Most of Apple's hardware is quite competitively priced these days. It's still not quite as cheap, but it's close (except the Cube, but that has an excuse).
You'll probably need to boot from the CD to install. Apple could get around this of course, but that's unlikely, since the download will be far too large for most users anyway.
Of course, I'm sure ISO images will show up everywhere within the week, whether the license allows it or not....
It'll probably put a significant dent in Linux's use on the Mac platform. Most Mac users use Linux just because it's a modern OS that runs on their hardware and doesn't cost $500 like Mac OS X Server does. I've already moved my CGI development to the Mac OS X developer preview.
While you probably could pop a dual G4 daughtercard in the cube, Apple won't sell you one that way, and I suspect you have some rather serious heat issues.
Mount a fan on top and put the thing in a minifridge and everything should be fine;-)
OS X Server is dead. Apple is not going to have a dual OS strategy like Microsoft. Mac OS X will be the only OS. It's just as much a Unix as OS X Server is, Apple just hides it from the typical user better. All the Unix goodness is there if you want it.
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I think he'll be safe with Mac OS X. It's a genuine multiuser Unix.
Of course then the problem is... do you trust her with the root password?
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I doubt that will work. But I've heard Apple is intentionally writing Quartz in such a way that it shouldn't be too to hard for some 3rd party to come up with a good native remote display solution.
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You're going to have a hell of a time persuading anyone once Mac OS X ships, so enjoy it while you can.
Spam wastes significant ISP resources, and the vast majority of people are happier with ISP-side filtering (they wouldn't have the first clue how to set things up on their own, or they just don't want to deal with it).
If you really have a problem with it, it's your right to chose an ISP that doesn't do it, or run your own mail server.
If an online 'White Power' organization were to be established, that posted lists of Websites they objected to, for itemized specific reasons, would that be considered legitimate?
Yes! Freedom of speech does not mean "freedom of speech for people I agree with" or even "freedom of speech for people the majority doesn't find objectionable." As soon as you start letting the government decide who gets to say what, you don't have freedom of speech.
The only exception is damaging speech (e.g. slander, yelling "Fire!" in crowded theaters), and even that usually must be false to be illegal.
You didn't read very far, apparently. The article discusses why such things weren't important when Mac OS was created. How important are memory protection and preemptive multitasking in an OS that only runs one application at a time? That was the norm for personal computer OSes at that time; the hardware just couldn't deal with more.
DP4 is reportedly crammed full of debug code, and some components (e.g. QuickTime) are still extremely unoptimized. At least wait for the public beta before declaring it slow.
The Apple logo already has interesting religious connotations that I'm sure somebody, somewhere, objects to. Or has the significance of an apple with a bite out of it been totally lost on most people?
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Most of Apple's hardware is quite competitively priced these days. It's still not quite as cheap, but it's close (except the Cube, but that has an excuse).
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You'll probably need to boot from the CD to install. Apple could get around this of course, but that's unlikely, since the download will be far too large for most users anyway.
Of course, I'm sure ISO images will show up everywhere within the week, whether the license allows it or not....
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It'll probably put a significant dent in Linux's use on the Mac platform. Most Mac users use Linux just because it's a modern OS that runs on their hardware and doesn't cost $500 like Mac OS X Server does. I've already moved my CGI development to the Mac OS X developer preview.
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Mach microkernel. Lots of the other low-level code is BSD.
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Quantum computing can give you encryption that can't be broken without violating the laws of physics.
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... And some other corporation will come along and sell a billion of 'em for $5 each. Isn't capitalism fun?
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Big parts of the universe would compress pretty well, I bet.
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10 billion gigs is good for about 20 million years of MP3s or a million years of DVD video.
Provided I didn't misplace a zero there. There were lots of them.
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While you probably could pop a dual G4 daughtercard in the cube, Apple won't sell you one that way, and I suspect you have some rather serious heat issues.
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Mount a fan on top and put the thing in a minifridge and everything should be fine
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Mac OS X will be $99 or damn close. It isn't going to be Apple's "professional" OS, it's going to be Apple's only OS.
OS X Server is expensive mostly because it comes with a WebObjects deployment license.
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The current Mac OS has rather crappy I/O. That goes away the second you install Mac OS X.
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OS X Server is dead. Apple is not going to have a dual OS strategy like Microsoft. Mac OS X will be the only OS. It's just as much a Unix as OS X Server is, Apple just hides it from the typical user better. All the Unix goodness is there if you want it.
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Actually, any Mac with Open Firmware can boot Linux without Mac OS. That's every single PCI Power Mac, as far as I know.
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Multiple processors with SIMD on each one?
You don't say.
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I think he'll be safe with Mac OS X. It's a genuine multiuser Unix.
Of course then the problem is... do you trust her with the root password?
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I doubt that will work. But I've heard Apple is intentionally writing Quartz in such a way that it shouldn't be too to hard for some 3rd party to come up with a good native remote display solution.
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You're going to have a hell of a time persuading anyone once Mac OS X ships, so enjoy it while you can.
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Spam wastes significant ISP resources, and the vast majority of people are happier with ISP-side filtering (they wouldn't have the first clue how to set things up on their own, or they just don't want to deal with it).
If you really have a problem with it, it's your right to chose an ISP that doesn't do it, or run your own mail server.
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If an online 'White Power' organization were to be established, that posted lists of Websites they objected to, for itemized specific reasons, would that be considered legitimate?
Yes! Freedom of speech does not mean "freedom of speech for people I agree with" or even "freedom of speech for people the majority doesn't find objectionable." As soon as you start letting the government decide who gets to say what, you don't have freedom of speech.
The only exception is damaging speech (e.g. slander, yelling "Fire!" in crowded theaters), and even that usually must be false to be illegal.
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The Mac version of the installer already does this. I assume the Linux and Windows versions do as well, or will soon.
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So did it break? I've watched an iMac come crashing off a desk on to a hard wood floor -- it still booted up just fine.
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Apple has historically been very good at hiding such things from the end user. The 68K to PPC transition is the primary example of this.
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You didn't read very far, apparently. The article discusses why such things weren't important when Mac OS was created. How important are memory protection and preemptive multitasking in an OS that only runs one application at a time? That was the norm for personal computer OSes at that time; the hardware just couldn't deal with more.
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DP4 is reportedly crammed full of debug code, and some components (e.g. QuickTime) are still extremely unoptimized. At least wait for the public beta before declaring it slow.
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The Apple logo already has interesting religious connotations that I'm sure somebody, somewhere, objects to. Or has the significance of an apple with a bite out of it been totally lost on most people?
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