I wonder how well a modern UNIX would compare to the old Mac
A/UX booted in about 90 seconds on a Mac Quadra 950. 33MHz 68040. As far as I can tell, it had most of the functionality of Mac OS X today - albeit without the slick visual effects and more modern GUI.
". . . isn't it funny, a ship that leaks from the top."
Definitively:
This has nothing to do with Spindler's "ship with a hole in the bottom" comment. The "ship that leaks from the top" is CEOs and VPs who blab about future products to the detriment of current, shipping products while admonishing the vast majority of employees not to leak product details.
When I joined Apple in 1995, we had to watch a security video. It schooled us about export control, "tailgating" through badged entryways, and not talking about product details with the press, friends, etc. It was silly to expect employees to keep their traps shut while they watched Diesel Spindler yak about upcoming products like the PowerBook 5300 which would have "unprecendented speed and battery life". (It didn't.)
The ship that leaks from the top comment is simply a jibe at the days of Sculley, Spindler, and to a lesser degree, Amelio - braggadocio CEOs who represented the "old way" of doing things at Apple, and who didn't hold themselves to the same standards they expected of their employees.
Sculley used to talk about pie-in-the-sky projects like the Knowledge Navigator, Newton, etc. well ahead of the projects actually, you know, working. Spindler was too stupid not to let stuff slip about future product direction. And Amelio talked up future products and strategies in order to keep the company relevant.
MS actually has actually helped Apple more than once. They even gave them a much needed cash infusion at one point in the 90's.
I'm very tired of hearing this - because it has no basis in reality.
In 1997, Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple's non-voting stock. They sold this stock earlier this decade. Apple did not need cash at the time - the company had over $4 billion in the bank, but was losing money each quarter. They didn't need $150 million in stock sales to keep them afloat, and such a stock sale certainly couldn't be characterized as a "much needed cash infusion". It was a vote of confidence in Apple by Microsoft - a PR move and little more.
The most important announcement made on the same day was that Microsoft would continue developing Microsoft Office for the Mac. This announcement was important to Apple's future in a way that a simple $150 million stock sale simply couldn't be - it sent the message to customers that the key to productivity software compatibility for Mac users would remain updated and supported.
The most important announcement not made that day was that Apple and Microsoft settled a rather serious suit over Canyon Software's appropriation of Apple's QuickTime code, which was used by Microsoft and shipped in Windows Media Player. The suit could have been worth quite a bit more than $150 million - and would have led to a protracted court battle and some very embarrassing revelations about Microsoft's business practices during the government's antitrust investigation of the software giant.
PLEASE stop repeating the canard about Microsoft "giving" Apple a cash infusion. It's not true, and never was.
So Microsoft is doing what here? FUD'ing Apple with an unreleased product? Pretending to have invented stuff they've copied
I think it has a lot more to do with Bill Gates' insecurity and his appearance with Steve Jobs tonight at the D conference.
"Look at us! We're cool and can do multi-touch interfaces too - and we can do them bigger than Apple!"
Which proves, once again, that Microsoft isn't and won't ever be cool. Like the bully turned jock turned realtor turned city councilman, they've always been first on most people's lips and last in most people's hearts.
As a customer relation rep at Apple, I had to explain that particular one over...and over...and over...(Apple sold a lot of Trinitron-based displays in from 1988-1998.)
But what about the power plants? If those go off-line, won't the city still go dark?
Anyone who think this project means NYC will withstand a coordinated attempt to black out the east coast (or even gross incompetence) is sorely mistaken.
In this case, the scams are self-correcting. The more false rumors are generated, the more users will wait for official press releases and dismiss anonymous "internal memo leaks". So this can not happen too often.
Maybe that's what Apple is trying to do. The Apple rumors industry is a thorn in their side on principle; the best way to torpedo rumor sites is to infect them with spurious crap that looks official, catching internal leaks as they go.
Maybe it's time Apple re-thinks their super-secret policies.
Maybe it's time the Apple rumor industry shut down. It's any company's decision to keep any and all information about upcoming products secret.
The fact that Apple has given in to preannouncing some products lately (Leopard, AppleTV, iPhone) shows that they have given ground on their previously super-secret ways.
When you're known as the industry's R&D house, it's likely worth a lot of money to keep new projects and features secret for as long as possible. Asking a company to tell you everything they're working on (or schedules) is nuts because it lets your competitors know where to aim - would you want your employer to do that?
GM, Chrysler and Ford announce that they'll transition to "thinking about possibly getting some of those battery-rechargey cars" into production by 2015.
I know that in Louisiana, they're seeing a surge in previously tropical-only bugs, like the brown widow spider. The moquitos have also become much more hardy, lasting through the winter in the southern part of the state, rather than dying out in December/January like they've done until now.
I think change at this point would be bad - any further climate change keeps us off our footing, dealing with new infestations of pests and diseases that move north with warming. Besides, it's not as if all the shoreline infrastructure is just going to be written off. This whole idea is nuts.
And, the above, after being run through a summarization processor:
Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper). When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago. Unfortunately this stupid story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. Most of the Scientologists that work in their Dianetics* centres and so called "Churches" of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret "upper" levels of Scientology. Sounds about right.;-)
Concrete feedback on the dash and I'd probably pay more attention.
And it'd make you a traffic hazard for all the people who _don't_ have feedback.
This kind of feedback has to be in every car, coordinated to some degree, or else it will cause a traffic nightmare as people pay attention to their dashboard feedback rather than what's going on a half-mile up the freeway.
I see this every day as smug-spreading hybrid owners around the Bay Area creep their way into wide-open freeways at all of 50 m.p.h, eyes focussed tightly on the center-mounted dashpod. They're sacrificing the car's drivability for ultimate economy, and it's having an effect on the flow of traffic, especially since so many of these hybrids are permitted to use the carpool lane - making their pokey progress affect several lanes of traffic.
Hybrids are actually quite quick, but I've found that this feedback causes problems for other drivers. Coordinated systems would work better for all concerned.
As long as it's not encouraged outright, porn "usage" at school is fairly self limiting given the general lack of privacy needed to enjoy it properly
Uh, sorry - this article concerns the United States. You seem to think that U.S. folks are not inherently afraid of icky nekkid people and their precious bodily fluids. (In the U.S. we're allowed to look at these things, but we seem to get awfully embarassed or judgemental when someone is caught actually enjoying them.)
Puritans in all but deed. That's the good ole U S of A!
How about from an IBM employee? As far as I can tell, it's true
This on top of the misleading jobs report released yesterday - which was still under the consensus by 20,000 jobs.
So, will we still be subjected to news stories about the horrible shortage of tech workers in the U.S.? Of course we will - because IBM is laying off well-paid older workers and looking to fill those positions in 6-12 months with cheaper, younger workers.
Hooray for corporate America. The only people getting paid well are the old white guys in the executive suite.
In fact, I did. Lacking the wherewithal to contribute thousands of dollars to PACs and candidates however, I think my requests largely fall on deaf ears.
I fail to see how this creates anything but more headaches and "me-too" problems for Microsoft - but it does confirm for me (if not Netcraft!) that Microsoft has a serious problem when it comes to creating new ideas and following through on them.
I used to joke about Microsoft buying all of it's new ideas - but this is a rather bigger problem. Once they buy Yahoo, do they transition it into a new form of MSN, thereby killing everything that was cool about Yahoo? Or do they un-MSN the current Microsoft web properties?
The problem Microsoft has is that when it comes to finding information and using the web to share information, Google has the most useful tools for the largest number of people. Buying a languishing Yahoo won't magically make Microsoft popular.
Biggest doesn't win here - subjectively best does.
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David Boies found the evidence that the suit was settled during his work on the antitrust suit for the government.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft
even with all the modern glitz of nicer guis, how would Linux or what have you compare?
:-)
Far more functionality, far more complexity, and far more bloat. And far more fun.
I wonder how well a modern UNIX would compare to the old Mac
A/UX booted in about 90 seconds on a Mac Quadra 950. 33MHz 68040. As far as I can tell, it had most of the functionality of Mac OS X today - albeit without the slick visual effects and more modern GUI.
". . . isn't it funny, a ship that leaks from the top."
Definitively:
This has nothing to do with Spindler's "ship with a hole in the bottom" comment. The "ship that leaks from the top" is CEOs and VPs who blab about future products to the detriment of current, shipping products while admonishing the vast majority of employees not to leak product details.
When I joined Apple in 1995, we had to watch a security video. It schooled us about export control, "tailgating" through badged entryways, and not talking about product details with the press, friends, etc. It was silly to expect employees to keep their traps shut while they watched Diesel Spindler yak about upcoming products like the PowerBook 5300 which would have "unprecendented speed and battery life". (It didn't.)
The ship that leaks from the top comment is simply a jibe at the days of Sculley, Spindler, and to a lesser degree, Amelio - braggadocio CEOs who represented the "old way" of doing things at Apple, and who didn't hold themselves to the same standards they expected of their employees.
Sculley used to talk about pie-in-the-sky projects like the Knowledge Navigator, Newton, etc. well ahead of the projects actually, you know, working. Spindler was too stupid not to let stuff slip about future product direction. And Amelio talked up future products and strategies in order to keep the company relevant.
MS actually has actually helped Apple more than once. They even gave them a much needed cash infusion at one point in the 90's.
I'm very tired of hearing this - because it has no basis in reality.
In 1997, Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple's non-voting stock. They sold this stock earlier this decade. Apple did not need cash at the time - the company had over $4 billion in the bank, but was losing money each quarter. They didn't need $150 million in stock sales to keep them afloat, and such a stock sale certainly couldn't be characterized as a "much needed cash infusion". It was a vote of confidence in Apple by Microsoft - a PR move and little more.
The most important announcement made on the same day was that Microsoft would continue developing Microsoft Office for the Mac. This announcement was important to Apple's future in a way that a simple $150 million stock sale simply couldn't be - it sent the message to customers that the key to productivity software compatibility for Mac users would remain updated and supported.
The most important announcement not made that day was that Apple and Microsoft settled a rather serious suit over Canyon Software's appropriation of Apple's QuickTime code, which was used by Microsoft and shipped in Windows Media Player. The suit could have been worth quite a bit more than $150 million - and would have led to a protracted court battle and some very embarrassing revelations about Microsoft's business practices during the government's antitrust investigation of the software giant.
PLEASE stop repeating the canard about Microsoft "giving" Apple a cash infusion. It's not true, and never was.
So Microsoft is doing what here? FUD'ing Apple with an unreleased product? Pretending to have invented stuff they've copied
I think it has a lot more to do with Bill Gates' insecurity and his appearance with Steve Jobs tonight at the D conference.
"Look at us! We're cool and can do multi-touch interfaces too - and we can do them bigger than Apple!"
Which proves, once again, that Microsoft isn't and won't ever be cool. Like the bully turned jock turned realtor turned city councilman, they've always been first on most people's lips and last in most people's hearts.
+1 Funny.
As a customer relation rep at Apple, I had to explain that particular one over...and over...and over...(Apple sold a lot of Trinitron-based displays in from 1988-1998.)
But what about the power plants? If those go off-line, won't the city still go dark?
Anyone who think this project means NYC will withstand a coordinated attempt to black out the east coast (or even gross incompetence) is sorely mistaken.
In this case, the scams are self-correcting. The more false rumors are generated, the more users will wait for official press releases and dismiss anonymous "internal memo leaks". So this can not happen too often.
Maybe that's what Apple is trying to do. The Apple rumors industry is a thorn in their side on principle; the best way to torpedo rumor sites is to infect them with spurious crap that looks official, catching internal leaks as they go.
Maybe it's time Apple re-thinks their super-secret policies.
Maybe it's time the Apple rumor industry shut down. It's any company's decision to keep any and all information about upcoming products secret.
The fact that Apple has given in to preannouncing some products lately (Leopard, AppleTV, iPhone) shows that they have given ground on their previously super-secret ways.
When you're known as the industry's R&D house, it's likely worth a lot of money to keep new projects and features secret for as long as possible. Asking a company to tell you everything they're working on (or schedules) is nuts because it lets your competitors know where to aim - would you want your employer to do that?
Kinda OT, but wonder if hot ice can be made on earth in a controlled environment.
Of course it can. Professor Hoenikker showed this very easily with Ice-nine.
GM, Chrysler and Ford announce that they'll transition to "thinking about possibly getting some of those battery-rechargey cars" into production by 2015.
Where Samba could get into real trouble is once version 4 is production-ready and people start implementing Active Directory networks on *nix boxes.
Like on Mac OS X?
I know that in Louisiana, they're seeing a surge in previously tropical-only bugs, like the brown widow spider. The moquitos have also become much more hardy, lasting through the winter in the southern part of the state, rather than dying out in December/January like they've done until now.
I think change at this point would be bad - any further climate change keeps us off our footing, dealing with new infestations of pests and diseases that move north with warming. Besides, it's not as if all the shoreline infrastructure is just going to be written off. This whole idea is nuts.
Concrete feedback on the dash and I'd probably pay more attention.
And it'd make you a traffic hazard for all the people who _don't_ have feedback.
This kind of feedback has to be in every car, coordinated to some degree, or else it will cause a traffic nightmare as people pay attention to their dashboard feedback rather than what's going on a half-mile up the freeway.
I see this every day as smug-spreading hybrid owners around the Bay Area creep their way into wide-open freeways at all of 50 m.p.h, eyes focussed tightly on the center-mounted dashpod. They're sacrificing the car's drivability for ultimate economy, and it's having an effect on the flow of traffic, especially since so many of these hybrids are permitted to use the carpool lane - making their pokey progress affect several lanes of traffic.
Hybrids are actually quite quick, but I've found that this feedback causes problems for other drivers. Coordinated systems would work better for all concerned.
Cheaper, younger workers who are willing to work fourteen hours a day
What companies want when they cry about the lack of qualified workers is exactly this:
"We want people with little experience who we can pay less to perform at the level of our senior personnel."
They don't give a damn whether those incoming folks have the actual bred-in-the-field experience needed to build good product.
The folks making decisions are a quabble of know-nothing middle managers in most cases. The slow self-immolation of the United States continues apace.
At least the CEOs are happy!
As long as it's not encouraged outright, porn "usage" at school is fairly self limiting given the general lack of privacy needed to enjoy it properly
Uh, sorry - this article concerns the United States. You seem to think that U.S. folks are not inherently afraid of icky nekkid people and their precious bodily fluids. (In the U.S. we're allowed to look at these things, but we seem to get awfully embarassed or judgemental when someone is caught actually enjoying them.)
Puritans in all but deed. That's the good ole U S of A!
How about from an IBM employee? As far as I can tell, it's true
This on top of the misleading jobs report released yesterday - which was still under the consensus by 20,000 jobs.
So, will we still be subjected to news stories about the horrible shortage of tech workers in the U.S.? Of course we will - because IBM is laying off well-paid older workers and looking to fill those positions in 6-12 months with cheaper, younger workers.
Hooray for corporate America. The only people getting paid well are the old white guys in the executive suite.
Did you ask them? You can you know.
In fact, I did. Lacking the wherewithal to contribute thousands of dollars to PACs and candidates however, I think my requests largely fall on deaf ears.
To curb the bullshit. (And they seem to be off to a good start during the past few months, except for this.)
I mean, as long as we're asking for stuff we're not going to get...
Since you appear to be in the U.S., I'd remind you that:
1. Today is Friday.
2. The post was meant as a joke. Ha ha, hee hee, the irony of it all...
Lighten up.
Who would want to put 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 into their hardware or software? :)
Well, here's a screencap of HD-DVD.org showing the key on their own web site!
I guess they're going to have to go after themselves, now. Ve haff the evidence!
Microhoo.
Yahsoft.
I fail to see how this creates anything but more headaches and "me-too" problems for Microsoft - but it does confirm for me (if not Netcraft!) that Microsoft has a serious problem when it comes to creating new ideas and following through on them.
I used to joke about Microsoft buying all of it's new ideas - but this is a rather bigger problem. Once they buy Yahoo, do they transition it into a new form of MSN, thereby killing everything that was cool about Yahoo? Or do they un-MSN the current Microsoft web properties?
The problem Microsoft has is that when it comes to finding information and using the web to share information, Google has the most useful tools for the largest number of people. Buying a languishing Yahoo won't magically make Microsoft popular.
Biggest doesn't win here - subjectively best does.
Dunno, I heard Dr. Evil reciting the headline, myself.