End of 2004, IIRC. And they might catch up to OS X 10.2 with it, by which time Apple will likely have released version 10.5. Time for a Steve Jobs quote, I think. This one was about the Powerbook, but I think it's appropriate for the this as well:
Our competition hasn't caught up to what we released two years ago; I don't know what they're going to do about this.
- Steve Jobs, MacWorld San Francisco, 2003
Could it be that MS, in trying to be all things to all people, has lost sight of its core competency?
Shouldn't that be "core incompetency"? There are two or three things taht MS does well, or perhaps there are two or three things at which they don't suck. However, those largely involve hornswoggling timorous managers into believing that they won't get fired for going with MS. Consumer electronics don't really fit into that.
I think their main problem is that, as a company built upon turning things into a commodity, they don't really have innovation in their DNA. And now they are so big that, to maintain the growth that they see as success, they have to innovate. But their inertia alone would make that difficult, and it isn't how they've really done business. I think they're looking for anything that might have enough ROI, but the industry is too nimble for them and they'll always be playing catchup on things outside their core (the OS and Office) unless some major, major changes happen. And those changes only will happen when they no longer have the advantages they do now.
Having this come out during the opening weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament is not a way to endear your brand most Americans. You should try during an event that no one in this country cares about, like The Stanley Cup Finals or The World Series.
That said, I think Muslims who emmigrate to the United States generally are representative of those who are more liberal, hard working, and smarter than ever before. Too bad the billion other Muslims in the world overshadow any successes that modern adapted Muslims have made.
As someone who grew up redneck and has a master's degree in a hard science, I understand entirely. Although I might quibble and throw in a 's/liberal/libertarian/' in there.
It also got a big boost not too long ago from Bob Ryan, sportswriter for The Boston Globe, who used to say this all the time on ESPN's The Sports Reporters. As in:
I am shocked, SHOCKED I say, to hear that there are allegations of steroid use in Major League Baseball.
...since we're constantly hearing from Mac owners how wonderful OS X is, then why would they give a damn about this?
Good question. I've been a Mac owner since '96 (and a Unix/C/C++/Perl/Java/Oracle/etc/etc/etc programmer for far longer) and I see no reason. I have to use Windows at work, and after a long day of fighting Windows, I look forward to using OS X at home. Personally, I have no desire to have Windows on a Mac, but I can think of three reasons why others might:
1) You have legacy apps, particularly games. This doesn't apply to me, since all my apps are for OS X, and the only game I play is multiplayer Neverwinter Nights on our family game night. YMMV.
2) Familiarity with/necessity of Windows. It is generally accepted (though there are dissenters) that Apple makes pretty decent hardware, and that for similarly spec'ed systems, Apple's price is within 5% of Dell's. Personally, I own a dual-processor-dual-core G5 tower, and MAN is that thing nice. I have coworkers, MCSEs and.Net programmers, who absolutely covets that thing. There are all sorts of engineering touches that hardware people might appreciate. So some people would like to have Apple hardware and still be able to use Windows out of need/desire. Again, YMMV.
3) There would be a certain geek-chic to doing this. I don't think this can be underestimated with the/. crowd; the idea of having OS X available and being able to switch to Windows when you want/need to has a certain cool factor to it. There is also that "because it's there" factor that any tinkerer finds appealing. And being the person to do it will give you a modicum of fame (or at least recognition) and respect.
Hm, I wonder when Vista will be removed from the list of features that will ship with Vista. I mean, seriously, what's left? I think the list of things that have been pulled would be much longer than what's in Vista but not XP.
Do you know how much space the OSX install takes up? I can't remember, but I'm sure it is up around 10 gig. Of course, it could be argued that this is not rubbish...
You know, I'd make that arguement. In fact, "I'll go further than that, I'll get off at the depot."(*) As cheap as harddrive space is these days, I don't mind Tiger taking that much space because the darn thing works so well and is a joy to use. Everything comes at a price, and if part of the price of OS X is that it uses a couple more gigs of harddrive space, that's a very small price in this day and age.
(*) - This quote stolen at great embarrassment from Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers
Now, no amount of hard work seems to matter; you get a "good job" , a pat on the back,
You do? Hey, is your company hiring? Because we never get it here.
Recently our CEO came to town to talk to the IT staff here. Where others vented, I gave concrete examples. He thanked me afterwards, and I told him, "You know, none of use find Dilbert funny anymore."
Our raises were capped at 3%, and earlier in the day we were told that our company had an EBITA of >30%. The rest of the division may have lost many and dragged us down, but criminy,...
Does anyone really believe that adding more bureaucracy is going to make security better? Somehow I question this being a sufficient, or even necessary, condition.
You willingly chose to buy a DRM product? Clearly the RIAA had a gun to your face and was threatening to throw your mother over the balcony while they stripped you naked and burned a copy of the Bill of Rights in front of your face using a swastika-clad lighter while black-suited Republicans chanted satanic hymns in a candle-lit circle around an alter of The Almighty Dollar(tm)! There's just no way you or the other 87% of the iTunes-using market could possibly be choosing this illegal, immoral, unacceptable, childhood-raping scheme of your own volition. Just no way.
Lighten up, Francis. Get out of your mom's basement, acquire some property, and then you might actually believe in property rights. It's heresy, I know, but it's funny how looking at a pay stub will convert the most ardent socialist into the most ardent individualist.
but it is far safer to assume it is us causing the shift.
But what about the fact that the sun, which drives all the earth's weather, has been steadily getting warmer since at least the late 70s, if not earlier? Heck, I doubt any sane person could blame that on the usual idustrialization, America, SUV driver, or whatever the scapegoat du jour is.
Yes. In fact, I have lived in other states. That's why I moved back. I kinda like the idea of people saying "thank you" when I hold open the door for them, rather than getting a look of "what sort of freak are you, being polite?"
Um, IU is Indiana University; the laptops are required at Indiana STATE University, aka ISU. There is quite a difference in the two. IU has (or at least had) quite a few top-10 programs in different fields of study; ISU is for people who aren't smart enough to get into Rose-Hulman, IU, Purdue, Butler, Notre Dame, Valparaiso, Evansville, Ball State, IUPUI, Ivy Tech, or the Floyd R. Turbo School of Chainsaw Repair.
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I think their main problem is that, as a company built upon turning things into a commodity, they don't really have innovation in their DNA. And now they are so big that, to maintain the growth that they see as success, they have to innovate. But their inertia alone would make that difficult, and it isn't how they've really done business. I think they're looking for anything that might have enough ROI, but the industry is too nimble for them and they'll always be playing catchup on things outside their core (the OS and Office) unless some major, major changes happen. And those changes only will happen when they no longer have the advantages they do now.
Yeah, they could trade them for cigarettes and lottery tickets!
Besides, it's a school board. Do you know the kind of people who want to be on school boards?
(Burn baby burn, Karma Inferno!)
1) You have legacy apps, particularly games. This doesn't apply to me, since all my apps are for OS X, and the only game I play is multiplayer Neverwinter Nights on our family game night. YMMV.
2) Familiarity with/necessity of Windows. It is generally accepted (though there are dissenters) that Apple makes pretty decent hardware, and that for similarly spec'ed systems, Apple's price is within 5% of Dell's. Personally, I own a dual-processor-dual-core G5 tower, and MAN is that thing nice. I have coworkers, MCSEs and .Net programmers, who absolutely covets that thing. There are all sorts of engineering touches that hardware people might appreciate. So some people would like to have Apple hardware and still be able to use Windows out of need/desire. Again, YMMV.
3) There would be a certain geek-chic to doing this. I don't think this can be underestimated with the /. crowd; the idea of having OS X available and being able to switch to Windows when you want/need to has a certain cool factor to it. There is also that "because it's there" factor that any tinkerer finds appealing. And being the person to do it will give you a modicum of fame (or at least recognition) and respect.
You know, I'd make that arguement. In fact, "I'll go further than that, I'll get off at the depot."(*) As cheap as harddrive space is these days, I don't mind Tiger taking that much space because the darn thing works so well and is a joy to use. Everything comes at a price, and if part of the price of OS X is that it uses a couple more gigs of harddrive space, that's a very small price in this day and age.
(*) - This quote stolen at great embarrassment from Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers
Recently our CEO came to town to talk to the IT staff here. Where others vented, I gave concrete examples. He thanked me afterwards, and I told him, "You know, none of use find Dilbert funny anymore."
Our raises were capped at 3%, and earlier in the day we were told that our company had an EBITA of >30%. The rest of the division may have lost many and dragged us down, but criminy, ...
Miranda beat you to it.
Lighten up, Francis. Get out of your mom's basement, acquire some property, and then you might actually believe in property rights. It's heresy, I know, but it's funny how looking at a pay stub will convert the most ardent socialist into the most ardent individualist.
I know that one place has. I've seen it for myself.
I really did preview that, man; I swear to God I did.
From the empirical evidence I've seen, this saying exists for a reason.
You quit making jokes like, lad, or you're going to have to answer to me, Father Murphy of the Boston Archdiocese!
The real question is: between golf and income tax, how can people stay so damn honest?
But what about the fact that the sun, which drives all the earth's weather, has been steadily getting warmer since at least the late 70s, if not earlier? Heck, I doubt any sane person could blame that on the usual idustrialization, America, SUV driver, or whatever the scapegoat du jour is.
Show me a company that doesn't thrive on vendor lock-in, and I'll show you a company that doesn't thrive.
It's just that the suits don't always understand that the best lock-in is a customer satisfaction. Happy customers don't look elsewhere.