Microsoft _announced_ an operating system in 1983, Windows 1.0 didn't ship until 1985.
There's lot's of early Mac history at the Folklore site. Lots of pictures that show what passed for fashion among geeks in the 1980s.
My favorite, our man Steve Jobs in his bowtie period, best left for your own searching so I don't get modded-down for posting a link akin to Mr. Goatse.
I bought an iMac DV SE (the first Graphite iMac) in Jan 2000. When I started, it ran Mac OS 9, and it ran it well...
Meanwhile, my mother had an early Bondi Blue iMac which she bought in 1998. It ran Mac OS 9 and it ran it well.
When Mac OS X came out, I, being an early adopter, upgraded. Mainly because I wanted to learn all the Unix-y stuff without dual booting Yellow Dog Linux.
I have to admit, Mac OS X 10.0 was a lot slower. I only put up with it because I knew this was the future. 10.1 was faster. 10.2 was faster still. In fact, by the time 10.2 came out, my 2000-era iMac felt faster than my wife's newer iBook laptop running Mac OS 9.2.
Now that 10.3 is out, with another perceived speed boost, I'm quite certain that my mother would be happy switching (yep, she's still using the 1998 iMac).
So, if Apple is slipping on hardware sales, it's because of two things:
1. Macs last 'forever' (6 years without one hardware hiccup is forever in my book)
2. Each Mac OS X releases has felt like a performance upgrade.
I'm getting ready to upgrade my mother to Panther and I'm telling my sister, who is currently using a really beat-up Powerbook 520 (from 1995!), to buy an iBook.
It is my experience that, frankly, once you go Apple, you never go back...
Re:Yes, yes, yes, Apple's dying, blah blah blah
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Why iPod Can't Save Apple
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For someone so up on Apple stock, and with such a low user id, it's too bad you let a $20 replacement mouse stop you from experiencing nirvana...
I know the article was trolling, but I'm biting at the bait.
If the Internet was set up so that if you, living in Australia, pushed the right combinations of keys, an innocent person in the US strapped into an electric chair would get killed.
If you pushed the button and killed the person, could you be charged with murder in the US? Could you be charged with murder in Australia?
I think most people would say yes to at least one of these questions.
Now, if the killer were in Australia, and the killed were in Canada, could you be charged with murder in the US? I don't think so, although you could say the act occurred in the US (by virtue of the datagrams whirring through US-located networks en route to Canada. Regardless, I would give Canada and Australia first crack at that case.
If you don't have any sports talent the way to the ladies is to cut a rug on the dance floor...
I don't mean ballroom. I mean whatever is cool with the young people today.
Dancing fosters and appreciation for music and it does two things... 1) It puts you in proximity with young people that want to socialize and 2) It gives you something to talk about.
I recall 7th and 8th Grades and the kids that knew how to dance were far better off socially. Of course we were rocking to The Cars and Cheap Trick, but I imagine the same principles apply...
And I will call you Cerberus...
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Three Headed Frog
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Obviously we're very close to the entry of Amphibian Hell.
Web standards are important from just an interoperability standpoint.
When you're sure that everyone uses the same browser, it means you can use a 'standard' that works for you. But enterprises are increasingly called to support a wider range of hardware and software.
Using data standards is a key component to interoperability. The more universal the standard, the more likely the systems will interoperate. That applies to any enterprise and any system, from CD recording format, to Unicode, the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, to Webstandards, to the Incident Command System.
Heck, Law School's main purpose (besides removing your soul) is to teach you the standards and processes of working the legal system. For the most part, the Law is the system that ensures the interoperability of property (heh).
You can certainly roll your own standard, or stick to an old one, but you run the risk of not being interoperable. In a world of increasing interdependence, you will probably want to implement your own solution, but ensure that the "public" parts are interoperable.
Of course, the media doesn't have time to RTFI(ndictment).
The indictment says this guy was on a student visa and while he was here we was helping Islamic non-for-profits that have ties to terrorist groups. Student visas are for studying, not running websites for non-for-profits.
The charges are all immigration violations which say he lied when he signed this immigration applications. Making false statements to the US is a crime. The government alleges he lied because he knew he his visa wouldn't be approved with accurate statements of his work for these not-for-profits.
Apple's deal with the labels had to include DRM. I'm guessing Jobs doesn't care if it gets cracked, especially when I've read that iTMS only exists to get people to buy iPods (which is on par with Gillette giving away the razors to sell the blades...).
I mean, consider how easy it is to copy MP3s off someone else's iPod: Mount the iPod, open the hidden folder on the iPod drive with terminal (IIRC, it's plain old directory that starts with a period), and hey presto, start draggin' folders. How simple is that?
Apple's Legal team is probably spending more time worrying about Apple Record's law suit. Sosumi indeed...
Three is obviously false. Since there has been television, we have had higher taxes and bigger government. Our country is falling apart because of television.
1989, a Mac SE, Zterm, and 1200 baud.
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Best BBS Memories?
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My best memory was "Uncle Lem's Cabin" ran by a buddy of mine.
A bunch of us played an RPG game on one of his BBS forums. That was a trip. Basically the GM would give us the setup overnight and we would have all day to write up our actions. Some of us coordinated our plans by telephone. Then the GM would read our messages and respond accordingly. During the thick of it, we were doing two rounds a day.
BBS's and GEnie (which was like Compuserve or early AOL) got me through the half-dozen years between having a mainframe account in college and the Internet.
It's not that PowerPoint makes you dumb, it's using the wrong tool for the job.
If you're interested in briefing someone, sometime the proper way is with PowerPoint, sometimes it's a memo, sometimes it's a technical report.
The problem is most people feel they have to use PowerPoint, or they won't be taken seriously. There's a technical word for people like this. They're called "Asshat".
When I use PowerPoint, I try to follow some very simple rules:
Seven words on a line.
Seven lines on a slide.
If you do this, your presentation will at least be legible.
If your message is having a hard time fitting in this format, chances are it shouldn't be a PowerPoint presentation.
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Newspapers, magazines, letters, and stamps.
How 1980s. Yikes.
If you check her medical history, she received all new bones over a 16 month period!
That's 306 bones!
Microsoft _announced_ an operating system in 1983, Windows 1.0 didn't ship until 1985.
There's lot's of early Mac history at the Folklore site. Lots of pictures that show what passed for fashion among geeks in the 1980s.
My favorite, our man Steve Jobs in his bowtie period, best left for your own searching so I don't get modded-down for posting a link akin to Mr. Goatse.
I bought an iMac DV SE (the first Graphite iMac) in Jan 2000. When I started, it ran Mac OS 9, and it ran it well...
Meanwhile, my mother had an early Bondi Blue iMac which she bought in 1998. It ran Mac OS 9 and it ran it well.
When Mac OS X came out, I, being an early adopter, upgraded. Mainly because I wanted to learn all the Unix-y stuff without dual booting Yellow Dog Linux.
I have to admit, Mac OS X 10.0 was a lot slower. I only put up with it because I knew this was the future. 10.1 was faster. 10.2 was faster still. In fact, by the time 10.2 came out, my 2000-era iMac felt faster than my wife's newer iBook laptop running Mac OS 9.2.
Now that 10.3 is out, with another perceived speed boost, I'm quite certain that my mother would be happy switching (yep, she's still using the 1998 iMac).
So, if Apple is slipping on hardware sales, it's because of two things:
1. Macs last 'forever' (6 years without one hardware hiccup is forever in my book)
2. Each Mac OS X releases has felt like a performance upgrade.
I'm getting ready to upgrade my mother to Panther and I'm telling my sister, who is currently using a really beat-up Powerbook 520 (from 1995!), to buy an iBook.
It is my experience that, frankly, once you go Apple, you never go back...
For someone so up on Apple stock, and with such a low user id, it's too bad you let a $20 replacement mouse stop you from experiencing nirvana...
Give me a break...
The Rolling Stones will die when Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are both dead.
Just like the Who. They will die when Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry are both dead.
The only exception to the 'top two' rule is the Beatles, which outlived John Lennon's death mainly by virtue of having four people in the 'top two'.
Now, if you don't have a 'top two', you can go on forever and ever and ever...
Actually, misquoting protects me from potential attacks from the Stewart estate for appropriating his work...
:-)
Of course, since it's all SCOTUS stuff, there's no copyright, so let's just call me a lazy bastard...
"I know obscenity use when I see it..." --Potter Stewart
s/obscenity/fair use/
I mean really, folks, it's just a game. It's not the Mona Lisa. Nobody's played it yet, you _may_ not want to oversell it.
I know the article was trolling, but I'm biting at the bait.
If the Internet was set up so that if you, living in Australia, pushed the right combinations of keys, an innocent person in the US strapped into an electric chair would get killed.
If you pushed the button and killed the person, could you be charged with murder in the US? Could you be charged with murder in Australia?
I think most people would say yes to at least one of these questions.
Now, if the killer were in Australia, and the killed were in Canada, could you be charged with murder in the US? I don't think so, although you could say the act occurred in the US (by virtue of the datagrams whirring through US-located networks en route to Canada. Regardless, I would give Canada and Australia first crack at that case.
Dancing Lessons.
If you don't have any sports talent the way to the ladies is to cut a rug on the dance floor...
I don't mean ballroom. I mean whatever is cool with the young people today.
Dancing fosters and appreciation for music and it does two things... 1) It puts you in proximity with young people that want to socialize and 2) It gives you something to talk about.
I recall 7th and 8th Grades and the kids that knew how to dance were far better off socially. Of course we were rocking to The Cars and Cheap Trick, but I imagine the same principles apply...
Obviously we're very close to the entry of Amphibian Hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus.
Be on the lookout for a Newt called Heracles!
Repeat after me: "You want fries with that?"
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
--Jamie Zawinski, in comp.lang.emacs
>do you know where google gets the information to create their personal information database?
It's called a phone book.
Google either spidered phone book companies websites, or much more likely, bought the data from them directly.
Y'all seem to think that it's only the males who benefit from having thick skulls.
It benefits women too, vis--vis the headboard. There's nothing like a coital concussion to kill the romance.
Michael Collins.
I remember it and guess what? Wikipedia got it right too.
Stupid coward.
As a victory lap for his Oscar-nominated performance in Pirates of the Carribean, I nominate Johnny Depp.
Web standards are important from just an interoperability standpoint.
When you're sure that everyone uses the same browser, it means you can use a 'standard' that works for you. But enterprises are increasingly called to support a wider range of hardware and software.
Using data standards is a key component to interoperability. The more universal the standard, the more likely the systems will interoperate. That applies to any enterprise and any system, from CD recording format, to Unicode, the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, to Webstandards, to the Incident Command System.
Heck, Law School's main purpose (besides removing your soul) is to teach you the standards and processes of working the legal system. For the most part, the Law is the system that ensures the interoperability of property (heh).
You can certainly roll your own standard, or stick to an old one, but you run the risk of not being interoperable. In a world of increasing interdependence, you will probably want to implement your own solution, but ensure that the "public" parts are interoperable.
Of course, the media doesn't have time to RTFI(ndictment).
The indictment says this guy was on a student visa and while he was here we was helping Islamic non-for-profits that have ties to terrorist groups. Student visas are for studying, not running websites for non-for-profits.
The charges are all immigration violations which say he lied when he signed this immigration applications. Making false statements to the US is a crime. The government alleges he lied because he knew he his visa wouldn't be approved with accurate statements of his work for these not-for-profits.
Apple's deal with the labels had to include DRM. I'm guessing Jobs doesn't care if it gets cracked, especially when I've read that iTMS only exists to get people to buy iPods (which is on par with Gillette giving away the razors to sell the blades...).
I mean, consider how easy it is to copy MP3s off someone else's iPod: Mount the iPod, open the hidden folder on the iPod drive with terminal (IIRC, it's plain old directory that starts with a period), and hey presto, start draggin' folders. How simple is that?
Apple's Legal team is probably spending more time worrying about Apple Record's law suit. Sosumi indeed...
EG:
YHBT YHL HAND?
LOL.
Three is obviously false. Since there has been television, we have had higher taxes and bigger government. Our country is falling apart because of television.
My best memory was "Uncle Lem's Cabin" ran by a buddy of mine.
A bunch of us played an RPG game on one of his BBS forums. That was a trip. Basically the GM would give us the setup overnight and we would have all day to write up our actions. Some of us coordinated our plans by telephone. Then the GM would read our messages and respond accordingly. During the thick of it, we were doing two rounds a day.
BBS's and GEnie (which was like Compuserve or early AOL) got me through the half-dozen years between having a mainframe account in college and the Internet.
If you're interested in briefing someone, sometime the proper way is with PowerPoint, sometimes it's a memo, sometimes it's a technical report.
The problem is most people feel they have to use PowerPoint, or they won't be taken seriously. There's a technical word for people like this. They're called "Asshat".
When I use PowerPoint, I try to follow some very simple rules:
If you do this, your presentation will at least be legible.
If your message is having a hard time fitting in this format, chances are it shouldn't be a PowerPoint presentation.