Why should Steve listen to you, or anyone who advocates Mac cloning?
The last time Apple tried it, the move almost cost the company its life. Power Computing and UMAX moved in on the high end and cannibalised Apple's most lucrative sales of Power Macs (and cannibalised is the right word; Apple did all the engineering for PCC, while the Austin firm just built boxes).
Power and Motorola also moved in on the bottom end (which is where Apple wanted them to sell anyway), but it was the PowerTower Pros that really hurt Apple's business and licensing program.
There's an error in the submission, too. There was no Apple "cloning" program. None of the Mac OS Licensees designed their own boards until well into the program (two years), and they all used "Old World" architecture. The licensing program actually started under Spindler, not Amelio.
If Apple licensed the OS for non-Apple PCs, it'd be the same story all over again, albeit less severe, as Apple has diversified in the past several years. Dell (or whoever) would race Apple to the bottom on prices, and Apple's R+D budget would be cut short. Macs wouldn't "just work" anymore, and someone at Apple would be stuck writing drivers for every piece of nonstandard hardware junk the licensees wanted to install to get the price down.
If a $300.00 premium every few years when I buy a new Mac is the cost of avoiding these kinds of headaches, I'm happy to pay it.
Why does this Apple-hardware-only provision of the EULA pertain to OSX but not to Safari? I'm going to take a shot in the dark here, but I think it's probably because Apple makes Safari for Windows which runs on non Apple-branded computers.
OS X, on the other hand, is tied to hardware sales so Apple doesn't have to support the vast and sometimes flaky hardware of the greater PC world. And also so they can make more money selling hardware.
But what is this extra stuff that Vista is *just doing* all the time that makes it better? Do we need it? Does it really help anything? It looks like you're trying to print a document. Can I burn some cycles trying to help?
Your document has come out of the printer! Can I burn some cycles to tell you it's ready?
Your Internet connection is down. Do you want some help with that?
However, with the plugin architecture for local adjustments and other Photoshop-like features, Aperture may be a serviceable replacement for most functions that digital Photographers need.
It still won't work for me, due to the lack of a way to do custom difference of gaussian sharpening automation, but hey - for 90% of customers, LIghtroom and Aperture will do what they need it to.
That's what it is, right? They say "millions of colors" when it's really 262k colors. Or is there some precedent that lets a company claim dithering = unique color? The CLUT supports 24bpp color, so they advertise millions of colors. If the display dithers down to 262k, it could be argued that the display is still being sent 24bpp info - and thee iMac does have an external video out port, so I think Apple has some wiggle room here...
Personally, I think they should just send all the complainants a 21-inch Ikegami CRT monitor and adapter cable from 1992 to attach to their iMac, thus rendering the iMac useless, ugly, and perfectly capable of displaying 24bpp color.
You do know that Zener Diodes exist, right?:P Sure, but you might expect the large hadron colliderists to blink a few times if someone asked to see them.
NASA's Space Shuttle also uses IEEE 1394b to monitor debris (foam, ice) which may hit the vehicle during launch.
Way to quote out of context.
1394b Firewire as implemented by NASA is a secure local bus that provides time accurate signaling and data transfer. Something which no other local bus technology could provide at that speed.
I appreciate your snarkyness, but typically, NASA doesn't choose stuff on a whim.
Apple used to include a hundred megabytes of music with every Mac before the iPod came out. It was a way to populate the iTunes library with "samples" of digital music before it was mainstream to have libraries of mp3s. This was in 2000, IIRC.
How is this different, other than they're charging a small premium?
They both are chatty in their own right, but on different protocols. Not necessarily. You can turn off AppleTalk over IP and just go with SMB on the Mac if you really want to.
It was a great April Fools joke. Not as good as writing a simple AppleScript:
tell Finder Shut Down end tell
and saving it into a user's OS 8 or 9 "Startup Items" folder.
I pulled that on a friend once, and watched with chagrin as he pulled his machine apart and replaced the power supply in a Performa 6300 with a spare from another machine.
Factors contributing to an SSSS (mandatory secondary screening) assignment:
-Booking within 24 hours of the flight -No checked luggage -One way flight -Open return flight -Not a US citizen -Flying to certain high-risk destinations
When to say this if not now? I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords from space. You know what I want to know about this Canadian technology? How It's Made.
Well because there's a point when it becomes too expensive. Where is that threshold. 10 billion, 100 billion, 1 trillion, 10 trillion? Well, the American people gave their implicit approval to a relatively useless war. A trillion - half the cost of the Iraq war so far - seems like a reasonable amount to pay to get to the moon, start a colony, and then begin the march to Mars.
Of course, at a measly $20 billion a year, it's going to take a real goddamned long time for NASA to get us there.
Really, if you're not mature enough to go without that sort of thing for a while, stay on earth. Or they could just recruit for the Mars Astronaut corps from the ranks of Slashdot readers. Lord knows most of them have gone without it for "a while".
- We have not even done this on the moon yet. Shouldn't this be tried first? Almost all of the mars mission proposals I've seen require a moon base. But we will have established presence on the moon before sending people to Mars. At least that's in the plan for Constellation.
Getting to Mars is very difficult, but a return mission is bordering on impossible right now. We're not even projecting a manned mission for at least twenty years - but the vehicles to send equipment there are already here, and more capable vehicles are on the way.
Given some serious government investment in NASA, it's not out of the question that any number of return systems could be sent to Mars, staged, tested, and ready to return by the time a manned mission arrives.
I look forward to the day when NASA gets more than table crumbs ($19 billion? What a joke.) and is funded as a serious exploration agency instead of an agency for research and contractor coordination.
(to accomplish this with something like the space shuttle, you would need your one man to build the infrastructure of a launch site) Your assumptions limit your ability to imagine or engineer a return system. Luckily NASA isn't bound by the same constraints.
One of the main reasons people break is that they can't see ahead I've decided that for the entirety of this discussion, I'm not going to read any more comments by people who cannot manage homonyms.
That's a high bar for Slashdot commenters to meet, but I've upped my standards. Now up yours.
Microsoft has Default program settings, Apple has nothing. So, so wrong.
1. Setting browser and RSS preferences: Choose Preferences from the Safari menu. Click the General Tab and select a default browser from all those installed. Next, select the RSS tab, and choose a reader aong the plethora you have installed. Quit, and you never have to use Safari again for browsing or RSS if you don't want to.
2. Setting e-mail software preferences: In Mail, choose Preferences from the Mail menu. Select a default e-mail program. Quit, and you'll never have to use mail for any e-mail tasks again.
I mean, you must not have even looked for this - these settings have worked (and well) for me for the past three years, at least - but then again, you comment was pretty much a troll anyway - "Apple does this and does that, they suck!"
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Why should Steve listen to you, or anyone who advocates Mac cloning?
The last time Apple tried it, the move almost cost the company its life. Power Computing and UMAX moved in on the high end and cannibalised Apple's most lucrative sales of Power Macs (and cannibalised is the right word; Apple did all the engineering for PCC, while the Austin firm just built boxes).
Power and Motorola also moved in on the bottom end (which is where Apple wanted them to sell anyway), but it was the PowerTower Pros that really hurt Apple's business and licensing program.
There's an error in the submission, too. There was no Apple "cloning" program. None of the Mac OS Licensees designed their own boards until well into the program (two years), and they all used "Old World" architecture. The licensing program actually started under Spindler, not Amelio.
If Apple licensed the OS for non-Apple PCs, it'd be the same story all over again, albeit less severe, as Apple has diversified in the past several years. Dell (or whoever) would race Apple to the bottom on prices, and Apple's R+D budget would be cut short. Macs wouldn't "just work" anymore, and someone at Apple would be stuck writing drivers for every piece of nonstandard hardware junk the licensees wanted to install to get the price down.
If a $300.00 premium every few years when I buy a new Mac is the cost of avoiding these kinds of headaches, I'm happy to pay it.
OS X, on the other hand, is tied to hardware sales so Apple doesn't have to support the vast and sometimes flaky hardware of the greater PC world. And also so they can make more money selling hardware.
Your document has come out of the printer! Can I burn some cycles to tell you it's ready?
Your Internet connection is down. Do you want some help with that?
Seriously, if this is the most important thing you guys have to debate, I just need to remind you:
Get a fucking life.
Nor is Aperture Cocoa.
However, with the plugin architecture for local adjustments and other Photoshop-like features, Aperture may be a serviceable replacement for most functions that digital Photographers need.
It still won't work for me, due to the lack of a way to do custom difference of gaussian sharpening automation, but hey - for 90% of customers, LIghtroom and Aperture will do what they need it to.
I guess that teaches me for trying to flip about this. Flamebait? Geez, just trying to lighten up the conversation.
Personally, I think they should just send all the complainants a 21-inch Ikegami CRT monitor and adapter cable from 1992 to attach to their iMac, thus rendering the iMac useless, ugly, and perfectly capable of displaying 24bpp color.
If you can see the Xener Diode assembly and the Flux Capacitor.
Way to quote out of context.
1394b Firewire as implemented by NASA is a secure local bus that provides time accurate signaling and data transfer. Something which no other local bus technology could provide at that speed.
I appreciate your snarkyness, but typically, NASA doesn't choose stuff on a whim.
Not that I go there. For that.
Apple used to include a hundred megabytes of music with every Mac before the iPod came out. It was a way to populate the iTunes library with "samples" of digital music before it was mainstream to have libraries of mp3s. This was in 2000, IIRC.
How is this different, other than they're charging a small premium?
Not that you'd really want to.
I pulled that on a friend once, and watched with chagrin as he pulled his machine apart and replaced the power supply in a Performa 6300 with a spare from another machine.
Factors contributing to an SSSS (mandatory secondary screening) assignment:
-Booking within 24 hours of the flight
-No checked luggage
-One way flight
-Open return flight
-Not a US citizen
-Flying to certain high-risk destinations
Of course, at a measly $20 billion a year, it's going to take a real goddamned long time for NASA to get us there.
Given some serious government investment in NASA, it's not out of the question that any number of return systems could be sent to Mars, staged, tested, and ready to return by the time a manned mission arrives.
I look forward to the day when NASA gets more than table crumbs ($19 billion? What a joke.) and is funded as a serious exploration agency instead of an agency for research and contractor coordination.
That's a high bar for Slashdot commenters to meet, but I've upped my standards. Now up yours.
1. Setting browser and RSS preferences: Choose Preferences from the Safari menu. Click the General Tab and select a default browser from all those installed. Next, select the RSS tab, and choose a reader aong the plethora you have installed. Quit, and you never have to use Safari again for browsing or RSS if you don't want to.
2. Setting e-mail software preferences: In Mail, choose Preferences from the Mail menu. Select a default e-mail program. Quit, and you'll never have to use mail for any e-mail tasks again.
I mean, you must not have even looked for this - these settings have worked (and well) for me for the past three years, at least - but then again, you comment was pretty much a troll anyway - "Apple does this and does that, they suck!"