I just have to say that though you may have seen a Chris Rock special on HBO, that does not make you a religion expert.
Yes, that's true - Jesus (if real) was cool
Every major religion recognizes that there was a man Jesus of Nazareth who lived about 2000 years ago in the land now known as Israel. This is not disputed by any main stream religion or government.
...the problem is, is all the different interpretations of his comments. They all start nicely, but end up with... 'so you must die as the infadel that you are'
Simply a falicy. In no translation of the Bible and even in the non-canonical books (those are the one's that did not make it into the New Testament) does Jesus ever say that anyone should die. Jesus says that His Father will judge them but Jesus never calls for anyone to be killed.
In fact, the worst thing that Jesus ever says is that "My Father hates" when discussing something very common in America today - divorce.
Look, I am no biblical scholar and I didn't grow up going to church every Sunday, but I do know that what you have posted looks like the rantings of someone who is very hurt by an institution they do not understand. Why don't you try learning more about the Bible. Find a local church, temple, or mosque this weekend and go and pray. If you don't know what to pray for, start by praying for enlightenment.
Know that God has a purpose for all of us and loves all His children. Give thanks for that and know that you are loved.
I'm sure the Apple zealots will mod this into oblivion.
If you don't want to be modded into oblivion, try posting something factual and interesting, insightful or funny. Perhaps this would help.
And for the record, your comment is incomplete: Apple's stock got hammered by the Street because there are widespread concerns about what Apple does "next". i.e., is the Ipod a one-hit wonder?
Analysts reported they are concerned that the average price per sale has gone down, noting the introduction of Apple's lowest prices desktop, the $499 Mac mini and the lowest priced iPod, the Shuffle like $99 - $149.
Further, there was concern over the pressure of cell phone carriers who will be introducting competetive combo phone/DAP devices this year.
Lastly, and most significantly, they were concerned that apple projected sustained sales around $3B for next quarter, Q3'05, which are inline with sales from the past Q2'05 Quarter but do not show as much growth as Apple had show in past quarter-to-quarter comparisons.
In fairness, analysts do care if iPod is a 'one hit wonder', mostly because they want to see if the Halo Effect will product more CPU sales (they sole 1 million CPUs this past quarter). But even if Apple never introduces another 'hit' of the scale of the iPod, if they maintain market penetration at 70% as the market matures, they will have built quite a fine business for themselves.
From TFA's "Conclusions" section: Though it is marketed by Apple as a major release, Tiger is in fact a minor upgrade with few major new features, more akin to what we'd call a service pack in the Windows world.... [Tiger] adds a few major new features, and applies a nice spit polish to hundreds of other small features.
Is this not a contradiction? The Windows XP SP1 (and SP1a) and SP2 feature lists look a lot to me like the Mac OS X updates such as the most recent 10.3.8 (incidentally, also free like MS's Service Packs).
If OS X Tiger has just a few new features, (the two TFA discusses as most important are Spotlight and Dashboard), then what is Longhorn? [hint: Microsoft doesn't even know]
in closing, the review gives props to Apple for OS X but in the end, TFA's author is unable to keep himself from borg-like Apple bashing.
As a shareholder, I have spent the day perplexed and amazed at the 9% fall today (as well as a 5% fall post-market close!)
I summarize the reasoning thusly: - Apple's gudance for Q3'05 is the same as the Q2'05. That is, Apple guided analysts towards $0.28 cents per share or about $3.15B for next quarter. This is EXCELLENT right? Well some analysts didn't think so because it is just about the same $3B that Apple posted this quarter. The analysts see the guidance as showing Apple is expecting flat growth. Further compouding this is the fact that the just ended Q2 is typically Apple's weakest of the 4 quarters and so Q3 should be higher than Q2. Offsetting this logic is the fact that in this quarter apple intorduced the iPod Shuffle which was quickly swooped up and generated a great deal of sales not typical for Q2.
- Average price per sale (APS) was lower this quarter than peviously. Now lets try to figure this one out. Apple introduced the Mac mini at $499 and the Shuffle at $99. Demand for the products was high. The average of a $99 Shuffle and a $499 iPod Photo is $299. If Apple sells the same number of iPod Photos but also sells a ton of Shuffles, then the APS drops. (Duh, this is basic math.) The analysts don't like that though - they want high sales, high margins, and high profits. The logic escapes me. For years analysts say "lower your prices so you will sell more" Apple does, and is beat with the Bear stick by the Market.
- Finally, there is the "iPod can't keep this up" camp that is so damn afraid that any moment now Sony will unseat Apple's 70% market share (No worry that Sony doesn't even account for a tenth of that market today). Also there are the people who think that as soon as there is a WMA player built into a cell phone, everyone will buy that instead of the iPod (No worry that Apple and Moto are about to release their own iTunes phone this year).
So there you have it. my personal views. I own the stock so take that into consideration. I am also clammoring up some cash to buy more because I see the $36 and change stock price as pretty darn tastly for a stock that just beat bullish earnings estimate by a dime (that's two nickles) and whose forward PE is 20 though it's trailing is three times that. But don't you go buying up AAPL just because you read this because that would be plain foolish.
An argument against an Apple subnotebook
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· Score: 2, Insightful
(DISCLAIMER: I am an Apple user at home and would love an Apple 'treo-type' device for myself)
Apple recognizes that their three audiences are: (1) Video/graphics pros, (2) education, (3) and home users. (Yeah there are others and all those segments are growing with the exception of gamers but lets focus on the main ones.)
Apple only has so many R&D dollars, even with $7B in the bank. They have to focus on what their audience wants and will pay for.
So what does the demand look like? (1) Video/graphics pros are using PowerBooks in the field. They need access to a large 17" screen for editing so a sub-notebook really doesn't appeal. (2) Education has no need for this. My highschool made headlines back when they piloted a program to equip all incoming freshmen with Palm Pilots. The program was not a success, more of a distraction. (3) Home users just don't need this type of device any more than they need a Treo today.
The real market for sub-notebooks is the business world where the Blackberry and Treo dominate the market. Apple would have a major hurdle to get corporate IT to support a third (and this time "Apple" - tisk tisk) device.
All that said, I return to my disclaimer that I would personally really love an Apple sub-notebook with celular and Wi-fi that I could use as an iPod for music, share photos, and use Ink Well to interface to PDA functions with. But 'iDoubt' the market is full of folks like me.
Man, What with blowing away their 2Q'05 earnings projections, I hope the first thing Apple does is address this bug that no one has paid any attention to in 10 years. That will make me as a Apple user and share holder happier than if they continue this "innovation" fad.
The reason I think the parent is a web coder is because he mentions TexTEdit and BBedit for coding.
Wow, you're a real detective!
[from the parent "troll" I authored] I develop.NET web apps at work on XP but have a Mac at home. [/]
Comparing a php app written in BBedit and an asp+ app written in VS.Net is less than fair and pure trollbait, since I cam write a php app in notepad on Windows as well, but I would need to be seriously dumb to do that wouldn't I?
This comment is completely inaccurate. First of all, to write ASP or ASPX pages, one does not need VS.net, all they need is a text editor (one could even use "copy con foo.asp" from the command line if they wish!) The same holds for php, HTML, css, perl, etc on all platforms, Mac or Windows.
What using an editor like BBEdit gets you is a customized environment to provide contextual command support for the language of choice (php, asp, perl, coldfusion, etc). What Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like VS.net and XCode get you (besides a compiler) is the ability to harness the power of object oriented coding right in the editor so you get the power of an editor + compiler + object access right in the code.
Reasonable question. I hope this answer suffices: Office suites are the toolsets of 21st century inner/extra-office business. They go beyond the basic MS Word.doc (for which any.rtf editor can do 90% of the tasks) and allow the user to document and share information easily.
As a developer, I find MS Office indespensable. I use Word to edit and contribute to proposals with the ability to set change tracking on so the project manager can accept or edit my changes without having to find my edits himself. Excel allows me to compile great looking tables of features, time and cost estimates, and complete my weekly timesheet. Exchange manages Email, scheduling, and task assignments. I don't make presentations as part of my job, but sales does and PowerPoint seems to be the sales person's best friend (certainly Visual Studio.net isn't!).
True, one doesn't need an office suite to be a good programmer. But show me the job description for a programmer that doesn't have to communicate with the rest of the organization and I'll have you fifty resumes by lunch.
There is more to developing on a Mac than downloading Xcode.
I think the thread is worth exploring. There is a learning curve to moving from Windows to OS X in general, and more to learn when switching as a developer. The move from Linux to OS X is far less of a curve, but still exists.
Everyone has (and will continue) to discuss Xcode.
I can give some insight into the question of learning curve.
I develop.NET web apps at work on XP but have a Mac at home. there are a good many differences:
- The mac is like Linux. Get used to the Linux command line. If you don't know basic commands like LS instead of DIR then the curve will be steap. If you have used a *nix system or are a quick study, I would pickup an O'reilly book and get up to speed with things like user permissions (CHMOD) and GREP and the Pipe "|" for automation. Also know than things like Chron jobs replace Windows Scheduler. Get a book adn take the few hours to skim it. It will be a great reference if nothing else.
- Perpare yourself for more text editor usage and less sophisticated Integrated Developer Environment (IDE). Okay, let the Apple Xcoders begin their flame. I really feel that MS got some things very very right with Visual Studio.Net and it is way different developing.Net apps with the IDE in Visual Studio. I have developed php apps on the Mac and used TextEdit and BBedit (a great OS X only editor). IMHO, seasoned coders who really know their stuff will do well transitioning from VS.net, beginers will have a few less crutches to use.
- You're gonna need an office suite. MS Office.X is great, but for the money, I kinda like OO.o and use NeoOffice/J myself. A Mac alternative to Visio is OmniGraffle and is better IMHO.
- Get used to few, but higher quality choices. Okay, this one is touchy too but there are few fewer choices for software and websites to Google for a problem but the ones you do find for whatever the task might be are of better quality I think. Apple does a great many things right the first time so even if an article is written for Jaguar, it may very well work under Tiger, etc. I have found this very frustrating as I try to install something under IIS 6 with a document written for IIS 5 for example.
- Don't underestimate the hardware. Okay, your budget, your choice, but I would be more inclined to recommend to a serious developer buying a Power Mac (watch out, rumors of new updates in May so careful with the timing) over a Mac mini. The Mac mini is great for a home user wanting to check email, but if you are going to develop, compile, and potentially deploy Web Objects and such, don't underestimate the G5's supperiority to it's 32-bit father. At a minimum, follow all the recommendations and get 512mb ram (I have a Gig and use it).
Boo Hoo...my GSM phone won't work on Sprint's non-GSM network. Let's pass a LAW that makes it illegal for Sprint not to support a technology that was never advertised by Sprint to support.
when will you people get it through your skulls that requiring the root password before a user can execute a program does not a secure system make.
Oh I fully disagree with you on this.
Requiring as user with appropriate access rights to perform a function (that's really what we are talking about with a 'root password') does make a system secure.
What you go on to describe as the user not taking the time to consider the ramifications of the action they are authorizing to be performed is simply Operator Error.
This doesn't solve all problems for Microsoft, just changes them.
While this will be a certain benefit to corporate environments with IT security policies and IT departments to come install/upgrade software for employees while at the same time ensuring that new version of FreeCell you got from a friend doesn't infect the whole corporate network, the issues become more troublesome for home users.
A home user will either end up running their system as an Administrator, thus circumventing the access permissions model, and/or they will become frustrated with the inability to install/update/access/delete files on their own computer.
How many times has the home user faced a property configuration wizard that tells them to contact their "system/network administrator" for more information.
My mother is not a "system administrator", but yet, to change her ISP, she had to put on that hat or call me to talk her through it.
No disrespect to Linux, but Microsoft would do well to study Apple's model for system security on a home implementation. Apple has, successfulyl in my opinion, abstracted much of the user security model to allow the home user to know nothing about CHMOD while still providing appropriate security when needed - like entering an administrative password (SUDOing the application) for installations and upgrades.
Last on the list of needed changes to the windows security model is to provide far more robust error/exception handling when a user does something like tries to rename a file that is open. Consider this closing argument:
"The file cannot be renamed because it is in use by another application."
versus
"The file 'foo.doc' cannot be renamed to 'bar.doc' because it is opened by 'Word.exe' would you like to:
- Cancel the renaming
- Save the document changes in Word and rename the file
- Discard the document changes in Word and rename the file"
It isn't hypocracy, it is two different situations:
[Slashdot readers] demand that Microsoft open it's API, and even some demand that Microsoft open source Windows, then when it comes to Apple they say let Apple be they are just trying to make a buck, and we shouldn't force a company to open it's product.
Microsoft has created the appearance of an open system, why some accusers claim that Microsoft has two sets of Windows APIs, one for the MS office, IE, etc. teams and one for 3rd party manufacturers. This creates a separate-but-equal inequality on a 'platform' that MS claims to be open to developers.
Apple on the other hand makes no such 'platform' claim of the iPod or Fairplay DRM. Apple built the software, hardware, and licensed the encryption. They don't claim it to be open so why should a government force them just because they have 60-70% of the market?
Think of it like this, if the Sony PSP only played Sony games and was a huge hit while only playing Sony games, there wouldn't be an issue, but if Sony says they are opening up the platform so EA can make games for them, but give EA a separate way to interface to the PSP so their games run slower or aren't full featured, then that is unfair competition.
Sorry, after getting all these repsonses I looked it up and I understand the issues better. (Never had read the actual restrictions on the amendment, just knew the consequences).
At any rate, since everyone is so up on this amendment by Congress, perhaps we can discusss how well/unwell it worked and how it may be similar to the whole congressional hearing that sparked this conversation.
The digital music market is just emerging - why legislate a standard? Who knows what the market will look like ten years from now (arguably twice as long as the market as even existed)?
In addition, this is a global market issue. How would their legislation be inforced globally?
I live in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex where congress, through the Wright Amendment, put restrictions on South West Airlines so it cannot fly directly to DFW International unless the flight originates from within Texas or a bordering state. This type of legislation is (IMHO) rediculous and flies in the face of economic forces.
To return to topic, the CEO of Napster has this one right, there is no need to legislate a standard, open or otherwise. The market will determine it.
Fast forward X years when a monopoly exists (today there are at lease two clear choices for DRM, Fairplay and WMA, neither of which is a monopoly). In the even of an abusive monopoly, then, and only then, should the government be involved under the flag of protecting the rights of Her citizens.
let's see - if the Voyager is out of power in 2015, then there are about 10 yrs (x $4M = $40M in operating costs).
Isn't there a group of Universities (US and abroad) who would be able to fund 10 yrs of space probe research?
Between grants, endowments, and gifts from Alumni in scientific fields, four univiersities would have to (1) fund $1M each for ten years and (2) convince NASA and Congress to sell the project.
New Macs come with: (1) Full OS X CD, able to be installed on a newly formatted drive or reinstall over an existing install. (2) iLife (3) WorldBook Encyclopedia (non-Power line) (4) Quicken (non-Power line) The above (1-4) are also on the HD image from the factory (5) a recovery CD with recovery tools and a hardware test specific to this model
What I was saying in the previous post is that: (2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory. (3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
For those new computers that have the old OS image on the HD, because they made it out of the facotry before the OS upgrade, Apple drops in an upgrade CD. The same goes for iLife. When the new version was announced, Apple dropped in upgrade CDs (DVDs some people reported) of iLife '05.
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Yes, that's true - Jesus (if real) was cool
Every major religion recognizes that there was a man Jesus of Nazareth who lived about 2000 years ago in the land now known as Israel. This is not disputed by any main stream religion or government. ...the problem is, is all the different interpretations of his comments. They all start nicely, but end up with ... 'so you must die as the infadel that you are'
Simply a falicy. In no translation of the Bible and even in the non-canonical books (those are the one's that did not make it into the New Testament) does Jesus ever say that anyone should die. Jesus says that His Father will judge them but Jesus never calls for anyone to be killed.In fact, the worst thing that Jesus ever says is that "My Father hates" when discussing something very common in America today - divorce.
Look, I am no biblical scholar and I didn't grow up going to church every Sunday, but I do know that what you have posted looks like the rantings of someone who is very hurt by an institution they do not understand. Why don't you try learning more about the Bible. Find a local church, temple, or mosque this weekend and go and pray. If you don't know what to pray for, start by praying for enlightenment.
Know that God has a purpose for all of us and loves all His children. Give thanks for that and know that you are loved.
I'm sure the Apple zealots will mod this into oblivion.
If you don't want to be modded into oblivion, try posting something factual and interesting, insightful or funny. Perhaps this would help.
And for the record, your comment is incomplete:
Apple's stock got hammered by the Street because there are widespread concerns about what Apple does "next". i.e., is the Ipod a one-hit wonder?
Analysts reported they are concerned that the average price per sale has gone down, noting the introduction of Apple's lowest prices desktop, the $499 Mac mini and the lowest priced iPod, the Shuffle like $99 - $149.
Further, there was concern over the pressure of cell phone carriers who will be introducting competetive combo phone/DAP devices this year.
Lastly, and most significantly, they were concerned that apple projected sustained sales around $3B for next quarter, Q3'05, which are inline with sales from the past Q2'05 Quarter but do not show as much growth as Apple had show in past quarter-to-quarter comparisons.
In fairness, analysts do care if iPod is a 'one hit wonder', mostly because they want to see if the Halo Effect will product more CPU sales (they sole 1 million CPUs this past quarter). But even if Apple never introduces another 'hit' of the scale of the iPod, if they maintain market penetration at 70% as the market matures, they will have built quite a fine business for themselves.
From TFA's "Conclusions" section: ... [Tiger] adds a few major new features, and applies a nice spit polish to hundreds of other small features.
Though it is marketed by Apple as a major release, Tiger is in fact a minor upgrade with few major new features, more akin to what we'd call a service pack in the Windows world.
Is this not a contradiction? The Windows XP SP1 (and SP1a) and SP2 feature lists look a lot to me like the Mac OS X updates such as the most recent 10.3.8 (incidentally, also free like MS's Service Packs).
If OS X Tiger has just a few new features, (the two TFA discusses as most important are Spotlight and Dashboard), then what is Longhorn? [hint: Microsoft doesn't even know]
in closing, the review gives props to Apple for OS X but in the end, TFA's author is unable to keep himself from borg-like Apple bashing.
As a shareholder, I have spent the day perplexed and amazed at the 9% fall today (as well as a 5% fall post-market close!)
I summarize the reasoning thusly:
- Apple's gudance for Q3'05 is the same as the Q2'05. That is, Apple guided analysts towards $0.28 cents per share or about $3.15B for next quarter. This is EXCELLENT right? Well some analysts didn't think so because it is just about the same $3B that Apple posted this quarter. The analysts see the guidance as showing Apple is expecting flat growth. Further compouding this is the fact that the just ended Q2 is typically Apple's weakest of the 4 quarters and so Q3 should be higher than Q2. Offsetting this logic is the fact that in this quarter apple intorduced the iPod Shuffle which was quickly swooped up and generated a great deal of sales not typical for Q2.
- Average price per sale (APS) was lower this quarter than peviously. Now lets try to figure this one out. Apple introduced the Mac mini at $499 and the Shuffle at $99. Demand for the products was high. The average of a $99 Shuffle and a $499 iPod Photo is $299. If Apple sells the same number of iPod Photos but also sells a ton of Shuffles, then the APS drops. (Duh, this is basic math.) The analysts don't like that though - they want high sales, high margins, and high profits. The logic escapes me. For years analysts say "lower your prices so you will sell more" Apple does, and is beat with the Bear stick by the Market.
- Finally, there is the "iPod can't keep this up" camp that is so damn afraid that any moment now Sony will unseat Apple's 70% market share (No worry that Sony doesn't even account for a tenth of that market today). Also there are the people who think that as soon as there is a WMA player built into a cell phone, everyone will buy that instead of the iPod (No worry that Apple and Moto are about to release their own iTunes phone this year).
So there you have it. my personal views. I own the stock so take that into consideration. I am also clammoring up some cash to buy more because I see the $36 and change stock price as pretty darn tastly for a stock that just beat bullish earnings estimate by a dime (that's two nickles) and whose forward PE is 20 though it's trailing is three times that. But don't you go buying up AAPL just because you read this because that would be plain foolish.
(DISCLAIMER: I am an Apple user at home and would love an Apple 'treo-type' device for myself)
Apple recognizes that their three audiences are:
(1) Video/graphics pros,
(2) education,
(3) and home users.
(Yeah there are others and all those segments are growing with the exception of gamers but lets focus on the main ones.)
Apple only has so many R&D dollars, even with $7B in the bank. They have to focus on what their audience wants and will pay for.
So what does the demand look like?
(1) Video/graphics pros are using PowerBooks in the field. They need access to a large 17" screen for editing so a sub-notebook really doesn't appeal.
(2) Education has no need for this. My highschool made headlines back when they piloted a program to equip all incoming freshmen with Palm Pilots. The program was not a success, more of a distraction.
(3) Home users just don't need this type of device any more than they need a Treo today.
The real market for sub-notebooks is the business world where the Blackberry and Treo dominate the market. Apple would have a major hurdle to get corporate IT to support a third (and this time "Apple" - tisk tisk) device.
All that said, I return to my disclaimer that I would personally really love an Apple sub-notebook with celular and Wi-fi that I could use as an iPod for music, share photos, and use Ink Well to interface to PDA functions with. But 'iDoubt' the market is full of folks like me.
Hopefully Apple fixes this bug now at last.
Man, What with blowing away their 2Q'05 earnings projections, I hope the first thing Apple does is address this bug that no one has paid any attention to in 10 years. That will make me as a Apple user and share holder happier than if they continue this "innovation" fad.
I second that! It would appear he has never read the Bible, though he has no problem dismissing it.
The reason I think the parent is a web coder is because he mentions TexTEdit and BBedit for coding.
.NET web apps at work on XP but have a Mac at home. [/]
Wow, you're a real detective!
[from the parent "troll" I authored] I develop
Comparing a php app written in BBedit and an asp+ app written in VS.Net is less than fair and pure trollbait, since I cam write a php app in notepad on Windows as well, but I would need to be seriously dumb to do that wouldn't I?
This comment is completely inaccurate. First of all, to write ASP or ASPX pages, one does not need VS.net, all they need is a text editor (one could even use "copy con foo.asp" from the command line if they wish!) The same holds for php, HTML, css, perl, etc on all platforms, Mac or Windows.
What using an editor like BBEdit gets you is a customized environment to provide contextual command support for the language of choice (php, asp, perl, coldfusion, etc). What Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like VS.net and XCode get you (besides a compiler) is the ability to harness the power of object oriented coding right in the editor so you get the power of an editor + compiler + object access right in the code.
BTW, your Caps Lock key is sticking.
Why does he "need" an office suite anyway?
.doc (for which any .rtf editor can do 90% of the tasks) and allow the user to document and share information easily.
.net isn't!).
Reasonable question. I hope this answer suffices:
Office suites are the toolsets of 21st century inner/extra-office business. They go beyond the basic MS Word
As a developer, I find MS Office indespensable. I use Word to edit and contribute to proposals with the ability to set change tracking on so the project manager can accept or edit my changes without having to find my edits himself. Excel allows me to compile great looking tables of features, time and cost estimates, and complete my weekly timesheet. Exchange manages Email, scheduling, and task assignments. I don't make presentations as part of my job, but sales does and PowerPoint seems to be the sales person's best friend (certainly Visual Studio
True, one doesn't need an office suite to be a good programmer. But show me the job description for a programmer that doesn't have to communicate with the rest of the organization and I'll have you fifty resumes by lunch.
There is more to developing on a Mac than downloading Xcode.
I think the thread is worth exploring. There is a learning curve to moving from Windows to OS X in general, and more to learn when switching as a developer. The move from Linux to OS X is far less of a curve, but still exists.
Let's give the thread a chance!
FUCKING FAGGOTS !!
Fucking close minded assholes!
According to Apple, if you buy a system today, you will get Tiger.
Everyone has (and will continue) to discuss Xcode.
.NET web apps at work on XP but have a Mac at home. there are a good many differences:
.Net and it is way different developing .Net apps with the IDE in Visual Studio. I have developed php apps on the Mac and used TextEdit and BBedit (a great OS X only editor). IMHO, seasoned coders who really know their stuff will do well transitioning from VS.net, beginers will have a few less crutches to use.
I can give some insight into the question of learning curve.
I develop
- The mac is like Linux. Get used to the Linux command line. If you don't know basic commands like LS instead of DIR then the curve will be steap. If you have used a *nix system or are a quick study, I would pickup an O'reilly book and get up to speed with things like user permissions (CHMOD) and GREP and the Pipe "|" for automation. Also know than things like Chron jobs replace Windows Scheduler. Get a book adn take the few hours to skim it. It will be a great reference if nothing else.
- Perpare yourself for more text editor usage and less sophisticated Integrated Developer Environment (IDE). Okay, let the Apple Xcoders begin their flame. I really feel that MS got some things very very right with Visual Studio
- You're gonna need an office suite. MS Office.X is great, but for the money, I kinda like OO.o and use NeoOffice/J myself. A Mac alternative to Visio is OmniGraffle and is better IMHO.
- Get used to few, but higher quality choices. Okay, this one is touchy too but there are few fewer choices for software and websites to Google for a problem but the ones you do find for whatever the task might be are of better quality I think. Apple does a great many things right the first time so even if an article is written for Jaguar, it may very well work under Tiger, etc. I have found this very frustrating as I try to install something under IIS 6 with a document written for IIS 5 for example.
- Don't underestimate the hardware. Okay, your budget, your choice, but I would be more inclined to recommend to a serious developer buying a Power Mac (watch out, rumors of new updates in May so careful with the timing) over a Mac mini. The Mac mini is great for a home user wanting to check email, but if you are going to develop, compile, and potentially deploy Web Objects and such, don't underestimate the G5's supperiority to it's 32-bit father. At a minimum, follow all the recommendations and get 512mb ram (I have a Gig and use it).
Lastly, "Welcome".
Boo Hoo...my GSM phone won't work on Sprint's non-GSM network. Let's pass a LAW that makes it illegal for Sprint not to support a technology that was never advertised by Sprint to support.
THAT WAY we could have more lawsuits! yippee!
Does there even exist a PC operating system that can ask the application that is holding a file open to close a file in this manner?
This whole thread is a discussion of what they are building, not the feature set of exisiing Windows implementations.
Further, yeah, my Mac OS X Panther laptop at home does have similar abilitites to atleast save and close an application.
when will you people get it through your skulls that requiring the root password before a user can execute a program does not a secure system make.
Oh I fully disagree with you on this.
Requiring as user with appropriate access rights to perform a function (that's really what we are talking about with a 'root password') does make a system secure.
What you go on to describe as the user not taking the time to consider the ramifications of the action they are authorizing to be performed is simply Operator Error.
This doesn't solve all problems for Microsoft, just changes them.
While this will be a certain benefit to corporate environments with IT security policies and IT departments to come install/upgrade software for employees while at the same time ensuring that new version of FreeCell you got from a friend doesn't infect the whole corporate network, the issues become more troublesome for home users.
A home user will either end up running their system as an Administrator, thus circumventing the access permissions model, and/or they will become frustrated with the inability to install/update/access/delete files on their own computer.
How many times has the home user faced a property configuration wizard that tells them to contact their "system/network administrator" for more information.
My mother is not a "system administrator", but yet, to change her ISP, she had to put on that hat or call me to talk her through it.
No disrespect to Linux, but Microsoft would do well to study Apple's model for system security on a home implementation. Apple has, successfulyl in my opinion, abstracted much of the user security model to allow the home user to know nothing about CHMOD while still providing appropriate security when needed - like entering an administrative password (SUDOing the application) for installations and upgrades.
Last on the list of needed changes to the windows security model is to provide far more robust error/exception handling when a user does something like tries to rename a file that is open. Consider this closing argument:
"The file cannot be renamed because it is in use by another application."
versus
"The file 'foo.doc' cannot be renamed to 'bar.doc' because it is opened by 'Word.exe' would you like to:
- Cancel the renaming
- Save the document changes in Word and rename the file
- Discard the document changes in Word and rename the file"
It isn't hypocracy, it is two different situations:
[Slashdot readers] demand that Microsoft open it's API, and even some demand that Microsoft open source Windows, then when it comes to Apple they say let Apple be they are just trying to make a buck, and we shouldn't force a company to open it's product.
Microsoft has created the appearance of an open system, why some accusers claim that Microsoft has two sets of Windows APIs, one for the MS office, IE, etc. teams and one for 3rd party manufacturers. This creates a separate-but-equal inequality on a 'platform' that MS claims to be open to developers.
Apple on the other hand makes no such 'platform' claim of the iPod or Fairplay DRM. Apple built the software, hardware, and licensed the encryption. They don't claim it to be open so why should a government force them just because they have 60-70% of the market?
Think of it like this, if the Sony PSP only played Sony games and was a huge hit while only playing Sony games, there wouldn't be an issue, but if Sony says they are opening up the platform so EA can make games for them, but give EA a separate way to interface to the PSP so their games run slower or aren't full featured, then that is unfair competition.
Sorry, after getting all these repsonses I looked it up and I understand the issues better. (Never had read the actual restrictions on the amendment, just knew the consequences).
At any rate, since everyone is so up on this amendment by Congress, perhaps we can discusss how well/unwell it worked and how it may be similar to the whole congressional hearing that sparked this conversation.
This is a no-brainer
The digital music market is just emerging - why legislate a standard? Who knows what the market will look like ten years from now (arguably twice as long as the market as even existed)?
In addition, this is a global market issue. How would their legislation be inforced globally?
I live in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex where congress, through the Wright Amendment, put restrictions on South West Airlines so it cannot fly directly to DFW International unless the flight originates from within Texas or a bordering state. This type of legislation is (IMHO) rediculous and flies in the face of economic forces.
To return to topic, the CEO of Napster has this one right, there is no need to legislate a standard, open or otherwise. The market will determine it.
Fast forward X years when a monopoly exists (today there are at lease two clear choices for DRM, Fairplay and WMA, neither of which is a monopoly). In the even of an abusive monopoly, then, and only then, should the government be involved under the flag of protecting the rights of Her citizens.
Cheers to that!
let's see - if the Voyager is out of power in 2015, then there are about 10 yrs (x $4M = $40M in operating costs).
Isn't there a group of Universities (US and abroad) who would be able to fund 10 yrs of space probe research?
Between grants, endowments, and gifts from Alumni in scientific fields, four univiersities would have to (1) fund $1M each for ten years and (2) convince NASA and Congress to sell the project.
Why NOT?
this might help
Damn those feds are good.
It takes me longer than 3 minutes just to type the WEP key from my router into my client!
Let me clarify completely:
New Macs come with:
(1) Full OS X CD, able to be installed on a newly formatted drive or reinstall over an existing install.
(2) iLife
(3) WorldBook Encyclopedia (non-Power line)
(4) Quicken (non-Power line)
The above (1-4) are also on the HD image from the factory
(5) a recovery CD with recovery tools and a hardware test specific to this model
What I was saying in the previous post is that:
(2) new Macs being built come with the new OS on the hard drive image from the factory.
(3) computers in inventory get their boxes sliced open and a new OS upgrade CD (DVD?) dropped in. This disk requires the install drive to have an OS on it already, so it is not the same as what comes on the boxed OS CD.
For those new computers that have the old OS image on the HD, because they made it out of the facotry before the OS upgrade, Apple drops in an upgrade CD. The same goes for iLife. When the new version was announced, Apple dropped in upgrade CDs (DVDs some people reported) of iLife '05.
Please excuse the parent post. I've been drinking again.