Bit of a stretch to say that they're in the "computer software business" isn't it? I mean, unless you count their HTML, they don't make much software, do they?
and now apple want to use the name tiger for their product.
You running through VGA or DVI? That could be making a huge difference, especially since some Minis (seems to be no consensus on what proportion of them) put out analog video at a lower voltage than the spec calls for.
did I say handout? I mean "investment," yeah, that's the ticket
It's rather tough to find the actual details, as they seem never to have been published, but the "conventional wisdom" is that the $150M was part of a larger settlement. Most sources say that it was a lawsuit for snagging code from QuickTime, but I'd always thought it was a lawsuit for snagging code from the NeXT kernel to use in NT, and by the time it was settled, Apple owned NeXT.
There is some decent info in this Wikipedia article about Apple and some interesting but very much unverified speculation at the bottom of this page, but cold hard facts are rather tough to come by, and that's a Google search that yields staggering amounts of crap.
The only angle that makes sense to me is the cynical one: they need to get everybody to upgrade to the Next Big Thing, so that said Next Big Thing can break compatibility with various protocols and file formats that they are in contention with.
But I do wholly agree with you otherwise. I think they'd be better off doing maintenance and improvement on what they've already got rather than trying to do a massive rebuild every few years. But on the other hand, their last few Next Big Things have turned out to be a warming over of the Last Big Thing, merely packaged as something new, so you could say they're already taking that advice. I think Win2k will be the basic architecture for the next ten years or so, regardless of how it's packaged and marketed.
I guess a lot of it is primal fear, because even if it takes many years before the decline is apparent, they have clearly peaked. Once you've got it all, the only way to go is down.
I guess I've gotten to the point where think of anything predating OS X as OS 9. I remember being aware of Taligent back in the System 7 days, and Copland back in the OS 8 era. I still have a Umax S-900 with the SCSI-2 bus permanently disabled by an attempt to install a copy of OS 8.7 that I found on HotLine.
Hmm, what could cause this?
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Those indications make me feel the Longhorn project is in deep trouble.
I'm starting to think that they're at the same point Apple was at in the 90s: every attempt to build a modern successor to OS 9 from scratch crashed and burned horribly. They finally climbed up out of their grave by purchasing NeXT and turning NeXTstep into Mac OS X.
I've never used a virus scanner/firewall with Windows XP/Windows 2000.
And that's why I just sent those pictures you took after school last Tuesday to your parents. I thought sending them from your Gmail account was a nice touch, didn't you, Bob? Only time will tell if your sister ever forgives you for stealing her panties.
I bet next you'll tell us that some of the White House staff are secretly atheist.
Well, considering that a large portion of the American populace are atheists, it would be surprising if a similar percentage of White House staff weren't, wouldn't you agree?
Because according to the chart on this page, the improvement to be had by using a 3.5" IDE drive is double the improvement of a similar drive mounted via FW400.
The ones referred to as pizza boxes were the LC and its descendants, the one he used is about twice as large.
When I saw that link, I figured he'd removed the center front panel and basically created a port replicator in the 610/660, so that one could slide an unmodified Mini into it kinda like the Duo. Now *that* would be cool.
And after reading that, I couldn't help but wonder why you wouldn't just cut a single hole in the back of the Mini (yeah, blasphemer, whatever) and hang a rounded IDE cable out of it encased in white acrylic, sort of like a ponytail. Then you put a nice, fast hard drive and optical drive into an external case and sit the Mini on top of that.
All I could think of when I read the grandparent post was page bacgkrounds. So of course, I was having a bit of difficulty imagining why you'd need proper transparency for the bottom-most image.
I'll just be over in the corner feeling stupid now.
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Well, just so long as Mac OS X 10.4 doesn't attempt to sell you a Dell, what's the problem?
Bit of a stretch to say that they're in the "computer software business" isn't it? I mean, unless you count their HTML, they don't make much software, do they?
and now apple want to use the name tiger for their product.
For certain values of the word "now."
You running through VGA or DVI? That could be making a huge difference, especially since some Minis (seems to be no consensus on what proportion of them) put out analog video at a lower voltage than the spec calls for.
Glad to see Congress is finally being a bit more honest about their backronyms.
Thanks mister "Insightful!" Your comments probably just got Slashdot banned from all of Apple's computer networks.
Good!
That oughta get 10.5 out the door a few weeks faster.
did I say handout? I mean "investment," yeah, that's the ticket
It's rather tough to find the actual details, as they seem never to have been published, but the "conventional wisdom" is that the $150M was part of a larger settlement. Most sources say that it was a lawsuit for snagging code from QuickTime, but I'd always thought it was a lawsuit for snagging code from the NeXT kernel to use in NT, and by the time it was settled, Apple owned NeXT.
There is some decent info in this Wikipedia article about Apple and some interesting but very much unverified speculation at the bottom of this page, but cold hard facts are rather tough to come by, and that's a Google search that yields staggering amounts of crap.
I use Microsoft products, and I do not use any kind of anti-virus.
Aren't you the least bit curious as to what a scan would turn up?
The only angle that makes sense to me is the cynical one: they need to get everybody to upgrade to the Next Big Thing, so that said Next Big Thing can break compatibility with various protocols and file formats that they are in contention with.
But I do wholly agree with you otherwise. I think they'd be better off doing maintenance and improvement on what they've already got rather than trying to do a massive rebuild every few years. But on the other hand, their last few Next Big Things have turned out to be a warming over of the Last Big Thing, merely packaged as something new, so you could say they're already taking that advice. I think Win2k will be the basic architecture for the next ten years or so, regardless of how it's packaged and marketed.
I guess a lot of it is primal fear, because even if it takes many years before the decline is apparent, they have clearly peaked. Once you've got it all, the only way to go is down.
Oh yeah, DUH!
I guess I've gotten to the point where think of anything predating OS X as OS 9. I remember being aware of Taligent back in the System 7 days, and Copland back in the OS 8 era. I still have a Umax S-900 with the SCSI-2 bus permanently disabled by an attempt to install a copy of OS 8.7 that I found on HotLine.
I think maybe I know.
Those indications make me feel the Longhorn project is in deep trouble.
I'm starting to think that they're at the same point Apple was at in the 90s: every attempt to build a modern successor to OS 9 from scratch crashed and burned horribly. They finally climbed up out of their grave by purchasing NeXT and turning NeXTstep into Mac OS X.
How will MS tear themselves out of this cycle?
I've never used a virus scanner/firewall with Windows XP/Windows 2000.
And that's why I just sent those pictures you took after school last Tuesday to your parents. I thought sending them from your Gmail account was a nice touch, didn't you, Bob? Only time will tell if your sister ever forgives you for stealing her panties.
I bet next you'll tell us that some of the White House staff are secretly atheist.
Well, considering that a large portion of the American populace are atheists, it would be surprising if a similar percentage of White House staff weren't, wouldn't you agree?
It's not; it's quite clearly satire. Damn crack smoking mods. Should've been +73, Funny.
If you like that, try his posting history.
Because according to the chart on this page, the improvement to be had by using a 3.5" IDE drive is double the improvement of a similar drive mounted via FW400.
The ones referred to as pizza boxes were the LC and its descendants, the one he used is about twice as large.
When I saw that link, I figured he'd removed the center front panel and basically created a port replicator in the 610/660, so that one could slide an unmodified Mini into it kinda like the Duo. Now *that* would be cool.
And after reading that, I couldn't help but wonder why you wouldn't just cut a single hole in the back of the Mini (yeah, blasphemer, whatever) and hang a rounded IDE cable out of it encased in white acrylic, sort of like a ponytail. Then you put a nice, fast hard drive and optical drive into an external case and sit the Mini on top of that.
D'oh!
All I could think of when I read the grandparent post was page bacgkrounds. So of course, I was having a bit of difficulty imagining why you'd need proper transparency for the bottom-most image.
I'll just be over in the corner feeling stupid now.
Good point, hadn't thought about that. But I'm having trouble imagining why one would need full alpha for a background image.
Here's a hack to enable 8-bit alpha in PNG images. It's a little flaky when used with an image map, but is essentially functional.
Here's an early mention of the game, check his other JEs for more info, examples, etc.
And all ya got to do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar!
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!1!eleven!!!1!!
You *completely* missed your cue!
Okay, everybody, from the top of page four!
Flamebait Friday? Cool!
That must be the FF everybody around here keeps referring to.
...this side of a Teen Titans [TT] comic book...
Hey, that's cheating!
I started to say that, but figured 'query' might get my point across better. And in this context, what would be the difference?