Having an early Beta of OS X is like having a Production version of Windows
LOL
Having recently tried Windows Vista Beta Preview, I was surprised to see that the user interface had been revamped, but only at the highest level. Dig into some of the dialogs, and you still see the Windows 2000 we all knew and, well, hated less. Personally, I find this very cynical, and am not at all convinced that the efforts that Microsoft indicated that they were putting into Vista have not been realised.
Personally I was blown away by iChat, in particular the iChat Theater mode in conjunction with Keynote. I know that I have a use for that right now, but to be honest, it was not something that I was looking for until I saw it. It surprised me, but there you go.
I doubt I will upgrade all my machines to Leopard - as you say Tiger is more than adequate for the work I do - but I will more than likely buy a new Mac Pro and a Mac Book Pro when Leopard is released.
...but my desire to be surprised got the better of me. I watched the WWDC keynote, and thought that some of the new features looked really nice, and to be honest, I am prepared to wait. I want my experience of Leopard to be without prejudice.
BTW, I installed Windows Vista Beta Preview a couple of weeks ago, just for fun and it confirmed what I had anticipated - I will not be buying an upgrade to Windows Vista, nor will I purchase any machine with it pre-installed.
OS X is a dream to use on the desktop, with various GNU/Linux installations running on all my servers. The machine with Vista on it? Going to install the latest Ubuntu.
Trac is a powerful ticketing system that integrates well with Subversion, and is built around an easy to use Wiki. I would also recommend using TortoiseSVN as a Windows client for both developers and non-developers.
I didn't say that the car couldn't be refueled anywhere - it only has two inputs, fuel and wiper fluid. The user can add both of those as needed. I meant that the car could only be serviced by the seller's authorised agents.
I doubt that a class action would follow if they did bolt the hood down (I was assuming that there would be no hood), since that would be known before the vehicle was purchased.
Why not bolt the hood down with the same things so that only the dealer can service the vehicle?
Personally, I have often wondered why someone doesn't already do this - sell a car that only has two inputs: fuel and wiper fluid. Not that I think it would be a good idea, it is just that GM or Ford might think it is a good idea...
I was replying to the question raised by the poster, not the practicality of it... If you want to move the music you legally own from one computer to another, it can be done legally. If can also be done illegally - take your pick.
Er... It is not difficult to transfer them to another computer, provided you are the user of both computers, and are prepared to register that fact. If not, then be prepared to burn pruchased music to CD first (which you should probably do anyway...).
All they need now is a stable platform to run it on. Having switched from Microsoft Windows XP to the Apple Mac platform shortly after the release of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I know that they have a long way to go to get anything close to the experience that Apple offers.
I am going to sue GM and get them to make a car that doesn't come with their own branded CD playe, but does inlude product literature for Ford, Toyota, and Vauxhall cars in the glove compartment.
As an 'expert' system administrator (albeit unpaid) I have four servers. One is running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, one is running Microsoft Window Server 2003, one is running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Server), and the other is running Apple OS X Server (10.4).
I can tell you now that when I first started my company, although I was a major advocate of Linux, I soon found that I did not have the time to maintain a then Gentoo or custom LFS distribution, Debian was far too heavy to pick up, and Slackware felt a little dated. So I took a look at Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, liked what I saw, and bought a Dell PowerEdge 400SC with an OEM install.
At first Small Business Server was a breath of fresh air. It was easy to maintain, with a full complement of features, having been bundled with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Window Sharepoint Services. I actually enjoyed - yes, enjoyed - using it.
Until backup stated to fail. Until my tape drive disappeared. Until the sharepoint website database got corrupted. Until exchange monitoring failed. Until the POP connector started to thrash the CPU. Until the Windows Update website failed to check for updates.
These things happened. I'm not saying that they wouldn't happed with another system, but that is not the point, since they happened to me, and that caused me grief, and time, and money to resolve. I ended up trying to build a new system based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, since I already had Microsoft specific data (files and tables), but this proved even more difficult to maintain.
I struggled for eighteen months, and then decided to build an Ubuntu 5.10 server. I use Ubuntu on one of my laptop, and had gently learnt the apt- way, and liked it. I set up a server with similar features to the Small Business Server, using Postfix, MySQL, and Plone, and even went some ways to transferring my sharepoint data. It works. It hasn't failed yet.
I bet the guys who took part in the survey only set up a server, installed some applications, and patched it. I bet they didn't try running a business for 18-months, just to see what it was really like.
I must say that we recently purchased an Apple PowerMac, and were so impressed we are now looking at completely switching, hence the OS X Server. It is a dream to install and configure, but we are going to run it for several months until we are satisfied that it can do the job.
Kubuntu, which is a KDE version fo the wonderful Ubuntu distribution, which incidentaly standardised on GNOME also. If you wait long enough, I expect you will see a supported version of Novell's distribution, but with KDE as the desktop.
Any company can make and sell CD shaped media, but it is only if it conforms to Red Book can they call it a CD. Saying that, how many shoppers would know that they were buying something different? I mean, when did you last check for the CD logo?
Google Print Program allows me to search the text of books in print, I can see each hit as a book and also the search in context (i.e. browse a sample chapter that contains the search), and Google provides links so that I can purchase the book online.
Don't these authors want to sell their books? It is not like I can download the whole text (unless I actually knew a set of unique searches that would mean I could access each chapter as a sample), so where is the copyright infringement?
With all due respect, my desktop has been 64-bit for some time now, and dual core at that. Check out Apple PowerMac G5 and make sure that you are ready for the power.
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Having an early Beta of OS X is like having a Production version of Windows
LOL
Having recently tried Windows Vista Beta Preview, I was surprised to see that the user interface had been revamped, but only at the highest level. Dig into some of the dialogs, and you still see the Windows 2000 we all knew and, well, hated less. Personally, I find this very cynical, and am not at all convinced that the efforts that Microsoft indicated that they were putting into Vista have not been realised.
It depends what you want it for, I suppose.
Personally I was blown away by iChat, in particular the iChat Theater mode in conjunction with Keynote. I know that I have a use for that right now, but to be honest, it was not something that I was looking for until I saw it. It surprised me, but there you go.
I doubt I will upgrade all my machines to Leopard - as you say Tiger is more than adequate for the work I do - but I will more than likely buy a new Mac Pro and a Mac Book Pro when Leopard is released.
...but my desire to be surprised got the better of me. I watched the WWDC keynote, and thought that some of the new features looked really nice, and to be honest, I am prepared to wait. I want my experience of Leopard to be without prejudice.
BTW, I installed Windows Vista Beta Preview a couple of weeks ago, just for fun and it confirmed what I had anticipated - I will not be buying an upgrade to Windows Vista, nor will I purchase any machine with it pre-installed.
OS X is a dream to use on the desktop, with various GNU/Linux installations running on all my servers. The machine with Vista on it? Going to install the latest Ubuntu.
Hasta la vista, Vista...
Looks like he is usually unhappy...
In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene.
Or there is an alteration in the Matrix...
Wow. Imaging the size of the fan you would need to keep that hard drive cool.
Trac is a powerful ticketing system that integrates well with Subversion, and is built around an easy to use Wiki. I would also recommend using TortoiseSVN as a Windows client for both developers and non-developers.
Yeah. Right. mp3s and pr0n?
I didn't say that the car couldn't be refueled anywhere - it only has two inputs, fuel and wiper fluid. The user can add both of those as needed. I meant that the car could only be serviced by the seller's authorised agents.
I doubt that a class action would follow if they did bolt the hood down (I was assuming that there would be no hood), since that would be known before the vehicle was purchased.
Kinda like buying an iPod...
Why not bolt the hood down with the same things so that only the dealer can service the vehicle?
Personally, I have often wondered why someone doesn't already do this - sell a car that only has two inputs: fuel and wiper fluid. Not that I think it would be a good idea, it is just that GM or Ford might think it is a good idea...
I was replying to the question raised by the poster, not the practicality of it... If you want to move the music you legally own from one computer to another, it can be done legally. If can also be done illegally - take your pick.
Savvy people won't put up with the hoops they have to jump through to get their content.
:-)
But do savvy people use Microsoft products?
Er... It is not difficult to transfer them to another computer, provided you are the user of both computers, and are prepared to register that fact. If not, then be prepared to burn pruchased music to CD first (which you should probably do anyway...).
All they need now is a stable platform to run it on. Having switched from Microsoft Windows XP to the Apple Mac platform shortly after the release of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), I know that they have a long way to go to get anything close to the experience that Apple offers.
Already found it at the end of series 7...
My bad.
;-)
I spent so long trying to spell Vauxhall, I missed that little detail...
I am going to sue GM and get them to make a car that doesn't come with their own branded CD playe, but does inlude product literature for Ford, Toyota, and Vauxhall cars in the glove compartment.
As an 'expert' system administrator (albeit unpaid) I have four servers. One is running Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, one is running Microsoft Window Server 2003, one is running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Server), and the other is running Apple OS X Server (10.4).
I can tell you now that when I first started my company, although I was a major advocate of Linux, I soon found that I did not have the time to maintain a then Gentoo or custom LFS distribution, Debian was far too heavy to pick up, and Slackware felt a little dated. So I took a look at Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, liked what I saw, and bought a Dell PowerEdge 400SC with an OEM install.
At first Small Business Server was a breath of fresh air. It was easy to maintain, with a full complement of features, having been bundled with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Window Sharepoint Services. I actually enjoyed - yes, enjoyed - using it.
Until backup stated to fail. Until my tape drive disappeared. Until the sharepoint website database got corrupted. Until exchange monitoring failed. Until the POP connector started to thrash the CPU. Until the Windows Update website failed to check for updates.
These things happened. I'm not saying that they wouldn't happed with another system, but that is not the point, since they happened to me, and that caused me grief, and time, and money to resolve. I ended up trying to build a new system based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, since I already had Microsoft specific data (files and tables), but this proved even more difficult to maintain.
I struggled for eighteen months, and then decided to build an Ubuntu 5.10 server. I use Ubuntu on one of my laptop, and had gently learnt the apt- way, and liked it. I set up a server with similar features to the Small Business Server, using Postfix, MySQL, and Plone, and even went some ways to transferring my sharepoint data. It works. It hasn't failed yet.
I bet the guys who took part in the survey only set up a server, installed some applications, and patched it. I bet they didn't try running a business for 18-months, just to see what it was really like.
I must say that we recently purchased an Apple PowerMac, and were so impressed we are now looking at completely switching, hence the OS X Server. It is a dream to install and configure, but we are going to run it for several months until we are satisfied that it can do the job.
Kubuntu, which is a KDE version fo the wonderful Ubuntu distribution, which incidentaly standardised on GNOME also. If you wait long enough, I expect you will see a supported version of Novell's distribution, but with KDE as the desktop.
Any company can make and sell CD shaped media, but it is only if it conforms to Red Book can they call it a CD. Saying that, how many shoppers would know that they were buying something different? I mean, when did you last check for the CD logo?
Never played Daikatana myself, but i know John Romero got slated for it. Any one like to comment as to why? I mean, what went wrong?
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Google Print Program allows me to search the text of books in print, I can see each hit as a book and also the search in context (i.e. browse a sample chapter that contains the search), and Google provides links so that I can purchase the book online.
Don't these authors want to sell their books? It is not like I can download the whole text (unless I actually knew a set of unique searches that would mean I could access each chapter as a sample), so where is the copyright infringement?
With all due respect, my desktop has been 64-bit for some time now, and dual core at that. Check out Apple PowerMac G5 and make sure that you are ready for the power.
Someone has discovered a unlimited source of muzak! I can sense hordes of senseless HomePage Hobbiests(TM) reaching for their editors...