The Amiga's fate was probably sealed when Commodore bought out Amiga. The Mac had the charismatic Jobs and his trademark Reality Distortion Field, with serious attempts at making a business computer. And the Amiga had Commodore, who just kind of threw it out there, expected people to play games on it and otherwise treated it as a shiny toy.
Another difference is that while Amiga focused on flashy hardware, Apple focused on a solid user interface. It's a lot easier to be backwards compatible with software than it is with hardware. Amiga was pretty much doomed to have to re-implement the same chipset and video modes in every future version, where Quickdraw on the Mac, and discouraging direct writes to the video hardware (which was just a simple bitmap to begin with), allowed Apple the flexibility to change the graphics hardware.
Did they ever get replies to crossposts working right? Originally, it would just post your reply into whatever group you were reading from, instead of what was in the Newsgroups or Followup-to header.
These days, I just use my $5/mo AOL account for keeping my screen name (works with AIM/iChat) and image hosting for Fark photoshops. I was also having my mom use it for e-mail, but I got her to switch to using my own mail server with a real RFC protocol.
Hopefully this will set some kind of a precedent for when EA sues Sega because random people are making and uploading full NFL rosters for their 2006 game, whatever it ends up being called.
Geez, with those shadows under his eyes, he looks like he's been pulling an all-nighter... a 72-hour all-nighter! They couldn't have sent a make-up person along with the photographer?
I've never had a problem either. Except when I tried to use a Model M keyboard. The Windows keys get mapped to the Command key, and there's no Windows key on a Model M.
It shouldn't be any problem. In fact, that's how I got my most recent Mac, a Blue & White G3 for $110. Except in that case, someone would have had to pay me to take that stupid hockey puck of a mouse off their hands.
I like how Apple suggests on their Macmini page that programmers should get one and a KVM switch, and put it on top of their PC.
For example last week at an escalator she thought that waiting at the top would be the best place as it supplied an infinite number of japanaese people (which are small).
Yes, but would they come fast enough? If they don't come fast enough, you'll run out of time, and the King will get pissed again.
Back in my college days, I played a lot of the Spy Hunter coin op. I surprised myself when I was behind a Coca Cola truck, expecting it to open up to let me drive in for a reload.
I finally finished finding the last damn name in that game, so now I'm finally free of its eeeeevil clutches... I hope.
Most of my urge to roll stuff up while driving is gone, but every time I see a row of nice round manicured shrubberies, I still want to roll them all up. Thumppity, thumpitty, thump.
Who else read the title to this and wondered if it were something having to do with predicting tsunamis in the Atlantic Ocean or about watching solar eclipses from the Atlantic Ocean?
Specifically, bad RAM is the most common source of kernel panics on OS X boxes.
So is RAM with bad contact in the SIMM/DIMM socket. Many years ago someone had a Mac Plus which would crash all the time. I had them just turn it on and leave it idle for a few minutes. It crashed while just sitting there. I opened it up, removed the RAM, cleaned the contacts on the SIMM stick, re-inserted it, and that computer didn't have the problem any more.
I would suggest the original poster shut down his Mac, remove the RAM, clean the contacts with a pencil (not ink) eraser, brush off the eraser dust with a brush (don't blow them away because your breath will put moisture on the contacts), then re-insert them FIRMLY.
It's also possible, depending on the model, that this can be a cooling issue. Factory-installed ZIF G3 upgrades use the "putty square" kind of thermal material, which isn't always reliable, especially after you've removed the heat sink once. Clean that crap off, put a small amount of heat sink compound on the center of the CPU, then put everything back together again.
I'm waiting for an AMD Boron myself. Nothing fast and hot, just a nice underspecced chip that doesn't need a fan that sounds like a jet plane taking off. Just reliable and boring.
Very often, hotel lobby and conference area outlets are quite "loose". Whether this is intentional to keep random people from plugging in, or simply the result of the housekeeping staff yanking cords from 10 feet away during the daily vacuuming, it makes it hard to keep most two-prong plugs from falling out. Good for me that my laptop came with a 3-prong cord!
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Another difference is that while Amiga focused on flashy hardware, Apple focused on a solid user interface. It's a lot easier to be backwards compatible with software than it is with hardware. Amiga was pretty much doomed to have to re-implement the same chipset and video modes in every future version, where Quickdraw on the Mac, and discouraging direct writes to the video hardware (which was just a simple bitmap to begin with), allowed Apple the flexibility to change the graphics hardware.
These days, I just use my $5/mo AOL account for keeping my screen name (works with AIM/iChat) and image hosting for Fark photoshops. I was also having my mom use it for e-mail, but I got her to switch to using my own mail server with a real RFC protocol.
Hopefully this will set some kind of a precedent for when EA sues Sega because random people are making and uploading full NFL rosters for their 2006 game, whatever it ends up being called.
I wonder, if by some miracle Xanadu had actually become a real and mainstream, how well Xanadu would have held up to the Slashdot Effect?
And Bobby^H^H^H^H^H Sam would come out of the shower, look in the mirror, and say "Oh boy!", after realizing it was all a dream.
Don't forget how they will film some scenes with Wil Wheaton, only to cut them in post-production, because he's not "edgy" enough.
Geez, with those shadows under his eyes, he looks like he's been pulling an all-nighter... a 72-hour all-nighter! They couldn't have sent a make-up person along with the photographer?
I don't even think a violet LED (do we even have those yet?) would be nearly as l33t.
IHTM. He was talking about the POS. That's what quoting is for, dammit!
RTFAWS. It comes with a "combo drive", which is CDRW/DVD. The "superdrive" (DVD-R) is an extra cost option.
That's because it's a laptop drive.
They did get it right. For 98% of the target market. Just because you happen to be in the other 2% doesn't make it wrong.
If you build them small enough to hold zero songs, you don't even need the on/off button.
I've never had a problem either. Except when I tried to use a Model M keyboard. The Windows keys get mapped to the Command key, and there's no Windows key on a Model M.
I like how Apple suggests on their Macmini page that programmers should get one and a KVM switch, and put it on top of their PC.
That's 6.5" x 6.5" x 2"
I want to see a picture of three of these stacked up next to a Cube. How about a Beowulf cluster of these! And buy two, they're cheap.
Yes, but would they come fast enough? If they don't come fast enough, you'll run out of time, and the King will get pissed again.
Back in my college days, I played a lot of the Spy Hunter coin op. I surprised myself when I was behind a Coca Cola truck, expecting it to open up to let me drive in for a reload.
Most of my urge to roll stuff up while driving is gone, but every time I see a row of nice round manicured shrubberies, I still want to roll them all up. Thumppity, thumpitty, thump.
Who else read the title to this and wondered if it were something having to do with predicting tsunamis in the Atlantic Ocean or about watching solar eclipses from the Atlantic Ocean?
So is RAM with bad contact in the SIMM/DIMM socket. Many years ago someone had a Mac Plus which would crash all the time. I had them just turn it on and leave it idle for a few minutes. It crashed while just sitting there. I opened it up, removed the RAM, cleaned the contacts on the SIMM stick, re-inserted it, and that computer didn't have the problem any more.
I would suggest the original poster shut down his Mac, remove the RAM, clean the contacts with a pencil (not ink) eraser, brush off the eraser dust with a brush (don't blow them away because your breath will put moisture on the contacts), then re-insert them FIRMLY.
It's also possible, depending on the model, that this can be a cooling issue. Factory-installed ZIF G3 upgrades use the "putty square" kind of thermal material, which isn't always reliable, especially after you've removed the heat sink once. Clean that crap off, put a small amount of heat sink compound on the center of the CPU, then put everything back together again.
I'm waiting for an AMD Boron myself. Nothing fast and hot, just a nice underspecced chip that doesn't need a fan that sounds like a jet plane taking off. Just reliable and boring.
Very often, hotel lobby and conference area outlets are quite "loose". Whether this is intentional to keep random people from plugging in, or simply the result of the housekeeping staff yanking cords from 10 feet away during the daily vacuuming, it makes it hard to keep most two-prong plugs from falling out. Good for me that my laptop came with a 3-prong cord!
1) Purchase music from Apple Store
2) Burn music to "red book" audio CD
3) Rip music from CD
4) Put re-ripped music on player of choice
5) PROFIT!
China?