I don't notice the changes all that much. After day two, the changes kind of faded, and the features became more important than the subtle UI changes.
I don't think it's just me, and I can see a strategy behind it; like a car company, Apple keeps evolving the sizzle around a particular model while tweaking the internals to get ahead or stay competitive. It works for me.
We moved in thinking "Hey...what a deal. Cat5 in the walls...great!"
Until we found we couldn't get Cable internet...from anyone. We were forced into the pre-bundled ATT Home Entertainment (and let me tell you, their billing group provided HOURS of entertainment with double-billing, etc.)
The max DSL speed at the property? 256k. And that was on the blink 2-3x a month.
You could get any DirecTV package you wanted...as long as you didn't want to use a DVR or get any of the sports packages.
The phone service...well, it was analog phone, and they couldn't even get that to work well. And a phone line was required in order to use the alarm system and DirecTV pay-per-view.
This ruling DOESN'T affect properties like One Pearl Place - so get it in writing ahead of time. While we paid $100/mo. for our craptastic bundle, the people across the street - fifty feet away - were getting Comcast (and all that entails...like 6Mb peak speeds) along with more and better channels that worked with their DVRs for $70.00 a month.
Nice step forward. Now take the other step - make ANY exclusive Internet/TV/Phone deals illegal.
Yeah right like you had six graphics cards in 1991.
Yes, I did. Because I was working at Apple at the time. My IIfx had 64MB of RAM - that was quite a bit, as the 60ns RAM was both hard to come by and built in 8 bit sticks. With eight slots, you needed eight MB SIMMs. I figure that on the street, the cost of the machine as configured (see below) was well over $25,000.
In addition to the 80MB SCSI drive, my IIfx had the following graphics cards:
5x8*24 Graphics cards. 1x8*24GC (Accelerated with an AMD RISC processor)
Along with my, uh, regular work, I used this setup to play Hellcats over the Pacific, which was the first flight simulator to support multiple displays for a panoramic cockpit view. Of course, that feature only required three monitors. The rest were for fun.
Incidentally, the IIfx was not just a 40MHz 68030+68882 FPU - it also had two 6502 processors. One for each serial port.
If you'll remember, the 6502 was the Apple II's CPU.
Even Windows 98 could do what you describe out of the box
Windows '98 = 1998
System (Mac OS) 7 = 1991 - but in fact, the multiple monitor support was in the Mac OS as early as 1986.
QuickDraw was based around a grid coordinate system, so you could place your two (or six, as I did once as a proof of concept with a Macintosh IIfx) monitors in any number of arrangements, instantly. Because the coordinate system was respected by anything that wrote to the screen using QuickDraw, only a very tiny fraction of apps had wonky behavior, such as always writing the top left corner of the window to 0,0 (some bad game ports did this).
Again, because of QuickDraw's flexibility and rather more enlightened design, you never had the very stupid behavior exhibited by Windows 98 and 2000 of dialog boxes that defaulted to the center of the screen, splitting the dialog among two displays. And you could place monitors in any configuration - even corner to corner if needed. The displays did not need to have identical resolution and bit-depth, as with 98 and 2000, nor did Mac users ever have to use a special video dual-head card simply to ensure that both video cards would work together, as I encountered many times on 2000.
I think the parent poster's point is proven - the Mac did multiple displays first and better. And while Windows has caught up in some respects, the Mac still does a better job of remembering window positions, etc. when moving from a laptop+large monitor to laptop display configuration.
nobody but Apple has recently released any majorly hyped, or hype-worthy, electronic products.
I wonder what the total weight of bromides, pthalenes, etc. in RAZRs is?
Give me a break. There are cell phone manufacturers with highly-hyped products out there. The difference is that a lot of young, hip people (Greenpeace's main demographic) buy Apple products.
Greenpeace is better at reading demographics than they are at saving anything. As I said above, I used to admire them, but have come to regard them as little more than priveledged trustafarians with an axe to grind.
And so more than half of those afflicted with this wrong information will think GREENPEACE when they see an iPhone. Brilliant, but sinister.
As I child, I idealized Greenpeace. They were saving the whales, for goodness' sake.
About five years ago, I woke up.
Greenpeace is now a blackmail organization. This crap with Apple - they pull the same thing with many other respected companies, and have sullied the name of an organization that used to be truly, vehemently, for the good of the earth.
Now it's just a marketing organization for a bunch of radical trustafarians out to make a name for themselves.
I would love to see Bungie (finally) create a non-Halo title. Personally, I liked the Marathon series and Pathways to Darkness. You know, the non-Halo tiutles Bungie developed in the 1990s.
2) Synchronizing data was a painful process involving lots of cable manipulation, app-launching, etc. (the Palm had a dock: very easy)
Partially because the hardware and system software divisions at Apple too busy getting PowerPC of the ground to make sure IR was built into every Macintosh at the time.
Newton had IR; the Mac didn't. Enter a plethora of cables.
A better comparison is taking your new Chevy, and reconfiguring the the buttons on your dashboard, so that they are more comfortable for you, and Chevy claiming that voids your warranty when your brakes fail. And if you screwed up the electronics that control any aspect of the braking system they'd be completely in the clear claiming this.
Good lord, my faith in the Valley's ability to weed out the weak is really shaken. This guy is a moron.
On the other hand, I can see this being a good fit for Sun on a certain level. Where I work, the fact that Macs now run Windows "if needed" has bought them a lot of mindshare. If the same thing happens in datacenters, maybe Sun can sell more hardware.
On the other hand, this may just be a gift to Dell and other Windows Server vendors in the future. I understand the value of running Solaris and Windows Server on the same machine, but can't see why someone with the need for Sun's heavy iron to plop Windows on there just to run Exchange, for example.
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If you mean Appletalk, NT does that.
AppleTalk is quite dead.
AFP over IP isn't proprietary. Sad to see how many people here still think there's something "different" about Macs on a network.
They can read the TPM manufacturer code to do this.
Blipverts?
I've been using Leopard for three days now.
I don't notice the changes all that much. After day two, the changes kind of faded, and the features became more important than the subtle UI changes.
I don't think it's just me, and I can see a strategy behind it; like a car company, Apple keeps evolving the sizzle around a particular model while tweaking the internals to get ahead or stay competitive. It works for me.
PCM 24 bit/48kHz?
Except if you live here.
We moved in thinking "Hey...what a deal. Cat5 in the walls...great!"
Until we found we couldn't get Cable internet...from anyone. We were forced into the pre-bundled ATT Home Entertainment (and let me tell you, their billing group provided HOURS of entertainment with double-billing, etc.)
The max DSL speed at the property? 256k. And that was on the blink 2-3x a month.
You could get any DirecTV package you wanted...as long as you didn't want to use a DVR or get any of the sports packages.
The phone service...well, it was analog phone, and they couldn't even get that to work well. And a phone line was required in order to use the alarm system and DirecTV pay-per-view.
This ruling DOESN'T affect properties like One Pearl Place - so get it in writing ahead of time. While we paid $100/mo. for our craptastic bundle, the people across the street - fifty feet away - were getting Comcast (and all that entails...like 6Mb peak speeds) along with more and better channels that worked with their DVRs for $70.00 a month.
Nice step forward. Now take the other step - make ANY exclusive Internet/TV/Phone deals illegal.
I'd argue that in the context of "NASA vehicles" to do "earth science missions", suborbital is indeed a relevant categorization.
Yeah right like you had six graphics cards in 1991.
Yes, I did. Because I was working at Apple at the time. My IIfx had 64MB of RAM - that was quite a bit, as the 60ns RAM was both hard to come by and built in 8 bit sticks. With eight slots, you needed eight MB SIMMs. I figure that on the street, the cost of the machine as configured (see below) was well over $25,000.
In addition to the 80MB SCSI drive, my IIfx had the following graphics cards:
5x8*24 Graphics cards.
1x8*24GC (Accelerated with an AMD RISC processor)
Along with my, uh, regular work, I used this setup to play Hellcats over the Pacific, which was the first flight simulator to support multiple displays for a panoramic cockpit view. Of course, that feature only required three monitors. The rest were for fun.
Incidentally, the IIfx was not just a 40MHz 68030+68882 FPU - it also had two 6502 processors. One for each serial port.
If you'll remember, the 6502 was the Apple II's CPU.
Even Windows 98 could do what you describe out of the box
Windows '98 = 1998
System (Mac OS) 7 = 1991 - but in fact, the multiple monitor support was in the Mac OS as early as 1986.
QuickDraw was based around a grid coordinate system, so you could place your two (or six, as I did once as a proof of concept with a Macintosh IIfx) monitors in any number of arrangements, instantly. Because the coordinate system was respected by anything that wrote to the screen using QuickDraw, only a very tiny fraction of apps had wonky behavior, such as always writing the top left corner of the window to 0,0 (some bad game ports did this).
Again, because of QuickDraw's flexibility and rather more enlightened design, you never had the very stupid behavior exhibited by Windows 98 and 2000 of dialog boxes that defaulted to the center of the screen, splitting the dialog among two displays. And you could place monitors in any configuration - even corner to corner if needed. The displays did not need to have identical resolution and bit-depth, as with 98 and 2000, nor did Mac users ever have to use a special video dual-head card simply to ensure that both video cards would work together, as I encountered many times on 2000.
I think the parent poster's point is proven - the Mac did multiple displays first and better. And while Windows has caught up in some respects, the Mac still does a better job of remembering window positions, etc. when moving from a laptop+large monitor to laptop display configuration.
Can you please quote this?
Somewhere between the 900-year-old guy and the two loaves and fishes that fed a multitide. I think it's right after the water that turned to wine.
The same lawyers that have orchestrated the dinosaur bones found across the world.
Silly, everyone knows it's the Illuminati hiding all those dinosaur bones. Lawyers just create the smokescreen.
The amount of confirmation bias that people can exhibit when their passions are challenged is incredible.
I can think of about 25% of the U.S. population who prove your statement incontrovertibly true.
Thats it. Any logical person should be aware that a "fear monger" is a terrorist who uses fear and threat of violence to shape public opinion.
I knew the fish monger in the local market was up to something, but I had no idea he was using fish and the threat of seafood to shape public opinion!
nobody but Apple has recently released any majorly hyped, or hype-worthy, electronic products.
I wonder what the total weight of bromides, pthalenes, etc. in RAZRs is?
Give me a break. There are cell phone manufacturers with highly-hyped products out there. The difference is that a lot of young, hip people (Greenpeace's main demographic) buy Apple products.
Greenpeace is better at reading demographics than they are at saving anything. As I said above, I used to admire them, but have come to regard them as little more than priveledged trustafarians with an axe to grind.
And so more than half of those afflicted with this wrong information will think GREENPEACE when they see an iPhone. Brilliant, but sinister.
As I child, I idealized Greenpeace. They were saving the whales, for goodness' sake.
About five years ago, I woke up.
Greenpeace is now a blackmail organization. This crap with Apple - they pull the same thing with many other respected companies, and have sullied the name of an organization that used to be truly, vehemently, for the good of the earth.
Now it's just a marketing organization for a bunch of radical trustafarians out to make a name for themselves.
Can someone put licensing restrictions on copyrighted material that's offered publicly on the internet?
Yes. Think of it this way:
Can someone put licensing restrictions on copyrighted material that's offered publicly in a library?
Just because you can walk in and look at it free of charge doesn't mean that it is legal to copy the material.
It's a good OS. It's quick, responsive, and uses system resources wisely to increase performance.
Lying is a sin, you know.
Ron Paul...the Ralph Nader of 2008.
The guy is quite literally off his rocker - and his eliminationist Patriot rhetoric notwithstanding, do you really want to throw your hat in with a guy who has been enthusistically endorsed by the racist group Stormfront and David Duke?
I see a lot of Ron Paul crap around silicon valley. I wonder if the geeks really know what they're agitating for. A nutty racist for president?
I prefer transparasteel.
Marathon 2 was probably the best.
Did you people ever take high school English class?
2) Synchronizing data was a painful process involving lots of cable manipulation, app-launching, etc. (the Palm had a dock: very easy)
Partially because the hardware and system software divisions at Apple too busy getting PowerPC of the ground to make sure IR was built into every Macintosh at the time.
Newton had IR; the Mac didn't. Enter a plethora of cables.
Rick B is in charge of this?
Good lord, my faith in the Valley's ability to weed out the weak is really shaken. This guy is a moron.
On the other hand, I can see this being a good fit for Sun on a certain level. Where I work, the fact that Macs now run Windows "if needed" has bought them a lot of mindshare. If the same thing happens in datacenters, maybe Sun can sell more hardware.
On the other hand, this may just be a gift to Dell and other Windows Server vendors in the future. I understand the value of running Solaris and Windows Server on the same machine, but can't see why someone with the need for Sun's heavy iron to plop Windows on there just to run Exchange, for example.
Maybe we can finally get a decent lander or rover on Venus.
Maybe we can even get a descent lander.