Ok, so you can have all the fun things... but something useful?
Doesn't that depend upon what your company does? Are there stats that you could track? With sound effects when sales are made for example?
You could hook it into the badge system (if your company has one) so it shows who is arriving and leaving....
You could hook it into the company stock price if it's a public company.
You could have it play the news. Boring, unless it's the onion news. Could get you fired though but at least you'd be able to take your display with you.
Tell us more about your work environment please.
If it's a workshop you could track accidents; how many fingers lost today...
That was Steve's MONOPOLISTIC ANTI COMPETITIVE POLITICAL decision not a technical one. I know a Mac hardware dealer who sold many authorized Mac Clones from that period and he did very well till Apple pulled the rug out from under him. He was doing very very well in fact. He even had his own customized Mac laptop prototype built and had huge interest for it when the plug was pulled. Fortunately for him Apple paid out his supplier so the burn to his business was limited by this MONOPOLISTIC ANTI COMPETITIVE POLITICAL decision.
When it comes to the technical and political decision to compete openly NeXT had the model worked out very well with an extensive open source driver program. Lot's of drivers were written by others and not just NeXT! So it can work. With Apple's fan base and the horrified tens of millions running Windows it can work spectacularly so that Microcrap won't know what hit them! Apple need not fear their the continued success of their own hardware in such a scenario for the die hards will always buy Mac hardware as we've seen in these comment replies.
For the rest of us please Apple unleash the Mac OS X vista killer virus on generic high quality PC Hardware! Please!!! Take Apple to the NeXT level and crush Microcrap!
This video clearly demonstrates what would happen to Vista/XP/Windows-7-8-9-0 when confronted by an army of Mac OS X systems. Having Generic PC's running the Mac OS X VIRUS helps with the take over of the PC universe.
Well sure, you can say like let's put OS X on my 8bit 1 Mhz 6502 if you like but it won't work. Get real. OS X works great on the latest hardware and it's indistinguishable from it running on mac hardware. What you don't realize and seem unwilling to admit is that Mac OS X is SOFTWARE! The hardware is essentially irrelevant as long as it meets the minimum requirements, whatever those are on any given day. I'll repeat for those who are slow, Mac OS X is just SOFTWARE and it will hum on any hardware that meets it's minimum requirements no matter who makes that hardware. Period. That's reality. Get used to it. Now if Apple would take microcrap on and slap them down to the mat once and for all that would be really nice.
Mac OS X runs just fine on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 with the EFix (efi-x.com) gizmo and YES IT is still Mac OS X. Can't tell the difference! 4 core processor, 8GB RAM... lots of disk (up to ten 1.5 tera byte drives for that motherboard). NVidia graphics board with 30" Samsung display (so gorgeous I have two, one on my mac book pro and will never go back to the smaller displays for my machines).
So yes, Mac OS X is just the same on "generic" hardware.
Apple could specify supported configurations and keep the drivers open. NeXT did this very successfully with OpenStep 4.3 years ago. In fact many years after NeXT was purchased by and took over Apple people were still writing drivers for OpenStep!
It can work. They've proven it before.
Microsoft needs to be whipped by a better system. Unleash the beast Apple. Unleash it for the good fight against Microcrap.
The comment on the linked article is correct, copyright is created the moment you write your code. So Apple's covered there.
On the allegations of antitrust that might have some merit.
As a EFi-x user I like my hachintosh even if it's a bit of extra work. I also like my mac book pro even if it's more expensive.
The EFi-x (efi-x.com) device is interesting since they don't modify any of the Mac OS X code at all. They modify the BIOS of the motherboard and likely do some Virtualization Tricks (tm) to make Mac OS X think it's running on apple hardware.
Apple would - in my humble opinion as a NeXT, OpenStep and Mac user since 1985 - be better off opening their os software to third parties. It would be fantastic to see OpenStep 5.0, oh, er, Mac OS X 10.5 whip Vista's butt. Maybe when Steve leaves soon.
Oceanianica News (Deep under Chowder Bay): In an important press release today the octopuses involved in the Cowderbay Excursion report on their scientific excursion into the ape territory to assess the intelligence and personality of the horrific to look at four creatures with four limbs that only move on two of them that call themselves humans. The 32 members of the scientific team were specially trained in observational techniques that emphasized uniform behaviors so as to minimize the impact of their presence on the lower life forms being studied.
A four limbed creature who self identifies as "Miss Pronk" was extensively interviewed and examined. She attempted to use primitive externalized colored skin image projectors to get the 32 excursion members to react. Her primitive attempts at communication failed with what she called "PAL". Then the subject attempted to communicate using something she called "HDTV" by showing images of food. At the sight of a captive octopus the excursion members elected for a quick withdrawal back to the forward base camp in Chowder Bay (human's name for it). The members of the excursion ensured at all times to not reveal any individuality by using the uniform motion training instilled in all octopus from birth.
An assessment from the team after their safe return to Aquatica City was that the human subject lacked any personality during any of the tests. She failed to move on her two upper limbs and also failed to use her lower limbs except for moving about. In addition she had enclosed herself inside an flexible and rigid outer shell and refused all attempts to leave her shell so that we could examine her personality up close.
Naturally the humans require additional study. Under no circumstances should attempts be made to communicate with them until the safe return of the captive octopus hostages can be executed.
In addition it was discovered that while some humans have an additional appendage that is usually kept in the shell the human self identified as Miss Pronk failed to accept any of the advances by the others to have her interact with this appendage. For this reason we conclude that Miss Pronk has no personality.
I'm not saying it's better. I'm just saying that Apple has missed an opportunity to crush microsoft during the vista debacle. Apple could have captured a significant portion of the Software Only OS Market Share landscape away from MicroCrap.
--- As an aside: To those of you who moderate these posts down as "troll" or whatnot you're sniveling evil idiots who stifle actual debate and stimulating conversation. I stick my tong out at you and fart in your general direction.
I've been a mac fan since the very first Mac and an apple fan since the Apple ][. I sold apple computers for years. I was a NeXT developer. I've got two macs now.
Good bye Steve. I hope that you have a few years left but get the heck out of Apple please.
Apple could have crushed Microsoft by selling MacOSX for generic PCs when Microcrap was down on their luck with Vista! Now with Windows 7 promising to be better than Vista (aka Windows 98) Apple has missed the boat.
Get out and enjoy a few years of retirement Steve, assuming that you have that long.
Well you could always switch to an operating system that doesn't use virtual memory. Check out http://www.minix3.org./ Sure they might add virtual memory eventually but in the meantime you'd have a system without it.
You'd also have to use a processor chip that doesn't use virtual memory look ups. The extra hardware used to look up virtual addresses and map them to either physical or virtual (page file) pages requires a lot of extra clock cycles on each instruction the processor executes that involves loading or storing to or from memory addresses. We're talking a lot of extra cycles even for pages that are in physical memory.
Many micro-controllers don't use virtual memory. They also have the benefit of being dirt cheap compared to Intel's and AMD's behemoths. They also consume much less power. Check out this computer: http://www.makezine/controller.
Flamebait???? What the heck??? It was humour you goof! Yes, that's the Canadian spelling of humour too. Man you've got to get a sense of humour oh flamebait anything moderator!
It's the value you create making the technology work for someone. It's called "consulting" or "packaging" a "product" for sale. A "gizmo" economy where the "computer" is bundled with the "software" in custom configurations.
It's starting to happen now. Look at Apple. Almost everything they sell is a hardware product with software to enhance it! They could have taken over when Microsoft humped the bump with Vista by selling a software only version of MacOSX for generic X86-64 boxes. Instead they keep making custom hardware. Heck they are even making their own chips now! Yum, chips...
Hey, it could get worse than zero by having to pay people to use your software!!!
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Ok, so you can have all the fun things... but something useful?
Doesn't that depend upon what your company does? Are there stats that you could track? With sound effects when sales are made for example?
You could hook it into the badge system (if your company has one) so it shows who is arriving and leaving....
You could hook it into the company stock price if it's a public company.
You could have it play the news. Boring, unless it's the onion news. Could get you fired though but at least you'd be able to take your display with you.
Tell us more about your work environment please.
If it's a workshop you could track accidents; how many fingers lost today...
Tell us more!
I never made a claim that it would run on ALL generic pc hardware!
That was Steve's MONOPOLISTIC ANTI COMPETITIVE POLITICAL decision not a technical one. I know a Mac hardware dealer who sold many authorized Mac Clones from that period and he did very well till Apple pulled the rug out from under him. He was doing very very well in fact. He even had his own customized Mac laptop prototype built and had huge interest for it when the plug was pulled. Fortunately for him Apple paid out his supplier so the burn to his business was limited by this MONOPOLISTIC ANTI COMPETITIVE POLITICAL decision.
When it comes to the technical and political decision to compete openly NeXT had the model worked out very well with an extensive open source driver program. Lot's of drivers were written by others and not just NeXT! So it can work. With Apple's fan base and the horrified tens of millions running Windows it can work spectacularly so that Microcrap won't know what hit them! Apple need not fear their the continued success of their own hardware in such a scenario for the die hards will always buy Mac hardware as we've seen in these comment replies.
For the rest of us please Apple unleash the Mac OS X vista killer virus on generic high quality PC Hardware! Please!!! Take Apple to the NeXT level and crush Microcrap!
This video clearly demonstrates what would happen to Vista/XP/Windows-7-8-9-0 when confronted by an army of Mac OS X systems. Having Generic PC's running the Mac OS X VIRUS helps with the take over of the PC universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLbJ8YPHwXM
Well sure, you can say like let's put OS X on my 8bit 1 Mhz 6502 if you like but it won't work. Get real. OS X works great on the latest hardware and it's indistinguishable from it running on mac hardware. What you don't realize and seem unwilling to admit is that Mac OS X is SOFTWARE! The hardware is essentially irrelevant as long as it meets the minimum requirements, whatever those are on any given day. I'll repeat for those who are slow, Mac OS X is just SOFTWARE and it will hum on any hardware that meets it's minimum requirements no matter who makes that hardware. Period. That's reality. Get used to it. Now if Apple would take microcrap on and slap them down to the mat once and for all that would be really nice.
Mac OS X runs just fine on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 with the EFix (efi-x.com) gizmo and YES IT is still Mac OS X. Can't tell the difference! 4 core processor, 8GB RAM... lots of disk (up to ten 1.5 tera byte drives for that motherboard). NVidia graphics board with 30" Samsung display (so gorgeous I have two, one on my mac book pro and will never go back to the smaller displays for my machines).
So yes, Mac OS X is just the same on "generic" hardware.
Apple could specify supported configurations and keep the drivers open. NeXT did this very successfully with OpenStep 4.3 years ago. In fact many years after NeXT was purchased by and took over Apple people were still writing drivers for OpenStep!
It can work. They've proven it before.
Microsoft needs to be whipped by a better system. Unleash the beast Apple. Unleash it for the good fight against Microcrap.
Actually we vertebrates have four or five limbs... depending on the chromosomes... ;--)
Some of these guys/gals have way more than eight limbs... yikes what the heck is that... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1TSbarW1U.
Then there is this: http://xkcd.com/520.
The comment on the linked article is correct, copyright is created the moment you write your code. So Apple's covered there.
On the allegations of antitrust that might have some merit.
As a EFi-x user I like my hachintosh even if it's a bit of extra work. I also like my mac book pro even if it's more expensive.
The EFi-x (efi-x.com) device is interesting since they don't modify any of the Mac OS X code at all. They modify the BIOS of the motherboard and likely do some Virtualization Tricks (tm) to make Mac OS X think it's running on apple hardware.
Apple would - in my humble opinion as a NeXT, OpenStep and Mac user since 1985 - be better off opening their os software to third parties. It would be fantastic to see OpenStep 5.0, oh, er, Mac OS X 10.5 whip Vista's butt. Maybe when Steve leaves soon.
I know what you mean when your own comments apply to y our own articles.
Oceanianica News (Deep under Chowder Bay): In an important press release today the octopuses involved in the Cowderbay Excursion report on their scientific excursion into the ape territory to assess the intelligence and personality of the horrific to look at four creatures with four limbs that only move on two of them that call themselves humans. The 32 members of the scientific team were specially trained in observational techniques that emphasized uniform behaviors so as to minimize the impact of their presence on the lower life forms being studied.
A four limbed creature who self identifies as "Miss Pronk" was extensively interviewed and examined. She attempted to use primitive externalized colored skin image projectors to get the 32 excursion members to react. Her primitive attempts at communication failed with what she called "PAL". Then the subject attempted to communicate using something she called "HDTV" by showing images of food. At the sight of a captive octopus the excursion members elected for a quick withdrawal back to the forward base camp in Chowder Bay (human's name for it). The members of the excursion ensured at all times to not reveal any individuality by using the uniform motion training instilled in all octopus from birth.
An assessment from the team after their safe return to Aquatica City was that the human subject lacked any personality during any of the tests. She failed to move on her two upper limbs and also failed to use her lower limbs except for moving about. In addition she had enclosed herself inside an flexible and rigid outer shell and refused all attempts to leave her shell so that we could examine her personality up close.
Naturally the humans require additional study. Under no circumstances should attempts be made to communicate with them until the safe return of the captive octopus hostages can be executed.
In addition it was discovered that while some humans have an additional appendage that is usually kept in the shell the human self identified as Miss Pronk failed to accept any of the advances by the others to have her interact with this appendage. For this reason we conclude that Miss Pronk has no personality.
I'm not saying it's better. I'm just saying that Apple has missed an opportunity to crush microsoft during the vista debacle. Apple could have captured a significant portion of the Software Only OS Market Share landscape away from MicroCrap.
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As an aside: To those of you who moderate these posts down as "troll" or whatnot you're sniveling evil idiots who stifle actual debate and stimulating conversation. I stick my tong out at you and fart in your general direction.
Just don't give the sharks with lasers a listen to those xmass tunes, especially not frosty the cooked human tune... I'm melting... I'm melting...
I've been a mac fan since the very first Mac and an apple fan since the Apple ][. I sold apple computers for years. I was a NeXT developer. I've got two macs now.
Good bye Steve. I hope that you have a few years left but get the heck out of Apple please.
Apple could have crushed Microsoft by selling MacOSX for generic PCs when Microcrap was down on their luck with Vista! Now with Windows 7 promising to be better than Vista (aka Windows 98) Apple has missed the boat.
Get out and enjoy a few years of retirement Steve, assuming that you have that long.
oops... http://www.makezine.com/controller.
Well you could always switch to an operating system that doesn't use virtual memory. Check out http://www.minix3.org./ Sure they might add virtual memory eventually but in the meantime you'd have a system without it.
You'd also have to use a processor chip that doesn't use virtual memory look ups. The extra hardware used to look up virtual addresses and map them to either physical or virtual (page file) pages requires a lot of extra clock cycles on each instruction the processor executes that involves loading or storing to or from memory addresses. We're talking a lot of extra cycles even for pages that are in physical memory.
Many micro-controllers don't use virtual memory. They also have the benefit of being dirt cheap compared to Intel's and AMD's behemoths. They also consume much less power. Check out this computer: http://www.makezine/controller.
Flamebait???? What the heck??? It was humour you goof! Yes, that's the Canadian spelling of humour too. Man you've got to get a sense of humour oh flamebait anything moderator!
We welcome our black hole overlord to the Great White North, aka Canada, eh.
My brain is just giving me too much resistance to remember...
Actually I do have a whole bunch of purposes for it. I'm just interested in what you guys would do with it if you had one...
An infinite singularity in fact!
It's the value you create making the technology work for someone. It's called "consulting" or "packaging" a "product" for sale. A "gizmo" economy where the "computer" is bundled with the "software" in custom configurations.
It's starting to happen now. Look at Apple. Almost everything they sell is a hardware product with software to enhance it! They could have taken over when Microsoft humped the bump with Vista by selling a software only version of MacOSX for generic X86-64 boxes. Instead they keep making custom hardware. Heck they are even making their own chips now! Yum, chips...
Hey, it could get worse than zero by having to pay people to use your software!!!
Excellent idea! A growth algorithm for an AI. Sweet.
wow, as if I didn't do that before plunking down the money for the darn card...
I was asking for innovative ideas... not their existing boring ones...
So, who's got some cool ideas of what to do with Tesla?
Not yet.... darn NVidia, no Vista Drivers yet...
Come on NVidia GET WITH IT!!!