Remeber, high-speed connections in the dormroom may not always be great... especially from the University's perspective. I go to a major public university in Michigan, and I can vouch for more piracy than I ever thought possible. In the last hour, I could have *easily* downloaded 5 feature-length bootleg movies (american pie, matrix, sixth sense, etc), a portion of the 50+ gigabytes of MP3s on our network (local to our dorm... not including the other 7 dorms...), and other illegal material.
I'm not arguing with high-speed access;) but I realize that this is a nightmare from the University's perspective... maybe that's why I got a cease-and-desist message in my Appleshare drop box threatening me with legal action if I didn't stop sharing content. Interesting to look at the situation from 'the other side.' Think Carnegie Mellon, MP3s...
Apple has just done something that no other company has done with the success that Apple will have--taking unix to the mainstream consumer channel. Apple's retail market share has nearly doubled since the introduction of the first iMac, and nearly 30% of mac purchasers now are either new to computers entirely, or switching from a wintel platform--and they won't be losing constituents when macos X arrives. Macos 9 sold a million copies in the last 2 months... macos X should do even better.
the most interesting thing about the situation is that steve jobs didn't speak 5 words of a CLI, or a Unix core (aside from a brief mention of darwin) during his keynote yesterday. It's almost like they're denying the fact that they're masking unix with a UI more user-friendly to new users than any UI on the planet--and the users won't even have a clue.
People can rant about Apple making a bad product... but I think delivering unix to the mainstream consumer is brilliant. I mean, when's the last time you could buy a completely-configured unix box at compusa? sign me up.
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I'm not arguing with high-speed access ;) but I realize that this is a nightmare from the University's perspective... maybe that's why I got a cease-and-desist message in my Appleshare drop box threatening me with legal action if I didn't stop sharing content. Interesting to look at the situation from 'the other side.' Think Carnegie Mellon, MP3s...
the most interesting thing about the situation is that steve jobs didn't speak 5 words of a CLI, or a Unix core (aside from a brief mention of darwin) during his keynote yesterday. It's almost like they're denying the fact that they're masking unix with a UI more user-friendly to new users than any UI on the planet--and the users won't even have a clue.
People can rant about Apple making a bad product... but I think delivering unix to the mainstream consumer is brilliant. I mean, when's the last time you could buy a completely-configured unix box at compusa? sign me up.