John Sculley probably did the right thing booting Jobs out of Apple at the time, as Jobs was simply too young and brash to take responsibility for his actions. I think the time at NeXT where Jobs had no one else but himself to blame for the company's failure to promote the Cubes and Stations was what taught Jobs to think about what he did before doing it.
Sculley certainly had good idea, the Newton being the chief one amongst them, but he didn't have Jobs' feel of design appeal to get that thing to a point where everyday joes would want one. Take a look at the phenomenal success of the Apple iPod and you realise what Jobs could have done with the Newton if he had been the one to introduce it. It's sad but it's the way things are and Jobs is certainly correct in not getting Apple to try and compete in the desasterous PDA market of today, which is dying due to competition from mobile phones.
I think that there were many other technologies that Apple introduced that could have made more of an impact in the market, but which, mainly due to Apple's poor marketing and market position at the time, never made. Hypercard was one, although Applescript can today do a lot of what Hypercard did then. OpenDoc/Cyberdog was another. openDoc was such a phenomenal innovation that Bill gates made it part of Microsoft's contract forbidding ex MS employess to work on OpenDoc for 3 years after leaving MS. The concept was in competition to and superior to MS' OLE and that worried Microsoft a lot at the time. It would have meant that components could be placed from one programe into another, such as being able to, say, do image editing in word processing and vice versa. Brilliant.
The strange thing today is that the services which are part of OSX are very neglected und undermarketed although they serve a similar purpose. Perhaps Jobs just doesn't get it?
Almost every single movie I've ever watched has had some Made For Movies OS that has overly large fonts so that viewers don't have to destroy their eyes just as quickly as the poor bastards who bought one of Dell's 1600x1200 15" laptops, no mouse pointer (or a mouse next to the keyboard either for that matter) and has either been used as some sort of personel database or has had overly intelligent 3D GUI that no one in their right mind would use in reality.
Their have been snippets of real OSes though, I've seen Apple's OS9 GUI used in lots of windowing shots (although it's mostly been Motif kind of hacks built into Macromedia Director) and I've even seen Windows being used a number of times. The most famous real tool I've seen though was Trinity using netstat n the MatrixII.
Apart from the Windowing hackjobs and over large fonts, the one thing that has often amused me in the last few years is how so many movies still copy some huge database onto a floppy, and how the floppy can handle all those megabytes of data.
I actually think that the shell with no GUI presents the easiest way to integrate computers into films, as this is where you can make the lines of text plus images in some framebuffer application part of the plot without distracting from the movie. If one wanted to do real life computing in movies, it would probably be goof for comedy moments to have someone cursing over Word crashing again, looking at a BSOD, being totally non-plussed at some overly complex piece of IT, being trashed by a virus because they forgot to update their AV, or one of the dozen or so pieces of things that can happen to you in your normal Windows working day.
Firstly, I found the 24 series to be incredibly dumb. The plot seemed to be written by an overworked team of scriptwriters who got themselves involved in conflicting substories, and then had to write rather extensive plot hacks in order to get the story back online. The Serbian bad boys part was relevant to a point, but the "Nina Meiers" persona seemed so obviously hacked, going from good to evil to good to evil, it seemed like it was necessary to make the story last 24.
On to product placement. All I can say is, WTF? There were Dell Inspirons all over the place, but those large monitors in the main character's office were Apple Cinema displays, and I had a good laugh looking at the fake GUI of their "CTU OS" running on their Dells, as all the windows were taken from Apple's trusty OS9.::Grin::
Ever sat on a surfboard waiting for the waves after paddling out, feeling truly at peace with the world? Ever felt the power that waves have, the majesty of the sea?
Well, this instrument of laziness, ignroance and pollution will guarantee that you won't.
Everybody assumes Microsoft will simply implement this with no warning as a prerequisite for running Windows.
I don't think that's strictly true. I think that Microsoft has a number of priorities with this and those will be, amongst others: 1. The ability to make PCs behave more like Macs in intelligent device recognition, power managment, etc. 2. To implement Palladium DRM features that will strengthen Microsoft's position with regard to Piracy of it's software and gain revenue from RIAA, MPAA etc licencing access and controls of digital media. 3. They will attempt to make Windows more secure. 4. They will attempt to lock Linux out, by making it either impossible to boot Linux or at the least very difficult.
Microsoft is going to claim it's for the consumers benefit. Microsoft is going to implement this, AS ALWAYS, with backwards compatibility, so that older computers will still run, NOMINALLY, with the newer OS versions, but many features (which will not be related to the new BIOS technically, but which Microsoft will so implement) will not run without the new BIOS. That will be they way Microsoft will enforce this amongst customers.
When your Mac starts up, press Cmd-Opt-O-F simultaneously and you'll boot into OpenFirmware. Type (with spaces): 2 2 + Then hit enter. The machine will print 4 to the screen.
Welcome to the world of Forth and OpenFirmware. You can write Forth scripts to change boot order, check for drivers and even access hardware if you want. Damn cool.
And it's great for those times when you need a calculator but don't have time for the machine to start up;)
There are, as you know, still, many ways to do P2P, such as using a VPN to an outside server or ssh tunneling. The fact that you've just blown the real method of discovering the P2P and that is by way of bandwidth, means that those who want to do P2P simply have to reduce the amount of P2P they are doing to amounts that equate to "normal" net use, whatever that may be. A good way to find what that may be, would be to experiment by raising the bandwidth until it hits your app's limit and gets a first warning, upon which you could reduce the bandwidth again.
Good post, and probably more lucid than the ML craziness. Sun should definitely put more money into CPU R&D. The Sparcs are known as robust, scalable processors. As for Cobalt, the biggest problem there is Sun's wierd packaging scheme they use, which makes it difficult to use standard RPMs. Cobalt would do better if Sun had made a distro of it's own a long time ago, but now, they would be better off just using either the base of the Mad Hatter stuff or SuSE or RedHat.
The guy is definitely right about Sun's problems --lack of focus, prorietry CPUs floundering, Java not bringing in enough cash, confusing Linux and x86 strategy -- but I'm not so sure his cures would help Sun.
Sun needs to make more money off Java, that is clear, but tools, certification, training and licencing would be the way to go, not dropping Java entirely.
Apart from that Sun should make it clearer where they're going with Linux, as their current approach is all but clear.
And they need to stop listening to Analysts, who like to seem to know more about companies than the comapnies do themselves.
You pay a CHF25 (around$20) recycling fee for all electro gizmos, as they produce hazardous waste during recycling, which mandates special treatment, and Switzerland (and Japa as well I suppose) just doesn't have the land mass for large landfills.
Forgot the part I was referencing: They explain why Linux is a 'monopoly,' how this policy is 'socialist' and why 'The old Soviet Union could not have done this any better.'
You know, for all the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that was produced as a result of the 40 year cold war, which has been over for 13 years now, I find it remarkable how the old bed time stories to frighten little children with have remained in American society.
For all its woes, despotic tyranical leadership and repression, Socialist/Communist systems had some good things about them. Two of those were free health care to the whole population (I'm not referring to the quality of such care here) and extremely high literacy rates.
Take Cuba for example. It may be desperately poor and the quality of medical care might be low due to lack of medical supplies, but I would be prepared to bet some money on the fact that more people have access to doctors there than in the US, where I read on the Washington Post a couple of days ago, that some 40% of working adults now have no medical insurance, and in the same bet, I would wager that the percentage of adults that are literate is higher than in the US.
Just something to think about instead of the usual buzzword/bogeyman comments on the Soviet Union/Communism/Socialism.
Fuck SCO, fuck Blake Stowell, fuck Chris Sonntag, fuck Darl McBride and fuck their little childish lying games. This is so massively irritating that I wish they would just fucking die and burn in hell. These stories by SCO make it so painfully obvious that they are afraid of sliding into public oblivion and that they are equally afraid of any real test of their fucking bullshit.
My last two jobs in the IT sector were so fucking painful that I now (after 3 months of unemployment) am seriously considering either starting my own business in Multimedia (my original foeld) or opening up a restaurant and leaving IT entirely.
Those two jobs had bosses who stupid in the IT sense of the word (both would get into screaming fits of rage when their fucking Outlook or some other POS was quacking again without even trying to listen to the problems involved in whatever technology was the current boo haa). Both bosses were plainly and simply cruel (Being forced in both jobs to do everything from design webpages to fixing MSOffice problems and system admin and doing enormous amounts of overtime and being treated like shit every single fucking day). Both of them used trumped up downright lies to get me fired in the end. I was and am almost completely burned out. There were many times when I just wanted to fucking kill myself and get the fucking agony of having to work for a fucking nazi from 7AM to 9PM every day over. NO social life left, nothing.
FUCK THEM and fuck the capitalist dream that says you're worth fuckall as a person in this world.
I want another job and have the same problems finding one as most of the people here, but I'm simply not prepared to be a modern day cotton picker licking the bosses gangrenous dick anymore.
Since the article covers blackouts in general, and not just the one in the US, I sincerely wonder what your motivation was in posting that little gem.
My opinion is that you're another one of those people who believe in censoring things that don't fit in your (narrow) mindset, or do you think that everyone should be pro everything that the US government does no matter what it is?
All those who go on the patriotic road of claiming China is evil or the USA is evil and therefore one should support A or B is perhaps ignoring what probably is going on.
Firstly Microsoft is a huge business with a vested interest in selling Windows wherever it can. That means that it is in Microsoft's interest to satisfy government customers, whereever they may be, be it the US government asking MS to allow NSA backdoors in foreign (or all) versions of Windows. It also means that Microsoft will, at least on the surface, attempt to satisfy large foreign government customers in showing them Windows source code, although how they will get around the backdoors, if they are there, is a mystery to me.
Secondly, China has good grounds not to trust US companies in matters of security. There is a well known story of Boeing supplying a new jet (777 or 767) for the Chinese government that sat on the runway in China for months after the Chinese discovered more than 50 spying devices on board. On top of this China (and most of the rest of the world for that matter) has good economic reasons to want to develop an indigenous software and hardware industry. Buying Microsoft software only sends revenues to the USA, which is not in most countries economic interests.
I suspect China will carry on down its (ostensibly with proprietry added features) Linux road as it means greater freedom and power for them.
Please tell me what is insightful about the parent post? I can understand American fear of China as a "vaguely understood communist threat", but eastern Europe???? Has it not yet sickered through to mainstream USA that the cold war is over? J. fucking Christ, the fucking stupidity here amazes me at times.
This is the same organistaion that, depsite the costliest investigation in US history, hasn't managed to get one single suspect in the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001.
I don't know. I just don't know. They are either mindlessly incompetent, incredibly corrupt or a bit of both. Their being so efficient in catching some lone hacker and so inefficient in catching a very shadowy individual or individuals in the Anthrax case stinks of high level complicity and corruption. Hitler would have been proud.
Photoshop is by far, by very far, the best tool for digital image manipulation. There is nothing else even close to it in the market. My personal experience with Photoshop goes back to version 1.0.5 in 1990 and what I discovered is that Photoshop was then and up untl around version 5.5, conservative. The keyboard shortcut combinations (zooming, dragging etc) combined with an incredibly responsive screen update and precise colour is what professionals needed, not a multitude of flashy coloured rollovers. If anything, while versions 6 and 7 have added many useful features, I feel that Adobe's virtual monopoly in this market is perhaps not such a good thing.
There are no other applications that have the features, and only one competitor, Painter, that specialises in natural media simulation, which PS doesn't have, yet which doesn't offer the ease of use of PS.
The case of Illustrator is similar. AI always had a strong competitor in Freehand and Adobe really messed up AI in a couple of later versions in a mad panic trying to catch up and surpass Freehand in the gimmick department. Now, since Freehand has lagged behind for a couple of years, being ignored by macromedia who bet the farm on web products, AI has once again been left to wait it out until the next round. (The differences between version 9.0 and 10.0 are minimal, and 10.0 was even slower on the same hardware).
In summary, while I like Adobes products, I think that it would be incredible if someone like say, Macromedia, to take Painter and Freehand and make decent competitors to Adobe's flagshups again. Macromedia's Dreamweaver is vastly better than Golive in ease of use, and they could heat up the competition with Freehand and a programme like Painter as well.
As much as I like and love the idea of yet another competitor , and a professional one to boot, this reminds me so much of the Amiga saga, when Amiga, a few years after Commodore had gone tits up, was cheap enough that a German company bought up the rights to the OS and made big promises about launching the Amiga from the dead, so to speak.
The Amiga was always very popular in Germany and the company hoped to capitalise on that. sadly, the PC had caught up in the mean time and the company dies.
I am afraid that that is probably what is going to happen to YellowTab. Windows, Linux and OSX have all caught up (more or less) in features, file systems etc in the mean time, and there isn't that many people out there any more who would buy this as it lacks third party software almost completely.
Reading these amazing specs, with the attendant oohs and aahs and lots of ifs thrown in --"it seems, it could be" -- this gives me the feeling that it might just be vapourware, brought out at this time in the time honoured tradition of microsoft announcing products that do not even exist beyond specification form simply for the reason of cornering the market. AMD's Opteron and IBM's PPC 970 (G5 in Apple's Macs) are getting more press than the desasterous Itanium or even the Itanium2 for that matter.
My feeling is that while Intel is probably less worried about the G5/PPC 970 as their marketshare is very small, but is more worried about the effect a successful Opteron could have on the market, on the one hand not needing special recoding for 64 bit apps (compatible to x86 32bit) and more importantly what the Opterons could do to the server market, causing companies to switch their 32 bit Xeon stuff to 64 bit Opteron with little effort and low price.
I seriously doubt that all of a sudden next year, CPUs will be on the market running at 5 to 7 GHz without having serious cooling problems or running away from memory.
So, in summary, I think it's Intel's marketing department in microsoft mode:Vapourware.
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John Sculley probably did the right thing booting Jobs out of Apple at the time, as Jobs was simply too young and brash to take responsibility for his actions. I think the time at NeXT where Jobs had no one else but himself to blame for the company's failure to promote the Cubes and Stations was what taught Jobs to think about what he did before doing it.
Sculley certainly had good idea, the Newton being the chief one amongst them, but he didn't have Jobs' feel of design appeal to get that thing to a point where everyday joes would want one. Take a look at the phenomenal success of the Apple iPod and you realise what Jobs could have done with the Newton if he had been the one to introduce it. It's sad but it's the way things are and Jobs is certainly correct in not getting Apple to try and compete in the desasterous PDA market of today, which is dying due to competition from mobile phones.
I think that there were many other technologies that Apple introduced that could have made more of an impact in the market, but which, mainly due to Apple's poor marketing and market position at the time, never made. Hypercard was one, although Applescript can today do a lot of what Hypercard did then. OpenDoc/Cyberdog was another. openDoc was such a phenomenal innovation that Bill gates made it part of Microsoft's contract forbidding ex MS employess to work on OpenDoc for 3 years after leaving MS. The concept was in competition to and superior to MS' OLE and that worried Microsoft a lot at the time. It would have meant that components could be placed from one programe into another, such as being able to, say, do image editing in word processing and vice versa. Brilliant.
The strange thing today is that the services which are part of OSX are very neglected und undermarketed although they serve a similar purpose. Perhaps Jobs just doesn't get it?
Almost every single movie I've ever watched has had some Made For Movies OS that has overly large fonts so that viewers don't have to destroy their eyes just as quickly as the poor bastards who bought one of Dell's 1600x1200 15" laptops, no mouse pointer (or a mouse next to the keyboard either for that matter) and has either been used as some sort of personel database or has had overly intelligent 3D GUI that no one in their right mind would use in reality.
Their have been snippets of real OSes though, I've seen Apple's OS9 GUI used in lots of windowing shots (although it's mostly been Motif kind of hacks built into Macromedia Director) and I've even seen Windows being used a number of times. The most famous real tool I've seen though was Trinity using netstat n the MatrixII.
Apart from the Windowing hackjobs and over large fonts, the one thing that has often amused me in the last few years is how so many movies still copy some huge database onto a floppy, and how the floppy can handle all those megabytes of data.
I actually think that the shell with no GUI presents the easiest way to integrate computers into films, as this is where you can make the lines of text plus images in some framebuffer application part of the plot without distracting from the movie. If one wanted to do real life computing in movies, it would probably be goof for comedy moments to have someone cursing over Word crashing again, looking at a BSOD, being totally non-plussed at some overly complex piece of IT, being trashed by a virus because they forgot to update their AV, or one of the dozen or so pieces of things that can happen to you in your normal Windows working day.
Firstly, I found the 24 series to be incredibly dumb. The plot seemed to be written by an overworked team of scriptwriters who got themselves involved in conflicting substories, and then had to write rather extensive plot hacks in order to get the story back online. The Serbian bad boys part was relevant to a point, but the "Nina Meiers" persona seemed so obviously hacked, going from good to evil to good to evil, it seemed like it was necessary to make the story last 24.
::Grin::
On to product placement. All I can say is, WTF? There were Dell Inspirons all over the place, but those large monitors in the main character's office were Apple Cinema displays, and I had a good laugh looking at the fake GUI of their "CTU OS" running on their Dells, as all the windows were taken from Apple's trusty OS9.
Ever sat on a surfboard waiting for the waves after paddling out, feeling truly at peace with the world? Ever felt the power that waves have, the majesty of the sea?
Well, this instrument of laziness, ignroance and pollution will guarantee that you won't.
Everybody assumes Microsoft will simply implement this with no warning as a prerequisite for running Windows.
I don't think that's strictly true. I think that Microsoft has a number of priorities with this and those will be, amongst others:
1. The ability to make PCs behave more like Macs in intelligent device recognition, power managment, etc.
2. To implement Palladium DRM features that will strengthen Microsoft's position with regard to Piracy of it's software and gain revenue from RIAA, MPAA etc licencing access and controls of digital media.
3. They will attempt to make Windows more secure.
4. They will attempt to lock Linux out, by making it either impossible to boot Linux or at the least very difficult.
Microsoft is going to claim it's for the consumers benefit. Microsoft is going to implement this, AS ALWAYS, with backwards compatibility, so that older computers will still run, NOMINALLY, with the newer OS versions, but many features (which will not be related to the new BIOS technically, but which Microsoft will so implement) will not run without the new BIOS. That will be they way Microsoft will enforce this amongst customers.
When your Mac starts up, press Cmd-Opt-O-F simultaneously and you'll boot into OpenFirmware. Type (with spaces):
;)
2 2 +
Then hit enter. The machine will print 4 to the screen.
Welcome to the world of Forth and OpenFirmware. You can write Forth scripts to change boot order, check for drivers and even access hardware if you want. Damn cool.
And it's great for those times when you need a calculator but don't have time for the machine to start up
There are, as you know, still, many ways to do P2P, such as using a VPN to an outside server or ssh tunneling. The fact that you've just blown the real method of discovering the P2P and that is by way of bandwidth, means that those who want to do P2P simply have to reduce the amount of P2P they are doing to amounts that equate to "normal" net use, whatever that may be. A good way to find what that may be, would be to experiment by raising the bandwidth until it hits your app's limit and gets a first warning, upon which you could reduce the bandwidth again.
Good post, and probably more lucid than the ML craziness.
Sun should definitely put more money into CPU R&D. The Sparcs are known as robust, scalable processors. As for Cobalt, the biggest problem there is Sun's wierd packaging scheme they use, which makes it difficult to use standard RPMs. Cobalt would do better if Sun had made a distro of it's own a long time ago, but now, they would be better off just using either the base of the Mad Hatter stuff or SuSE or RedHat.
The guy is definitely right about Sun's problems --lack of focus, prorietry CPUs floundering, Java not bringing in enough cash, confusing Linux and x86 strategy -- but I'm not so sure his cures would help Sun.
Sun needs to make more money off Java, that is clear, but tools, certification, training and licencing would be the way to go, not dropping Java entirely.
Apart from that Sun should make it clearer where they're going with Linux, as their current approach is all but clear.
And they need to stop listening to Analysts, who like to seem to know more about companies than the comapnies do themselves.
Gruessech a toi ;) C'est quoi que eQ fait exactement?
You pay a CHF25 (around$20) recycling fee for all electro gizmos, as they produce hazardous waste during recycling, which mandates special treatment, and Switzerland (and Japa as well I suppose) just doesn't have the land mass for large landfills.
Forgot the part I was referencing: They explain why Linux is a 'monopoly,' how this policy is 'socialist' and why 'The old Soviet Union could not have done this any better.'
You know, for all the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that was produced as a result of the 40 year cold war, which has been over for 13 years now, I find it remarkable how the old bed time stories to frighten little children with have remained in American society.
For all its woes, despotic tyranical leadership and repression, Socialist/Communist systems had some good things about them. Two of those were free health care to the whole population (I'm not referring to the quality of such care here) and extremely high literacy rates.
Take Cuba for example. It may be desperately poor and the quality of medical care might be low due to lack of medical supplies, but I would be prepared to bet some money on the fact that more people have access to doctors there than in the US, where I read on the Washington Post a couple of days ago, that some 40% of working adults now have no medical insurance, and in the same bet, I would wager that the percentage of adults that are literate is higher than in the US.
Just something to think about instead of the usual buzzword/bogeyman comments on the Soviet Union/Communism/Socialism.
Fuck SCO, fuck Blake Stowell, fuck Chris Sonntag, fuck Darl McBride and fuck their little childish lying games. This is so massively irritating that I wish they would just fucking die and burn in hell. These stories by SCO make it so painfully obvious that they are afraid of sliding into public oblivion and that they are equally afraid of any real test of their fucking bullshit.
My last two jobs in the IT sector were so fucking painful that I now (after 3 months of unemployment) am seriously considering either starting my own business in Multimedia (my original foeld) or opening up a restaurant and leaving IT entirely.
Those two jobs had bosses who stupid in the IT sense of the word (both would get into screaming fits of rage when their fucking Outlook or some other POS was quacking again without even trying to listen to the problems involved in whatever technology was the current boo haa). Both bosses were plainly and simply cruel (Being forced in both jobs to do everything from design webpages to fixing MSOffice problems and system admin and doing enormous amounts of overtime and being treated like shit every single fucking day). Both of them used trumped up downright lies to get me fired in the end. I was and am almost completely burned out. There were many times when I just wanted to fucking kill myself and get the fucking agony of having to work for a fucking nazi from 7AM to 9PM every day over. NO social life left, nothing.
FUCK THEM and fuck the capitalist dream that says you're worth fuckall as a person in this world.
I want another job and have the same problems finding one as most of the people here, but I'm simply not prepared to be a modern day cotton picker licking the bosses gangrenous dick anymore.
Since the article covers blackouts in general, and not just the one in the US, I sincerely wonder what your motivation was in posting that little gem.
My opinion is that you're another one of those people who believe in censoring things that don't fit in your (narrow) mindset, or do you think that everyone should be pro everything that the US government does no matter what it is?
All those who go on the patriotic road of claiming China is evil or the USA is evil and therefore one should support A or B is perhaps ignoring what probably is going on.
Firstly Microsoft is a huge business with a vested interest in selling Windows wherever it can. That means that it is in Microsoft's interest to satisfy government customers, whereever they may be, be it the US government asking MS to allow NSA backdoors in foreign (or all) versions of Windows. It also means that Microsoft will, at least on the surface, attempt to satisfy large foreign government customers in showing them Windows source code, although how they will get around the backdoors, if they are there, is a mystery to me.
Secondly, China has good grounds not to trust US companies in matters of security. There is a well known story of Boeing supplying a new jet (777 or 767) for the Chinese government that sat on the runway in China for months after the Chinese discovered more than 50 spying devices on board. On top of this China (and most of the rest of the world for that matter) has good economic reasons to want to develop an indigenous software and hardware industry. Buying Microsoft software only sends revenues to the USA, which is not in most countries economic interests.
I suspect China will carry on down its (ostensibly with proprietry added features) Linux road as it means greater freedom and power for them.
Please tell me what is insightful about the parent post? I can understand American fear of China as a "vaguely understood communist threat", but eastern Europe???? Has it not yet sickered through to mainstream USA that the cold war is over? J. fucking Christ, the fucking stupidity here amazes me at times.
I can imagine the salesman giving him a blank look when he mentioned Debian. "Is that a Macintosh or something?" ;)
This is the same organistaion that, depsite the costliest investigation in US history, hasn't managed to get one single suspect in the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001.
I don't know. I just don't know. They are either mindlessly incompetent, incredibly corrupt or a bit of both. Their being so efficient in catching some lone hacker and so inefficient in catching a very shadowy individual or individuals in the Anthrax case stinks of high level complicity and corruption. Hitler would have been proud.
Photoshop is by far, by very far, the best tool for digital image manipulation. There is nothing else even close to it in the market. My personal experience with Photoshop goes back to version 1.0.5 in 1990 and what I discovered is that Photoshop was then and up untl around version 5.5, conservative. The keyboard shortcut combinations (zooming, dragging etc) combined with an incredibly responsive screen update and precise colour is what professionals needed, not a multitude of flashy coloured rollovers. If anything, while versions 6 and 7 have added many useful features, I feel that Adobe's virtual monopoly in this market is perhaps not such a good thing.
There are no other applications that have the features, and only one competitor, Painter, that specialises in natural media simulation, which PS doesn't have, yet which doesn't offer the ease of use of PS.
The case of Illustrator is similar. AI always had a strong competitor in Freehand and Adobe really messed up AI in a couple of later versions in a mad panic trying to catch up and surpass Freehand in the gimmick department. Now, since Freehand has lagged behind for a couple of years, being ignored by macromedia who bet the farm on web products, AI has once again been left to wait it out until the next round. (The differences between version 9.0 and 10.0 are minimal, and 10.0 was even slower on the same hardware).
In summary, while I like Adobes products, I think that it would be incredible if someone like say, Macromedia, to take Painter and Freehand and make decent competitors to Adobe's flagshups again. Macromedia's Dreamweaver is vastly better than Golive in ease of use, and they could heat up the competition with Freehand and a programme like Painter as well.
I would give you a +10 for insightfulness.
And the very poor this year might be the very rich next year.
Yes, of course. I'm sure you're right. Happens every day.
As much as I like and love the idea of yet another competitor , and a professional one to boot, this reminds me so much of the Amiga saga, when Amiga, a few years after Commodore had gone tits up, was cheap enough that a German company bought up the rights to the OS and made big promises about launching the Amiga from the dead, so to speak.
The Amiga was always very popular in Germany and the company hoped to capitalise on that. sadly, the PC had caught up in the mean time and the company dies.
I am afraid that that is probably what is going to happen to YellowTab. Windows, Linux and OSX have all caught up (more or less) in features, file systems etc in the mean time, and there isn't that many people out there any more who would buy this as it lacks third party software almost completely.
Reading these amazing specs, with the attendant oohs and aahs and lots of ifs thrown in --"it seems, it could be" -- this gives me the feeling that it might just be vapourware, brought out at this time in the time honoured tradition of microsoft announcing products that do not even exist beyond specification form simply for the reason of cornering the market. AMD's Opteron and IBM's PPC 970 (G5 in Apple's Macs) are getting more press than the desasterous Itanium or even the Itanium2 for that matter.
My feeling is that while Intel is probably less worried about the G5/PPC 970 as their marketshare is very small, but is more worried about the effect a successful Opteron could have on the market, on the one hand not needing special recoding for 64 bit apps (compatible to x86 32bit) and more importantly what the Opterons could do to the server market, causing companies to switch their 32 bit Xeon stuff to 64 bit Opteron with little effort and low price.
I seriously doubt that all of a sudden next year, CPUs will be on the market running at 5 to 7 GHz without having serious cooling problems or running away from memory.
So, in summary, I think it's Intel's marketing department in microsoft mode:Vapourware.