The options you have when you want full cross platform availability for your courses, doesn't leave you with much choice apart from Flash, Java or HTML, or a combination thereof, since the others either don't allow you to write your own applications, or are not fully cross platform.
I would suggest actually writing a simple visual programming environment in Flash or Java, since it seems that your students won't be needing complex features (I presume simple procedural with conditionals and media integration).
This way you'll be able to expand it in future if you like.
Die Leitung der NSDAP wünscht, dass alle Regimekritiker die Sprecherlaubnis entzogen wird mit einem deutlichen Hinweis darauf, dass härtere Massnahmen folgen können im Falle einer Missachtung dieses Befehls. Sieg Heil.*
*The leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) wishes that all critics of the regime be refused permission to speak and warned that harsher measures will follow if this order is not followed. Sieg Heil.
People like you, who are so dismissive of anything other than the platform they use, are the real problem in IT. Firstly, you have no understanding whatsoever of the fundamental differences in architecture between OpenBSD and Windows. These are real. It's not simply a matter of which OS is more popular. Use Google; read up on the approach to security in OpenBSD (A small hint: There is no way to execute an email attachment automatically. Here's another: OpenBSD is the OS that has the strictest and most thorough code review out there, and it has a record to prove it).
As for your comment about malware The point being, the other OS's have never had the big guns on them - those well financed, smart, overseas bad actors who are out to make a buck., I was almost speechless. Did you know that the country where the most spam originates from is the US? Did it occur to you that "bad actors" could be American as well?
I, together with another guy on the MacNN boards, discovered some of the more serious aspects of the vulnerability pertaining to url types and mounting of remote volumes around two years ago, when a website could quite easily download, mount and execute an applescript or any application on your machine without you seeing it (Apple's response to this was the fact that you have to authenticate any new application the first time it's run these days, something now also in WindowsXP and Vista). We notified Apple and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, after 3 or 4 months, Apple finally released the patch with the new functionality.
It was an extremely serious vulnerability because it was so easy to exploit and Apple really dragged their feet on that, and on other similar cases.
The guy is spot on with that comment. Apple is really slow in responding to possible exploits.
He's right that Apple users are complacent about security. What he doesn't metnion is that this is a trend amongst security companies (scream loudly about how vulnerable Apple users are because they aren't buying his company's fucking products).
He's right that Apple is very secretive and sometime extremely slow to address security vulnerabilities. He's wrong that Apple not speaking to him means it isn't interested. Apple just learnt the lesson early that being too open to the press (on any topic) is make yourself a victim of their fickle moods.
He's right that there might be large holes in Apple's OS from earlier NeXT days, but he's sure as fuck wrong when he says it applies to both PPC and Intel architectures. Any crack that relies on memory in the stack being overwritten will not be cross platform.
He's right that there are open vulnerabilities. He's wrong and simply trolling (probably for profit, the fucker) when he doesn't mention that none of them are remote.
I am singularly unimpressed by Cingular's pathetic attempt to make cash off others' ideas and the internet's prior art will get shoved up Cingular's arse.
(Disclaimer: I am not an atheist, but my faith is personal, and I regard Christian fundamentalists as only marginally more intelligent than baboons and more frightened of emptyness than a heroin addict is of losing his fix) There is no topic on slashdot that stirs people up as much as creationism, ID and evolution. It's amazing. I don't personally understand why it is of such utter importance to religious fundamentalists, be they mentally cripple Christian retards from the midwest terrified of the chaos of mental freedom, Islamic fanatics from Afghanistan or Iraq spilling pools of blood believing that their kind of God could forgive them for their murder or manic Hindus burning children in a train, that everyone believes that their version of God(TM) is the one and only and that he is somehow going to make their lives better, either now or in the future, when they're fucking dead, when it won't even matter anymore.
I can only speculate that these people are terrified of being alone in the world, so instead they want us all to stop making up our own minds and let them do it for us so we can live by their mores ("beat the bitches who get an abortion up") and morals ("it's ok to execute a criminal but the very first commandment is about not killing"). In fact, while I'm at it, please, dearest Christians: Explain that one to me. Why is it ok to execute a criminal and start a war where tens of thousands die but not ok for a pregnant woman to abort a foetus. Explian to me exactly what you don't understand about "Thou shalt not kill".
It doesn't say "Thou shalt not kill but it's ok if they're heathens" and neither does it say "Thou shalt not kill foetuses but convicted criminals is ok" and sure as fuck doesn't say "Thou shalt not kill but bombing a country back to the stoneage is fine". So take your religion and shove it up your arse.
The demo on Mac, was a bit painful to watch, honestly speaking. I think WPF (or Avalon) is dandy, but only porting a subset to the Mac is as good as nothing. No one will use it. It is merely a half hearted attempt on Microsoft's part to do some of the classic embracing and extending.
I don't blame them. That's the way Microsoft does business. It's just that WPF will be a success, but only on Windows and not in the browser. The only place it might get used in the browser is in Microsoft only shops, and those are not as ubiquitous as they used to be.
I took a look at the video of the designer demonstrating Sparkle at Microsoft on Channel 9 a while ago. The guy, to be honest, was really pathetic. He came up with a demo interface that was truly awful, was far too excited at the tool to be comprehensible and to the point. It was left to a project manager to actually demonstrate a usable interface.
That demonstration was very, very good. Microsoft certainly have an excellent tool in their hands. It makes designing a GUI as easy as using Flash or Illustrator these days. It is NOT an animation tool, although it can do animations to be used in GUIs. In that sense, no one is giong to use it to make flash cartoons on the web. They're going to use to make GUIs for Visual Studio.Net projects, and, if Microsoft gets its way, it will make all these wonderful XAML rich internet applications that run in or out of the browser. Microsoft even made noises about making a plug-in to run xaml apps on Mac OSX.
In other words, Microsoft really, badly, wants this to succede, and they need it badly, because the whole Web 2.0 hype, even though it is vastly overated, is making the use of Microsoft OS's and apps truly optional. There is a real threat that enterprise application development, where Microsoft makes most of its money, drops native clients almost totally in favour of web (2.0) based internet ones. From an enterprise point of view it makes huge sense to do away with platform dependencies.
That scares the living shit out of Microsoft, and that is why they are pushing Sparkle and Acrylic. They want enterprises to develop only on Windows only for Windows with a bit of token use (just like Microsoft's absolutely shitty WMPlayer for MacOSX) for MacOSX in the form of a plug-in that will NOT support the entire library or toolset. That is Microsoft's subtle way of trying to nudge Mac users into moving to Windows.
I think it will only be partly a success. It will probably be wildly popular for native Windows client development (and is guaranteed to produce as many shitty GUIs as there are today, because successful UI design is not some creative with Photoshop and Flash). But I think it will be an almost total flop for browser based rich clients. Ajax got there first and companies are in no way going to develop Microsoft only websites anymore. Those days are dead.
In other words, it'll be a nice tool for Win GUI development and that'll be it.
Where I will laugh my ass off is when the fat freak runs around the stage screaming "Designers, designers, designers" at the top of his lungs.
ck them. Do you job How the fuck did you ever graduate, you dumb fuck? You can't even use the English language. If you would apply to me for a job with your grasp of the English language I would kick your dumb ass out the door faster than you could say, "yadda fucking yadda", stupid cunt.
I am one of those of the generation that grew up without computers. I seriously believe that learning to do maths by hand and read from a book and not a badly written sentence, edited for space by a semi-literate online author are the reasons I don't have these problems. Kids today are entirely helpless without computers (and judging by the quality of English on Slashdot they're helpess with them as well.)
Switch off the computer, take out a book on elementary algebra and one piece of good English fiction.
My text:Today, slashdot really outdid itself. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 1/20/0611209 That story, on the 50 millisecond website appreciation, got posted as a story no less than 3 times. Rob wrote a huge article about how submitters should make decent articles, watch their links, cross their t's, dot their i's (but he doesn't care about spelling because he can't spell himself), and I for one, would dearly love to know what his excuse for duplicate, and in this case, triplicate stories is.
I think it shows that the slashdot editors neither care what they post, nor do they have any respect for their audience. Pathetic. It also shows they have an attention span of around 50 milliseconds.
Sorry to be insulting, but the largest number of complaints here are, by far, against your "stylistic decision" to not care about spelling and grammar. Really, browser this topic at +5 and take note of just how many people are complaining about the poor grammar and spelling. I find it insulting and unprofessional that you feel you should be able to ignore them. My mother language is not English and you would certainly be upset (or I would get modded down ) if I continually posted comments in my language. Yet I make an effort to post good English. Why don't you?
Slashdot is NOT a mailing list or a blog. Slashdot has a far larger number of readers than any blog or mailing list. That excuse that Slashdot should be similar in style to those is just pathetic.
It needs to be not to long, not to short. Links should be clear. Spelling and Grammar are secondary issues. Way to go, Rob.
But seriously, I personally find it a poor example when the the maintainer/boss/head honcho comes online to defend bad English because he simply doesn't master the language himself. And yes, I think it does matter. Very much so, because somewhere an invisible line is crossed where the langauge is no longer understandable. You call this, in typical nerd fashion, "parsing".
You would be upset if half the people reading Slashdot posted in their mother tongue. They make an effort to post in correct English. Why don't you?
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At the end of the Permian era, 250 million years ago, there was the biggest mass extinction the earth had ever seen. 99% of all life died out. Think about how that must have been for any one of the creatures at the time.
After the Permian came the dinosaurs, who were so successful that they ruled over the earth for 185 million years. Something bad happened at the end of the Jurassic period, some 65 million years ago, and most of the life on earth died off again, some 95% IIRC. Again, think about how extreme that must have been.
Now, some 65 million years later, a species capable of abstract thought and who known cognitive history probably extends back some 35 000 years or more or so, is worrying about extinction.
News flash, whether we live or die, as a species, does not matter. Enromous extinctions have happened in the past and they could happen again, except that it could be us the next time around, and in some 60 million years when the rats who survived will have evolved into suv driving, complaining, frightened, superstitious fools who don't accept that life is transient and that we have no special place on this earth and that god, if he exists, does not particularly favour us over, say cockroaches, or rats.
There are an enormous amount of people who develop for windows, either native client or web and often with a DB that has only a Windows Installer. Doing this in an emulator might work some of the time, but it sure as hell won't work all of the time.
In my job I develop for both a huge legacy ASP application and Java. Running a complex ASP application in an emulator is a torture and unusable for work. Therefore I need a Windows machine, even though I already have a powerbook. Give me a Mac that I can dualboot and I will be enormously happy. Even VMWare running on my mac machine would be fantastic.
I think Cringley might be right on some and wrong on others. He obviously has some very good connections, since he sniffed out that Apple was starting to work on wireless video streaming over a year ago and he might very well be right about Apple killing half the Macworld show due to legal problems with Burst, and I think he's right that Apple will lose. It was probably a mix of Burst's greed for big licensing money and Job's stinginess that broke the discussions about licensing down. But although Jobs can fuck up mightily from time to time, he's pretty good at salvaging something from the ruins (the Mac Cube was a disaster, the Mac mini a huge hit) so I think there will be something along the lines of a Mac TV out this year. In the end, Apple themselves might just buy Burst (and not Google as Cringely said) if it's important enough to them.
I'm pretty sure he's dead wrong about Apple selling boxes of OSX that can install on any PC, and in fact I'm dead sure of this because (read this, Cringely, you dumbass) OSX needs Intel's new boot firmware, EFI, to boot. It doesn't install or boot on BIOS machines. It only worked on the developer Intel macs. Of course it can be hacked, but that won't work for your average PC user.
About Google I think he's simply wrong because Google is pretty good about surprising investors, but who knows.
About the PS3 I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that Soney will work very hard to make sure some games will be there at launch. Sony's English CEO getting axed will not be as dependent on the PS3 as it will on Sony's general fortunes. I doubt he knew much about the Sony DRM fiasco, but he definitely knows about its consequential lawsuit. My guess is he would get axed because of that.
Cringely doesn't even mention Windows Vista and claims it will not come out this year. Is he fucking daft? If Microsoft doesn't release Vista, they will lose even more ground to OSX and cheap Macs. Vista is Microsoft's big chance of winning over customers from deserting the platform for Macs. Microsoft has so much riding on Vista's back, in tools and products that they can't afford not to release it this year.
What would be really amazing would be if Microsoft were to launch its own hardware platform, on a PPC basis (not the XBox, a general computer). That would be a supreme irony, except that it will never happen.
I wonder if they really thought this thing through or just got carried away in their zeal. The permafrost is melting worldwide. In 50 years there will not be much left in the arctic.
It may come as a great shock to these scientists to realise that most people on the planet take awhile to get fully awake after waking up. Those same people would refer to that knowledge as common sense.
The average Asian OEM PC maker sells more computers then Apple. The average Asian OEM maker also makes and sells more computers than Dell, HP, IBM, Gateway and your mother, assclown, because they are also the ones that make the computers for dell, HP, Gateway and your mother.
Billy Boy has had his MSN music store around for around 2 years now and it has been, like MSN itself, a total failure. Now, Billy Boy, touched by the same infinite creative wisdom that produced Microsoft BOB, Clippy and Windows ME, brings out exactly the same fucking product under another brand, and, using exactly the same model as Napster and Yahoo and his other store, expects to win out with his "superior" product.
Billy Boy's new toy, not compatible with the most popular by far audio player, will only help Billy Boy to lose even more money than his current MSN venture does.
My only wish, Billy Boy, is that in a year or two, some journalist with real balls instead of the pants-shitting, brown-nosing creeps that pretend to be such these days, will play you back a recording of your words this day and force you to either admit to just how badly you erred, or to get you to walk out of the studio in tears.
Makes two of us. I'm pretty certain that Apple will bring out either new iBooks or new Powerbooks next week. I'm really hoping it'll be Powerbooks, but realistically it'll probably be iBooks, but I don't care. I need an x86 machine right now and that will save me a whole shitload of cash in that I'll only need one machine instead of two.
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The options you have when you want full cross platform availability for your courses, doesn't leave you with much choice apart from Flash, Java or HTML, or a combination thereof, since the others either don't allow you to write your own applications, or are not fully cross platform.
I would suggest actually writing a simple visual programming environment in Flash or Java, since it seems that your students won't be needing complex features (I presume simple procedural with conditionals and media integration).
This way you'll be able to expand it in future if you like.
Die Leitung der NSDAP wünscht, dass alle Regimekritiker die Sprecherlaubnis entzogen wird mit einem deutlichen Hinweis darauf, dass härtere Massnahmen folgen können im Falle einer Missachtung dieses Befehls. Sieg Heil.*
*The leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) wishes that all critics of the regime be refused permission to speak and warned that harsher measures will follow if this order is not followed. Sieg Heil.
People like you, who are so dismissive of anything other than the platform they use, are the real problem in IT. Firstly, you have no understanding whatsoever of the fundamental differences in architecture between OpenBSD and Windows. These are real. It's not simply a matter of which OS is more popular. Use Google; read up on the approach to security in OpenBSD (A small hint: There is no way to execute an email attachment automatically. Here's another: OpenBSD is the OS that has the strictest and most thorough code review out there, and it has a record to prove it).
As for your comment about malware The point being, the other OS's have never had the big guns on them - those well financed, smart, overseas bad actors who are out to make a buck., I was almost speechless. Did you know that the country where the most spam originates from is the US? Did it occur to you that "bad actors" could be American as well?
Then your opinion is worth about as much as your paycheck. ;-)
I, together with another guy on the MacNN boards, discovered some of the more serious aspects of the vulnerability pertaining to url types and mounting of remote volumes around two years ago, when a website could quite easily download, mount and execute an applescript or any application on your machine without you seeing it (Apple's response to this was the fact that you have to authenticate any new application the first time it's run these days, something now also in WindowsXP and Vista). We notified Apple and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, after 3 or 4 months, Apple finally released the patch with the new functionality.
It was an extremely serious vulnerability because it was so easy to exploit and Apple really dragged their feet on that, and on other similar cases.
The guy is spot on with that comment. Apple is really slow in responding to possible exploits.
He's right that Apple users are complacent about security. What he doesn't metnion is that this is a trend amongst security companies (scream loudly about how vulnerable Apple users are because they aren't buying his company's fucking products).
He's right that Apple is very secretive and sometime extremely slow to address security vulnerabilities. He's wrong that Apple not speaking to him means it isn't interested. Apple just learnt the lesson early that being too open to the press (on any topic) is make yourself a victim of their fickle moods.
He's right that there might be large holes in Apple's OS from earlier NeXT days, but he's sure as fuck wrong when he says it applies to both PPC and Intel architectures. Any crack that relies on memory in the stack being overwritten will not be cross platform.
He's right that there are open vulnerabilities. He's wrong and simply trolling (probably for profit, the fucker) when he doesn't mention that none of them are remote.
I am singularly unimpressed by Cingular's pathetic attempt to make cash off others' ideas and the internet's prior art will get shoved up Cingular's arse.
(Disclaimer: I am not an atheist, but my faith is personal, and I regard Christian fundamentalists as only marginally more intelligent than baboons and more frightened of emptyness than a heroin addict is of losing his fix)
There is no topic on slashdot that stirs people up as much as creationism, ID and evolution. It's amazing. I don't personally understand why it is of such utter importance to religious fundamentalists, be they mentally cripple Christian retards from the midwest terrified of the chaos of mental freedom, Islamic fanatics from Afghanistan or Iraq spilling pools of blood believing that their kind of God could forgive them for their murder or manic Hindus burning children in a train, that everyone believes that their version of God(TM) is the one and only and that he is somehow going to make their lives better, either now or in the future, when they're fucking dead, when it won't even matter anymore.
I can only speculate that these people are terrified of being alone in the world, so instead they want us all to stop making up our own minds and let them do it for us so we can live by their mores ("beat the bitches who get an abortion up") and morals ("it's ok to execute a criminal but the very first commandment is about not killing"). In fact, while I'm at it, please, dearest Christians: Explain that one to me. Why is it ok to execute a criminal and start a war where tens of thousands die but not ok for a pregnant woman to abort a foetus. Explian to me exactly what you don't understand about "Thou shalt not kill".
It doesn't say "Thou shalt not kill but it's ok if they're heathens" and neither does it say "Thou shalt not kill foetuses but convicted criminals is ok" and sure as fuck doesn't say "Thou shalt not kill but bombing a country back to the stoneage is fine". So take your religion and shove it up your arse.
The demo on Mac, was a bit painful to watch, honestly speaking. I think WPF (or Avalon) is dandy, but only porting a subset to the Mac is as good as nothing. No one will use it. It is merely a half hearted attempt on Microsoft's part to do some of the classic embracing and extending.
I don't blame them. That's the way Microsoft does business. It's just that WPF will be a success, but only on Windows and not in the browser. The only place it might get used in the browser is in Microsoft only shops, and those are not as ubiquitous as they used to be.
I have impecible grammar and spelling
I'm sorry, I just had to laugh at that one.
I took a look at the video of the designer demonstrating Sparkle at Microsoft on Channel 9 a while ago. The guy, to be honest, was really pathetic. He came up with a demo interface that was truly awful, was far too excited at the tool to be comprehensible and to the point. It was left to a project manager to actually demonstrate a usable interface.
.Net projects, and, if Microsoft gets its way, it will make all these wonderful XAML rich internet applications that run in or out of the browser. Microsoft even made noises about making a plug-in to run xaml apps on Mac OSX.
That demonstration was very, very good. Microsoft certainly have an excellent tool in their hands. It makes designing a GUI as easy as using Flash or Illustrator these days. It is NOT an animation tool, although it can do animations to be used in GUIs. In that sense, no one is giong to use it to make flash cartoons on the web. They're going to use to make GUIs for Visual Studio
In other words, Microsoft really, badly, wants this to succede, and they need it badly, because the whole Web 2.0 hype, even though it is vastly overated, is making the use of Microsoft OS's and apps truly optional. There is a real threat that enterprise application development, where Microsoft makes most of its money, drops native clients almost totally in favour of web (2.0) based internet ones. From an enterprise point of view it makes huge sense to do away with platform dependencies.
That scares the living shit out of Microsoft, and that is why they are pushing Sparkle and Acrylic. They want enterprises to develop only on Windows only for Windows with a bit of token use (just like Microsoft's absolutely shitty WMPlayer for MacOSX) for MacOSX in the form of a plug-in that will NOT support the entire library or toolset. That is Microsoft's subtle way of trying to nudge Mac users into moving to Windows.
I think it will only be partly a success. It will probably be wildly popular for native Windows client development (and is guaranteed to produce as many shitty GUIs as there are today, because successful UI design is not some creative with Photoshop and Flash). But I think it will be an almost total flop for browser based rich clients. Ajax got there first and companies are in no way going to develop Microsoft only websites anymore. Those days are dead.
In other words, it'll be a nice tool for Win GUI development and that'll be it.
Where I will laugh my ass off is when the fat freak runs around the stage screaming "Designers, designers, designers" at the top of his lungs.
ck them. Do you job
How the fuck did you ever graduate, you dumb fuck? You can't even use the English language. If you would apply to me for a job with your grasp of the English language I would kick your dumb ass out the door faster than you could say, "yadda fucking yadda", stupid cunt.
I am one of those of the generation that grew up without computers. I seriously believe that learning to do maths by hand and read from a book and not a badly written sentence, edited for space by a semi-literate online author are the reasons I don't have these problems. Kids today are entirely helpless without computers (and judging by the quality of English on Slashdot they're helpess with them as well.)
Switch off the computer, take out a book on elementary algebra and one piece of good English fiction.
I would like to know if you're white or black, since I suspect that would have an influence on your opin ion when posting a reply such as yours.
I just submitted this link as a a story.
0 1/20/0611209 That story, on the 50 millisecond website appreciation, got posted as a story no less than 3 times. Rob wrote a huge article about how submitters should make decent articles, watch their links, cross their t's, dot their i's (but he doesn't care about spelling because he can't spell himself), and I for one, would dearly love to know what his excuse for duplicate, and in this case, triplicate stories is.
My text:Today, slashdot really outdid itself. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/
I think it shows that the slashdot editors neither care what they post, nor do they have any respect for their audience. Pathetic. It also shows they have an attention span of around 50 milliseconds.
Sorry to be insulting, but the largest number of complaints here are, by far, against your "stylistic decision" to not care about spelling and grammar. Really, browser this topic at +5 and take note of just how many people are complaining about the poor grammar and spelling. I find it insulting and unprofessional that you feel you should be able to ignore them. My mother language is not English and you would certainly be upset (or I would get modded down ) if I continually posted comments in my language. Yet I make an effort to post good English. Why don't you?
Slashdot is NOT a mailing list or a blog. Slashdot has a far larger number of readers than any blog or mailing list. That excuse that Slashdot should be similar in style to those is just pathetic.
It needs to be not to long, not to short. Links should be clear. Spelling and Grammar are secondary issues. Way to go, Rob.
But seriously, I personally find it a poor example when the the maintainer/boss/head honcho comes online to defend bad English because he simply doesn't master the language himself. And yes, I think it does matter. Very much so, because somewhere an invisible line is crossed where the langauge is no longer understandable. You call this, in typical nerd fashion, "parsing".
You would be upset if half the people reading Slashdot posted in their mother tongue. They make an effort to post in correct English. Why don't you?
At the end of the Permian era, 250 million years ago, there was the biggest mass extinction the earth had ever seen. 99% of all life died out. Think about how that must have been for any one of the creatures at the time.
After the Permian came the dinosaurs, who were so successful that they ruled over the earth for 185 million years. Something bad happened at the end of the Jurassic period, some 65 million years ago, and most of the life on earth died off again, some 95% IIRC. Again, think about how extreme that must have been.
Now, some 65 million years later, a species capable of abstract thought and who known cognitive history probably extends back some 35 000 years or more or so, is worrying about extinction.
News flash, whether we live or die, as a species, does not matter. Enromous extinctions have happened in the past and they could happen again, except that it could be us the next time around, and in some 60 million years when the rats who survived will have evolved into suv driving, complaining, frightened, superstitious fools who don't accept that life is transient and that we have no special place on this earth and that god, if he exists, does not particularly favour us over, say cockroaches, or rats.
There are an enormous amount of people who develop for windows, either native client or web and often with a DB that has only a Windows Installer. Doing this in an emulator might work some of the time, but it sure as hell won't work all of the time.
In my job I develop for both a huge legacy ASP application and Java. Running a complex ASP application in an emulator is a torture and unusable for work. Therefore I need a Windows machine, even though I already have a powerbook. Give me a Mac that I can dualboot and I will be enormously happy. Even VMWare running on my mac machine would be fantastic.
I think Cringley might be right on some and wrong on others. He obviously has some very good connections, since he sniffed out that Apple was starting to work on wireless video streaming over a year ago and he might very well be right about Apple killing half the Macworld show due to legal problems with Burst, and I think he's right that Apple will lose. It was probably a mix of Burst's greed for big licensing money and Job's stinginess that broke the discussions about licensing down. But although Jobs can fuck up mightily from time to time, he's pretty good at salvaging something from the ruins (the Mac Cube was a disaster, the Mac mini a huge hit) so I think there will be something along the lines of a Mac TV out this year. In the end, Apple themselves might just buy Burst (and not Google as Cringely said) if it's important enough to them.
I'm pretty sure he's dead wrong about Apple selling boxes of OSX that can install on any PC, and in fact I'm dead sure of this because (read this, Cringely, you dumbass) OSX needs Intel's new boot firmware, EFI, to boot. It doesn't install or boot on BIOS machines. It only worked on the developer Intel macs. Of course it can be hacked, but that won't work for your average PC user.
About Google I think he's simply wrong because Google is pretty good about surprising investors, but who knows.
About the PS3 I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that Soney will work very hard to make sure some games will be there at launch. Sony's English CEO getting axed will not be as dependent on the PS3 as it will on Sony's general fortunes. I doubt he knew much about the Sony DRM fiasco, but he definitely knows about its consequential lawsuit. My guess is he would get axed because of that.
Cringely doesn't even mention Windows Vista and claims it will not come out this year. Is he fucking daft? If Microsoft doesn't release Vista, they will lose even more ground to OSX and cheap Macs. Vista is Microsoft's big chance of winning over customers from deserting the platform for Macs. Microsoft has so much riding on Vista's back, in tools and products that they can't afford not to release it this year.
What would be really amazing would be if Microsoft were to launch its own hardware platform, on a PPC basis (not the XBox, a general computer). That would be a supreme irony, except that it will never happen.
I wonder if they really thought this thing through or just got carried away in their zeal. The permafrost is melting worldwide. In 50 years there will not be much left in the arctic.
It may come as a great shock to these scientists to realise that most people on the planet take awhile to get fully awake after waking up. Those same people would refer to that knowledge as common sense.
The average Asian OEM PC maker sells more computers then Apple. The average Asian OEM maker also makes and sells more computers than Dell, HP, IBM, Gateway and your mother, assclown, because they are also the ones that make the computers for dell, HP, Gateway and your mother.
Dumbass.
Billy Boy has had his MSN music store around for around 2 years now and it has been, like MSN itself, a total failure. Now, Billy Boy, touched by the same infinite creative wisdom that produced Microsoft BOB, Clippy and Windows ME, brings out exactly the same fucking product under another brand, and, using exactly the same model as Napster and Yahoo and his other store, expects to win out with his "superior" product.
Billy Boy's new toy, not compatible with the most popular by far audio player, will only help Billy Boy to lose even more money than his current MSN venture does.
My only wish, Billy Boy, is that in a year or two, some journalist with real balls instead of the pants-shitting, brown-nosing creeps that pretend to be such these days, will play you back a recording of your words this day and force you to either admit to just how badly you erred, or to get you to walk out of the studio in tears.
Makes two of us. I'm pretty certain that Apple will bring out either new iBooks or new Powerbooks next week. I'm really hoping it'll be Powerbooks, but realistically it'll probably be iBooks, but I don't care. I need an x86 machine right now and that will save me a whole shitload of cash in that I'll only need one machine instead of two.