1. TurboTax 2002 Deluxe, Intuit 2. Norton Antivirus 2003, Symantec 3. TurboTax 2002, Intuit 4. Norton Antivirus, 2004, Symantec 5. TurboTax 2002 Multi State 45, Intuit 6. Taxcut 2002 Deluxe, Block Financial 7. MS Windows XP Home Ed Upgrade, Microsoft 8. MS Office XP Student & Teacher Edition, Microsoft 9. Taxcut 2002 State, Block Financial 10. Norton Internet Security 2003, Symantec Source: The NPD Group/NPD Techworld
Intuit's tax software is available for the Mac, and the latest version of Quicken ships preinstalled on all Macs. Microsoft Office is available for the Mac. Norton Antivirus is available for the Mac, though you can certainly live without it. Norton Internet Security is not available, and not really needed anyway. Hell, even Windows XP Home can run on the Mac if you buy Virtual PC or the "Pro" version of Mac Office that includes it.
The article with this list does not say that games were excluded, so I am assuming that this means no games sold enough copies in 2003 to make the top 10 for all Windows software titles.
I'm willing to make the compromise of having to plug in to standard AC.
If it's at all practical, I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising vendor whips up some sort of clip-on battery pack in a month or two, and maybe even some sort of screen that attaches to the unit, like those little ones that attach to the PS One.
As I've always understood it, "Vaporware" refers to products that do not exist, and are thus all "vapor" and hype. Once you show a demo or have a working model that does what you claimed it would do from the outset, it ought not be called Vaporware, even if it has been delayed.
No. Anybody can fake up working model and/or show a rigged demo. Even an officially-released product is technically vaporware until it ends up in the hands of at least one customer.
Any sane judge will tell that guy to go buy a different portable player, use another online music store, and shut the fuck up. The guy has NO CASE. Apple never made a secret of the fact that music downloaded from the iTMS won't work on any other portable player except the iPod. For that matter, neither do the other online music stores. If he didn't do due diligence while shopping for a portable player or before purchasing downloadable music online, that's his problem.
That guy is either a complete moron, or he's just looking for a quick buck and thinks Apple will pay him off to make him go away-- which I highly doubt they will.
Furthermore, like others have said, you can use any player you want, you just have to burn and rerip your iTMS purchases to do it.
Right, they wrote it because IE sucked, wasn't getting timely updates, and was making the Mac browsing experience look embarassingly bad next to Windows.
I would buy one to put on my desk at work to prove they would interact with our network. Everyone gives me an odd stare when I recommend they pickup a Mac laptop for their personal work.
Just wondering, why can't you buy a used CRT iMac on eBay to achieve the same goal? With sufficient RAM, anything 500MHz or higher is fine for running 10.3, you just don't get the nifty Quartz Extreme effects.
I recently bought one specifically to loan to friends and relatives who are in the market for a computer. This way they can really take it for a test drive and see if the Mac can do everything they need their computer to do. Between that and my offer of free lifetime Mac support as opposed to $50/hour for Windows support, I hope to convert at least a few people to Mac users.
Almost every bug fix windows gets these days is accompanied by a program breaking. MS has to try and decide whether enough users are affected by the bug to make the fix worthwhile.
Why does that sound so familiar? Oh, yeah:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
I'll counter this with my experience. I replaced my Comcast cable modem with Speakeasy DSL (via Covad) a few years ago, and it's been wonderful. I've only had two outages in all that time, and only one of those was long enough for me to get internet withdrawal symptoms. They even give me advance notice of maintenance-related outages via e-mail. The few times I've contacted customer service the reps were knowledgeable and helpful. And they police their network-- they test my mailserver every month or so to make sure it's not an open relay, and when I report suspicious activity in my logs from an IP they own, it's taken care of in less than 24 hours.
Just after Christmas last year I noticed quite an uptick in spam attempts on my mailserver from U.S. residential broadband IPs. Clearly this was from new computers received as Christmas gifts getting quickly zombied.
All the people who came downstairs this year to find a shiny new Dell or Gateway under the tree should be getting their machines owned by spammers right about..... now. So prepare for another post-Christmas onslaught as the spammers play with all their newly-acquired toys.
By smashing the equipment to bits, we ensure that it looks broken enough... and it helps keep away the garbage pickers
Yes, I do that too. Once I put out a lot of old equipment at the curb the night before trash day, and the next morning I found it scattered all over the street because it had been rummaged through by inconsiderate trash pickers. Since then I have adopted a 'scorched earth' policy for electronics that are going out on the trash-- I take a hammer and screwdriver to them. For monitors, I whip out the BB gun and use the tube for target practice.
That's some list. Not counting the generic 'bike' and 'computer,' I had 22 of the items on it at some point in my childhood. Hell, I still have Merlin in its original box, the Hangman set in near-perfect condition, an old Radio Shack Armatron that turns 20 either this Christmas or next and looks new (though I don't think I have the objects that came with it), and a Big Trak with Transport that is cosmetically fine but needs a little mechanical work.
My parents were big into educational toys, so I've also got a boxed 2XL with a bunch of tapes for it, and a boxed Gabriel (I think) Show 'n Tell with a stack of filmstrips for it. I swear I'm the only kid who ever had one of these things, because I cannot find any mention of it at all on Google. It was a record/filmstrip player that had a light green and white color scheme and looked like a small TV with a turntable on top. If anybody knows what the hell I'm talking about and has seen a web page on the thing somewhere, please contact me.
Sadly, none of these things that survived to this day in such good condition are really worth any money today. Apparently my more rare and collectable toys were given away.
I didn't get very far in the list before the/. effect thwarted me, but my God, someone actually put a blob of mercury in a toy??? Oh, how I long for the days of my youth!
The lack of dangerous toys are a major part of why American society is going to hell in a handbasket. Back in the good old days, Darwinism made sure only the strongest, toughest, smartest kids survived. Nowadays, you can't hurt yourself with toys even if you try, playgrounds have 3 inches of soft rubber under everything, and they don't even have monkeybars (and you risk an NAACP protest march if you still call them monkeybars). The soft, stupid children survive into adolesence or adulthood and end up cracking for one reason or another and shooting up their school or workplace.
There's a bash.org quote that says, why don't we thin the herd of idiots in this country by taking the safety labels off everything for a while? I say we go one better and bring back toys that were deemed too dangerous and were removed from the market.
...that the only way to get anything worthwhile done in a bureaucracy is to completely ignore the rules that are in place to thwart you, and stay under the radar to evade detection by the bureaucrats.
It's why I'll never work for a huge company again.
The low-end eMac is a perfectly fine entry-level machine. It can't burn DVDs, but it can burn CD-R/RW discs. I've got a client with a dozen eMacs, and they don't feel slow to me when I work on them. It takes a looooong time for the average home user to fill up a 40GB HDD (on a machine that can't get pwned and become some Russian kid's private warez storage space, anyway). The only legitimate gripe he could really have made, he didn't make-- and that's that it should come with more than 256MB of RAM standard.
Will Trillian & Apple run in to trademark issues with that name?
Apple already has, and reached a settlement with Tibco back in July-- probably not coincidentally trademarking "OpenTalk" right about the same time.
If I had to guess, I'd say all instances of "Rendezvous" in OS X will be changed to "OpenTalk" when 10.4 ships, if it's not already like that in the developer releases.
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 belched enough ash into the atmosphere to block out some sunlight and temporarily alter the global climate, which negatively affected the harvest that year. It was effectively a relatively mild, non-nuclear 'nuclear winter.'
I don't know if Krakatoa qualifies as a super volcano because of that, but there is a currently-dormant volcano that apparently is considered "super" in Yellowstone National Park.
Are we one step closer to having Mechs' ala MechWarrior?
No, but between ASIMO's upgrades and these robots that can power themselves by "eating" organic material, we're two steps closer to having the Matrix-- or would that be, two steps closer to the Matrix having us?
Anyone who bought an iPod based on the fact that an unapproved hack would allow them to play DRM'd music purchased from Real, is an idiot.
Everyone else who bought an iPod knew exactly what they were getting when they made their choice, and has no problem with this. It's not like Apple (or any competing music stores or portable digital music player vendors) hid the fact that the iPod only works with DRM'd tunes from the iTMS.
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The first top 10 list I found in a few minutes of Googling is the top 10 PC software titles for 2003:
1. TurboTax 2002 Deluxe, Intuit
2. Norton Antivirus 2003, Symantec
3. TurboTax 2002, Intuit
4. Norton Antivirus, 2004, Symantec
5. TurboTax 2002 Multi State 45, Intuit
6. Taxcut 2002 Deluxe, Block Financial
7. MS Windows XP Home Ed Upgrade, Microsoft
8. MS Office XP Student & Teacher Edition, Microsoft
9. Taxcut 2002 State, Block Financial
10. Norton Internet Security 2003, Symantec
Source: The NPD Group/NPD Techworld
Intuit's tax software is available for the Mac, and the latest version of Quicken ships preinstalled on all Macs. Microsoft Office is available for the Mac. Norton Antivirus is available for the Mac, though you can certainly live without it. Norton Internet Security is not available, and not really needed anyway. Hell, even Windows XP Home can run on the Mac if you buy Virtual PC or the "Pro" version of Mac Office that includes it.
The article with this list does not say that games were excluded, so I am assuming that this means no games sold enough copies in 2003 to make the top 10 for all Windows software titles.
~Philly
I'm willing to make the compromise of having to plug in to standard AC.
If it's at all practical, I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprising vendor whips up some sort of clip-on battery pack in a month or two, and maybe even some sort of screen that attaches to the unit, like those little ones that attach to the PS One.
~Philly
As I've always understood it, "Vaporware" refers to products that do not exist, and are thus all "vapor" and hype. Once you show a demo or have a working model that does what you claimed it would do from the outset, it ought not be called Vaporware, even if it has been delayed.
No. Anybody can fake up working model and/or show a rigged demo. Even an officially-released product is technically vaporware until it ends up in the hands of at least one customer.
~Philly
Any sane judge will tell that guy to go buy a different portable player, use another online music store, and shut the fuck up. The guy has NO CASE. Apple never made a secret of the fact that music downloaded from the iTMS won't work on any other portable player except the iPod. For that matter, neither do the other online music stores. If he didn't do due diligence while shopping for a portable player or before purchasing downloadable music online, that's his problem.
That guy is either a complete moron, or he's just looking for a quick buck and thinks Apple will pay him off to make him go away-- which I highly doubt they will.
Furthermore, like others have said, you can use any player you want, you just have to burn and rerip your iTMS purchases to do it.
~Philly
Apple didn't write Safari to conquer IE.
Right, they wrote it because IE sucked, wasn't getting timely updates, and was making the Mac browsing experience look embarassingly bad next to Windows.
~Philly
Referring, of course, to the Ford Model T. And yes, I am in the middle of reading Brave New World, why do you ask?
~Philly
I would buy one to put on my desk at work to prove they would interact with our network. Everyone gives me an odd stare when I recommend they pickup a Mac laptop for their personal work.
Just wondering, why can't you buy a used CRT iMac on eBay to achieve the same goal? With sufficient RAM, anything 500MHz or higher is fine for running 10.3, you just don't get the nifty Quartz Extreme effects.
I recently bought one specifically to loan to friends and relatives who are in the market for a computer. This way they can really take it for a test drive and see if the Mac can do everything they need their computer to do. Between that and my offer of free lifetime Mac support as opposed to $50/hour for Windows support, I hope to convert at least a few people to Mac users.
~Philly
Almost every bug fix windows gets these days is accompanied by a program breaking. MS has to try and decide whether enough users are affected by the bug to make the fix worthwhile.
Why does that sound so familiar? Oh, yeah:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
~Philly
I'll counter this with my experience. I replaced my Comcast cable modem with Speakeasy DSL (via Covad) a few years ago, and it's been wonderful. I've only had two outages in all that time, and only one of those was long enough for me to get internet withdrawal symptoms. They even give me advance notice of maintenance-related outages via e-mail. The few times I've contacted customer service the reps were knowledgeable and helpful. And they police their network-- they test my mailserver every month or so to make sure it's not an open relay, and when I report suspicious activity in my logs from an IP they own, it's taken care of in less than 24 hours.
~Philly
"United States Patent and Trademark Office Denies Patent for Something Completely Obvious"
~Philly
Just after Christmas last year I noticed quite an uptick in spam attempts on my mailserver from U.S. residential broadband IPs. Clearly this was from new computers received as Christmas gifts getting quickly zombied.
All the people who came downstairs this year to find a shiny new Dell or Gateway under the tree should be getting their machines owned by spammers right about..... now. So prepare for another post-Christmas onslaught as the spammers play with all their newly-acquired toys.
~Philly
"Apple Announces iPod to Support Ogg; Dozens Rejoice"
~Philly
By smashing the equipment to bits, we ensure that it looks broken enough... and it helps keep away the garbage pickers
Yes, I do that too. Once I put out a lot of old equipment at the curb the night before trash day, and the next morning I found it scattered all over the street because it had been rummaged through by inconsiderate trash pickers. Since then I have adopted a 'scorched earth' policy for electronics that are going out on the trash-- I take a hammer and screwdriver to them. For monitors, I whip out the BB gun and use the tube for target practice.
~Philly
That's some list. Not counting the generic 'bike' and 'computer,' I had 22 of the items on it at some point in my childhood. Hell, I still have Merlin in its original box, the Hangman set in near-perfect condition, an old Radio Shack Armatron that turns 20 either this Christmas or next and looks new (though I don't think I have the objects that came with it), and a Big Trak with Transport that is cosmetically fine but needs a little mechanical work.
My parents were big into educational toys, so I've also got a boxed 2XL with a bunch of tapes for it, and a boxed Gabriel (I think) Show 'n Tell with a stack of filmstrips for it. I swear I'm the only kid who ever had one of these things, because I cannot find any mention of it at all on Google. It was a record/filmstrip player that had a light green and white color scheme and looked like a small TV with a turntable on top. If anybody knows what the hell I'm talking about and has seen a web page on the thing somewhere, please contact me.
Sadly, none of these things that survived to this day in such good condition are really worth any money today. Apparently my more rare and collectable toys were given away.
~Philly
My post was a slight exaggeration, but here is what I was referring to.
~Philly
I didn't get very far in the list before the /. effect thwarted me, but my God, someone actually put a blob of mercury in a toy??? Oh, how I long for the days of my youth!
The lack of dangerous toys are a major part of why American society is going to hell in a handbasket. Back in the good old days, Darwinism made sure only the strongest, toughest, smartest kids survived. Nowadays, you can't hurt yourself with toys even if you try, playgrounds have 3 inches of soft rubber under everything, and they don't even have monkeybars (and you risk an NAACP protest march if you still call them monkeybars). The soft, stupid children survive into adolesence or adulthood and end up cracking for one reason or another and shooting up their school or workplace.
There's a bash.org quote that says, why don't we thin the herd of idiots in this country by taking the safety labels off everything for a while? I say we go one better and bring back toys that were deemed too dangerous and were removed from the market.
~Philly
H2G2 = Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
~Philly
...that the only way to get anything worthwhile done in a bureaucracy is to completely ignore the rules that are in place to thwart you, and stay under the radar to evade detection by the bureaucrats.
It's why I'll never work for a huge company again.
~Philly
The low-end eMac is a perfectly fine entry-level machine. It can't burn DVDs, but it can burn CD-R/RW discs. I've got a client with a dozen eMacs, and they don't feel slow to me when I work on them. It takes a looooong time for the average home user to fill up a 40GB HDD (on a machine that can't get pwned and become some Russian kid's private warez storage space, anyway). The only legitimate gripe he could really have made, he didn't make-- and that's that it should come with more than 256MB of RAM standard.
~Philly
Will Trillian & Apple run in to trademark issues with that name?
Apple already has, and reached a settlement with Tibco back in July-- probably not coincidentally trademarking "OpenTalk" right about the same time.
If I had to guess, I'd say all instances of "Rendezvous" in OS X will be changed to "OpenTalk" when 10.4 ships, if it's not already like that in the developer releases.
~Philly
I didn't forget it, it doesn't count-- it was a shuttle technology testbed that never flew into space, not a "real" shuttle.
~Philly
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 belched enough ash into the atmosphere to block out some sunlight and temporarily alter the global climate, which negatively affected the harvest that year. It was effectively a relatively mild, non-nuclear 'nuclear winter.'
I don't know if Krakatoa qualifies as a super volcano because of that, but there is a currently-dormant volcano that apparently is considered "super" in Yellowstone National Park.
~Philly
NASA Shuttles:
Atlantis
Challenger (destroyed 1986)
Columbia (destroyed 2003)
Discovery
Endeavour
Looks like there are three left, to me. Which one did you forget?
~Philly
Are we one step closer to having Mechs' ala MechWarrior?
No, but between ASIMO's upgrades and these robots that can power themselves by "eating" organic material, we're two steps closer to having the Matrix-- or would that be, two steps closer to the Matrix having us?
~Philly
Anyone who bought an iPod based on the fact that an unapproved hack would allow them to play DRM'd music purchased from Real, is an idiot.
Everyone else who bought an iPod knew exactly what they were getting when they made their choice, and has no problem with this. It's not like Apple (or any competing music stores or portable digital music player vendors) hid the fact that the iPod only works with DRM'd tunes from the iTMS.
~Philly