Your dad probably had one of the Macs that had a factory-installed DOS compatibility card. It was basically a 486-based PC on a NuBus expansion card. They were sold in the mid 90s.
I've only ever touched one in my life, and it was 10 years ago-- but I'm pretty sure it had an option to show the PC in full screen mode. Now that I think about it, I believe there was a key combination that would toggle back and forth between the Mac and PC environments.
There was only one generation of these. IIRC, there was some reason (power consumption? heat?) why they couldn't do the same thing with a Pentium CPU.
The only thing keeping Entourage from being better than Outlook by leaps and bounds is MS's intentional crippling of Entourage as an Exchange client.
I'm not a tinfoil hat type, but I too feel that Entourage's Exchange abilities are intentionally subpar to keep the Mac at bay in corporate environments. There's no other explanation for why they couldn't just implement MAPI and instead went with some sort of DAV/IMAP abomination to retrieve mail. It's also taken them much too long to even implement all of Outlook 2001's features, which themselves are just a subset of those on Outlook for Windows. It is indeed very suspicious when you step back and look at how superior Mac Office is in nearly every other way.
I still keep my clients on Outlook 2001 wherever possible, which unfortunately will cease to be an option on Intel-based Macs since the Classic environment won't work on those.
If you don't like Entourage's Exchange implementation, complain. I know it's unlikely they'll actually listen to us and redo it right, but it can't hurt to try.
Yep, I was just about to post the same thing. This is just a modern rehashing of the PCjr. IIRC, they called the expansion modules "sidecars"-- I've got one in the next room with two of them installed on it. Here's a pic of a PCjr with a single sidecar attached.
It's fitting that a 20+ year-old idea won a design contest sponsored by Microsoft, the undisputed king of recycling ideas and trying to pass them off as new and original.
Microsoft's biggest asset, and Apple's biggest hurdle, is Windows lock-in.
There are some things you just can't do/use unless you run Windows. Certain web sites. The hot new games. Vertical market apps that have no Mac counterpart.
There are plenty of people in the world who would LOVE to own a Macintosh, except there's that one thing holding them to Windows. Microsoft works very hard to ensure there's a "one thing" for as many people as possible.
But if you can run Windows and/or Windows applications on a Mac, especially if you can do it at or very near the Mac hardware's native speed and while booted into OS X, that "one thing" keeping you on Windows becomes a moot point.
And let me clue you in, slick: That "flexibility and choice" stuff you love to bray about is BS for about 85% of the computer users on the planet-- the people who will just buy whatever Dell, HP/Compaq or Gateway recommends on their online store and never open the case on it for as long as they own it. They're the people who just want to use their computer, not maintain their computer. That's who Apple wants as customers, because that's the kind of computers Apple sells. If you want to cobble together your own PC and be ass-deep in hardware drivers trying to get everything to work together, more power to you. There are plenty of people with better things to do.
Oh, and before you go dismissing me as some Apple fanboy, note this: I have built several PCs for myself and friends, and make a good deal of my living fixing and supporting Windows. Having used both for years, I will always choose a Mac as my primary computer because when I get home I don't want to have to fix my own machine, I just want to enjoy using it.
It's been the one area where Macs just haven't kept up with the state-of-the-art.
Well don't blame Apple for that, blame the GPS vendors who couldn't be bothered to support Macs.
Delorme's mapping applications are amazing.
You should have seen the mapping application they used to make for the Mac. It sucked shit. Seriously. It was the worst, most half-assed port of the Windows version of an application I have ever seen, with the possible exception of Microsoft Word 6.0.
It sucked, nobody bought it, so DeLorme pronounced the Mac GPS market dead and dropped Mac support.
Not unlike what Symantec did with all the Mac programs thy used to put out. Putting out a bad version, waiting for word of mouth to kill sales and then using poor sales as an excuse to kill the product.
IMO bluetooth is not a technology a lot of people have embraced
I guess you don't know any Mac users. We're busy using our Bluetooth-enabled phones as remote controls for iTunes and DVD Player, and Powerpoint clickers, among other things. People haven't embraced it on Windows because it's a pain in the ass to set up. On the Mac it just works.
Here is a post from a 2003/. discussion on what a failure Bluetooth is. You should read the whole discussion.
...a provision stating that Futurama will NEVER be scheduled anywhere near the timeslot of a God damned football game.
I don't know how many times I sat down to watch a TiVo'd episode of Futurama, only to discover that what was recorded was the last 20 minutes of some stupid NFL game.
THAT is why it got poor ratings, because the FOX idiots stuck it in the 7pm Sunday death slot.
I've been into consoles for over twenty years now and can not think of a single time where an add-on device has been successful.
Don't you remember the Colecovision Expansion Module #1? It let you play Atari 2600 games on a Colecovision console, and was pretty successful because it increased the CV's software library and allowed 2600 owners to move to a better system while still retaining their investment in 2600 games.
By the way, does anybody know if SAC (Strategic Air Command) is still flying its' B-52 bombers in circles around the perimeter of the Artic Circle, just in case?
B-52s haven't flown airborne alert missions since 1968, when a nuclear-armed B-52 on such a mission crashed near Thule AFB in Greenland. After that, the only constant in-air SAC presence was the "Looking Glass" airborne command post aircraft, and that presence ceased in July of 1990. SAC hasn't even existed as a separate Defense Department entity since a reorg in June of 1992, which created U.S. Strategic Command.
The Patriot Act was passed in 2001 while the WTC rubble was still smoking. They built in the expiration because it was obviously a piece of knee-jerk legislation guaranteed to be overreaching-- it was expected that four years later, we'd have simmered down, we'd have the benefit of hindsight and the expiration date would force re-examination and adjustment of the law's provisions.
Nobody imagined that that son of a bitch Bush II and his minions would have spent the intervening years abusing/hiding behind it while turning the U.S. into a police state, and that they'd not want to pare down any of the civil-liberties-stomping aspects.
Read up on Gates' views on religion, and then ask yourself if the FOX News-watching Bible-thumpers in this country would cast their vote for him.
Those crazy fucks took a man who is a dullard and was an addict, who ran business after business into the ground (who couldn't find oil in TEXAS!), and made him the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth-- simply because he found religion and told them what they wanted to hear.
They wouldn't care a whit about Gates' business acumen and what it could do for the country. They would just fixate on the fact that he is noncommittal (to say the least) about religion, and would quickly mobilize to defeat him.
Those are scams, and the scammers are exceptionally thick-headed. I have sold several laptops in recent years, and I put right in the listing that I absolutely will not ship internationally, so don't even ask. I also put in there that scammers shouldn't waste their time offering me absurd sums to end the auction early, because I'm not falling for that crap.
I guess they either don't read the whole listing or just think that if they appeal sufficiently to my sense of greed I'll change my mind, because I was still getting e-mails in horribly broken English offering me much more than the laptop was worth and giving me detailed instructions on how to ship it overseas to them quickly because they desperately needed it. (Uh huh. If you need it so badly and have so much money, why don't you just buy a brand new one?)
Foreign scamming assholes were a much bigger problem before eBay let you restrict who could bid on items by feedback and location. I was constantly having to police my listings and cancel bids from people with horrible feedback and/or located in Turkmenistan or some such place.
I gleefully enjoy the accounts posted on/. and other places of would-be victims turning the tables on these shitheads-- making them pay stiff customs fees only to find a box full of old men's magazines or a 3-ring binder with an Apple logo badly drawn on it.
I now recommend that you throw away your 100% functional PC
A PC that is so laden with malware that it runs at a crawl is hardly "100% functional."
How many trips to the PC repair store can you get for the cost of a new G5 + replacing all existing software?
I charge $120/hour. The average thorough spyware cleaning on a seriously-pwned machine takes 3-4 hours. I don't get calls from people to fix their machines until they are so bogged down with crap that they are basically unusable.
Two visits from me to clean spyware would buy a decently-equipped Mac mini and a copy of Office 2004 Student & Teacher Edition (which is identical to the normal version, just cheaper).
And don't give me any horseshit about the Mac mini not being very upgradable. The people who are plagued the worst by malware are non-techie types who never upgrade any internals of their computers-- they use them as they came out of the box until they buy a new one.
These days, if a first grader makes a gun out of his thumb and index finger and "shoots" another kid during a schoolyard game of cops and robbers, he's likely to be labelled a potential Harris or Klebold. If a teenager has a violent dream and writes about it in a school assignment, the school goes into lockdown and the police get called.
If you think what happened to this Marquette student is absurd, wait until you read some of the stuff at that link. And those are mostly in public schools. Bastions of free speech and thought, my ass.
~Philly
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Here are some selections from my shelves:
Fire in the Valley, by Frieberger & Swaine Accidental Empires, by Cringely Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, by Wallace & Erickson Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Hiltzik Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, by Smith & Alexander
I remember when CDs first came out, they cost about $15-17 and usually came in bulky cardboard packaging (ostensibly to discourage theft).
Its size may have had the side effect of thwarting less determined thieves, but the CD longbox was primarily designed so music stores could continue to use the same fixtures that displayed 12" vinyl records to display CDs.
...that lays the golden eggs? What a bunch of morons!
The iTMS achieved its status as the most popular online music store by being easy to understand: You get the same rights for every song, and every song is the same price. That's called being customer-friendly. Contrast that with the stores where songs are all different prices, and some can't be burned to CD, etc.-- they're all also-rans, killing each other for the small sliver of the market not controlled by the iTMS.
When the prices go up from 0.99 and that psychological barrier is broken by a nonzero digit left of the decimal point, sales will go down as people balk at song prices and go back to p2p for their music. And does anyone think the record companies will really lower the prices on anything people would actually buy? Haven't they demonstrated that they have no stomach for charging x when they could be charging x+1?
When will these jackals learn? <shaking head in disgust>
It ended because the cloners were supposed to take the low end of the market (consumer level machines) and leave the high end (pro machines) for Apple. Instead, they went for the high end as well and undercut Apple. There was even a time when the fastest Mac being made was made by Power Computing, not Apple. The clones were cheaper and in some cases faster, so they were stealing a lot of sales from Apple. Apple started to bleed money, because the cloners didn't have to cover the overhead of OS development or do much R&D on their products.
When Jobs returned in 1997, he looked for a way to get out of the cloner contracts that were killing Apple. The contracts said the cloners were licensed to distribute Mac OS 7.x, and only Mac OS 7.x, no future major versions were covered. Apple was working on an OS update at the time, and so what probably would have been named Mac OS 7.7 was instead released as Mac OS 8.0. Apple declined to license it to the cloners, and that was the end of that. The clone makers stopped making Mac clones and went back to their primary businesses (most of them had started as Mac peripheral makers). Power Computing's remains were, IIRC, bought by Apple a year or two later.
There have been cases of people going away on vacation for a year, only to return to find their home gone
Sounds like a rich person's problem to me. Let me know when some Joe Disappearing-Middle-Class gets back from a weekend in Vegas to find his house gone because of this, then maybe I'll start caring.
However, the patent describes a process whereby users would be able to load one of three operating systems as their primary OS and then load a secondary operating system as their secondary OS. In the patent application, titled, System and method for creating tamper-resistant code, they describe the process as thus:
22. The method of claim 20, wherein the first operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
23. The method of claim 20, wherein the second operating system is selected from the set consisting of Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.
From the sound of this, Apple is indeed going to do what I had simultaneously hoped for and feared: They're going to enable people to boot into OS X and run Windows at the same time (and vice versa)-- probably very similar to the way Classic runs now.
I had hoped for this because it makes switching infinitely easier-- people can just load up Windows and their apps on their Intel-based Mac, and make a gradual transition to OS X. Those who use Windows-only vertical-market apps will have the world of the Mac opened up to them.
I had feared this because there are bound to be some cheap/lazy asshole developers who will take one look at the Windows compatibility environment, cancel the Mac versions of their products, and tell Mac users to just use the Windows versions in said compatibility environment. I'd hate to see this reverse the Mac application availability renaissance that has been going on for the last few years.
If you want Apple to take you seriously, come to the Apple Store-- and bring your checkbook. That's the only way you'll be getting what really makes OS X OS X.
Yeah, you can. Once you get CJ to a certain level of fatness he can't even exercise in the gym. I kept trying to slim him down, but when I'd try to get on the treadmill or stationary bike it would say, "You've already exercised enough for today, come back tomorrow"-- all CJ can do is run, bike and swim until eventually he can exercise in the gym again to slim down the rest of the way.
They missed an opportunity for humor, there, I think-- they should have let CJ exercise while obese and have him keel over from a heart attack if he overdoes it.
My character is pretty damn buff- maybe I will fatten him up a bit.
Actually, you need to get fat at least once. One of the women you can date in the game, Michelle, won't talk to you unless your fat level is at 50%-- apparently she likes her men meaty. And if you slim down while dating her, she rejects you when you go to pick her up for a date. I think there's also a woman who doesn't like you to be too muscular.
Am I the only guy who remembers the time period when you were hard pressed to find an Apple-related article that didn't include the word "beleaguered" to describe the company? The same time period when (IIRC) a MacWorld columnist named John Dvorak pronounced the platform dead and went over to the other side?
Journalists prefer Macs now because Apple has gotten their shit together since the advent of OS X and the iPod, and has been putting out good stuff. The journalists have found modern Macs usable enough to try them out for longer periods of time, and have found that they like what they're seeing. Historically, people who have a decent amount of experience* with both platforms overwhelmingly prefer Macs.
~Philly
* "Decent amount of experience" = Having done actual work on a Mac, not spent 5 minutes playing around with a one in an Apple Store before prnouncing it 'lame' or 'stupid' and going home to their 'leet gaming rig.
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Your dad probably had one of the Macs that had a factory-installed DOS compatibility card. It was basically a 486-based PC on a NuBus expansion card. They were sold in the mid 90s.
I've only ever touched one in my life, and it was 10 years ago-- but I'm pretty sure it had an option to show the PC in full screen mode. Now that I think about it, I believe there was a key combination that would toggle back and forth between the Mac and PC environments.
There was only one generation of these. IIRC, there was some reason (power consumption? heat?) why they couldn't do the same thing with a Pentium CPU.
~Philly
The only thing keeping Entourage from being better than Outlook by leaps and bounds is MS's intentional crippling of Entourage as an Exchange client.
I'm not a tinfoil hat type, but I too feel that Entourage's Exchange abilities are intentionally subpar to keep the Mac at bay in corporate environments. There's no other explanation for why they couldn't just implement MAPI and instead went with some sort of DAV/IMAP abomination to retrieve mail. It's also taken them much too long to even implement all of Outlook 2001's features, which themselves are just a subset of those on Outlook for Windows. It is indeed very suspicious when you step back and look at how superior Mac Office is in nearly every other way.
I still keep my clients on Outlook 2001 wherever possible, which unfortunately will cease to be an option on Intel-based Macs since the Classic environment won't work on those.
If you don't like Entourage's Exchange implementation, complain. I know it's unlikely they'll actually listen to us and redo it right, but it can't hurt to try.
~Philly
Yep, I was just about to post the same thing. This is just a modern rehashing of the PCjr. IIRC, they called the expansion modules "sidecars"-- I've got one in the next room with two of them installed on it. Here's a pic of a PCjr with a single sidecar attached.
It's fitting that a 20+ year-old idea won a design contest sponsored by Microsoft, the undisputed king of recycling ideas and trying to pass them off as new and original.
~Philly
Microsoft's biggest asset, and Apple's biggest hurdle, is Windows lock-in.
There are some things you just can't do/use unless you run Windows. Certain web sites. The hot new games. Vertical market apps that have no Mac counterpart.
There are plenty of people in the world who would LOVE to own a Macintosh, except there's that one thing holding them to Windows. Microsoft works very hard to ensure there's a "one thing" for as many people as possible.
But if you can run Windows and/or Windows applications on a Mac, especially if you can do it at or very near the Mac hardware's native speed and while booted into OS X, that "one thing" keeping you on Windows becomes a moot point.
And let me clue you in, slick: That "flexibility and choice" stuff you love to bray about is BS for about 85% of the computer users on the planet-- the people who will just buy whatever Dell, HP/Compaq or Gateway recommends on their online store and never open the case on it for as long as they own it. They're the people who just want to use their computer, not maintain their computer. That's who Apple wants as customers, because that's the kind of computers Apple sells. If you want to cobble together your own PC and be ass-deep in hardware drivers trying to get everything to work together, more power to you. There are plenty of people with better things to do.
Oh, and before you go dismissing me as some Apple fanboy, note this: I have built several PCs for myself and friends, and make a good deal of my living fixing and supporting Windows. Having used both for years, I will always choose a Mac as my primary computer because when I get home I don't want to have to fix my own machine, I just want to enjoy using it.
~Philly
It's been the one area where Macs just haven't kept up with the state-of-the-art.
Well don't blame Apple for that, blame the GPS vendors who couldn't be bothered to support Macs.
Delorme's mapping applications are amazing.
You should have seen the mapping application they used to make for the Mac. It sucked shit. Seriously. It was the worst, most half-assed port of the Windows version of an application I have ever seen, with the possible exception of Microsoft Word 6.0.
It sucked, nobody bought it, so DeLorme pronounced the Mac GPS market dead and dropped Mac support.
Not unlike what Symantec did with all the Mac programs thy used to put out. Putting out a bad version, waiting for word of mouth to kill sales and then using poor sales as an excuse to kill the product.
~Philly
IMO bluetooth is not a technology a lot of people have embraced
/. discussion on what a failure Bluetooth is. You should read the whole discussion.
I guess you don't know any Mac users. We're busy using our Bluetooth-enabled phones as remote controls for iTunes and DVD Player, and Powerpoint clickers, among other things. People haven't embraced it on Windows because it's a pain in the ass to set up. On the Mac it just works.
Here is a post from a 2003
~Philly
...a provision stating that Futurama will NEVER be scheduled anywhere near the timeslot of a God damned football game.
I don't know how many times I sat down to watch a TiVo'd episode of Futurama, only to discover that what was recorded was the last 20 minutes of some stupid NFL game.
THAT is why it got poor ratings, because the FOX idiots stuck it in the 7pm Sunday death slot.
~Philly
I've been into consoles for over twenty years now and can not think of a single time where an add-on device has been successful.
Don't you remember the Colecovision Expansion Module #1? It let you play Atari 2600 games on a Colecovision console, and was pretty successful because it increased the CV's software library and allowed 2600 owners to move to a better system while still retaining their investment in 2600 games.
~Philly
By the way, does anybody know if SAC (Strategic Air Command) is still flying its' B-52 bombers in circles around the perimeter of the Artic Circle, just in case?
B-52s haven't flown airborne alert missions since 1968, when a nuclear-armed B-52 on such a mission crashed near Thule AFB in Greenland. After that, the only constant in-air SAC presence was the "Looking Glass" airborne command post aircraft, and that presence ceased in July of 1990. SAC hasn't even existed as a separate Defense Department entity since a reorg in June of 1992, which created U.S. Strategic Command.
~Philly
The Patriot Act was passed in 2001 while the WTC rubble was still smoking. They built in the expiration because it was obviously a piece of knee-jerk legislation guaranteed to be overreaching-- it was expected that four years later, we'd have simmered down, we'd have the benefit of hindsight and the expiration date would force re-examination and adjustment of the law's provisions.
Nobody imagined that that son of a bitch Bush II and his minions would have spent the intervening years abusing/hiding behind it while turning the U.S. into a police state, and that they'd not want to pare down any of the civil-liberties-stomping aspects.
~Philly
Read up on Gates' views on religion, and then ask yourself if the FOX News-watching Bible-thumpers in this country would cast their vote for him.
Those crazy fucks took a man who is a dullard and was an addict, who ran business after business into the ground (who couldn't find oil in TEXAS!), and made him the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth-- simply because he found religion and told them what they wanted to hear.
They wouldn't care a whit about Gates' business acumen and what it could do for the country. They would just fixate on the fact that he is noncommittal (to say the least) about religion, and would quickly mobilize to defeat him.
~Philly
Those are scams, and the scammers are exceptionally thick-headed. I have sold several laptops in recent years, and I put right in the listing that I absolutely will not ship internationally, so don't even ask. I also put in there that scammers shouldn't waste their time offering me absurd sums to end the auction early, because I'm not falling for that crap.
/. and other places of would-be victims turning the tables on these shitheads-- making them pay stiff customs fees only to find a box full of old men's magazines or a 3-ring binder with an Apple logo badly drawn on it.
I guess they either don't read the whole listing or just think that if they appeal sufficiently to my sense of greed I'll change my mind, because I was still getting e-mails in horribly broken English offering me much more than the laptop was worth and giving me detailed instructions on how to ship it overseas to them quickly because they desperately needed it. (Uh huh. If you need it so badly and have so much money, why don't you just buy a brand new one?)
Foreign scamming assholes were a much bigger problem before eBay let you restrict who could bid on items by feedback and location. I was constantly having to police my listings and cancel bids from people with horrible feedback and/or located in Turkmenistan or some such place.
I gleefully enjoy the accounts posted on
~Philly
I now recommend that you throw away your 100% functional PC
A PC that is so laden with malware that it runs at a crawl is hardly "100% functional."
How many trips to the PC repair store can you get for the cost of a new G5 + replacing all existing software?
I charge $120/hour. The average thorough spyware cleaning on a seriously-pwned machine takes 3-4 hours. I don't get calls from people to fix their machines until they are so bogged down with crap that they are basically unusable.
Two visits from me to clean spyware would buy a decently-equipped Mac mini and a copy of Office 2004 Student & Teacher Edition (which is identical to the normal version, just cheaper).
And don't give me any horseshit about the Mac mini not being very upgradable. The people who are plagued the worst by malware are non-techie types who never upgrade any internals of their computers-- they use them as they came out of the box until they buy a new one.
~Philly
This stinks. I never thought I'd see the day in America when a STUDENT couldn't write or say what they wanted.
Man, you haven't been paying attention for a few years, have you? That day has come and gone, a LONG time ago.
These days, if a first grader makes a gun out of his thumb and index finger and "shoots" another kid during a schoolyard game of cops and robbers, he's likely to be labelled a potential Harris or Klebold. If a teenager has a violent dream and writes about it in a school assignment, the school goes into lockdown and the police get called.
If you think what happened to this Marquette student is absurd, wait until you read some of the stuff at that link. And those are mostly in public schools. Bastions of free speech and thought, my ass.
~Philly
Here are some selections from my shelves:
Fire in the Valley, by Frieberger & Swaine
Accidental Empires, by Cringely
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, by Wallace & Erickson
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, by Hiltzik
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, by Smith & Alexander
~Philly
I remember when CDs first came out, they cost about $15-17 and usually came in bulky cardboard packaging (ostensibly to discourage theft).
Its size may have had the side effect of thwarting less determined thieves, but the CD longbox was primarily designed so music stores could continue to use the same fixtures that displayed 12" vinyl records to display CDs.
~Philly
...that lays the golden eggs? What a bunch of morons!
The iTMS achieved its status as the most popular online music store by being easy to understand: You get the same rights for every song, and every song is the same price. That's called being customer-friendly. Contrast that with the stores where songs are all different prices, and some can't be burned to CD, etc.-- they're all also-rans, killing each other for the small sliver of the market not controlled by the iTMS.
When the prices go up from 0.99 and that psychological barrier is broken by a nonzero digit left of the decimal point, sales will go down as people balk at song prices and go back to p2p for their music. And does anyone think the record companies will really lower the prices on anything people would actually buy? Haven't they demonstrated that they have no stomach for charging x when they could be charging x+1?
When will these jackals learn? <shaking head in disgust>
~Philly
It ended because the cloners were supposed to take the low end of the market (consumer level machines) and leave the high end (pro machines) for Apple. Instead, they went for the high end as well and undercut Apple. There was even a time when the fastest Mac being made was made by Power Computing, not Apple. The clones were cheaper and in some cases faster, so they were stealing a lot of sales from Apple. Apple started to bleed money, because the cloners didn't have to cover the overhead of OS development or do much R&D on their products.
When Jobs returned in 1997, he looked for a way to get out of the cloner contracts that were killing Apple. The contracts said the cloners were licensed to distribute Mac OS 7.x, and only Mac OS 7.x, no future major versions were covered. Apple was working on an OS update at the time, and so what probably would have been named Mac OS 7.7 was instead released as Mac OS 8.0. Apple declined to license it to the cloners, and that was the end of that. The clone makers stopped making Mac clones and went back to their primary businesses (most of them had started as Mac peripheral makers). Power Computing's remains were, IIRC, bought by Apple a year or two later.
~Philly
There have been cases of people going away on vacation for a year, only to return to find their home gone
Sounds like a rich person's problem to me. Let me know when some Joe Disappearing-Middle-Class gets back from a weekend in Vegas to find his house gone because of this, then maybe I'll start caring.
However, the patent describes a process whereby users would be able to load one of three operating systems as their primary OS and then load a secondary operating system as their secondary OS. In the patent application, titled, System and method for creating tamper-resistant code, they describe the process as thus:
From the sound of this, Apple is indeed going to do what I had simultaneously hoped for and feared: They're going to enable people to boot into OS X and run Windows at the same time (and vice versa)-- probably very similar to the way Classic runs now.
I had hoped for this because it makes switching infinitely easier-- people can just load up Windows and their apps on their Intel-based Mac, and make a gradual transition to OS X. Those who use Windows-only vertical-market apps will have the world of the Mac opened up to them.
I had feared this because there are bound to be some cheap/lazy asshole developers who will take one look at the Windows compatibility environment, cancel the Mac versions of their products, and tell Mac users to just use the Windows versions in said compatibility environment. I'd hate to see this reverse the Mac application availability renaissance that has been going on for the last few years.
~Philly
So Apple if you want us to take you seriously-- open source your OS
Done.
If you want Apple to take you seriously, come to the Apple Store-- and bring your checkbook. That's the only way you'll be getting what really makes OS X OS X.
~Philly
I guess some people just cant handle the minimal amount of work involved in staying secure...
Yes, we call those people "average users," and they are legion.
Anyone happen to run across this info anywhere?
There's some information here about the additional secure authentication methods OS X supports.
~Philly
I didn't realize one could make CJ so fat
Yeah, you can. Once you get CJ to a certain level of fatness he can't even exercise in the gym. I kept trying to slim him down, but when I'd try to get on the treadmill or stationary bike it would say, "You've already exercised enough for today, come back tomorrow"-- all CJ can do is run, bike and swim until eventually he can exercise in the gym again to slim down the rest of the way.
They missed an opportunity for humor, there, I think-- they should have let CJ exercise while obese and have him keel over from a heart attack if he overdoes it.
My character is pretty damn buff- maybe I will fatten him up a bit.
Actually, you need to get fat at least once. One of the women you can date in the game, Michelle, won't talk to you unless your fat level is at 50%-- apparently she likes her men meaty. And if you slim down while dating her, she rejects you when you go to pick her up for a date. I think there's also a woman who doesn't like you to be too muscular.
~Philly
Am I the only guy who remembers the time period when you were hard pressed to find an Apple-related article that didn't include the word "beleaguered" to describe the company? The same time period when (IIRC) a MacWorld columnist named John Dvorak pronounced the platform dead and went over to the other side?
Journalists prefer Macs now because Apple has gotten their shit together since the advent of OS X and the iPod, and has been putting out good stuff. The journalists have found modern Macs usable enough to try them out for longer periods of time, and have found that they like what they're seeing. Historically, people who have a decent amount of experience* with both platforms overwhelmingly prefer Macs.
~Philly
* "Decent amount of experience" = Having done actual work on a Mac, not spent 5 minutes playing around with a one in an Apple Store before prnouncing it 'lame' or 'stupid' and going home to their 'leet gaming rig.