Well, if they stop making them, it's done for.
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Here's an article that was in wired magazine a while ago. "Game Over"
It was a while ago that I read it, but I think it mentioned the biggest pinball machine manufacturor had stopped making them. To big, bulky, fragile, and not exciting enough for the kids with no imagination.
Far more than Apple, I might point out, who has taken 16 years to give us preemptive multitasking (technically, they still haven't, of course).
Well, if you are going to be technical, they did deliver it with Mac OS X Server
Your point is really just 6 of one, half-dozen of the other. M$ has a product that sucks ass but is slightly more technically advanced. Apple delivers a product that sucks less, but isn't as technically advanced. They all suck. Here's hoping for Mac OS X Client.
I've got a contour Unimouse and a Micro$oft Intellimouse. 3 and 5 buttons respectively. The software that comes with them is amazingly configurable. I can make any button do any number of predefined actions, or make my own. If an application has something funky then you can make the mouse buttons change for that application. So it would be nice if everyone agreed on a control+click but if they don't it can be handled.
I'm so tired of people picking on mac users because of the one button mouse! It's such as moot point.
first the fact that you pay for an os and have ads built in is crappy.
The ads do NOT show up when you are searching for files.
When you are using Sherlock to search the internet, the ads do show up. The search engine people would be quite upset if you could use their search engine without seeing their ad, so Apple made them happy.
Why is it that Slashdot either posts stuff that isn't even news yet (beta releases, keynote addresses that are still in progress) or they post crap that is months old and often already posted on slashdot.
In any case, posters, don't waste bandwidth spewing your vaporware crap. When an open source software is delayed you all say it's because development is done the "right" way and will be released when it's ready. When a company delays software that isn't ready you all scream vaporware.
Slashdot and it's posters are all so predictable.
OS X will be shipped... when it's ready. I have no doubt a beta will be available this summer.
And Matrox today announced a Real-Time DV Editing PCI card for the Macinotosh G4. Here's that press release.
And then Pinnacle Systems and Apple announced they are bring Uncompressed High-Definition Video to the Mac. Here's that press release.
Re:Yes! Linux and Macs!
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I know I'd sure like being able to get work from my home computer to my school account w/o a disk or a hard copy.
This is already possible on a mac. If your files are stored on an appleshare ip server or a workstation with mac os 9 you can connect via appltalk over tcp/ip. The volume shows up on your desktop just like it was a local disk.
The installer does sort of stink, but the mac installer actually allowed me to choose what I wanted to install. I unchecked the composer, messenger, aim, and something else.
Just the browser is install now. Appears to be about a 6 MB download.
Does the windoze or Linux installer give this option of what to install?
Unfortunately, useability seems to have taken a back-seat to prettiness.
How can you comment on the usability of it when you haven't even used it yet?
Job's keynote at the San Fran MacWorld Expo seemed to focus about half on usability and half on appearance.
From what I hear and have seen, but don't have personal experience with, is that the dock is magnitudes better than the task bar in Windoze and the one copied by Gnome/KDE.
Even More screen shots available here:
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Here are few more pages with commentary and screenshots:
Well then why doesn't everyone use a Mac as Office is available for it. It's more than Office that puts Windows on 90% of desktops... it's a big mean company.
Now that slash is actually open source and available... And now that people are screaming that Rob and Jeff are sellouts yadda yadda yadda...
Wouldn't be funny if two college geeks just opened up todhsals and did the exact same thing, but, "like the old days".
I'd wake up and instead of typing slashdot.org, I'd just reverse it. It'd be like bazaaro world or something.
Now that VA and Andover involved and slahsdot is going soon be as stupid as altavista.
I like that slashdot is slow and sometimes down. It reminds me that it's run by a couple of geeks like me.
LinuxPPC be acknowledged in other places by Apple.
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It appears that Apple has also been nice and aknowledged LinuxPPC by offering the user a pre-set partitioning scheme in the "drive utility". The utility is used for partitioning your drive. As of v1.8.1 there is an option for LinuxPPC which gives makes all the partitions for you (swap, etc, etc) Their size changes with proportion to your HD size.
I doubt Jobs knows about such things, but they sure are nice to see.
Sorry for not being, or having time to be informed on every single topic in the universe. I asked the question because I didn't know the answer. Is that bad?
Please understand that we don't all have time to read how every piece of technology works.
I tried this more than once. Says it shipped a while ago but I never got a cd. Could be the good old U.S. Post.
I just want the cd and I would love a response from some one at LinuxPPC. I actually emailed you "haaz" but I haven't gotten a reply. Don't reply on slashdot, reply to me via email on what should happen.
I'm sick of calling Minnesota over such a silly issue.
Well I'm glad to see they are busy selling more CD's. I'm just sort of curious where the CD that I ordered over two months ago is!
I've called once and written 4 emails. Guy on the phone was clueless whether it had shipped or not. I haven't gotten a single response from any of my emails. (Sent the email to three different email addresses.)
Arrrrgh!
LinuxPPC maybe cool but if they can't get organized then they are going to flop.
Maybe post numbers should start at 13 or something to get rid of this stupid people with their stupid first post crap that is never even the first post!
But if [Windoze 2000] slips, the product's reputation will begin to suffer... Huh? Reputation?
It may be the largest consumer-market computer program ever written, with 30 million lines of code.
When will the baby actually be delivered? That's a BIG baby.
vaporware. That's when you stifle an opponent's new-product release by leaking news that you're about to release a similar product that's even better. Maybe you never release it, or do so only years later.
By no means is Windows 2000 vaporware. Contradiction what? News to me.
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Link to pbs is:
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Here's an article that was in wired magazine a while ago. "Game Over"
It was a while ago that I read it, but I think it mentioned the biggest pinball machine manufacturor had stopped making them. To big, bulky, fragile, and not exciting enough for the kids with no imagination.
Well, if you are going to be technical, they did deliver it with Mac OS X Server
Your point is really just 6 of one, half-dozen of the other. M$ has a product that sucks ass but is slightly more technically advanced. Apple delivers a product that sucks less, but isn't as technically advanced. They all suck. Here's hoping for Mac OS X Client.
I've got a contour Unimouse and a Micro$oft Intellimouse. 3 and 5 buttons respectively. The software that comes with them is amazingly configurable. I can make any button do any number of predefined actions, or make my own. If an application has something funky then you can make the mouse buttons change for that application. So it would be nice if everyone agreed on a control+click but if they don't it can be handled.
I'm so tired of people picking on mac users because of the one button mouse! It's such as moot point.
first the fact that you pay for an os and have ads built in is crappy.
The ads do NOT show up when you are searching for files.
When you are using Sherlock to search the internet, the ads do show up.
The search engine people would be quite upset if you could use their search engine without seeing their ad, so Apple made them happy.
Why is it that Slashdot either posts stuff that isn't even news yet (beta releases, keynote addresses that are still in progress) or they post crap that is months old and often already posted on slashdot.
In any case, posters, don't waste bandwidth spewing your vaporware crap. When an open source software is delayed you all say it's because development is done the "right" way and will be released when it's ready. When a company delays software that isn't ready you all scream vaporware.
Slashdot and it's posters are all so predictable.
OS X will be shipped... when it's ready. I have no doubt a beta will be available this summer.
good afternoon.
We got a microsoft suit to send slashdot an email with the word "blueunderwear" in it twice. Thanks to blueunderwear for tick them off.
Red Hat's not Linux? Think again... look at the distro poll.
And Matrox today announced a Real-Time DV Editing PCI card for the Macinotosh G4. Here's that press release.
And then Pinnacle Systems and Apple announced they are bring Uncompressed High-Definition Video to the Mac. Here's that press release.
This is already possible on a mac. If your files are stored on an appleshare ip server or a workstation with mac os 9 you can connect via appltalk over tcp/ip. The volume shows up on your desktop just like it was a local disk.
The installer does sort of stink, but the mac installer actually allowed me to choose what I wanted to install. I unchecked the composer, messenger, aim, and something else.
Just the browser is install now. Appears to be about a 6 MB download.
Does the windoze or Linux installer give this option of what to install?
How can you comment on the usability of it when you haven't even used it yet?
Job's keynote at the San Fran MacWorld Expo seemed to focus about half on usability and half on appearance.
From what I hear and have seen, but don't have personal experience with, is that the dock is magnitudes better than the task bar in Windoze and the one copied by Gnome/KDE.
http://www.macopz.com/rumors/DP3/
http://www.thinksecret.com/
http://www.xappeal.org/archive/dp3.shtml
Well then why doesn't everyone use a Mac as Office is available for it. It's more than Office that puts Windows on 90% of desktops... it's a big mean company.
Wouldn't be funny if two college geeks just opened up todhsals and did the exact same thing, but, "like the old days".
I'd wake up and instead of typing slashdot.org, I'd just reverse it. It'd be like bazaaro world or something.
Now that VA and Andover involved and slahsdot is going soon be as stupid as altavista.
I like that slashdot is slow and sometimes down. It reminds me that it's run by a couple of geeks like me.
It appears that Apple has also been nice and aknowledged LinuxPPC by offering the user a pre-set partitioning scheme in the "drive utility". The utility is used for partitioning your drive. As of v1.8.1 there is an option for LinuxPPC which gives makes all the partitions for you (swap, etc, etc) Their size changes with proportion to your HD size.
I doubt Jobs knows about such things, but they sure are nice to see.
Sorry for not being, or having time to be informed on every single topic in the universe. I asked the question because I didn't know the answer. Is that bad?
Please understand that we don't all have time to read how every piece of technology works.
Well CNN tried but this story is pretty weak on details. They are nice enough to have links to pictures of where New York and San Francisco are.
I haven't been up on how this Sun system works (Not NC in general but this Ray thing in particular (who is Ray?)).
It's cool but, what about running all that educational software like Millie's Math House?
I worked for a k-12 district and would have loved to go to linux but all the educational software out there is Mac/Win.
So can these kids just use them to Word Process, surf the web, and maybe right some Perl scripts?
Hey I just moved into college which means a sweet dedicated connection.
What do people use to run web cams on Linux?
What are good compatible cams too?
I tried this more than once. Says it shipped a while ago but I never got a cd. Could be the good old U.S. Post.
I just want the cd and I would love a response from some one at LinuxPPC. I actually emailed you "haaz" but I haven't gotten a reply. Don't reply on slashdot, reply to me via email on what should happen.
I'm sick of calling Minnesota over such a silly issue.
Well I'm glad to see they are busy selling more CD's. I'm just sort of curious where the CD that I ordered over two months ago is!
I've called once and written 4 emails. Guy on the phone was clueless whether it had shipped or not. I haven't gotten a single response from any of my emails. (Sent the email to three different email addresses.)
Arrrrgh!
LinuxPPC maybe cool but if they can't get organized then they are going to flop.
Maybe post numbers should start at 13 or something to get rid of this stupid people with their stupid first post crap that is never even the first post!
Oh, I'll just filter them out. bye
It was mike in the corner. It wasn't witchcraft, he was just taking a whiz.
sheesh. a little privacey please!
But if [Windoze 2000] slips, the product's reputation will begin to suffer...
Huh? Reputation?
It may be the largest consumer-market computer program ever written, with 30 million lines of code.
When will the baby actually be delivered?
That's a BIG baby.
vaporware. That's when you stifle an opponent's new-product release by leaking news that you're about to release a similar product that's even better. Maybe you never release it, or do so only years later.
By no means is Windows 2000 vaporware.
Contradiction what? News to me.
It was a nice effort.
Link to pbs is:
http://shop.pbs.org/Ed0ik0IkH1/products/A3392/
There is a review on AppleInsider:
http://www.appleinsider.com
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In Nerds 2.0.1, you'll go deep into the bowels of the Pentagon to witness the birth of the Internet and follow its rapid rise to the cutting edge of the World Wide Web. On his journey, Cringely interviews the unknown nerds who laid the Internet's foundations, visits the Silicon Valley of India and grills the founders of the networking companies who have made millions from this fascinating new technology.
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