That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard and PETA is really good at stoopid! For the last few years, every time they make news, I have to wonder if, up top, they're being run by someone who's really working for the U.S. Beef and Cattle Association. They're doing stuff now that seemsso counter productive to their professed aims, it seems almost deliberate.
In the 90's, Apple got kinda' schizo, with projects and products showing up all over the map. Having a string of CEO's didn't help matters. If nothing else, Jobs should be studied as to how to focus a company on core services and implementation.
But yeah, 42 here, been working on computers since the late 70's (still have my Ti 99/4a) and currently spend 9.5 hours a day in front of 4 Apple 23" cinema displays. These were all picked up used as they no longer were as bright as new monitors but in my enclosed room with no natural lighting, they work great at 60%-75% brightness (to get them all close to same white space). No real eye strain here unless it's a web page/app that resets things. Looking forward to an iPad as my iPhone, while sweet layout for surfing and such, is just a bit too small.
Apple had always done development work for Mac OS on Intel. They also had dev versions for Alpha Spec chips back then. 'Course, compared to PI/II chips, PPC 601/604's were really cool chips. Who knew they'd end up stalling out on the development side?
I need to dig out my old Mac Color Classic and see if there's a way to tap directly in to the monitor. It has a 9" Sony screen with great picture/resolution. Would be cool to throw a Mac Mini in to the case and have a cool little movie player.
I also have one of those circle/stick/rectangle iMacs on a swing arm, with a dead logic board. That's another candidate for Mac Mini upgrade.
Actually, the initial PPC 601 and 604 were very good competitors to Intel's PI/II chips. It's just that, rather than work right away on the next gen PPC, Apple pushed for incremental updates in the 604 architecture. For awhile, it worked but then IBM started having problems with power consumption and such and so it all slowed down. If Apple had partnered up with Intel back in the mid 90's, yeah, that woulda' been cool.
My Power Computing Power Tower Pro (180 Mhz PPC 604) was a great machine and was still in use as a linux file server when I left my previous job in 2005. It was also the last new 'Mac' I bought. Since then I've picked up used systems and refurbed them myself and lately, am just picking up Apple refurbs. So, the clones themselves weren't bad but yeah, the cloning program kinda' sucked for Apple. Still, as far as Apple disasters, I think John Sculley is where it really started falling apart. Once you let marketing instead of engineering run things, focus shifts from long term growth to short term profits and then the down hill slide has begun.
My Newton 2100 is still running, can surf the web wirelessly, play mp3s and I can even run a web server on it. Yeah, v. 1.0 was pretty sucky but over all, from the 120 on up, they've ok devices.
My pet rock (circa 1976) didn't have any eyes. Was just a smooth water worn rock, like a bunch that were out front in the landscaping. But the box it came in was funny. To an 8 year old. For a few minutes.
Apple may even cede the desktop market to MS. Looking down the road, while desktops will still be around, at the business level, they may evolve back in to thin or thick clients running whatever OS on a VM layer, with users never touching the actual hardware. It looks like they're going for real growth, as opposed to just upgrades and replacements, in mobile entertainment/data access.
Still waiting for them to re image an a/v receiver or pre-amp type device to tie home media together. I could see them releasing a small white box with 1 TB of storage, that's also an iTunes/iPhoto/iLife media server, wireless router and has some kind of hdmi like all-in-one cable output for connecting to a surround sound receiver. Or they may try releasing their own amplifier with support for multiple speakers but that really doesn't seem like their kinda' thing. Jobs hates wires, after all. Hmmm... maybe a wireless hdmi box that hangs off the back of a receiver? Sounds more like Apple. Or they get Sonos or Griffin Tech to make it.
Sounds like my company as well. At one time, we had a huge Mac installation with just a handful of IT folks. Once Win95 came in, first one department and then another started switching. And the metrics showed how much support time, manpower and money went up as Windows machine numbers went up. Bleah!
Don't forget licensing. Mac OS X Server is $1,000 / unlimited seats.
We're just starting in on our yearly true-up with Microsoft. License fees here at my work (17,000 or so machines) is the real cost against us. We're a full-on Microsoft shop; exchange/share point/SMS, etc. Costs more per seat for software than it does for medium/high end Dells and HP/s ($1,000 on up systems). And with the hardware we run, Macs are right there with pricing. The upside is, we average 1 tech per 500 Macs and 1 tech per 200 Windows systems. Support costs for Windows is still higher here and has been since we migrated from Macs (almost 10,000 back in early 90's) to Windows, starting with Win95. Still, most of management likes Windows so that's what we go with.
I used the Silmarillion as a way not to have to deal with people on a flight over to Saudi. I hate dealing with people and having to be around them. Bleah!
Well, there's all these people out there that keep saying the iPad is not a netbook and then go on and on about how it's not a netbook. Usually they start by saying it won't sweep away real computers. Haven't actually seen anyone that likes the iPad saying it's gonig to replace computers.
As for myself, I'm just waiting until it can be a mobile wireless player for my iTunes library.
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And how come I can't post pictures in my comments? Why is slashdot so lamé?
Isn't McD doing a remake?
Star Trek? Bussard Ramjets were popularized by Larry Niven.
My '72 Nova grill was good for crows.
That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard and PETA is really good at stoopid! For the last few years, every time they make news, I have to wonder if, up top, they're being run by someone who's really working for the U.S. Beef and Cattle Association. They're doing stuff now that seemsso counter productive to their professed aims, it seems almost deliberate.
Electromagnetic Satanic Prayer Wheels.
SWEET!
I thought a cancer in the state were undesirables. At least, they're always characterized as being a cancer.
In the 90's, Apple got kinda' schizo, with projects and products showing up all over the map. Having a string of CEO's didn't help matters. If nothing else, Jobs should be studied as to how to focus a company on core services and implementation.
Leave gtsex out of it. Heh.
But yeah, 42 here, been working on computers since the late 70's (still have my Ti 99/4a) and currently spend 9.5 hours a day in front of 4 Apple 23" cinema displays. These were all picked up used as they no longer were as bright as new monitors but in my enclosed room with no natural lighting, they work great at 60%-75% brightness (to get them all close to same white space). No real eye strain here unless it's a web page/app that resets things. Looking forward to an iPad as my iPhone, while sweet layout for surfing and such, is just a bit too small.
Meh. 4 with a scroll ring and track ball large enough to replace a cue ball.
Apple had always done development work for Mac OS on Intel. They also had dev versions for Alpha Spec chips back then. 'Course, compared to PI/II chips, PPC 601/604's were really cool chips. Who knew they'd end up stalling out on the development side?
Check out the Apple e-Mate. Is even uglier than original iBook.
Ze goggles, they do nuthin'!
I need to dig out my old Mac Color Classic and see if there's a way to tap directly in to the monitor. It has a 9" Sony screen with great picture/resolution. Would be cool to throw a Mac Mini in to the case and have a cool little movie player.
I also have one of those circle/stick/rectangle iMacs on a swing arm, with a dead logic board. That's another candidate for Mac Mini upgrade.
Actually, the initial PPC 601 and 604 were very good competitors to Intel's PI/II chips. It's just that, rather than work right away on the next gen PPC, Apple pushed for incremental updates in the 604 architecture. For awhile, it worked but then IBM started having problems with power consumption and such and so it all slowed down. If Apple had partnered up with Intel back in the mid 90's, yeah, that woulda' been cool.
The CD's made cool mobiles.
My Power Computing Power Tower Pro (180 Mhz PPC 604) was a great machine and was still in use as a linux file server when I left my previous job in 2005. It was also the last new 'Mac' I bought. Since then I've picked up used systems and refurbed them myself and lately, am just picking up Apple refurbs. So, the clones themselves weren't bad but yeah, the cloning program kinda' sucked for Apple. Still, as far as Apple disasters, I think John Sculley is where it really started falling apart. Once you let marketing instead of engineering run things, focus shifts from long term growth to short term profits and then the down hill slide has begun.
My Newton 2100 is still running, can surf the web wirelessly, play mp3s and I can even run a web server on it. Yeah, v. 1.0 was pretty sucky but over all, from the 120 on up, they've ok devices.
My pet rock (circa 1976) didn't have any eyes. Was just a smooth water worn rock, like a bunch that were out front in the landscaping. But the box it came in was funny. To an 8 year old. For a few minutes.
Apple may even cede the desktop market to MS. Looking down the road, while desktops will still be around, at the business level, they may evolve back in to thin or thick clients running whatever OS on a VM layer, with users never touching the actual hardware. It looks like they're going for real growth, as opposed to just upgrades and replacements, in mobile entertainment/data access.
Still waiting for them to re image an a/v receiver or pre-amp type device to tie home media together. I could see them releasing a small white box with 1 TB of storage, that's also an iTunes/iPhoto/iLife media server, wireless router and has some kind of hdmi like all-in-one cable output for connecting to a surround sound receiver. Or they may try releasing their own amplifier with support for multiple speakers but that really doesn't seem like their kinda' thing. Jobs hates wires, after all. Hmmm... maybe a wireless hdmi box that hangs off the back of a receiver? Sounds more like Apple. Or they get Sonos or Griffin Tech to make it.
Sounds like my company as well. At one time, we had a huge Mac installation with just a handful of IT folks. Once Win95 came in, first one department and then another started switching. And the metrics showed how much support time, manpower and money went up as Windows machine numbers went up. Bleah!
Don't forget licensing. Mac OS X Server is $1,000 / unlimited seats.
We're just starting in on our yearly true-up with Microsoft. License fees here at my work (17,000 or so machines) is the real cost against us. We're a full-on Microsoft shop; exchange/share point/SMS, etc. Costs more per seat for software than it does for medium/high end Dells and HP/s ($1,000 on up systems). And with the hardware we run, Macs are right there with pricing. The upside is, we average 1 tech per 500 Macs and 1 tech per 200 Windows systems. Support costs for Windows is still higher here and has been since we migrated from Macs (almost 10,000 back in early 90's) to Windows, starting with Win95. Still, most of management likes Windows so that's what we go with.
Entourage is the retarded bastard child of Outlook Express.
I used the Silmarillion as a way not to have to deal with people on a flight over to Saudi. I hate dealing with people and having to be around them. Bleah!
I just want a larger iPod Touch that can stream wirelessly from my iTunes library.
Well, there's all these people out there that keep saying the iPad is not a netbook and then go on and on about how it's not a netbook. Usually they start by saying it won't sweep away real computers. Haven't actually seen anyone that likes the iPad saying it's gonig to replace computers.
As for myself, I'm just waiting until it can be a mobile wireless player for my iTunes library.