I could use an XDrive backup client for Mac OS X. Sure, the Java/Javascript setup XDrive uses works not just on Mac OS X with Firefox and the Apple JVM, but also in Linux with Sun's JVM. However a client and OS integration could be nice. Especially when it's considered that.MAC gives you less storage space and you also have to pay $99/year for it.
There are easier ways to skin this particular feline, particularly on Mac OS X. I like VisualHub. Which reminds me, I gotta register my copy. Yes, I know you can use free commandline tools if you are uber-geeky. But VisualHub is the most Mac-like way to do it.
I got VisualHub to convert XviD/DivX material to DV so I could burn DVDs, but I noticed just recently that it can do.FLV as well.
If worst comes to worst, I'll put my stuff up on my own space.
...there are other places to post video. I hope they don't wind up the iTunes of online video.
A friend of mine's Daria fan animations (no they aren't hentai) got taken off of YouTube. Viacom has been approving of fan films in the past, the most elaborate of which being the Star Trek: The Original Series continuation "The New Voyages," hosted at http://www.newvoyages.com/ . The fan films got swept up in the Viacom/YouTube dragnet. This pissed me off because quite a few people from the Daria fandom were involved, and they really were nicely done.
Hopefully an appeal to have the fan films reinstated will be successful.
The screwed thing is that unless you take a lot of trouble with 3rd party apps you cannot download a YouTube.FLV. And the resulting file is pretty crappy looking no matter what you do, because.FLVs are so intensely compressed and lose so much in the lossy compression process. I mean WTF? Big Media is getting FREE PUBLICITY even with the copyrighted stuff. They are using YouTube as a promotional tool on the one hand, then on the other they are screwing the fans.
There are alternatives. Metacafe, Ning, Revver...all excellent choices for showing your stuff. And there is always BIT TORRENT for something a bit higher quality and a bit more permanent.
Big media needs to grow a brain. YouTube needs to grow a spine. Everyone wins when content is up on YouTube. Everyone loses when these silly fights start up.
Yes, I am well-aware that in order for the show to be made, John K. had to sign his rights away to Ren Hoek, Stimpson J. Cat, Jasper the Pup, The Dogcatcher and a few other characters which had their origins in the R&S pilot "Big House Blues." Also any characters created during the run of R&S would have to also be ceded to Viacom International. Like Mr. Horse, for example. George Liquor was an exception: because he was never used by name in any of the episodes, rights to him ended up with John K. and Spumco. This is why The Goddamn George Liquor Show webcartoon was able to be made after the takeover of R&S.
Yes, Viacom International was within their LEGAL RIGHTS under US COPYRIGHT LAW. However, moral rights is a completely different story. In Europe, where "droit moral" is a part of copyright law, Viacom would not have been able to do what they did. Under European Union copyright law, the characters would have been LICENSED to Viacom for a given period of time. Then after that period of time, rights would revert back to John K. and Spumco.
In America, you need to have a precedent for your work in order to avoid the "work for hire" trap. This is how, for instance, Sam Kieth was able to keep his rights to The Maxx even though an MTV Oddities miniseries was done from the comic. Since he nailed down his rights to the characters because they initially appeared in a comic book for a company that acknowledges creator's rights (Image Comics) he was able to maintain ownership.
This is also why The Tick appeared first in an animated TV series then in a live-action sitcom. Ben Edlund owns The Tick, Arthur, Chairface Chippendale and other characters that have appeared in his comics. However, American Maid and Die Fliedermaus were characters created for the animated series, so they are now owned by Disney after 10 years of legal wrangling. When the live action sitcom was made, Die Fliedermaus had to be rechristened Bat Manuel, complete with Latin Lover accent. I was never a fan of the live action series so I don't know what they called American Maid in the sitcom. She appeared, but with a different name and costume but the same attitude.
So the moral to all this is, if you are a creator of animated content, put out your characters in a comic book or some other medium (webcartoon?) first. Establish your rights to the characters. Then you can negotiate with a stronger hand, and maintain more control over your creation. It might mean that you can't participate in "new talent searches" conducted by networks like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, but in the long run you'll be better off.
Viacom International was well within their rights to do what they did. However, what they did was ethically wrong, IMHO. And I know plenty of people, in and out of the industry, who still agree with me on this score.
Lots of content disappeared yesterday. A lot of it was Viacom stuff. I'm fully expecting more of my favorites to come up with "content removed" notices.
Viacom has been known for its actions in the past. For example: yanking Ren & Stimpy from its creators because Viacom wanted more control. This is par for the course with these folks.
Dreamworks basically has as much clue with regard to Aardman as Disney has with Studio Ghibli: NONE.
Dreamworks buried both Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away. They had NO IDEA how to promote the movies, and basically threw up their hands and said "OMG it's too British." They also took Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II and buried it. That was a freaking impressive movie on a big screen. It just doesn't have the same impact on your TV.
Same with Disney. They have buried all of the movies they released for Studio Ghibli. They made more of a noise for Valiant than Howl's Moving Castle.
I think that both Dreamworks and Disney see Aardman and Ghibli product respectively as DVD fodder. I suspect that Miyazaki-sensei will be the next one to take his ball and play elsewhere. The Aardman move was in the works even before Flushed Away was released. Aardman was ticked, to say the least, about how Were-rabbit was released.
Actually, I'd say without reservations that Office for Mac is significantly nicer to use than Office for Windows, and it's a big step up from Claris/AppleWorks, which Apple has never seen fit to pay any attention to, ever since they brought it back into the corporate fold.
That's because they have Pages and Keynote now. Collectively known as iWork. Totally different code base. Totally different programs. Once they put out their spreadsheet program it is quite likely that the Microsoft Business Unit will be broken up and assigned to Windows products.
Iterative processes where the precision of one cycle affects the speed of the overall process. Think video encoding
Exactly.
I do a fair amount of videogeeking and I intend to do more now that I have the MacBook. Crunching digital audio, uncrunching compressed audio and video files, animation rendering, doing statistical calculations for my classwork...shall I go on?
This is not phlogiston, smoke and mirrors or Nigel Tufnel idiocy...some of us really can use the mathematical muscle 64 bit processing will afford.
There are other reasons to buy Leopard if you have a recent (Core 2 Duo) iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook or MacBook Pro. Three words: MacIntel 64-bit OS. Leopard will be 64 bit native on MacIntel. Meaning the 32-bit leg-irons will be lifted off, and your MacBook will run way faster thanks to all the advantages of 64-bit data addressing and so forth.
The original 32-bit Core Duo and Core Solo Macs won't have the same advantages. It won't be as compelling of an upgrade. But for very, very recent Macs it will be as important as the upgrade between the original single-threaded Finder and the MultiFinder. Yes, I go way back with Macs, and I restore old Macs.
Boot Camp isn't the half of what this upgrade will be about.
(Cingular is now part of the revenant AT&T. Ma Bell has risen from the grave.)
I can think of a big motivator for T-Mobile to pick up on OpenMoko, or whatever they're going to eventually call this thing when the marketers get through with it. AT&T will have iPhone and be the only people with iPhone. T-Mobile will have what to counter it? Crackberry? Sidekick? Please.
OpenMoko looks really, really REALLY good. It has a SCARY resemblance to the Apple device, which was supposedly kept under wraps with double-secret super NDAs. It is not uber-powerful, but it is powerful enough. And it is expandable with memory cards, something Apple has decided not to do with iPhone.
T-Mobile has a very strong motivation to get behind OpenMoko and push really hard. And hey, I think the OpenMoko will look as good in magenta as it does now in orange. (Grinning, ducking and running...)
Too cool! Very, very creative. Spit and bailing wire blade servers! This is why I can't hate Google, they really are stone cold geeks who made good. Who else but a geek would build something like that!
Don't blame Amelio for something stupid that Michael Spindler did. Amelio only let the program continue. When The Steve returned, he said "the hell with that!" and ended it.
Are you shitting me? I have NEVER YET seen a Kernel Panic in Mac OS X. Yet I have seen Windows 2000 "STOP Error" once or twice, and even more times with Windows XP. And of course, WinDOwS 3.11/95/98/ME would bluescreen at the drop of a hat.
Hell, I have even seen Linux do a reset on X.Org due to a bad crash with the application Audacity! Actually I've never seen Linux do a true Kernel Panic that wasn't directly linked up to trying to use it on really funky hardware. Since Apple makes fairly sane hardware (fairly, they've pulled some boners occasionally) the record still stands.
-User interface: Windows
Sweet Jesus no. Windows UI, XP and later, is ugly and sucky and makes me want to replace it with KDE. Yes, you can turn off the "Themes" service and get something that is somewhat like the "Classic" Windows 2000 interface. But it's only SOMEWHAT like it. It's just different enough to make me want to punch someone at times.
The Mac OS X interface had a bit of a learning curve in that I hate GNOME and GNOME and Mac OS X remind me of each other. But once I got used to it I don't mind it terribly. In fact, stuff like "Expose" and widgets actually come in handy on a Mac that has the cojones to do it right. I got that revelation when I started running on my MacBook with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM.
-Cost: Windows (MacOS has to be updated every year)
My older Macs have settled in with Panther and they are fine staying with it. Panther is going to get security updates for quite sometime to come. My MacBook is purring with the Tiger (or would that be Chuffing?) and is hungry for the upcoming Leopard release which will be 64 bit native and make my MacBook fly.
A Mac OS X "point release" is more like a version upgrade, since every version is 10.x.x and Roman Numeral X is the trademark for the OS. You have to pay to upgrade from Windows98 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP to Windows Vista. That's what the difference between Cheetah (10.0), Puma(10.1), Jag-wire (10.2), Panther(10.3) and Tiger(10.4) have been like. Cheetah and Puma are like Windows 95 and Windows 98 -- barely usable. Jag-wire was like Windows NT4. Panther is the first fully-drinkable vintage of X, sort of the 2K of the bunch. However, unlike Windows, Apple just keeps right on improving X rather than adding cruft like MS does with Windows. Think of Tiger and Leopard as what would have happened if MS had continued on the path of 2K, but made it leaner and meaner and more security conscious and faster with every release.
-Compatibility: Windows (15 years old programs still work fine)
Yes, but do those old DOS programs run WELL, or are they crashing you? Are they forcing you to run as administrator to make them work? Did you know that Windows XP runs those old programs in a buggy emulation mode? Did you know that emulators that will allow you to run ancient Mac OS 9 and below programs exist? Please.
-Open architecture: Windows (Millions of applications are available)
Ain't nothing more open than FreeBSD. Except for Linux. And Mac OS X is basically FreeBSD (well, actually Darwin/FreeBSD) under the hood now. If you add in the X11 layer you can run any F/OSS xNIX proggie you like with a recompile. And now with MacIntel you don't even have to recompile. And the big kick in the teeth with MacIntel too is that you can run Windows on top of it, using Parallels, which takes advantage of Intel Vanderpool hardware VT to make it as fast as running Mac OS X. Most Windows apps now run happily this way. And those that don't (Games) can be rebooted with Boot Camp into Windows XP SP2. Which kind of defeats the purpose of this next thing you mention...
-Vulnerability: MacOS (more viruses on Windows)
You can't do the kind of spectacularly evil, easily caught malware on Mac OS X that you can do on Windows. Why? Be
The 5200/6200 was basically an LC475 motherboard with a PPC chip jury-rigged on it. Yes, a M68K motherboard, with a PPC chip thrown on in the 68LC040's place. This happened on Spindler's watch. This is why he is synonymous with the almost-doom of Apple.
John Sculley was not the problem. Michael Spindler was. Spindler presided over the fiascos that marked the early PowerPC period, like the dreaded "Performa" machines. And contrary to popular belief, Apple was on its way to a turnaround before Apple bought NeXT. Gil Amelio was responsible for the revival of the PowerBook brand after the "PowerBook Flambe" fiasco, hired Jonathan Ive as industrial designer, and had greenlighted the iMac. Of course, when Amelio bought NeXT, he basically signed his own pink slip as the purchase meant Steve Jobs was back.
I think after 10 years of The Steve back at the helm of Apple, the next CEO needn't be anywhere near as hands-on as The Steve is. They just need to avoid hiring someone as clueless as Spindler. The technological team Apple put together is good enough and strong enough to carry on unless a Spindler-level fuckup winds up at the reins. Amelio started the rebirth of Apple, The Steve kicked it into high gear. Apple will never be Dell. Perhaps that's for the best.
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
Maybe it was that way a long time ago, but this is not the case now. Visit places like Pacoima and Watts and Downtown LA and you will find poor people robbing, shooting and killing each other. And you will find Black on Black crime, Black on Brown crime, Brown on Black crime, Brown on Brown crime, and poor Whites stealing from everyone including each other. Not only are poor folks stealing from and killing each other, but poor folks are becoming as racist as rich folks have always been.
One feature in Brazil I wonder will make it to the Blade Runner-esque streets of LA in the year of no lord 2007 is death squads hired by rich folks to kill poor youths. Considering there is a move afoot to gentrify the Downtown LA area, I wouldn't be surprised if this was coming.
B.R.I.N.: Blade Runner is now. We have learned nothing since the riots of 1992 and 1965. Expect more soon.
"Yakisoba Noodles" are not Soba noodles. They are actually Chinese noodles. The Japanese dish Yakisoba is sort of their answer to Chow Mein. Soba would not survive being stir-fried after boiling. Believe me, I know my Japanese food.
"Yakisoba (, Yakisoba?), literally "fried noodles", is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan. It originates from Chinese chow mein, but has been integrated into Japanese cuisine like ramen. Even though soba is part of the word, yakisoba noodles are not made from buckwheat, but are similar to ramen noodles and made from wheat flour."
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I could use an XDrive backup client for Mac OS X. Sure, the Java/Javascript setup XDrive uses works not just on Mac OS X with Firefox and the Apple JVM, but also in Linux with Sun's JVM. However a client and OS integration could be nice. Especially when it's considered that .MAC gives you less storage space and you also have to pay $99/year for it.
There are easier ways to skin this particular feline, particularly on Mac OS X. I like VisualHub. Which reminds me, I gotta register my copy. Yes, I know you can use free commandline tools if you are uber-geeky. But VisualHub is the most Mac-like way to do it.
.FLV as well.
I got VisualHub to convert XviD/DivX material to DV so I could burn DVDs, but I noticed just recently that it can do
If worst comes to worst, I'll put my stuff up on my own space.
...there are other places to post video. I hope they don't wind up the iTunes of online video.
.FLV. And the resulting file is pretty crappy looking no matter what you do, because .FLVs are so intensely compressed and lose so much in the lossy compression process. I mean WTF? Big Media is getting FREE PUBLICITY even with the copyrighted stuff. They are using YouTube as a promotional tool on the one hand, then on the other they are screwing the fans.
A friend of mine's Daria fan animations (no they aren't hentai) got taken off of YouTube. Viacom has been approving of fan films in the past, the most elaborate of which being the Star Trek: The Original Series continuation "The New Voyages," hosted at http://www.newvoyages.com/ . The fan films got swept up in the Viacom/YouTube dragnet. This pissed me off because quite a few people from the Daria fandom were involved, and they really were nicely done.
Hopefully an appeal to have the fan films reinstated will be successful.
The screwed thing is that unless you take a lot of trouble with 3rd party apps you cannot download a YouTube
There are alternatives. Metacafe, Ning, Revver...all excellent choices for showing your stuff. And there is always BIT TORRENT for something a bit higher quality and a bit more permanent.
Big media needs to grow a brain. YouTube needs to grow a spine. Everyone wins when content is up on YouTube. Everyone loses when these silly fights start up.
...that when I RTFA, the only thing I could think of was the Yavin briefing on the Death Star?
"Great shot, kid, that was one-in-a-million!"
God, I'm geeky...
I was under the impression this WOULD be a Wii title as well. Bummer.
Yes, I am well-aware that in order for the show to be made, John K. had to sign his rights away to Ren Hoek, Stimpson J. Cat, Jasper the Pup, The Dogcatcher and a few other characters which had their origins in the R&S pilot "Big House Blues." Also any characters created during the run of R&S would have to also be ceded to Viacom International. Like Mr. Horse, for example. George Liquor was an exception: because he was never used by name in any of the episodes, rights to him ended up with John K. and Spumco. This is why The Goddamn George Liquor Show webcartoon was able to be made after the takeover of R&S.
Yes, Viacom International was within their LEGAL RIGHTS under US COPYRIGHT LAW. However, moral rights is a completely different story. In Europe, where "droit moral" is a part of copyright law, Viacom would not have been able to do what they did. Under European Union copyright law, the characters would have been LICENSED to Viacom for a given period of time. Then after that period of time, rights would revert back to John K. and Spumco.
In America, you need to have a precedent for your work in order to avoid the "work for hire" trap. This is how, for instance, Sam Kieth was able to keep his rights to The Maxx even though an MTV Oddities miniseries was done from the comic. Since he nailed down his rights to the characters because they initially appeared in a comic book for a company that acknowledges creator's rights (Image Comics) he was able to maintain ownership.
This is also why The Tick appeared first in an animated TV series then in a live-action sitcom. Ben Edlund owns The Tick, Arthur, Chairface Chippendale and other characters that have appeared in his comics. However, American Maid and Die Fliedermaus were characters created for the animated series, so they are now owned by Disney after 10 years of legal wrangling. When the live action sitcom was made, Die Fliedermaus had to be rechristened Bat Manuel, complete with Latin Lover accent. I was never a fan of the live action series so I don't know what they called American Maid in the sitcom. She appeared, but with a different name and costume but the same attitude.
So the moral to all this is, if you are a creator of animated content, put out your characters in a comic book or some other medium (webcartoon?) first. Establish your rights to the characters. Then you can negotiate with a stronger hand, and maintain more control over your creation. It might mean that you can't participate in "new talent searches" conducted by networks like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, but in the long run you'll be better off.
Viacom International was well within their rights to do what they did. However, what they did was ethically wrong, IMHO. And I know plenty of people, in and out of the industry, who still agree with me on this score.
Lots of content disappeared yesterday. A lot of it was Viacom stuff. I'm fully expecting more of my favorites to come up with "content removed" notices.
Viacom has been known for its actions in the past. For example: yanking Ren & Stimpy from its creators because Viacom wanted more control. This is par for the course with these folks.
Heh. Japanimation. Otaku Union Local 23 says turn in your card NOW. ^_~
Dreamworks basically has as much clue with regard to Aardman as Disney has with Studio Ghibli: NONE.
Dreamworks buried both Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away. They had NO IDEA how to promote the movies, and basically threw up their hands and said "OMG it's too British." They also took Innocence: Ghost In The Shell II and buried it. That was a freaking impressive movie on a big screen. It just doesn't have the same impact on your TV.
Same with Disney. They have buried all of the movies they released for Studio Ghibli. They made more of a noise for Valiant than Howl's Moving Castle.
I think that both Dreamworks and Disney see Aardman and Ghibli product respectively as DVD fodder. I suspect that Miyazaki-sensei will be the next one to take his ball and play elsewhere. The Aardman move was in the works even before Flushed Away was released. Aardman was ticked, to say the least, about how Were-rabbit was released.
Actually, I'd say without reservations that Office for Mac is significantly nicer to use than Office for Windows, and it's a big step up from Claris/AppleWorks, which Apple has never seen fit to pay any attention to, ever since they brought it back into the corporate fold.
That's because they have Pages and Keynote now. Collectively known as iWork. Totally different code base. Totally different programs. Once they put out their spreadsheet program it is quite likely that the Microsoft Business Unit will be broken up and assigned to Windows products.
Returning to popularity? Yeah. Forgivable? Not so much.
Iterative processes where the precision of one cycle affects the speed of the overall process. Think video encoding
Exactly.
I do a fair amount of videogeeking and I intend to do more now that I have the MacBook. Crunching digital audio, uncrunching compressed audio and video files, animation rendering, doing statistical calculations for my classwork...shall I go on?
This is not phlogiston, smoke and mirrors or Nigel Tufnel idiocy...some of us really can use the mathematical muscle 64 bit processing will afford.
Ask and ye shall receive. This is going to rock.
There are other reasons to buy Leopard if you have a recent (Core 2 Duo) iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook or MacBook Pro. Three words: MacIntel 64-bit OS. Leopard will be 64 bit native on MacIntel. Meaning the 32-bit leg-irons will be lifted off, and your MacBook will run way faster thanks to all the advantages of 64-bit data addressing and so forth.
The original 32-bit Core Duo and Core Solo Macs won't have the same advantages. It won't be as compelling of an upgrade. But for very, very recent Macs it will be as important as the upgrade between the original single-threaded Finder and the MultiFinder. Yes, I go way back with Macs, and I restore old Macs.
Boot Camp isn't the half of what this upgrade will be about.
(Cingular is now part of the revenant AT&T. Ma Bell has risen from the grave.)
I can think of a big motivator for T-Mobile to pick up on OpenMoko, or whatever they're going to eventually call this thing when the marketers get through with it. AT&T will have iPhone and be the only people with iPhone. T-Mobile will have what to counter it? Crackberry? Sidekick? Please.
OpenMoko looks really, really REALLY good. It has a SCARY resemblance to the Apple device, which was supposedly kept under wraps with double-secret super NDAs. It is not uber-powerful, but it is powerful enough. And it is expandable with memory cards, something Apple has decided not to do with iPhone.
T-Mobile has a very strong motivation to get behind OpenMoko and push really hard. And hey, I think the OpenMoko will look as good in magenta as it does now in orange. (Grinning, ducking and running...)
...and you will be treated to the comment that's going to be my next .SIG line here.
"Longhorn is a pig!" -- Jim Allchin
And this was said when Allchin was heading up development on Longhorn. Hilarious if it weren't true, even more hilarious because it is.
Too cool! Very, very creative. Spit and bailing wire blade servers! This is why I can't hate Google, they really are stone cold geeks who made good. Who else but a geek would build something like that!
Mod this guy up. This is the only logical reason why Google is doing what it is apparently doing.
Of course, hedging against a breakdown in Net Neutrality isn't quite as sexy as "Google's going to become SkyNet, OMGWTFBBQ!!!"
(remember Gil Amelio and the Mac Clones?)
Don't blame Amelio for something stupid that Michael Spindler did. Amelio only let the program continue. When The Steve returned, he said "the hell with that!" and ended it.
clicky linky.
-Reliability: Windows
Are you shitting me? I have NEVER YET seen a Kernel Panic in Mac OS X. Yet I have seen Windows 2000 "STOP Error" once or twice, and even more times with Windows XP. And of course, WinDOwS 3.11/95/98/ME would bluescreen at the drop of a hat.
Hell, I have even seen Linux do a reset on X.Org due to a bad crash with the application Audacity! Actually I've never seen Linux do a true Kernel Panic that wasn't directly linked up to trying to use it on really funky hardware. Since Apple makes fairly sane hardware (fairly, they've pulled some boners occasionally) the record still stands.
-User interface: Windows
Sweet Jesus no. Windows UI, XP and later, is ugly and sucky and makes me want to replace it with KDE. Yes, you can turn off the "Themes" service and get something that is somewhat like the "Classic" Windows 2000 interface. But it's only SOMEWHAT like it. It's just different enough to make me want to punch someone at times.
The Mac OS X interface had a bit of a learning curve in that I hate GNOME and GNOME and Mac OS X remind me of each other. But once I got used to it I don't mind it terribly. In fact, stuff like "Expose" and widgets actually come in handy on a Mac that has the cojones to do it right. I got that revelation when I started running on my MacBook with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM.
-Cost: Windows (MacOS has to be updated every year)
My older Macs have settled in with Panther and they are fine staying with it. Panther is going to get security updates for quite sometime to come. My MacBook is purring with the Tiger (or would that be Chuffing?) and is hungry for the upcoming Leopard release which will be 64 bit native and make my MacBook fly.
A Mac OS X "point release" is more like a version upgrade, since every version is 10.x.x and Roman Numeral X is the trademark for the OS. You have to pay to upgrade from Windows98 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP to Windows Vista. That's what the difference between Cheetah (10.0), Puma(10.1), Jag-wire (10.2), Panther(10.3) and Tiger(10.4) have been like. Cheetah and Puma are like Windows 95 and Windows 98 -- barely usable. Jag-wire was like Windows NT4. Panther is the first fully-drinkable vintage of X, sort of the 2K of the bunch. However, unlike Windows, Apple just keeps right on improving X rather than adding cruft like MS does with Windows. Think of Tiger and Leopard as what would have happened if MS had continued on the path of 2K, but made it leaner and meaner and more security conscious and faster with every release.
-Compatibility: Windows (15 years old programs still work fine)
Yes, but do those old DOS programs run WELL, or are they crashing you? Are they forcing you to run as administrator to make them work? Did you know that Windows XP runs those old programs in a buggy emulation mode? Did you know that emulators that will allow you to run ancient Mac OS 9 and below programs exist? Please.
-Open architecture: Windows (Millions of applications are available)
Ain't nothing more open than FreeBSD. Except for Linux. And Mac OS X is basically FreeBSD (well, actually Darwin/FreeBSD) under the hood now. If you add in the X11 layer you can run any F/OSS xNIX proggie you like with a recompile. And now with MacIntel you don't even have to recompile. And the big kick in the teeth with MacIntel too is that you can run Windows on top of it, using Parallels, which takes advantage of Intel Vanderpool hardware VT to make it as fast as running Mac OS X. Most Windows apps now run happily this way. And those that don't (Games) can be rebooted with Boot Camp into Windows XP SP2. Which kind of defeats the purpose of this next thing you mention...
-Vulnerability: MacOS (more viruses on Windows)
You can't do the kind of spectacularly evil, easily caught malware on Mac OS X that you can do on Windows. Why? Be
The 5200/6200 was basically an LC475 motherboard with a PPC chip jury-rigged on it. Yes, a M68K motherboard, with a PPC chip thrown on in the 68LC040's place. This happened on Spindler's watch. This is why he is synonymous with the almost-doom of Apple.
John Sculley was not the problem. Michael Spindler was. Spindler presided over the fiascos that marked the early PowerPC period, like the dreaded "Performa" machines. And contrary to popular belief, Apple was on its way to a turnaround before Apple bought NeXT. Gil Amelio was responsible for the revival of the PowerBook brand after the "PowerBook Flambe" fiasco, hired Jonathan Ive as industrial designer, and had greenlighted the iMac. Of course, when Amelio bought NeXT, he basically signed his own pink slip as the purchase meant Steve Jobs was back.
I think after 10 years of The Steve back at the helm of Apple, the next CEO needn't be anywhere near as hands-on as The Steve is. They just need to avoid hiring someone as clueless as Spindler. The technological team Apple put together is good enough and strong enough to carry on unless a Spindler-level fuckup winds up at the reins. Amelio started the rebirth of Apple, The Steve kicked it into high gear. Apple will never be Dell. Perhaps that's for the best.
When everyone is poor, no one steals from each other.
Maybe it was that way a long time ago, but this is not the case now. Visit places like Pacoima and Watts and Downtown LA and you will find poor people robbing, shooting and killing each other. And you will find Black on Black crime, Black on Brown crime, Brown on Black crime, Brown on Brown crime, and poor Whites stealing from everyone including each other. Not only are poor folks stealing from and killing each other, but poor folks are becoming as racist as rich folks have always been.
One feature in Brazil I wonder will make it to the Blade Runner-esque streets of LA in the year of no lord 2007 is death squads hired by rich folks to kill poor youths. Considering there is a move afoot to gentrify the Downtown LA area, I wouldn't be surprised if this was coming.
B.R.I.N.: Blade Runner is now. We have learned nothing since the riots of 1992 and 1965. Expect more soon.
That would be Picard.
"Yakisoba Noodles" are not Soba noodles. They are actually Chinese noodles. The Japanese dish Yakisoba is sort of their answer to Chow Mein. Soba would not survive being stir-fried after boiling. Believe me, I know my Japanese food.
"Yakisoba (, Yakisoba?), literally "fried noodles", is a dish often sold at festivals in Japan. It originates from Chinese chow mein, but has been integrated into Japanese cuisine like ramen. Even though soba is part of the word, yakisoba noodles are not made from buckwheat, but are similar to ramen noodles and made from wheat flour."
For further enlightenment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakisoba