Seybold is coming up in 6 weeks. Apple is far more likely to announce revisions to its pro desktop models at Seybold--Seybold being a publishing and design expo.
Just wait till the last week in February and the desktops won't seem so shabby anymore.
Take the Newton in its proper context: At the time it was basically the first PDA, a completely new object which could hardly be called a consumer product. (Pro yes, consumer no... the price range was just too high for most people but, unlike a lot of Apple products, that could be justified as the cost was to offset the R&D that went into the little bugger.) Compare with the iPod which is taking a current, popular product to its next logical evolution: making an MP3 player which finds a comfortable niche between size, storage, and price.
http://www.apple.com/pr/ Don't judge Jonathon Ive based only upon the new iMac -- a consumer end model. It's consumer hardware, and it's design is going to be targeted for Joe Consumer not Joe Slashdot User. Go take a look at the design of some other Apple products, especially the Powerbook G4, PowerMac G4, and iBook to see a "classy" design.
re the high-bit character handling: yea it's fine for *most* people most of the time, but the first time someone tries to use crtl+u to get in umluat in, say, Quark for Windows (which is evil anyway...), they notice the discontinuity.
[B]ut the sidewalk idea strikes me as IBM playing Brewster's Millions with the billion dollars they pledged to spend on Linux.
Ummm... shopping list:
Stencils, easy enough to diecut on a press
Chalk paint
Motivated guerilla marketers to spray chalk paint over stencils.
All of that---including any fines levied---is very, very cheap relative to a more traditional campaign. Extremely cost effective strategy, especially when you take into account the freepress afforded by media coverage of the pissed city governments.
Apple has a semi-painless way of minimizing loss on this: Start carding its customers---NOT that kind of card. Every bundled or retail package of MacOS X 10.0 comes with several "software coupon"s which verify ownership of the Apple product in question. No coupon, no 10.1 for you. (Personally I find this greatly amusing as I brought one of the coupons with me to the Mall of America Apple Store when I went to get my 10.1 update---Employee said, "We don't need those as the update checks to see if 10.0 is installed.")
Unfortunately the little buggers are insanely easy to fake. Unlike the debates raging as to whether or not Apple has a DMCA leg to stand-on, duplicating the coupons would be a fairly clear case of forging documentation of ownership, clearly illegal.
a far better gimmick would be to be able to drag windows around *behind* other windows with the right mouse button, something riscos has had from the start.
going horridly offtopic, but MacOS Classic (at least the 9.x series) can do that as well. Just command+drag the titlebar to move an inactive window in the Finder.
unless there is a 'heavy' sticker on the package, and we can't physically throw it on the conveyor. So basically we should ship computers in metal boxes with a liberal layer of lead formed into the bottom. sweet.
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More like a Color Classic actually....
i c/ stats/mac_colorclassic.html
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_class
Seybold is coming up in 6 weeks. Apple is far more likely to announce revisions to its pro desktop models at Seybold--Seybold being a publishing and design expo.
Just wait till the last week in February and the desktops won't seem so shabby anymore.
Ummm... Apple has been shipping the full 108 key keyboard for at least a year now.
Apple is selling US$699 iMacs to the K-12 education market.
Take the Newton in its proper context: At the time it was basically the first PDA, a completely new object which could hardly be called a consumer product. (Pro yes, consumer no... the price range was just too high for most people but, unlike a lot of Apple products, that could be justified as the cost was to offset the R&D that went into the little bugger.) Compare with the iPod which is taking a current, popular product to its next logical evolution: making an MP3 player which finds a comfortable niche between size, storage, and price.
http://www.apple.com/pr/ Don't judge Jonathon Ive based only upon the new iMac -- a consumer end model. It's consumer hardware, and it's design is going to be targeted for Joe Consumer not Joe Slashdot User. Go take a look at the design of some other Apple products, especially the Powerbook G4, PowerMac G4, and iBook to see a "classy" design.
re the high-bit character handling: yea it's fine for *most* people most of the time, but the first time someone tries to use crtl+u to get in umluat in, say, Quark for Windows (which is evil anyway...), they notice the discontinuity.
Actually if you store your CDRs the way you store your negs, you should be (relatively) fine. Negs like cool, dark, and dry storage -- so do CDRs.
The answer to that would be FinalCut Pro which mops the floor with everything short of, and depending upon job, and often including an Avid.
You've driven across North Dakota in the winter, haven't you?
Almost certainly less than putting up a billboard when you factor in the cost of rental and printing.
Ummm... shopping list:
All of that---including any fines levied---is very, very cheap relative to a more traditional campaign. Extremely cost effective strategy, especially when you take into account the freepress afforded by media coverage of the pissed city governments.
I'm fairly new with Macs so I didn't know the trick to eject the CD on boot.
Hold down the mouse button as you restart. Does the trick 90% of the time.
Apple has a semi-painless way of minimizing loss on this: Start carding its customers---NOT that kind of card. Every bundled or retail package of MacOS X 10.0 comes with several "software coupon"s which verify ownership of the Apple product in question. No coupon, no 10.1 for you. (Personally I find this greatly amusing as I brought one of the coupons with me to the Mall of America Apple Store when I went to get my 10.1 update---Employee said, "We don't need those as the update checks to see if 10.0 is installed.")
Unfortunately the little buggers are insanely easy to fake. Unlike the debates raging as to whether or not Apple has a DMCA leg to stand-on, duplicating the coupons would be a fairly clear case of forging documentation of ownership, clearly illegal.
a far better gimmick would be to be able to drag windows around *behind* other windows with the right mouse button, something riscos has had from the start.
going horridly offtopic, but MacOS Classic (at least the 9.x series) can do that as well. Just command+drag the titlebar to move an inactive window in the Finder.
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Explorer does it too, I think since v5.0
Doubtful. iirc, Scientology is legally considered a cult in several EU countries.
so... because he dissents you wish he be expelled? funny, that doesn't sound very american at all.
unless there is a 'heavy' sticker on the package, and we can't physically throw it on the conveyor. So basically we should ship computers in metal boxes with a liberal layer of lead formed into the bottom. sweet.
Apple Store has them for $30 for a box of 5. (Accessories --> Media. No dircect link, sorry!)
Will be bitching because they can get a portable, more functional CDRW for a few hundred bucks cheaper.
No it comes with an AC adapter as well. See the bottom of the page
Connectix VirtualPC
http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc4w.html
he's probably making his money on impressions, not clicks.