Hey, I'm not ragging on Boston. But there are many, many more Macs sold and used in New York. The industries that primarily use Macs are centered in New York. New York would, therefore, seem to be the most logical place to hold Macworld, that's all.
As far as bars go, we probably have a few thousand more Irish bars here than in Boston, and they close at 4 a.m. or later, not 1 a.m. or earlier. My biggest problem when I leave New York is that other towns seem to roll the sidewalks up right in the shank of the evening. And I'm not just talking about bars. Try and get a pack of cigarettes or a newspaper at 1 a.m. or even 10 p.m. in most towns. I had to go to Pennsylvania on business over the weekend and room service ended at 9 p.m. The restaurants closed at 10 p.m. That is not what I call civilization.
As far as strip clubs, etc. go, yeah, the bluenoses and real estate vampires have ruined that everywhere. My beloved 42nd street is friggin' Disneyland now. Feh.
The entire Advertising/Marketing world runs mostly on Macs, and 99% of the big players are based in New York. As has been pointed out, the education market is huge, too.
I've been to MW Boston, it was ok, but if you want to have some fun after looking at all the pretty hardware and icons, there's not much there. Boston is to New York what Staten Island is to Manhattan. I asked a friend to show me the infamous "combat zone". It was three or four joints on a single block. You could get into more trouble at a nursing home.
"Yes, I know all the fancy things the OS is doing that need so much horsepower. If the penalty is a slow GUI, then perhaps the OS should not be designed to do those things?"
I can agree, up to a point, but aren't we then penalizing them for moving forward? I remember when color was thought unnecessary and expensive (both ways, financially and computationally) and no one argues whether there should be color anymore. Apple has a history of pushing the interface forward, usually in an expensive way, and eventually everyone follows along. I have a gig of RAM in my current computer (new iMac) and I remember my last computer (Quadra 950) had 72 MB. That was considered an obscene amount at the time, and cost more than this whole box tricked out with everything. System 7's 24-bit icons were thought to be unnecessary eye-candy, for cryin' out loud. I really believe that eventually graphics layers like Quartz, with transparency, anti-aliased compositing, etc., will be as normal as color is now. The hardware just has to catch up.
You could also make the case that for the non-technical masses, some of that eye-candy is useful. The Genie Effect, for example, is what ZoomRects always wanted to be. I've seen some non-technical users who didn't get what ZoomRects was trying to tell them. They get it with the Genie Effect because it's more literal. I don't need it, you don't need it, but many, maybe most of them will benefit from it.
Of course, it's also a young system. Give them a little time for optimizations, custom chips, etc.
As I recall, DMA support in the Mac goes all the way back to the IIfx (a sweet machine), but it either was never used by the system or was hobbled in some way. Not sure. Can someone fill in the blanks?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Apple the first one to make a cursor that modified itself to contrast with whatever it was mousing over? I think it might have been a function that was built into Quickdraw, and executed in hardware from very, very early on.
IIRC, this was one of those fine details that made their GUI stand out from the others in the eyes of the computer press (and computer professionals) at the time.
Let's also remember that AOL used to be Mac only, because back then only the Mac had advanced enough graphics support to make AOL possible. In fact, IIRC, AOL was either based on, or was originally, a product of Apple. Can anyone fill in the details?
It would be kind of funny, in a full-circle kind of way.
>>At any rate, while I'd like to see the Stars and Stripes posted all over the galaxy, more competition is better! >>
I'm 45. I watched Americans WALK on the MOON when I was TWELVE!
Unmanned? Who cares? What I want to know is the same thing all my friends want to know: Why aren't we skiing on Mars? Where are the flying cars? Where are the android hookers? Who dropped the frigging ball and how can we fire them? Aaaarghh!
>>it's always darkest before it goes completely black?? So completely black is LESS dark? RIIIIIGHT.>>
It's a gag, ok? You know, "It's always darkest just before the dawn"? The inversion of the message and the logical lapse is what makes it funny. Well, to some people, anyway. Yeesh.
Dr. Jacob Daley used to do a magic trick where he would determine the sex of someone's offspring from some convoluted mathematics; he was right about 50% of the time. When asked why he did this trick, his reply was "No one remembers the misses, but no one ever forgets the hits." Or words to that effect. Lots of things, like "Crossing Over", for instance, use this principle.
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Once upon a time television, radio and sound recording were expensive, seemingly impractical novelties.
Just pretend it's 1895, and imagine 2095.
Defeat your Tai Chi with my Ctl-Alt-....oh, nevermind....
There's no Great Justice in the world...
To point out that the lickable GUI now comes with lickable gooey.
Sorry. I couldn't help myself....
>>Humm. The point you seem to have inadvertently proven is that Mac users are irrational in their loyalty.>>
Nothing of the kind. "Some" Mac users are irrational in their loyalty. So are some Linux users, some Windows users, etc...
After all, everyone knows CP/M rules, silly.
I first noticed this when I saw a cheaply designed, badly kerned ad that seemed to be offering the services of one "PSYCHO THE RAPIST" in the subway.
Anyone know any reliable contractors who have experience building bomb shelters? Just asking.
Obligatory "That's about as funny as a screen door in a submarine" gag.
Sorry. I won't do it again. Really.
Ahh, for the mainframe days, when huge hard disks were 18" in diameter and you had to screw them in by hand....
Hmmmnn...you might be on to something...let's see... silicon's made from sand, now 1,000 lbs of sand - $100, one blast furnace....
Try and build a car that way, nitwit, and the light will dawn. Maybe. Nitwit.
"I'm not saying that MS products are better than Apple products--just that the advertising is MUCH more intelligent."
Oh, right. I forgot that XP will enable me to fly. Madonna told me so.
Yeesh.
Trillions of cells per frame.
Oh, cels? Nevermind.
Hey, I'm not ragging on Boston. But there are many, many more Macs sold and used in New York. The industries that primarily use Macs are centered in New York. New York would, therefore, seem to be the most logical place to hold Macworld, that's all.
As far as bars go, we probably have a few thousand more Irish bars here than in Boston, and they close at 4 a.m. or later, not 1 a.m. or earlier. My biggest problem when I leave New York is that other towns seem to roll the sidewalks up right in the shank of the evening. And I'm not just talking about bars. Try and get a pack of cigarettes or a newspaper at 1 a.m. or even 10 p.m. in most towns. I had to go to Pennsylvania on business over the weekend and room service ended at 9 p.m. The restaurants closed at 10 p.m. That is not what I call civilization.
As far as strip clubs, etc. go, yeah, the bluenoses and real estate vampires have ruined that everywhere. My beloved 42nd street is friggin' Disneyland now. Feh.
The entire Advertising/Marketing world runs mostly on Macs, and 99% of the big players are based in New York. As has been pointed out, the education market is huge, too.
I've been to MW Boston, it was ok, but if you want to have some fun after looking at all the pretty hardware and icons, there's not much there. Boston is to New York what Staten Island is to Manhattan. I asked a friend to show me the infamous "combat zone". It was three or four joints on a single block. You could get into more trouble at a nursing home.
Get a mirrored ball and a chessboard....
"Yes, I know all the fancy things the OS is doing that need so much horsepower. If the penalty is a slow GUI, then perhaps the OS should not be designed to do those things?"
I can agree, up to a point, but aren't we then penalizing them for moving forward? I remember when color was thought unnecessary and expensive (both ways, financially and computationally) and no one argues whether there should be color anymore. Apple has a history of pushing the interface forward, usually in an expensive way, and eventually everyone follows along. I have a gig of RAM in my current computer (new iMac) and I remember my last computer (Quadra 950) had 72 MB. That was considered an obscene amount at the time, and cost more than this whole box tricked out with everything. System 7's 24-bit icons were thought to be unnecessary eye-candy, for cryin' out loud. I really believe that eventually graphics layers like Quartz, with transparency, anti-aliased compositing, etc., will be as normal as color is now. The hardware just has to catch up.
You could also make the case that for the non-technical masses, some of that eye-candy is useful. The Genie Effect, for example, is what ZoomRects always wanted to be. I've seen some non-technical users who didn't get what ZoomRects was trying to tell them. They get it with the Genie Effect because it's more literal. I don't need it, you don't need it, but many, maybe most of them will benefit from it.
Of course, it's also a young system. Give them a little time for optimizations, custom chips, etc.
As I recall, DMA support in the Mac goes all the way back to the IIfx (a sweet machine), but it either was never used by the system or was hobbled in some way. Not sure. Can someone fill in the blanks?
"Why should I have to do this?"
Why should you have to do anything? Why learn to use a computer? Why not use velcro so you don't have to tie your shoelac -- wait a minute, oh, ok.
It looks stupid? Hmmn. Matter of opinion, but I like it there. Like an Apple menu that's always down. Cool. Looked cool in NeXT, too.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Apple the first one to make a cursor that modified itself to contrast with whatever it was mousing over? I think it might have been a function that was built into Quickdraw, and executed in hardware from very, very early on.
IIRC, this was one of those fine details that made their GUI stand out from the others in the eyes of the computer press (and computer professionals) at the time.
Pin it to the side, then. Vertical screen real-estate is usually more valuable than horizontal screen real-estate, anyway.
Let's also remember that AOL used to be Mac only, because back then only the Mac had advanced enough graphics support to make AOL possible. In fact, IIRC, AOL was either based on, or was originally, a product of Apple. Can anyone fill in the details?
It would be kind of funny, in a full-circle kind of way.
>>At any rate, while I'd like to see the Stars and Stripes posted all over the galaxy, more competition is better! >>
I'm 45. I watched Americans WALK on the MOON when I was TWELVE!
Unmanned? Who cares? What I want to know is the same thing all my friends want to know: Why aren't we skiing on Mars? Where are the flying cars? Where are the android hookers? Who dropped the frigging ball and how can we fire them? Aaaarghh!
>>it's always darkest before it goes completely black?? So completely black is LESS dark? RIIIIIGHT.>>
It's a gag, ok? You know, "It's always darkest just before the dawn"? The inversion of the message and the logical lapse is what makes it funny. Well, to some people, anyway. Yeesh.
Dr. Jacob Daley used to do a magic trick where he would determine the sex of someone's offspring from some convoluted mathematics; he was right about 50% of the time. When asked why he did this trick, his reply was "No one remembers the misses, but no one ever forgets the hits." Or words to that effect. Lots of things, like "Crossing Over", for instance, use this principle.
No Johnny Wadd movies, please. It would be too much like "Jurassic Pork", ah, "Park".