I don't think Steve Jobs would stain his hands for 7, 8 or 20 millions, he sold pixar for a LOT more than that, and he has always been (or at least for about 30 years now), a pretty solvent guy.
I wouldn't think for a second that Jobs is a guy after a quick buck, I doesn't fit with his actions for the past decades.
I used to have a Macintosh Performa 475 (My first Mac), one of the things I was able to do on OS 7.5 is set up a RAM disk that acted as a real disk (It was mounted on the desktop as the real thing). One time, I copied the OS to the disk and selected it as a Boot disk (I knew the RAM should be erased when the power goes off, but I was hoping that a restart wouldn't kill it)
And I was right!!, the booting took les than 5 seconds, it was amazing, the computer was as quick as I could wish for.
"Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software."...And there you have it...the first official statement from Nintendo when ask if the Wii a GameCube 1.5...
The answer is YES, they didn't want to spend ANY money to develop a new gaming platform to keep cost down.
(I don't see that as a bad thing, the standard income in my country makes a purchase of a console of 600 dollars something impossible for 99,7% of the population)
Don't forget halo was game develop for the Mac, (at that time Bungie was one of the biggest developer of games for the Mac, I remember Marathon as one of the best person shooters I have ever played and that was in 1995, and Myth as excellent game too).
And I think this is true even for today, a majority of the best applications I ever used were created for then Macintosh and then ported/acquired to run on Windows (like Photoshop, freehand, myst)
I think Microsoft knew they needed a killer app and bought bungie, but left the Mac without one of the biggest developer it had, and is a shame, because now a game for a Mac its the last priority in bungie's list
That's where you don't get it, think of it as a TV, you could buy a "Sanyo" or "Hyndai" plasma TV for half the price of a Sony or a Philips, "it just a TV", one would think, but people will chose the brand name, for quality, peace of mind, or status if you will
There is not a Holly war like Mac vs. Pc in the TV world, but consumers still make choices based on the appeal of products.
You must think outside of the Box, do you really think you know everything there is to know?
The humanity CREATES thing all the time, there is wine, but there others thing you don't know, people develops new solutions. Clever programs are invented all the time.
Just because a 100 years ago you had to wait 15 minutes to heat an oven, doesn't mean nobody would EVER create a microwave oven that will do the same thing a hundred times faster
Just because it not in front of you doesn't mean it cant be done.
If Apple is migrating to Intel at the speed it is doing it right now, is changing key staff, it is giving away boot loader no one will ever dream can be available FROM apple, its very, very clear there is a strategy, and we just don't know all there is to know.
I live in Chile, South
America. We are one of the main producers of copper in the world; in fact, it
is our main export by far.
The price of copper
has been claiming so fast, that the amount of Dollars coming to our country is
messing with our economy, in fact, there are people trying to intervene the
value of the Dollar so it doesn't keep going down as is doing now
I don't know if the value
of copper will keep rising, but it is coming to a point when our country is
depending suffering because we are getting "Dutch disease"
I have the same printer, I bought it about 3 years ago here in Chile (south america), when I upgraded to WindowsXP I found out the did not support the scaner in XP, when I called the representatives of the company here in Chile, they told me, tha I "must downgrade to Win98, beacause that was the deal when I bought the printer"?,
We are talking here about a 3 year old model... so, next time I want to buy a new periferic, I should ask "Whill this model be supported with whateve OS Microsoft release next year??"
So basicaly, I'm stuck with a very expensive bad idea.....
Steve Jobs is such a trend setter, that he MADE USB be the standard in low speed conectios. Before the iMac, nobody ever knew pc motherboard came with USB, windows didin't suport it, the motherboards did have it, but there where no compatible devices, the iMac made USB what it is today by only having THAT tipe of conection.
Steve also focused very much in sound cards, I don't think many people remember this, but it was YEARS before pc come with a sound card and all of the multimedia stuf, he made the fist mac ship with integrated sound.
Steve was also, a very importan driving force in all of the "TrueType" fonts development, he belived that computers should have "beautifull fonts" so we can write "beautifull books"
Or, Apple buys the PPC from Motorola (who its semiconductor division is losing money period after period), and Steve Jobs, starts "torturing" his new PPC division until Apple gets a 5GHz CPU, and not only have a better hardware/software undestandig, it also has the posibility of deciding when a procesor is going to ship, what caracteristics it should have, and how much it will cost...
The reason that Be is no longer developing for PPC has nothing to do with closed hardware (G4/G4)...
If Be needed the specs, they just could take info from LinuxPPC, MkLinux (a weird os that made Mach handle Linux kernel API calls), or recently they just could get info based on Darwin (or any Opensource OS for PPC out there).
Be didint wanted to develop for the mac anymore because they had investments from intel, and because they didnt want it to be second to the mac os in a plataform were the principal reason to buy a hardwere that is a little more expensive is the OS.
The other reason is because now that Steve Jobs is calling the shots, his Job would be far more dificult than in the Amelio era, so was better to leave the PPC.
Jean Lui Gasee left Apple to found his own company, knowing that some day Apple would come to him (because they would need to repleace the aging MacOS) and beg for help
He was right... Apple did come, but he was stupid... he ask for to much (he tought he was the only choice, and didn't try to impress them)
He was wrong, because he wasnt the only choice, and the other guy realy impress Apple, (he was Steve Jobs, and he can convince anybody of anything he wants).
Not that Apple made a bad choice... I think OS X was a better choice. At the time when this decitions were made, Be OS Couldnt even print (it needed a lot of work)...
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I don't think Steve Jobs would stain his hands for 7, 8 or 20 millions, he sold pixar for a LOT more than that, and he has always been (or at least for about 30 years now), a pretty solvent guy.
I wouldn't think for a second that Jobs is a guy after a quick buck, I doesn't fit with his actions for the past decades.
I used to have a Macintosh Performa 475 (My first Mac), one of the things I was able to do on OS 7.5 is set up a RAM disk that acted as a real disk (It was mounted on the desktop as the real thing).
One time, I copied the OS to the disk and selected it as a Boot disk (I knew the RAM should be erased when the power goes off, but I was hoping that a restart wouldn't kill it)
And I was right!!, the booting took les than 5 seconds, it was amazing, the computer was as quick as I could wish for.
This was in 1995...
"Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software." ...And there you have it...the first official statement from Nintendo when ask if the Wii a GameCube 1.5...
The answer is YES, they didn't want to spend ANY money to develop a new gaming platform to keep cost down.
(I don't see that as a bad thing, the standard income in my country makes a purchase of a console of 600 dollars something impossible for 99,7% of the population)
Don't forget halo was game develop for the Mac, (at that time Bungie was one of the biggest developer of games for the Mac, I remember Marathon as one of the best person shooters I have ever played and that was in 1995, and Myth as excellent game too).
And I think this is true even for today, a majority of the best applications I ever used were created for then Macintosh and then ported/acquired to run on Windows (like Photoshop, freehand, myst)
I think Microsoft knew they needed a killer app and bought bungie, but left the Mac without one of the biggest developer it had, and is a shame, because now a game for a Mac its the last priority in bungie's list
That's where you don't get it, think of it as a TV, you could buy a "Sanyo" or "Hyndai" plasma TV for half the price of a Sony or a Philips, "it just a TV", one would think, but people will chose the brand name, for quality, peace of mind, or status if you will
There is not a Holly war like Mac vs. Pc in the TV world, but consumers still make choices based on the appeal of products.
That's the way I see it anywaya
I think you are the one that is mistaken
You must think outside of the Box, do you really think you know everything there is to know?
The humanity CREATES thing all the time, there is wine, but there others thing you don't know, people develops new solutions. Clever programs are invented all the time.
Just because a 100 years ago you had to wait 15 minutes to heat an oven, doesn't mean nobody would EVER create a microwave oven that will do the same thing a hundred times faster
Just because it not in front of you doesn't mean it cant be done.
If Apple is migrating to Intel at the speed it is doing it right now, is changing key staff, it is giving away boot loader no one will ever dream can be available FROM apple, its very, very clear there is a strategy, and we just don't know all there is to know.
Jack
I live in Chile, South America. We are one of the main producers of copper in the world; in fact, it is our main export by far.
The price of copper has been claiming so fast, that the amount of Dollars coming to our country is messing with our economy, in fact, there are people trying to intervene the value of the Dollar so it doesn't keep going down as is doing now
I don't know if the value of copper will keep rising, but it is coming to a point when our country is depending suffering because we are getting "Dutch disease"
-- Entropy isn't what it used to be. Jack"If they are going to announce it today, why don't we just wait and see instead of posting that "it could happen" right before?"
Hi, you must be new on the internet, this is how we do stuff arround here...
I have the same printer, I bought it about 3 years ago here in Chile (south america), when I upgraded to WindowsXP I found out the did not support the scaner in XP, when I called the representatives of the company here in Chile, they told me, tha I "must downgrade to Win98, beacause that was the deal when I bought the printer"?,
We are talking here about a 3 year old model... so, next time I want to buy a new periferic, I should ask "Whill this model be supported with whateve OS Microsoft release next year??"
So basicaly, I'm stuck with a very expensive bad idea.....
You Frogot some things:
Steve Jobs is such a trend setter, that he MADE USB be the standard in low speed conectios. Before the iMac, nobody ever knew pc motherboard came with USB, windows didin't suport it, the motherboards did have it, but there where no compatible devices, the iMac made USB what it is today by only having THAT tipe of conection.
Steve also focused very much in sound cards, I don't think many people remember this, but it was YEARS before pc come with a sound card and all of the multimedia stuf, he made the fist mac ship with integrated sound.
Steve was also, a very importan driving force in all of the "TrueType" fonts development, he belived that computers should have "beautifull fonts" so we can write "beautifull books"
The EXACT translation from "LAPUTA" to spanish is...
The hore
I swear, The funny thing is, I have read about a car that's named like that, the "mazda laputa"
I dont know how they plan to market that kind of name here in chile, but I hope they do a little research first....
So I want to enable Journaling In a Partition:
/
/dev/disk0s11 /Volumes/Docs
Te comand is:
sudo diskutil [device], wich, in thisk case, IT IS NOT
Wich one of this should I replace [device] with?
Device Node:
Device Identifier: disk0s11
Mount Point:
If I want to enable Journaling, but my internal hard drive is partitioned in 3 (logical) disks:
/' and that's it, or should I repeat this for every partition on my disk (like '/Volumes/***')?
Should I just type 'enablejournal
I hope somebody releases a MacOS X version soon...
Suposedly, OS X suports OpenGL very Good, so it shouldn't be much trouble to port it to somebody with a litle knolowge of the MacOS X API's
Or, Apple buys the PPC from Motorola (who its semiconductor division is losing money period after period), and Steve Jobs, starts "torturing" his new PPC division until Apple gets a 5GHz CPU, and not only have a better hardware/software undestandig, it also has the posibility of deciding when a procesor is going to ship, what caracteristics it should have, and how much it will cost...
The reason that Be is no longer developing for PPC has nothing to do with closed hardware (G4/G4)...
If Be needed the specs, they just could take info from LinuxPPC, MkLinux (a weird os that made Mach handle Linux kernel API calls), or recently they just could get info based on Darwin (or any Opensource OS for PPC out there).
Be didint wanted to develop for the mac anymore because they had investments from intel, and because they didnt want it to be second to the mac os in a plataform were the principal reason to buy a hardwere that is a little more expensive is the OS.
The other reason is because now that Steve Jobs is calling the shots, his Job would be far more dificult than in the Amelio era, so was better to leave the PPC.
Jean Lui Gasee left Apple to found his own company, knowing that some day Apple would come to him (because they would need to repleace the aging MacOS) and beg for help
He was right... Apple did come, but he was stupid... he ask for to much (he tought he was the only choice, and didn't try to impress them)
He was wrong, because he wasnt the only choice, and the other guy realy impress Apple, (he was Steve Jobs, and he can convince anybody of anything he wants).
Not that Apple made a bad choice... I think OS X was a better choice. At the time when this decitions were made, Be OS Couldnt even print (it needed a lot of work)...