Here is the BIG REASON! When the firm underwent a drastic downsizing recently, he moved his entire staff to Macs because it was too expensive keeping a fleet of Windows machines shipshape.
"We forced everyone to go to Macs for the desktops," he said. "The support load dropped to almost nothing and the only complaints were from people who couldn't play games on their machines any longer.
I expect slashdot reader to comment on the story before reading it, but shouldn't the SUBMITTER read it first?
But as long as I do not see at least some screenshots it is just vaporware for me.
Yup, cause screenshots definately mean a shipping product. No one has ever created a product out of Photoshop to generate revenue, grab mindshare, and create buzz.
for someone to say that this is too expensive and that he built the EXACT same thing with a 486/25, and ATi AIW video card, wireless networking, and an old 15" monitor he had in the garage.
First of all, WE are not breeding monsters. It is OUR responsibility to build up our defenses and intelligence to DEFEND against these monsters. Monsters are bred all over the world and we are not responsible for their creation.
If Clinton has reacted, IN THE LEAST AMOUNT, for the murder of those army doggies in Somalia, the bombing of the Cole, the multiple attacks on the US embassies, the bombing of the World Trade Center, prevention of our foces landing in Haiti, and I am sure I am still missing some things, then maybe the two-bit terrorist bastards would be attacking us expect no response.
Clinton was OFFERED bin laden AT LEAST 4 times and he turned down the offer each time.
Am I saying that US actions do not build enemies? Nope. Of course any action by any country will create both friends and enemies.
But the only way to prevent such attacks is to put the fear of God into each of these people and to let them know that if they attack us then we will bring swift justice.
There are dozens of themes out and more are released every week.
There are at least 3 different programs to change themes; Duality4, MetamorphX, Chameleon.
There already is a program to change system icons, Candy Bar.
There is another coming, Xpression.
There are a myriad of menu items, dock enhancements, window enhancers, custom menu builders, and just great all around utilites that enhance and extend the OS.
The thing to remember, and what everyone forgets, it that Classic Mac OS was a mature OS that people had years to hack and discover. OS X is new enough that Apple is still changing APIs.
Mac OS X is a very customizable OS and Wired is showing very little research and fact checking in thier article.
The reason why ms is doing this is because money is made by setting standards.
The consumers WOULD NOT PULL this OS into popularity.
MS would PUSH this OS out simply by forcing manufacturers to bundle this version of the OS and would achieve over whelming distribution within a few years.
You know how the PC's life is effectively 3 years? This means the ANY NEW OS by microsoft effectively establishes a majority within 3 years. BY THE SIMPLE FACT OF PEOPLE BUYING NEW PCS!
This is ms's secret strategy.
This is all about ms trying to get paid by every transaction ever made by man.
People said it was slow because of the cross-platform nature. It was slow because of buggy code.
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Mac OS X is slow
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BBEdit is too well like by mac users. And even though have been out for years longer than me (and are the pre-eminant Mac editor), they stole ideas from me.
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THIS IS WHAT MONOPOLIES DO!
When the firm underwent a drastic downsizing recently, he moved his entire staff to Macs because it was too expensive keeping a fleet of Windows machines shipshape.
"We forced everyone to go to Macs for the desktops," he said. "The support load dropped to almost nothing and the only complaints were from people who couldn't play games on their machines any longer.
I expect slashdot reader to comment on the story before reading it, but shouldn't the SUBMITTER read it first?
then I wouldn't call that a failure.
back and forth with the local convienence store clerk.
:) (I have to type in here so /. will accept my comment)
Or even anna nicole for that matter.
to call their Perl extension 'grain of sand'.
Yup, cause screenshots definately mean a shipping product. No one has ever created a product out of Photoshop to generate revenue, grab mindshare, and create buzz.
And just a little script in Perl.
If Clinton has reacted, IN THE LEAST AMOUNT, for the murder of those army doggies in Somalia, the bombing of the Cole, the multiple attacks on the US embassies, the bombing of the World Trade Center, prevention of our foces landing in Haiti, and I am sure I am still missing some things, then maybe the two-bit terrorist bastards would be attacking us expect no response.
Clinton was OFFERED bin laden AT LEAST 4 times and he turned down the offer each time.
Am I saying that US actions do not build enemies? Nope. Of course any action by any country will create both friends and enemies.
But the only way to prevent such attacks is to put the fear of God into each of these people and to let them know that if they attack us then we will bring swift justice.
If that rat bastard Clinton HAD ACTUALLY DONE SOMETHING when Americans were getting attacked during his presidency we might not be in this situation.
machines rather than the new portable heaters (P4's) would give enough power savings.
THAT was funny.
ANY PERSON can write a PROGRAM that will crash ANY OS.
I don't care what OS it is. Even linux.
I'm willing to wager that your god Linus can write a program that will crash every version of linux ever released.
There are 20 differnt GUI front ends to turning this thing on? And of course a couple of people will make such an application shareware.
Linux can do everything!
The russian BROKE the law.
The CIA set his ass up AFTER he broke the law.
And then the russian came over here, probably with a smirk thinking 'hehe, I rip them off, now I get job'.
Then he got busted.
I applaud the CIA. And it isn't like the CIA scanned every computer in Russia. They went after the thief.
Oh wait, what other competing companies are left?
The difference is that MS uses the undocumented APIs in their OS to DRIVE OUT COMPETITIORS IN THE APPLICATIONS AND INTERNET BUSINESSES.
If MS kept their undocumented APIs solely in the OS part of the company and released them to everyone when they were ready, that is one thing.
But if the applications/internet sections need a special API then the OS people build it in. And somehow fail to tell their competitiors.
And this is the exact definition of abusing a monoploy. Using a monopoly to create a monopoly in another business. This is illegal.
There are at least 3 different programs to change themes; Duality4, MetamorphX, Chameleon.
There already is a program to change system icons, Candy Bar.
There is another coming, Xpression.
There are a myriad of menu items, dock enhancements, window enhancers, custom menu builders, and just great all around utilites that enhance and extend the OS.
The thing to remember, and what everyone forgets, it that Classic Mac OS was a mature OS that people had years to hack and discover. OS X is new enough that Apple is still changing APIs.
Mac OS X is a very customizable OS and Wired is showing very little research and fact checking in thier article.
Hmm, I think I'll select Tuesday.
Yup, and mozilla only took 4 years to code.
I can see my great-great-great-great grandson enjoying the first open-source DRM OS.
The only way to combat this is to purchase operating systems that DO NOT support this nonsense.
The reason why ms is doing this is because money is made by setting standards.
The consumers WOULD NOT PULL this OS into popularity.
MS would PUSH this OS out simply by forcing manufacturers to bundle this version of the OS and would achieve over whelming distribution within a few years.
You know how the PC's life is effectively 3 years? This means the ANY NEW OS by microsoft effectively establishes a majority within 3 years. BY THE SIMPLE FACT OF PEOPLE BUYING NEW PCS!
This is ms's secret strategy.
This is all about ms trying to get paid by every transaction ever made by man.
People said it was slow because of the cross-platform nature. It was slow because of buggy code.
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Mac OS X is slow
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BBEdit is too well like by mac users. And even though have been out for years longer than me (and are the pre-eminant Mac editor), they stole ideas from me.
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tucows suck and I tried to buy my way on.
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Tucows wouldn't let me buy my rating and they wouldn't give me my bribe back,
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I like windows and their APIs. This also show my intelligence.
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It isn't running linux.