It may seem like somewhat of a stretch, but once you establish a beachead on the OS marketshare it's easier for businesses to adopt and support other alternatives. They won't have the excuse "Well *everyone* runs windows, so we just need to code/webdevelop for them." Basically the same thing that happened once Firefox reached a critical share. You can't well ignore 10% of your paying customers. Some companies may then realize that it's to their advantage to use OpenGL, for example, or release applications for all 3 platforms (such as Skype, WoW etc.)
One thing to remember is that Apple sells and supports a whole experience. That includes stuff like easy setup of an audio/video chat client. How do you plan to do video chats with your buddies on an all-in-one machine from psystar?
Well, if you can't, then you're not getting the Apple experience, and I don't blame Apple for protecting their business model.
On the more important side, I do hope to see a rulling on shrink-wrapped licenses. But whether it will get to that or not is beyond my law knowledge.
Do what I did. Get a Linux book with a Live CD. Go through it and learn to understand it. If you like setting systems up like that into the wee hours of the night, Unix/Linux administration may be an enjoyable field for you. If you don't, well, then get a book on Open GL, or 3D modeling. Make some maps for Quake. Code some AI into the bots....
And with the easily affordable CALs, up to 11 users will be able to use it at the same time! (well 8, 2 CALs will prolly be used by junior admins, and one for "test")
I think the most important thing, and it is something that everyone keeps missing, is that NASA has found a way to turn even rocket scientists into ditch diggers! Imagine a bright young engineer studying hard on saturday nights, while all his friends are getting drunk and laid, and thinking how he'll have a successful career with NASA. And when thinking about his lucky friends he says to himself "the world needs ditchdiggers too." And some day he gets into NASA, and his boss's first words are: "Johnson, this ain't rocket science, Phoenix has landed and I need you do dig me a ditch..."
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I'm an Apple admin (thank god) and talk like yours is getting really old. Everyone has that one thing that keeps them from buying Apple products. ("real" video card in iMac, video camera on iPhone, etc.)
You already have an option. What's wrong with:
I have a collection of Dell Optiplexes, HP dc7700 desktops, and a bunch of MPC 4x4 all-in-one systems. I would gladly, and with executive support I believe, pilot a Windows to Linux project on a few hundred systems within a quarter of that ability coming available.
Clearly, what we need is a new way to interface with a computer, something like speaking/yelling at it and/or a touchscreen interface. Naively I ask, does Microsoft have any such projects in development? hmmm....
Idiots. If they wouldn't pop up a notification every time a computer farts or a mouse is plugged in, maybe interfacing with the computer wouldn't be so, you know, repetitive!
You are being funny, of course, but look at the fallout... Apple couldn't have hoped for a better fumbling of the "Attack of the Clones". It's as if Lucas himself directed this train wreck.
I bet Apple and their lawyers are in their humidors sipping cognac, laughing at these amateurs.
Let me see, I need to type my college papers, christmas letters, and an occasional sales poster. Let's see the benefits of the magnificent MS Office Live RX over the OpenOffice, or Symphony... Stupidass Microsoft... (And stupidass people paying for that crap...)
The numbers of testers may be insignificant compared to the IBMs whole workforce, but IBM is seeing the front line, and is adjusting itself. Think about it, they have a lot of IT savvy folks, who know a thing or two about operating systems. And especially Unix/Linux. Why would those folks be pushing for their competitor's platform (Microsoft) as opposed to staying truly cross platform compatible.
The OS is becoming more irrelevant nowdays. Some folks at IBM are seeing that and adjusting accordingly. (And saving money on CALs to boot...)
WOW! I thought for sure it couldn't have been that long ago. Cripes I was only 8 then, now I'm 30. I guess thing like that sticks with you. I remember the whole family and all the neighbors around the TV when he did the slalom...
I like the cut of your jib Jared. If your capabilities are truly representative of what your name suggests, I'd like to talk to you. I can use you on the frontlines.
I'm a Mac user and admin. I dunno, maybe even an evangelist as I also try (and have succeeded) to get most of my family and friends to switch to them, so I'm not fixing their viruses for free any more. But not to get off-topic, I need to thank you, as you've hit the nail on the head. When Apple fans talk about OS X and Macs just feeling and working differently or being more useable, we get ridiculed by registry monkeys for being snub and noobish. But to hear it from someone like you, who is not a complete "convert" validates our points. There is definitely something that feels different and is hard to describe to those who've never used the system.
I've done my share of digging through registry and scouring HiJack This logs, and have followed and used Linux since 2.0 came out (I currently have a Hardy Heron beta running my game machine - ET:QW ftw!), but none give me the GUI fluff and efficiency (Expose, Spaces, iChat AV and TimeMachine) and bash power as nicely as OS X does.
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Hey man, thanks for remembering!
Keeping in true Windows tradition it will require a 12 terabit connection to your ISP.
It may seem like somewhat of a stretch, but once you establish a beachead on the OS marketshare it's easier for businesses to adopt and support other alternatives. They won't have the excuse "Well *everyone* runs windows, so we just need to code/webdevelop for them."
Basically the same thing that happened once Firefox reached a critical share. You can't well ignore 10% of your paying customers. Some companies may then realize that it's to their advantage to use OpenGL, for example, or release applications for all 3 platforms (such as Skype, WoW etc.)
If you're used to running/adminning UNIX, Windows does give you a headache.
By the way, your mouse is plugged in and working.
One thing to remember is that Apple sells and supports a whole experience.
That includes stuff like easy setup of an audio/video chat client.
How do you plan to do video chats with your buddies on an all-in-one machine from psystar?
Well, if you can't, then you're not getting the Apple experience, and I don't blame Apple for protecting their business model.
On the more important side, I do hope to see a rulling on shrink-wrapped licenses. But whether it will get to that or not is beyond my law knowledge.
Do what I did. Get a Linux book with a Live CD. Go through it and learn to understand it. If you like setting systems up like that into the wee hours of the night, Unix/Linux administration may be an enjoyable field for you. If you don't, well, then get a book on Open GL, or 3D modeling. Make some maps for Quake. Code some AI into the bots. ...
And with the easily affordable CALs, up to 11 users will be able to use it at the same time! (well 8, 2 CALs will prolly be used by junior admins, and one for "test")
I think the most important thing, and it is something that everyone keeps missing, is that NASA has found a way to turn even rocket scientists into ditch diggers!
Imagine a bright young engineer studying hard on saturday nights, while all his friends are getting drunk and laid, and thinking how he'll have a successful career with NASA. And when thinking about his lucky friends he says to himself "the world needs ditchdiggers too."
And some day he gets into NASA, and his boss's first words are:
"Johnson, this ain't rocket science, Phoenix has landed and I need you do dig me a ditch..."
Dude, don't be an ass.
I'm an Apple admin (thank god) and talk like yours is getting really old.
Everyone has that one thing that keeps them from buying Apple products. ("real" video card in iMac, video camera on iPhone, etc.)
You already have an option. What's wrong with:
I have a collection of Dell Optiplexes, HP dc7700 desktops, and a bunch of MPC 4x4 all-in-one systems. I would gladly, and with executive support I believe, pilot a Windows to Linux project on a few hundred systems within a quarter of that ability coming available.
Clearly, what we need is a new way to interface with a computer, something like speaking/yelling at it and/or a touchscreen interface.
Naively I ask, does Microsoft have any such projects in development?
hmmm....
Idiots. If they wouldn't pop up a notification every time a computer farts or a mouse is plugged in, maybe interfacing with the computer wouldn't be so, you know, repetitive!
Lars is still an asshole.
.torrent friends.
I probably would download it off the net though, with the help of my
Fantastic!
And god help you if you use Safari 3.1 (5525.7) on OS X.
Nicely done. even started up my Skype, amogngst other things.
I may be out of line, off-topic, or plain redundant, but I was under the impression that climate change wants to be free?
This bears repeating.
Thats an annoying bear.
You are being funny, of course, but look at the fallout...
Apple couldn't have hoped for a better fumbling of the "Attack of the Clones". It's as if Lucas himself directed this train wreck.
I bet Apple and their lawyers are in their humidors sipping cognac, laughing at these amateurs.
Hey man, did you get a permaban, or is someone actively downmodding you? And why?
Let me see, I need to type my college papers, christmas letters, and an occasional sales poster. Let's see the benefits of the magnificent MS Office Live RX over the OpenOffice, or Symphony...
Stupidass Microsoft... (And stupidass people paying for that crap...)
The numbers of testers may be insignificant compared to the IBMs whole workforce, but IBM is seeing the front line, and is adjusting itself.
Think about it, they have a lot of IT savvy folks, who know a thing or two about operating systems. And especially Unix/Linux. Why would those folks be pushing for their competitor's platform (Microsoft) as opposed to staying truly cross platform compatible.
The OS is becoming more irrelevant nowdays. Some folks at IBM are seeing that and adjusting accordingly.
(And saving money on CALs to boot...)
WOW! I thought for sure it couldn't have been that long ago.
Cripes I was only 8 then, now I'm 30. I guess thing like that sticks with you. I remember the whole family and all the neighbors around the TV when he did the slalom...
I like the cut of your jib Jared.
If your capabilities are truly representative of what your name suggests, I'd like to talk to you. I can use you on the frontlines.
I'm a Mac user and admin. I dunno, maybe even an evangelist as I also try (and have succeeded) to get most of my family and friends to switch to them, so I'm not fixing their viruses for free any more.
But not to get off-topic, I need to thank you, as you've hit the nail on the head.
When Apple fans talk about OS X and Macs just feeling and working differently or being more useable, we get ridiculed by registry monkeys for being snub and noobish. But to hear it from someone like you, who is not a complete "convert" validates our points. There is definitely something that feels different and is hard to describe to those who've never used the system.
I've done my share of digging through registry and scouring HiJack This logs, and have followed and used Linux since 2.0 came out (I currently have a Hardy Heron beta running my game machine - ET:QW ftw!), but none give me the GUI fluff and efficiency (Expose, Spaces, iChat AV and TimeMachine) and bash power as nicely as OS X does.
Because Maradona used his hands to stick those two goals back in 1990 World Cup.
No, we didn't forget.
Oh this is terrific, now I can buy one of these babies, and do video chats with my mom and dad!
Where do I sign up!