What's Microsoft going to do? Ask them to show people booting up their PC so that the Windows logo takes over the screen and that musical sound plays?
It's easy to forget that MS makes hardware. Keyboards, mice, *cough* *cough* tablet PC's. It wouldn't surprise me to see this is the route they go down.
I've owned MS products for a few years now and am proud to say that my mouse and keyboard haven't crashed once or been hacked. More than I can say for their software though....
I do not see why Apple wants to put all patches into one big update.
Because if you are adminstering tens or hundreds of machines, how many times do you want to patch? For most people, it's easier to update just once then two or three times a week, a la Microsoft.
Having said that, I agree with you that I'd like to have separate releases for security issues and feature releases.
This may be a stupid question (or am i an inquisitive idiot) since I have a Powerbook/iPod and I use iTunes all the time, but how is Apple stopping you? I mean, what safeguards are in place to stop someone with a mac in another country? Would they still work if I took my US powerbook to London?
If you have a visa card and a Mac, how do they know you are in the UK or wherever? Put in a US addresss and get going.
Hows jogging, or any other impact sport, with your ipod?
I've never heard my ipod skip or had a problem with it.
I've dropped it twice on the treadmill while jogging (non-consecutively) before i bought a case for working out. Must be that huge 32meg buffer. The new ones are very light as well, though not near as light as the Gateway. I happen to wear mine around my bicep with an arm band (just un-velcro the cover) that leaves it easily accessible to switching tracks, virewing the name of a song, etc. No problems on the treadmill or the weight bench ever.
You better fire more then ten. Granted, this is more of a battle group defense than an carrier defense, but the point is that the Ticonderoga class was designed specifically to meet that type of threat.
The more interesting part of the problem is the backhaul. Great, you set up a couple of access points and provide access to your entire apartment building or neighborhood. What's the backhaul connection? DSL? T3? Unless you're talking about provisioning something on ther order of OC3 or a DS3 you have the potential of bottle-necking pretty quickly. The bandwidth has got to come from somewhere. That's why I believe the 802.16 spec is the last-mile answer, not WLAN. We've addressed that problem, has anyone else?
I believe that it would have been possible for the crew to ration everything to the bare minimum
Given enough fuel on-board, why not just rendezvous with the ISS and hole up there until either another shuttle or a recue craft was launched? My space station design goes as far as the second death star, so I'm not sure if the ISS can even hold nine or ten people, let alone sustain them.
And I really wonder what language he suggests. If not C/C++/Java, then what? VB?
How about Objective-C? It's certainly viable. The syntax is a little funky at first, but it's a hell of a lot simpler than the C++ nightmare unleashed on the world.
Honestly, he probably wouldn't know me from a hole in the ground. He's a neighbor down the block [work wise] and I've chatted with him once or twice at lunch. It's not like I go over to his mansion and swim in the pool or anything. He's a nice guy because he didn't seem like a prick.
It just happens to coincide with the time he left Netscape to go start his own failed company LoudCloud.
You mean Opsware. Marc's a nice guy though. We're his next door neighbors and used to see him quite a bit across the street at Hobee's. He's probably still got his table there....
1. Piles. I know they seem trivial. But I would like it.
It's called Expose. I know, I know, you were hoping for the other implementation of piles....yeah, we all were.
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The reason was that if they programs didn't work purfectly they could put pressure for the companies to fix it. If they refused they would bury them in legal threats and colapse the company and move on.
I find that kind of interesting, if not slimy. Most software includes some type of "provided as-is license". This would seem to indicate that a customer doesn't have a lot of legal ground to stand on regarding buggy software. Custom contract work is probably a different story.
Has anyone actually sued (and won) a vendor for buggy software? I'd be interested because Quicken on the Mac, though far more useful than Gnucash, crashes quite often. Intuit has acknowledged this, but provided no fix. Guess they think I should be grateful they didn't write info to my MBR....
Yeah, well i don't, and in some cases, Wakmart has made the original product _unavailable_ to me. They used marketing pressure to make Wizards of the Coast to change the art and text on several of their cards so they would be "appropriate" for Walmarts customers. Unfortunatly this was a globabl change, so the old art, which was far superior was no longer available to me.
While I understand your sentiment, the problem is WoC, not Walmart. After the art change, did you send a hard copy letter to WoC explaining your position and that due to their change in marketing, you are now forced to purchase a competing game? Probably not (good for you if you did).
Vote with your dollars. That's all anyone understands.
Strange for a self-proclaimed 8-year Linux fanatic to have missed the distinction between "free software" and "no-cost software".
I wasn't using Linux because it was free. I used it because it didn't suck. I just happen to think that OS X has come along and taken the place of the OS that sucks less.
I'm not enough of a gamer to run Wine. I feel that if you want me to buy your game, you support the platform I choose to run. Otherwise, I simply won't play it. My loss I guess, as I said, I'm not a huge gamer (the last time I owned a windows PC was Win98).I do find warcraft much harder than Kohan however. Guess I need work on my hotkeying.
I run OpenOffice for most things and it fulfills all my requirements, I can't tell the difference between the linux version and mac version; kudos to the openoffice team.
I do use Gnome quite a bit (typing on RH9 as you read), but I think what I am liking about OS X is how everything integrates so well together. Neither KDE or GNOME has matched that in my opinion. My Email client (which sucks on the Mac) is aware of my Instant Messaging client is aware of my GPG client, etc. Yes yes, to a certain extent this works on linux as well. But I guess I just like the Mac polish better. I've gone from linux with no GUI to the latest AA GTK2 (never much of a KDE fan) and part of me just appeals to the OS X GUI. Part of me likes the utter total and complete control that Gnome and KDE give you over changing every little thing. They both have pluses and minuses, I don't think I'm enough of a mac person yet to list them all.
Personally I think you generally adapt to whatever desktop you use, most are transparent to me, I just use what's there. I'm still going to keep my dual AMD box so I can stay current on linux however.
Well, that was my point kinda. Generally, when I purchase hardware I go for function before price. Perhaps I'm in the minority when it comes to this. These are the features I need, so what's the best package at the right price. For example, my laptop had to have a large screen (15" minimum for multiple windows to edit code and watching full screen DVD's), had to have a DVD player and be able to write CD's, it had to be as light as possible and have a 3-4 hour battery life. The only thing that I found that fufilled those reqs was a Powrebook. I can fly from DC to San Fran on one battery (more or less) and play Civ3 or watch a DVD and it's light enough that I don't get tired of lugging it around.
As far as I can tell, given feature sets are roughly the same price. Can you get a PC for dirt cheap? Of course. Can you get a PC with X features for any cheaper than you can get a Mac with X features. It's a pretty close call from what I can tell. Sure, you can always build it yourself, but that's not always practical in large numbers.
I fully plan on buying a Mac for my next system. I now can safely say I have no reason to stick to Linux, because I can still operate just as well using the BSD tools. I'm not a desktop programmer, so I don't care about that.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. After being a diehard linux fanatic (yes fanatic) for the last 8 years, I've started the switch to OS X.
Yes, it rocks. Yes, Quicken is far simpler than Gnucash. Yes, Warcraft 3 is better than Kohan. Having to learn objective-C is a little bit of a downer, but I guess you can't have everything.
As for the cost, I don't really see it. My powerbook was three grand which is comparable for the same setup in an Intel/AMD world. A 17" flat panel developer worstation is the same price at both Apple and Dell. Yes, you can get Intel boxes cheaper, but the similar components seem to cost the same whether it's from Apple, Dell, or IBM.
I'm not quite ready to trade in my servers for Apples yet, but my desktops are next on the list to replace. I'm looking into the Oracle developers release for Jaguar..not bad. However, I'll stick to linux there for now.
OS X seems to be the perfect desktop blend of unix and open source functionality with a far superior user interface. When I was in college and then fresh out, tweaking linux to work with the latest hardware was fun and all, but I'm over it now. Things like this music service are just icing on the cake...
and whether it isn't extremely similar the blackbird surface material.
If you are referring to the SR71, the color is actually indigo blue, not black. The SR-71 Indigo Bluebird doesn't sound quite as cool though. I do not recall the surface of the SR71 being anything but smooth.
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It's easy to forget that MS makes hardware. Keyboards, mice, *cough* *cough* tablet PC's. It wouldn't surprise me to see this is the route they go down.
I've owned MS products for a few years now and am proud to say that my mouse and keyboard haven't crashed once or been hacked. More than I can say for their software though....
Because if you are adminstering tens or hundreds of machines, how many times do you want to patch? For most people, it's easier to update just once then two or three times a week, a la Microsoft.
Having said that, I agree with you that I'd like to have separate releases for security issues and feature releases.
Makes my Canon Powershot pics look grainy. Any ideas what type of camera he is using?
If you have a visa card and a Mac, how do they know you are in the UK or wherever? Put in a US addresss and get going.
I've never heard my ipod skip or had a problem with it.
I've dropped it twice on the treadmill while jogging (non-consecutively) before i bought a case for working out. Must be that huge 32meg buffer. The new ones are very light as well, though not near as light as the Gateway. I happen to wear mine around my bicep with an arm band (just un-velcro the cover) that leaves it easily accessible to switching tracks, virewing the name of a song, etc. No problems on the treadmill or the weight bench ever.
You better fire more then ten. Granted, this is more of a battle group defense than an carrier defense, but the point is that the Ticonderoga class was designed specifically to meet that type of threat.
The more interesting part of the problem is the backhaul. Great, you set up a couple of access points and provide access to your entire apartment building or neighborhood. What's the backhaul connection? DSL? T3? Unless you're talking about provisioning something on ther order of OC3 or a DS3 you have the potential of bottle-necking pretty quickly. The bandwidth has got to come from somewhere. That's why I believe the 802.16 spec is the last-mile answer, not WLAN. We've addressed that problem, has anyone else?
Given enough fuel on-board, why not just rendezvous with the ISS and hole up there until either another shuttle or a recue craft was launched? My space station design goes as far as the second death star, so I'm not sure if the ISS can even hold nine or ten people, let alone sustain them.
How about Objective-C? It's certainly viable. The syntax is a little funky at first, but it's a hell of a lot simpler than the C++ nightmare unleashed on the world.
I'll have you know that there is at least 15 feet between my place and the guy next door....
Honestly, he probably wouldn't know me from a hole in the ground. He's a neighbor down the block [work wise] and I've chatted with him once or twice at lunch. It's not like I go over to his mansion and swim in the pool or anything. He's a nice guy because he didn't seem like a prick.
You mean Opsware. Marc's a nice guy though. We're his next door neighbors and used to see him quite a bit across the street at Hobee's. He's probably still got his table there....
It's called Expose. I know, I know, you were hoping for the other implementation of piles....yeah, we all were.
I find that kind of interesting, if not slimy. Most software includes some type of "provided as-is license". This would seem to indicate that a customer doesn't have a lot of legal ground to stand on regarding buggy software. Custom contract work is probably a different story.
Has anyone actually sued (and won) a vendor for buggy software? I'd be interested because Quicken on the Mac, though far more useful than Gnucash, crashes quite often. Intuit has acknowledged this, but provided no fix. Guess they think I should be grateful they didn't write info to my MBR....
While I understand your sentiment, the problem is WoC, not Walmart. After the art change, did you send a hard copy letter to WoC explaining your position and that due to their change in marketing, you are now forced to purchase a competing game? Probably not (good for you if you did).
Vote with your dollars. That's all anyone understands.
You've never been to the south have you....
I wasn't using Linux because it was free. I used it because it didn't suck. I just happen to think that OS X has come along and taken the place of the OS that sucks less.
I run OpenOffice for most things and it fulfills all my requirements, I can't tell the difference between the linux version and mac version; kudos to the openoffice team.
I do use Gnome quite a bit (typing on RH9 as you read), but I think what I am liking about OS X is how everything integrates so well together. Neither KDE or GNOME has matched that in my opinion. My Email client (which sucks on the Mac) is aware of my Instant Messaging client is aware of my GPG client, etc. Yes yes, to a certain extent this works on linux as well. But I guess I just like the Mac polish better. I've gone from linux with no GUI to the latest AA GTK2 (never much of a KDE fan) and part of me just appeals to the OS X GUI. Part of me likes the utter total and complete control that Gnome and KDE give you over changing every little thing. They both have pluses and minuses, I don't think I'm enough of a mac person yet to list them all.
Personally I think you generally adapt to whatever desktop you use, most are transparent to me, I just use what's there. I'm still going to keep my dual AMD box so I can stay current on linux however.
As far as I can tell, given feature sets are roughly the same price. Can you get a PC for dirt cheap? Of course. Can you get a PC with X features for any cheaper than you can get a Mac with X features. It's a pretty close call from what I can tell. Sure, you can always build it yourself, but that's not always practical in large numbers.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. After being a diehard linux fanatic (yes fanatic) for the last 8 years, I've started the switch to OS X.
Yes, it rocks. Yes, Quicken is far simpler than Gnucash. Yes, Warcraft 3 is better than Kohan. Having to learn objective-C is a little bit of a downer, but I guess you can't have everything.
As for the cost, I don't really see it. My powerbook was three grand which is comparable for the same setup in an Intel/AMD world. A 17" flat panel developer worstation is the same price at both Apple and Dell. Yes, you can get Intel boxes cheaper, but the similar components seem to cost the same whether it's from Apple, Dell, or IBM.
I'm not quite ready to trade in my servers for Apples yet, but my desktops are next on the list to replace. I'm looking into the Oracle developers release for Jaguar..not bad. However, I'll stick to linux there for now.
OS X seems to be the perfect desktop blend of unix and open source functionality with a far superior user interface. When I was in college and then fresh out, tweaking linux to work with the latest hardware was fun and all, but I'm over it now. Things like this music service are just icing on the cake...
We've been trialing on east coast for most of the last year.
The problem is that you don't live in Silicon Valley, more specfically Palo Alto. Of course, then affording a home is another problem.
I swear, Palo Alto is the only place in the world where a million dollars gets you a pink, two bedroom house in a flood zone....
If you are referring to the SR71, the color is actually indigo blue, not black. The SR-71 Indigo Bluebird doesn't sound quite as cool though. I do not recall the surface of the SR71 being anything but smooth.
Thanks to the new 802.11b wireless tree networks, we'll all have ample notice to resue him...
Here is a good place to find out about the state of various features...