Three times they pulled the last classic-bootable Mac from the Apple store, and the first two times the outburst was so great they brought yet another iteration of the G4 Powermac back. The third time... less than a year later they announced the Intel switch. I believe that if they'd managed to pull it a year earlier without protests they'd have brought out the Intel macs a year earlier.
Apple pulled audio-in, and brought it back, then dropped it on the Mac mini, and brought it back.
They may bring firewire back, or (better) put expresscard support in the next Macbook, but they'll keep trying.
If a sphere that looks like a geodesic dome is bucminsterfullerine, then a tube that looks like a roll of fake PVC tiling should be called polybathroomfloorine. Except James Blish used that for a graphite-like chemical explosive already.
I have two LaCie firewire drives and a firewire iSight. I didn't get USB/Firewire drives because when I got them the only dual mode drives I could find were using a flakey Promise firewire chip instead of a good Oxford 911 chip.
I'd like to buy a USB iSight, but you discontinued the product completely.
PS: Why bother putting an external monitor connection on your laptops and then include a camera that you can't use with the lid closed?
It's not so much the immunity that's the problem, it's that the immunity blocks access to records needed to find out just how extensive (and thus how unconstitutional) the operation was.
Oh yes, and I can run VMware under Linux, and I can run Windows in that for the application software that needs Windows. Or I can dual boot.
But that still leaves me running Windows. It leaves me running Windows less often than the other way around, but it still leaves me running Windows. I tried that on my desktop, and ended up with my desktop being the dumb terminal and my home server being where I did all the work, but that's kind of harder to do with a laptop. There are tricks you can do, like running a UNIX VM under Windows (you do it that way around because UNIX is more flexible and less picky about its environment, where Windows is an uppity sub) but... damn.
With Mac OS X I get the OS that doesn't suck, and I get actual applications I need to run that aren't available for Linux, and I don't have to bring up Windows more than once a month, and I don't have to play musical shared folders to share data between the UNIX environment and the Windows swamp because the only reason I'm using Windows anywhere is to run Honest Joe's Proprietary VPN or some other nasty software that only does Windows.
Indeed. The best mini keyboard I ever used was an Adesso MCK-85 (if I recall the number correctly), and it had no "Fn" key at all... and was no bigger than the Macbook keyboard. The new model has a similar key layout, see http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=54 -- the function key is only needed for the pseudo-keypad.
Switching between the name and title when you edit the name/title widget is nice, but it means if you want to copy the name of the page you won't be able to select it.
You can't complain when that 1 manufacturer makes a decision you don't agree with
Actually, you can. They may or may not hear you, but if you don't say anything they certainly won't hear you.
Just like you can complain about Microsoft dropping Windows XP, and... what do you know... they just extended the availability (after you jump through enough hoops) again.
Apple is phasing-out FireWire 400, as it is on about even-footing with USB 2.0 and can't compete.
Firewire 400 is on an "even footing" with USB 2.0 about the same way that Mikhail Baryshnikov was on an "even footing" with Peewee Herman.
Yeh, they both have about the same theoretical performance. But on OS X Firewire 400 actually gets close to that performance in practice, while USB storage is lucky to cruise at half that level.
I'm buying Apple because I switched from Free UNIX.
Windows isn't a "choice". Windows doesn't have the essential functionality I need. I tried for years to get along with just a Thinkpad, one that didn't have good open-source driver support, and found that I was spending most of my time patching programs so they'd run under Interix or just using my laptop as a smart terminal back to my UNIX box at home. This has nothing to do with the "design aesthetics" of the OS, which is why Microsoft so badly missed the boat by trying to make eye candy the big draw for Vista. If OS X looked like NeXTStep or Rhapsody (NeXTStep with a 'platinum' theme), I'd still pick it over Vista Me.
Sprint's the other US carrier that's a member of the "Open Handset Alliance" (the group behind Android devices, versus the platform) and they made it damned clear that no phone that allows people to place random applications would be allowed on THEIR network. Apparently that's hard to monetize.
Didn't stop them from selling Palm and Pocket PC based phones.
As I suggested in a previous thread, it sounds like the Android won't be an open smartphone like a Palm, Nokia, or Windows Mobile device. It's in the same almost-a-smartphone category as the iPhone.
I was more talking about things like their first digital devices, like Mini Discs (remember them? No? Funny thing, that), that could only play music installed through Sony's software in Sony's proprietary audio formats.
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Three times they pulled the last classic-bootable Mac from the Apple store, and the first two times the outburst was so great they brought yet another iteration of the G4 Powermac back. The third time... less than a year later they announced the Intel switch. I believe that if they'd managed to pull it a year earlier without protests they'd have brought out the Intel macs a year earlier.
Apple pulled audio-in, and brought it back, then dropped it on the Mac mini, and brought it back.
They may bring firewire back, or (better) put expresscard support in the next Macbook, but they'll keep trying.
If a sphere that looks like a geodesic dome is bucminsterfullerine, then a tube that looks like a roll of fake PVC tiling should be called polybathroomfloorine. Except James Blish used that for a graphite-like chemical explosive already.
And if that's not good enough you can just edit user.js directly, right?
Yes, I know. Obviously being too indirect today. My Andres Serrano reference in the Little Big Planet missed too.
I have two LaCie firewire drives and a firewire iSight. I didn't get USB/Firewire drives because when I got them the only dual mode drives I could find were using a flakey Promise firewire chip instead of a good Oxford 911 chip.
I'd like to buy a USB iSight, but you discontinued the product completely.
PS: Why bother putting an external monitor connection on your laptops and then include a camera that you can't use with the lid closed?
Oh yes... when I had an iPaq with wifi, I definitely needed proxy support. And some phones use wifi for cheaper access or higher speeds.
It's not so much the immunity that's the problem, it's that the immunity blocks access to records needed to find out just how extensive (and thus how unconstitutional) the operation was.
Andres Serrano? Is that you?
Noooooo! Don't take my Final Fantasy CDs away! Not my Evangelion! Not Ghost in the Shell!
Except for the ones who wrote and performed the music?
Oh yes, and I can run VMware under Linux, and I can run Windows in that for the application software that needs Windows. Or I can dual boot.
But that still leaves me running Windows. It leaves me running Windows less often than the other way around, but it still leaves me running Windows. I tried that on my desktop, and ended up with my desktop being the dumb terminal and my home server being where I did all the work, but that's kind of harder to do with a laptop. There are tricks you can do, like running a UNIX VM under Windows (you do it that way around because UNIX is more flexible and less picky about its environment, where Windows is an uppity sub) but... damn.
With Mac OS X I get the OS that doesn't suck, and I get actual applications I need to run that aren't available for Linux, and I don't have to bring up Windows more than once a month, and I don't have to play musical shared folders to share data between the UNIX environment and the Windows swamp because the only reason I'm using Windows anywhere is to run Honest Joe's Proprietary VPN or some other nasty software that only does Windows.
Why do I have to hold "FN" for so many of them?
Indeed. The best mini keyboard I ever used was an Adesso MCK-85 (if I recall the number correctly), and it had no "Fn" key at all... and was no bigger than the Macbook keyboard. The new model has a similar key layout, see http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=54 -- the function key is only needed for the pseudo-keypad.
At least I couldn't find them in the preferences page.
Switching between the name and title when you edit the name/title widget is nice, but it means if you want to copy the name of the page you won't be able to select it.
Or is Fennec solar powered? That would explain the ears.
You can't complain when that 1 manufacturer makes a decision you don't agree with
Actually, you can. They may or may not hear you, but if you don't say anything they certainly won't hear you.
Just like you can complain about Microsoft dropping Windows XP, and ... what do you know ... they just extended the availability (after you jump through enough hoops) again.
Apple is phasing-out FireWire 400, as it is on about even-footing with USB 2.0 and can't compete.
Firewire 400 is on an "even footing" with USB 2.0 about the same way that Mikhail Baryshnikov was on an "even footing" with Peewee Herman.
Yeh, they both have about the same theoretical performance. But on OS X Firewire 400 actually gets close to that performance in practice, while USB storage is lucky to cruise at half that level.
I'm buying Apple because I switched from Free UNIX.
Windows isn't a "choice". Windows doesn't have the essential functionality I need. I tried for years to get along with just a Thinkpad, one that didn't have good open-source driver support, and found that I was spending most of my time patching programs so they'd run under Interix or just using my laptop as a smart terminal back to my UNIX box at home. This has nothing to do with the "design aesthetics" of the OS, which is why Microsoft so badly missed the boat by trying to make eye candy the big draw for Vista. If OS X looked like NeXTStep or Rhapsody (NeXTStep with a 'platinum' theme), I'd still pick it over Vista Me.
I personally can't imagine anyone pulling the crap Kirk did not getting a dishonorable discharge long before he made captain, so that doesn't bug me.
The ability to install any damned software you want.
Sprint's the other US carrier that's a member of the "Open Handset Alliance" (the group behind Android devices, versus the platform) and they made it damned clear that no phone that allows people to place random applications would be allowed on THEIR network. Apparently that's hard to monetize.
Didn't stop them from selling Palm and Pocket PC based phones.
All the rest of you are missing the important question:
Will we get to see Kirk using his leet skills to pwn the Kobayashi Maru test?
As I suggested in a previous thread, it sounds like the Android won't be an open smartphone like a Palm, Nokia, or Windows Mobile device. It's in the same almost-a-smartphone category as the iPhone.
Seems like they're mixing up too many variables in this pot.
That's just the most recent case.
I was more talking about things like their first digital devices, like Mini Discs (remember them? No? Funny thing, that), that could only play music installed through Sony's software in Sony's proprietary audio formats.