to use PDF, which many printers support direct raster of nowadays, but does it in a non-standard way as opposed to using standard IPP, which many printers also support.
there are no hard drives in cars.
Yes there is. Plenty of OEMs built hard drive based navigation systems into their cars over the years.
Its an Audi MMI 3G+ system with Google Earth and Audi Connect GSM, new for 2012&13 models. It was sourced from Harman-Becker. It likely shares some hardware design with the older 3G system from 2009.
They will pester you about using your "real name", but a Google Plus account or using your name is NOT required to comment.
Who exactly is making a living off of YouTube ads? I have an account and see the rates. That $3 from ads over a few months will go real far....
I would have thought flash would already be in cars given the shock and temperature requirements. I was surprised to hear a 2.5" drive in the dash of my car powering the navigation system.
I never got to try it, but Coca-Cola test marketed Diet Coke with Splenda for awhile.
They did sell it as "Coca-Cola II" for a few years after the whole fiasco. Whats interesting is that Coca-Cola eventually made a diet version of the "Coke Classic" formula called Coke Zero. Diet Coke junkies didn't revolt because they still sell it side by side.
I got the same lecture when I toured the local incinerator 15 years ago. Who thought watching garbage burn was so exciting? There wasn't any worries about running out of garbage either, that place was pretty busy. Even some of the byproducts of burning garbage were recycled. The remaining soot is turned into asphalt fill. The plant itself is self sustaining running off the electricity it produces.
This depends on where you live. Most NYC area supermarkets carry a wide selection of fresh breads and other baked goods. Its pretty dire in places like the southeastern US though. I land up bringing loaves of rye bread to relatives in North Carolina when I visit. The one supermarket local to them seems to be catching on though, they now stock good Italian style bread imported from New Jersey.
It only takes a few minutes to wipe a hard drive. No organization is going to donate machines with a working OS install anyway.
Most of those DSL providers were likely competitive local exchange carriers, not resellers. The baby bells made their life hell since they had to "share" their central office with them and allow their equipment to be set up. Most of the CLECs went bankrupt because of it.
Nope, the neither the GSM version nor the CDMA version support LTE Band 13. You might be able to pull off voice and 3G EVDO on the Sprint version (their phones may be locked), but no 4G.
All LTE devices on VZW have SIM cards. They lock their phones by their unique network requirements as they won't work on the other LTE carriers in the Us without multiple band support. The voice part of their phones is still CDMA2000 and they use LTE on 700Mhz Band 13. AT&T uses LTE on 700Mhz Band 17 and 1700Mhz Band 4 with voice using GSM/HSPA.
Did WINE ever support Real Mode Win16 applications? There were so few Windows 1.x/2.x apps out there that I highly doubt it. Some apps written for Windows 2.1 and up seem to be dual mode, supporting both Real and Standard (286) Mode of Windows.
I actually have a device that uses the 29000, a Laserwriter upgrade board. Runs PhoenixPage (postscript level 2 clone). Most early RISC chips found a home in printers instead of general-use computers.
Run Windows 3.1x in DOSBox. It actually works surprisingly good. Windows 8 32-bit out of the box has 16-bit app support turned off by default, maybe that was the problem? Overall the NTVDM/WoW subsystem really hasn't changed since the XP days, if anything Win16 is a more stable target then Win32!
Windows Vista/7 supports touchscreens. Is there some sort of standard hardware interface for them now that only 8 supports? Also Windows 8 adds native USB 3.0 support. New hardware support is incremental if anything. Not big changes like the USB and ACPI in Windows 98, or OS wide plug-and-play support in Windows 95.
I seem to recall hearing the same thing around here when Windows ME was about a year old too. Lo and behold, the next release from MS made Microsoft more money and embedded them further into the end user culture more than any other product ever has.
Not quite. Windows 2000 was already out for the enterprise and 98SE was perfectly fine for home use. All ME did was bring 98SE to feature parity with Windows 2000 and removed "Boot to MS-DOS".
Its actually more bloated. Another less advertised "feature" of Windows 8 is the fact that the Desktop Window Manager can't be turned off. If you don't have 3D compatible video drivers running (rare these days), it uses software rendering. It is why the lightweight "classic" theme was killed off. This is also a major break in backwards compatibility with picky Windows 98/2000/XP apps. Microsoft dropped any sort of compatibility mode for anything pre-Vista as a result, the modes in Windows 7 went all the way back to Windows 95! Yet, they killed off Aero, the one nice thing about the hardware accelerated window manager!
Its good at clean up in some cases, but not prevention. Most people don't pay for the full version with the real time protection. Most of the malware out there actively targets it and prevents it from running as well.
I had one of those heuristic false positives come up with Symantec Endpoint.... from the April Fool's xkcd comic of all things. Turns out that it flagged the font downloaded by the comic as a potential risk using a long patched exploit in the font rendering system.
Window the Metro apps, which seems to work surprisingly well and adds the missing close button!:
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
http://retroui.com/retrouipro.asp
What annoys me with Metro apps is that they live in a separate world from standard desktop apps. You don't see them on the taskbar. The Metro task switcher doesn't show multiple desktop apps either, just "Desktop". Luckily Alt+Tab still cycles between all running apps. Full screen Metro apps are just goofy on a 1920x1200 display.
Keep in mind that Windows 8 Pro includes downgrade rights to Windows 7. Yes, its a PITA to do the activation, but you'll still be legal. Drivers shouldn't be an issue for everything except for perhaps the touch screen if the computer has one. I haven't looked at any Windows 8 machines, but I suspect that the touch screens likely use USB HID class drivers.