If you think long term, this could also lower premiums on health insurance. There is a computer or a person out there constantly monitoring your vital signs. If they notice something out of the ordinary, they can alert you immediately. Hopefully allowing you to take some preventive measures before you would have to undergo more intrusive and expensive surgery!
Besides how many of you geeks out there live alone. You could be dead for days before anyone would notice you're gone. Now people will know right away;-)
Apple is a Hardware/Software company. In order to stay in business and pay their engineers, they need to make a profit. What advantage for them is there to release a linux port or open source the codecs? If they release great software on other platforms, there is no advantage of buying a brand new iMac or G4.
They've released the Streaming Server open source, because they believe that their bread butter right now is with consumer products. So if you want access to great free software solutions such as Quicktime, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, iPhoto and the best UNIX desktop platform, the next time you buy a new computer, buy a shiny new Apple. And for all of you Linux fanactics, you can always dual boot Mac OS X/Yellow Dog Linux. And for the few of you out there that need Windows applications, buy a g4, and run Virtual PC.
"I know I'm going to get flamed for writing this, but Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.1 is what Linux-on-the-desktop people crave: a Unix-based OS with an interface even a novice can handle." - http://www.networkcomputing.com/1224/1224sp1.html
Although I tend to be skeptical that this rumor is true, I can think of one other possible reason why Microsoft would be working towards a Linux port of Office.
They have accepted that the government is going to split them into 3 seperate companies, so why should the MS Office Division care about the OS's future market share.
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If you think long term, this could also lower premiums on health insurance. There is a computer or a person out there constantly monitoring your vital signs. If they notice something out of the ordinary, they can alert you immediately. Hopefully allowing you to take some preventive measures before you would have to undergo more intrusive and expensive surgery!
;-)
Besides how many of you geeks out there live alone. You could be dead for days before anyone would notice you're gone. Now people will know right away
Its the not the meta information that he wants the higher speed, its the mp3s and photos that he's pulling from his mac.
wll if you can handle 1600x1024 on a 22" LCD, Apple is already offering it for $2500
Apple is a Hardware/Software company. In order to stay in business and pay their engineers, they need to make a profit. What advantage for them is there to release a linux port or open source the codecs? If they release great software on other platforms, there is no advantage of buying a brand new iMac or G4.
They've released the Streaming Server open source, because they believe that their bread butter right now is with consumer products. So if you want access to great free software solutions such as Quicktime, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, iPhoto and the best UNIX desktop platform, the next time you buy a new computer, buy a shiny new Apple. And for all of you Linux fanactics, you can always dual boot Mac OS X/Yellow Dog Linux. And for the few of you out there that need Windows applications, buy a g4, and run Virtual PC.
"I know I'm going to get flamed for writing this, but Apple Computer's Mac OS X 10.1 is what Linux-on-the-desktop people crave: a Unix-based OS with an interface even a novice can handle."
- http://www.networkcomputing.com/1224/1224sp1.html
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Although I tend to be skeptical that this rumor is true, I can think of one other possible reason why Microsoft would be working towards a Linux port of Office.
They have accepted that the government is going to split them into 3 seperate companies, so why should the MS Office Division care about the OS's future market share.