Watson should immediately sue Apple, for "look-and-feel" violations regarding the new Sherlock.
The outrage here is not that Apple did this in the first place. That's to be expected; Apple makes its fortunes with look-and-feel, and of course it will sue anyone who tries to take that away. But when Apple does the opposite... why does no one call them on it?
Because they're Apple.
You want to take on a Co as big as they are?
Also, Apple offered the Watson developer a job. They were aware that the two were converging. They are not entirely heartless.
As Phil Schiller said though, Watson originally was bourne out of Sherlock - searching through the web (Sherlock plugins) for items of interest. Watson "stole" from Apple first, if you want to take that line.
ArsTechnica's John Siracusa, he's had the best reviews of OS X throughout it's life (from the Developer Previews right through to 10.1). I'm not going digging for URLs, but IMO he's the journalist who's had the single largest impact on OS X's development, and his reviews are always worth reading.
Many PC users want a native version of OS X, but Apple hasn't delivered. Native ipod support would be good too, but Apple never delivered there either (although third parties have). Their official recomendation is that you buy yourself a mac in the color of your choice.
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Apple's iPod site: Pod for Windows Good news for the millions of Windows users who own PCs with built-in FireWire (also known as i.LINK and IEEE1394): In response to insistent demand from PC users, the world's best MP3 player now does Windows. iPod fully integrated with the award-winning PC media player -- MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus(TM). So every song you add or playlist you create will automatically transfer to your iPod.
Go troll somewhere else with your "mac in the color of your choice" comments.
My major problem was that I kept losing track of iconified windows. (Apple-Tab doesn't bring you to Windows that are iconified inside of a program.)
I'm not sure what you mean by "iconified", but did you try Apple-tilde? That switches windows within an application.
I had trouble switching between windows in Mozilla and other programs and ended up typing a few e-mails twice as a result. Next, I think the switch from a desktop machine to a laptop wasn't a good one for me. I developed a lot of neck pain during the first few days of use, probably from looking down at the screen for long periods of time. I might have been better off buying a desktop Mac.
Or bought a display, external keyboard & mouse. Or external keyboard, mouse and one of these.
Finally, there were some capabilities that just don't exist on the Mac right now. I like using GAIM for instant messaging because I can create aliases for my friends and don't have to remember screen names. I couldn't find a program for Mac that let me alias screennames. You may think it's silly, but because I use IM for work it's important for me to have a person's name handy.
Well, I don't know what messenging standards GAIM supports, but I know there are a lot of instant messenger clones out for OS X, and lots of those are in cocoa. Lots of them contain the functionality you're talking about, too.
Your post strikes me as "couldn't find third party utilities within a few days and gave up without asking for some advice". Jump on one of the mac forums, there are heaps of people who could have pointed you in the right direction.
The community is one of the best parts of the machines IMO, but that's a whole other kettle of fish:)
All of these folks on this article talk about going out and buying a Mac, then installing MS Office. It just feeds Microsoft even more.
MS Office is, IMO, not evil(TM). If MS had stuck to Office, nobody would have a problem with them.
Say what you will - they have the best Office suite of applications, and there are two platforms you can use it on - Windows, or OS X. I know which I choose.
Think about that the next time somebody sends you a.doc file.
As much as I hate to say it, sometimes it seems that legislation is the only way for people's behaviour to change. Most people wanted smoke-free eating, but without a law, it was never going to happen. Same goes for cell-phones, I'd imagine. Even though I think most people make way too big a deal out of it - I hear more screaming/crying infants in most places I go, and that lasts a lot more than the 10 seconds a phone ring does, but NO ONE in their right mind has proposed a ban on children at public performances - at least not yet.
the difference - one is public health/safety, the other is stop idiots from annoying me. Legislate against idiots, a good proportion of Americans won't be allowed out on the streets:)
this is an extremely bad idea. Those Wi-Fi signals can interfere with an aircraft's electronics - you think playing a CD player is bad? Wait till you start bouncing round these signals. They're worse than using mobile phones!
I recall Apple, when Airport first came out, plugging Airport for gaming - two users could sit on a plane and play a network game using a direct 802.11b connection. One of the big aeronautical manufacturers found out (apparently one of the relevant employees was perusing their site) and got on to them quick smart about it. The plug (in an interview with Apple's old head of gaming, Kathy Tafel, IIRC) was quickly pulled of the site.
In short: using 802.11b on an aeroplane is dangerous. don't do it!
Teenagers, practising their skills, consider their 'work' worthy of historical note. Arrogance? Youth? Ites says: easy to make drawings in the sand. Ideas are cheap. Finish the job and you will deserve to be remembered.
true, in a way - and at the same time, maybe not. A lot of people have had brilliant ideas, and then had others pick up the work and carry it on.
we need all kinds of people - not just people that do it, but people that dream it - to forward the race. Just because the kids didn't have the time or resources to put it into practice, doesn't mean it's not a valuable contribution.
Break pretty much *any* sovereign country's law (in their own country) and you can expect to face the consequences if they have an extradition treaty with your country, and they're irritated enough to go through the paperwork.
IIRC, the basic premise of extradition is that both countries need to have a similar law - if it's not illegal to do it in the country where the person is residing, chances are that there won't be extradition.
I could be wrong - but it boils down to this - if the US has an extradition agreement with Indonesia, and an Indonesia citizen commits a crime in the US that would not have been a crime in Indonesia, then Indonesia is within its rights not to give up the person in question.
Since $1600 worth of mac hardware will be outperformed on any given application by $800 worth of x86 hardware, You are paying $800 for the privlage of using OS X.
The problem scales badly too. The top end Dual G4 get's it's clock cleaned by $1500 worth of commodity x86 hardware. So on the high end, you end up paying a $2000 Apple$oft tax for OS X.
As long as you keep slobbering after each new shiny mac, reguardless of how outdated the hardware is, Jobs will continue to sell you crap and charge you extra for the "privlage".
What I want to know is if you have such a powerful machine, how coming it doesn't have a damn spellchecker?
There will always be people like you out there that just don't get it. You think that BMWs, Mercs and Audis are overpriced, because you can buy a Chrysler Neon and drop two stinking big turbos into it and "have a better car".
Go read that quoted journalist above - or take a look at ANY research on total cost of ownership. You pay more at first, but the machine is much cheaper and much easier to maintain.
My friend just spent 3 days at work trying to fix a Win2k a box he didn't want to have to format because it had certain server functions that he didn't want to have to replicate. Why? Because he needed to install a modem in it, and Win2k didn't want to play.
You save your $x up front. You pay later in time troubleshooting, grey hair and stress. Personally, I'd rather pay a little more up front and get a computer that works as advertised.
For the good of apple, there needs to be a groundswell of dissent among the apple loyalists. When apple's fanatic user base stops shining Jobs' knob, he will decide to put some hardware reaserch and developement dollars into something besides a circuit to give the white LED power indicator 300 levels of fade.
like the rest of your article, you're speaking out of your ass. http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/31/pf/investing/q_tec hsurvivors/index.htm: "Apple spent about 7.5 percent of its revenue in the last quarter on research and development, a higher percentage than Dell, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard."
Or you can predict apple's demise as their hardware becomes 3 years obsolete then 4. At this rate, in 5 years there will be a better processor in your microwave than in your computer.
uh huh.
That CNN article above called Apple a "Tech Survivor", or http://int.multexinvestor.com/Analysts/ArticleTIA. asp?target=/stocks/tia/stockfeatures&ForumID=39&Do cID=9931&nd=0801:For the growth crowd, there's well, growth. Wall Street is still not sure how earnings will ramp in the coming years (the company is always tight-lipped about product plans). But this company has been counted out several times before, only to make a Phoenix-like rebound. Merrill Lynch's Steve Fortuna expects a new round of hot products to appear in time for the holidays. At that point, the Apple story "should get more interesting" he notes.
There's a good chance that the stock will start trading back up in coming months as investors anticipate Apple's next wave of products. And the current entry point, right above cash, looks mighty enticing.
You either don't understand, or you're trolling. Either way, go post your FUD somewhere else.
MS, Yahoo, etc will probably just pay whatever they ask (within reason) so that they'll be available to those billion people (even if only a fraction are online.) They'll pay mostly because they're afraid one of their competitors will, and they'll lose all that potential business. The only real way they'd have of standing up to this would be to unite and act as one... but I really doubt that'll happen.
There's a real problem with what you're suggesting - if the big guys pony up with the cashola, it sets a precedent for international ISPs: you act as a cartel, you can extort money out of big portals to allow your users access.
Suddenly, yahoo et al can't get access to China (I'm not that they could already, but at least the Chinese Govt isn't doing it as a revenue raising exercise) and there go the two biggest developing markets in the world unless you pay every ISP.
Add in a few more countries without anti-competitive behaviour laws, and there goes the internet.
I hope they don't cave in. Those sites are barely making it as they are.
Nokia 7650, all the features of that Motorola thing, plus it runs on the Symbion EPOC OS and has mobile Java built in. Runs SyncML, the standard for synchronising contacts etc between devices.
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They threw out the bathwater, the baby, and the bath for good measure.
-- james
Gate's runs on Windows though. You have to go through half a dozen dialogue boxes to flush the goddamm toilet.
-- james
Because they're Apple.
You want to take on a Co as big as they are?
Also, Apple offered the Watson developer a job. They were aware that the two were converging. They are not entirely heartless.
As Phil Schiller said though, Watson originally was bourne out of Sherlock - searching through the web (Sherlock plugins) for items of interest. Watson "stole" from Apple first, if you want to take that line.
-- james
in my experience computer geeks have pretty bad bo (body odour).
Can you imagine how much this would compound the problem?
-- james
only because of the heat given out by this puppy!
-- james
bugger, and I just bought shares in Apple and Dell too.
-- james
2000 requires a reboot if you change the network stack in my experience
-- james
ArsTechnica's John Siracusa, he's had the best reviews of OS X throughout it's life (from the Developer Previews right through to 10.1). I'm not going digging for URLs, but IMO he's the journalist who's had the single largest impact on OS X's development, and his reviews are always worth reading.
-- james
um,
Apple's iPod site: Pod for Windows
Good news for the millions of Windows users who own PCs with built-in FireWire (also known as i.LINK and IEEE1394): In response to insistent demand from PC users, the world's best MP3 player now does Windows. iPod fully integrated with the award-winning PC media player -- MUSICMATCH Jukebox Plus(TM). So every song you add or playlist you create will automatically transfer to your iPod.
Go troll somewhere else with your "mac in the color of your choice" comments.
-- james
I'm not sure what you mean by "iconified", but did you try Apple-tilde? That switches windows within an application.
Or bought a display, external keyboard & mouse. Or external keyboard, mouse and one of these.
Well, I don't know what messenging standards GAIM supports, but I know there are a lot of instant messenger clones out for OS X, and lots of those are in cocoa. Lots of them contain the functionality you're talking about, too.
Take a look at Versiontracker.
Your post strikes me as "couldn't find third party utilities within a few days and gave up without asking for some advice". Jump on one of the mac forums, there are heaps of people who could have pointed you in the right direction.
The community is one of the best parts of the machines IMO, but that's a whole other kettle of fish
-- james
MS Office is, IMO, not evil(TM). If MS had stuck to Office, nobody would have a problem with them.
Say what you will - they have the best Office suite of applications, and there are two platforms you can use it on - Windows, or OS X. I know which I choose.
Think about that the next time somebody sends you a
-- james
the difference - one is public health/safety, the other is stop idiots from annoying me. Legislate against idiots, a good proportion of Americans won't be allowed out on the streets
-- james
this is an extremely bad idea. Those Wi-Fi signals can interfere with an aircraft's electronics - you think playing a CD player is bad? Wait till you start bouncing round these signals. They're worse than using mobile phones!
I recall Apple, when Airport first came out, plugging Airport for gaming - two users could sit on a plane and play a network game using a direct 802.11b connection. One of the big aeronautical manufacturers found out (apparently one of the relevant employees was perusing their site) and got on to them quick smart about it. The plug (in an interview with Apple's old head of gaming, Kathy Tafel, IIRC) was quickly pulled of the site.
In short: using 802.11b on an aeroplane is dangerous. don't do it!
cheers
-- james
That is absolutely ludicrous. Extend your argument, the only people that end up working in government are volunteers!
Open source only laws are the embodiment of reduction in choice - you legislate in a solution and in doing so remove an entire segment of the market.
Each solution and each competitor should have the right to compete on his or her merits, and legislators with agendas to fill should stay out of it.
Free, open source
-- james
that was not a troll :P
-- james
to be disappointed by these new machines.
Radeon 9000? It's not as fast as the 8500, which you can no longer get.
The second ATA bus is only 66! Now WTF is going on here? If you put one ATA100 in, you might as well go the whole hog and put two in!
Firewire stays as it was - 800mbits/second, needed if only for mind games with USB2
The case has holes for firewire or usb at the front... but instead, they just leave them as holes.
The case is the same with some plastic hacked on the front.
Money on they won't bother putting different eject buttons for the different drives - hit eject on the keyboard, you eject both
The displays are still as expensive as ever
Bluetooth built in would have been nice
I think that sums up. I'm waiting for the next lot, and hopefully they get rid of those shitty g4s by the time MW Jan comes around.
-- james
true, in a way - and at the same time, maybe not. A lot of people have had brilliant ideas, and then had others pick up the work and carry it on.
we need all kinds of people - not just people that do it, but people that dream it - to forward the race. Just because the kids didn't have the time or resources to put it into practice, doesn't mean it's not a valuable contribution.
Who knows when some wacky idea will get picked up and take off.
-- james
I heard that cows farting affects the weather too.
-- james
-- james
I could be wrong - but it boils down to this - if the US has an extradition agreement with Indonesia, and an Indonesia citizen commits a crime in the US that would not have been a crime in Indonesia, then Indonesia is within its rights not to give up the person in question.
I could be wrong however
-- james
if the court was to decide the entire K was oppressive or unlawful... well, that would be another matter...
-- james
There will always be people like you out there that just don't get it. You think that BMWs, Mercs and Audis are overpriced, because you can buy a Chrysler Neon and drop two stinking big turbos into it and "have a better car".
Go read that quoted journalist above - or take a look at ANY research on total cost of ownership. You pay more at first, but the machine is much cheaper and much easier to maintain.
My friend just spent 3 days at work trying to fix a Win2k a box he didn't want to have to format because it had certain server functions that he didn't want to have to replicate. Why? Because he needed to install a modem in it, and Win2k didn't want to play.
You save your $x up front. You pay later in time troubleshooting, grey hair and stress. Personally, I'd rather pay a little more up front and get a computer that works as advertised. like the rest of your article, you're speaking out of your ass. http://money.cnn.com/2002/07/31/pf/investing/q_te
That CNN article above called Apple a "Tech Survivor", or http://int.multexinvestor.com/Analysts/ArticleTIA
There's a good chance that the stock will start trading back up in coming months as investors anticipate Apple's next wave of products. And the current entry point, right above cash, looks mighty enticing.
You either don't understand, or you're trolling. Either way, go post your FUD somewhere else.
-- james
Suddenly, yahoo et al can't get access to China (I'm not that they could already, but at least the Chinese Govt isn't doing it as a revenue raising exercise) and there go the two biggest developing markets in the world unless you pay every ISP.
Add in a few more countries without anti-competitive behaviour laws, and there goes the internet.
I hope they don't cave in. Those sites are barely making it as they are.
-- james
Nokia 7650, all the features of that Motorola thing, plus it runs on the Symbion EPOC OS and has mobile Java built in. Runs SyncML, the standard for synchronising contacts etc between devices.
Good review of a preproduction 7650 here
-- james