Apple doing dual PPC/X86 machines for backward compatibility?
who are we, AMIGA?
let's just throw a 68040 in there too so i can run OS6.
and Itanium? won't those cost a little much for an iMac? he completely leaves out the IBM solution when mentioning the Moto fued. Power4 baby, that's the future. maybe G5s in the iMacs and iBooks to throw Moto a bone.
but Intels? why would they invest in an architecture which from what i understand, is hitting a ceiling in performance?
haven't they made changes which make the itanium more like a PPC in the way it operates? well, we're already there.
what the hell are they doing? it seems like they're killing they're own market for linux. they should be taking a SUN-like approach to selling Unix & Linux together.
why would they piss of the OSS community that they depend on for Linux development by sing them? the smartest thing to do is just Opens Source the technology that Linux is already using, and lock the rest up if they want to into a proprietary Unix.
but don't ever sue your customers. a mistake that Caldera and the music industry will both live to regret.
just because you see an opportunity to take in some profit by suing others doesn't mean you should. earn your money.
they may win a few suits now, but they are killing so much future business it's not even funny.
besides, just put a link to your new file sharing channel in your topic and set your DALnet channel up as to be a "Chat about Photoshop" channel, then you could just trade files anyway.
This may have flown if XP was not based on NT, which I believe was based on the old VAX systems and never had anything to do with DOS. I think there may be some OS/2 code in there, but Cringely obviously doesn't know the difference between Win95/98/ME ilk and the NT derivatives.
XP IS an OS and IS integrated with the code that talks to the hardware. It is not a windowing system that sits on DOS.
How can a technology writer have missed this rather obvious and very important development?
i don't see why the DMCA was invoked here, but if the suing company has a patent on universal openers and the other company is making amd selling them, then it is infringement.
am i wrong here? Skylink is making the exact product that the the other company has apatent on right?
i am down with the EFF and i am a supporter of Open Source. but every time someone sues for Copyright infringement, it isn't wrong. everyone can't give away their secrets. some people really would go out of business if they did.
but the DMCA? i don't see how it applies here at all.
another reason for throwing out photoshop in favor of the Gimp would be that he has a copy he purchased, but is not looking forward to paying for upgrade after upgrade.
also, he said he is looking forward to the day when photoshop will replace the Gimp allowing him to do the above. he didn't say he was planning on throwing it away now.
i also look forward to the day when i can afford to get the latest and greatest apps because they will be open source and as good as the apps they replace.
also, if you are not a pro graphic artist, Gimp would do just fine, and is currently a good replacement for Paint Shop Pro and other lesser apps.
advertise in 2600. those guys would love to take one of these apart, or just have it for decoration. they have payphones displayed like centerfolds in that mag.
god knows what they'll do with one if they get it alone.
Dvorak is just ranting here. he has no good ideas or suggestions for improvement. just complaints.
sure Linux GUIs are alot like Windows and Mac. the Mac interface was a good idea, and still is. that's why windows tries so hard to be like it.
if improvements need to be made, let's make them without throwing out good ideas with the bad.
not that a whole different approach would be unwelcome, assuming it makes as much sense as going from command line to GUI, but Linux isn't trying to do that. they wanted an alternative way to do what they already do, and do some of it better. i think they've done that nicely.
i guess Apple wasn't doing anything that got under his skin this week.
hey John, how about an article about all the innovations Microsoft is making? nothing? oh well.
i always like to mention when responding to an article by Dvorak that he used to be a MacUser columnist, and a Mac User. he left during the dark times and can't seem to get over the fact that they were able to go on without him.
i see these slams against linux as his way of avoiding change, just like slamming Apple is his way of justifying his decision to leave the platform.
he just seems a little too venomous to be simply reviewing those topics.
so now who will use it? the ten people who still haven't upgraded their NeXT Cubes?
i think Mac Users screwing around would have been a big portion of their users. Ex-Next'ers trying to get their OS back by coupling this with GNU-Step and Windowmaker(Good luck) are probably another group.
who else cares? the only thing this will do is convince Apple not to dabble in OSS. nice going.
i thought Mac users were a stubborn bunch, but we have nothing on GPL'ers. everyone is not using closed source as a method of controlling a market as Microsoft does. for some it is the only feasible way to make money.
i can't understand this awe at the fact that Apple hasn't released their code under the GPL. what did you expect?
they will never do it, and they never ever should. the GUI is one of their crown jewels. to release it would be suicide.
just because the GPL works for Linux and other applications does not mean everyone should just automatically adopt it, and whoever doesn't is just a money-grubbing corporate scum. that one-sided narrowminded attitude is typical of the GPL supporters though.
hey kids, one environment doesn't work for everything. going forward there will be a mixture of GPL and other licenses of varying degrees of freeness. companies will decide where their business model best fits, and they are neither good for going with GPL, or evil for not going with it.
and an open attitude towards companies who venture, wholeheartedly or not, into GPL land will just increase their comfort zone with doing so. and not requiring that a company release everything or nothing to gain acceptance by the open source community will go a long way towards making companies more and more willing to get their feet wet.
but even so, there will always be some companies that use closed source licenses, and that is fine if it suits their business model better.
if you want to add value to being open source, taking away functionality from an opensource product is probably not the way to do it.
if anything needs to be opened, it's the minds of these OSS nazis. can we get the source code for these predjudices?
if i buy a cd it is mine! fair use should dictate that i can do with it what i will. i am so sick of this administration and corporate america(one and the same really) trampling on my rights.
as long as i am not copying it for sale, ANY OTHER USE should be legal.
used cd stores recycle things that would otherwise end up in a garbage heap, so they are very good things. they are not a significant threat to new retail sales as they have no constant production stream. the trickle of sales being diverted to used records is small.
and those who sell their old cds often buy new ones with the money they get.
the issue here is obviously control. when a corporation or other large entity realizes that they are losing control, they tighten their grip. not realizing that this just causes more iritation with their policies and strengthens the cause of their rivals. very stupid business move, but they never seem to learn that lesson.
if you want to keep customers, keep adding value. if you try to force them to your products you will only succeed in sending them screaming to your competitors.
you hold up that inane, unimaginitive crap as both examples of how the recording industry is not lording it over new artists, and examples of "New Rock"?
are you kidding me? go play with you're Britney Spears doll and lunchbox and come back when you're 16 kid. i think we can see the demographic you are in.
those "artist" are not artists at all, they are entertainers, and barely that. they are more like Sinatra and Martin or Sammy Davis Junior than say, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Dylan.
Art is truth, and those schills are just singing what they're told to sing and only the truly vapid and plastic mindless consumer buys it.
at 7 bucks an hour(a generous assumption), 40 hours a week, in one month you would make roughly 900 after taxes. take out maybe 150 for rent in an off-campus house, say 150 maybe for food, maybe 200(or more) for drinking and other expenses, and you've got about 400 left if you're lucky.
since most college kids don't make much, a free laptop after you complete part of a degree that you're supposedly there to complete all of anyway sounds like a good deal to me.
i'm sure some universities force you to buy a pc. that's the only way they'd get me to buy one.
when it's an Apple that's being given away it IS more newsworthy. why? for the same reason it would be more newsworthy id they were giving away Mercedes as opposed to Buicks.
Corel products have always sucked. in this market those companies who've been hanging on with a substandard product hoping no one would notice are biting the dust.
no one is going to experiment with a non-standard interface and confusing tools when they can get a sure thing from Adobe.
gee, maybe one day they'll be like a Newton. Apple had the right idea all along. if they would've been given the chance Palm had to perfect it, imagine the cool devices we'd have today.
instead, we have the devices that were developed from a PCjr version of the Newton that Palm initially came out with that are just, or have yet, to match the functionality of the Newton.
i hope Apple leverages the popularity of the iPod to release a similar sized PDA with an embedded version of Darwin.
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Apple doing dual PPC/X86 machines for backward compatibility?
who are we, AMIGA?
let's just throw a 68040 in there too so i can run OS6.
and Itanium? won't those cost a little much for an iMac?
he completely leaves out the IBM solution when mentioning the Moto fued. Power4 baby, that's the future. maybe G5s in the iMacs and iBooks to throw Moto a bone.
but Intels? why would they invest in an architecture which from what i understand, is hitting a ceiling in performance?
haven't they made changes which make the itanium more like a PPC in the way it operates? well, we're already there.
what the hell are they doing? it seems like they're killing they're own market for linux. they should be taking a SUN-like approach to selling Unix & Linux together.
why would they piss of the OSS community that they depend on for Linux development by sing them? the smartest thing to do is just Opens Source the technology that Linux is already using, and lock the rest up if they want to into a proprietary Unix.
but don't ever sue your customers. a mistake that Caldera and the music industry will both live to regret.
just because you see an opportunity to take in some profit by suing others doesn't mean you should. earn your money.
they may win a few suits now, but they are killing so much future business it's not even funny.
....once again.
if they do. outlaw networks will just pop right up. when will the RIAA learn that adding value is the real way to stop piracy?
make people want to buy your stuff instead of trying to stop them from stealing it.
i disagree. alot of chatting goes on too.
besides, just put a link to your new file sharing channel in your topic and set your DALnet channel up as to be a "Chat about Photoshop" channel, then you could just trade files anyway.
that's what they want you to do.
if the ROMs are legal though, i agree with the sentiment.
is it warez distributed by Buckwheat? shouldn't it be O-Tay warez in that case?
a better policy would be to require that you be this tall to ride this ride. but i guess kids need a place to learn the ins and outs of the net too.
i don't agree with shutting down legal file transfers though. surely these occur infrequently and pose no threat to their funding and donations.
This may have flown if XP was not based on NT, which I believe was based on the old VAX systems and never had anything to do with DOS. I think there may be some OS/2 code in there, but Cringely obviously doesn't know the difference between Win95/98/ME ilk and the NT derivatives.
XP IS an OS and IS integrated with the code that talks to the hardware. It is not a windowing system that sits on DOS.
How can a technology writer have missed this rather obvious and very important development?
i don't see why the DMCA was invoked here, but if the suing company has a patent on universal openers and the other company is making amd selling them, then it is infringement.
am i wrong here? Skylink is making the exact product that the the other company has apatent on right?
i am down with the EFF and i am a supporter of Open Source. but every time someone sues for Copyright infringement, it isn't wrong. everyone can't give away their secrets. some people really would go out of business if they did.
but the DMCA? i don't see how it applies here at all.
it's called RISC, and it's available in Apple, SUN, and SGI machines.
you forgot:"Steal Underpants"
another reason for throwing out photoshop in favor of the Gimp would be that he has a copy he purchased, but is not looking forward to paying for upgrade after upgrade.
also, he said he is looking forward to the day when photoshop will replace the Gimp allowing him to do the above. he didn't say he was planning on throwing it away now.
i also look forward to the day when i can afford to get the latest and greatest apps because they will be open source and as good as the apps they replace.
also, if you are not a pro graphic artist, Gimp would do just fine, and is currently a good replacement for Paint Shop Pro and other lesser apps.
advertise in 2600. those guys would love to take one of these apart, or just have it for decoration. they have payphones displayed like centerfolds in that mag.
god knows what they'll do with one if they get it alone.
looks more like 2000. really doesn't look anything like XP.
boring in any case, next to KDE.
Dvorak is just ranting here. he has no good ideas or suggestions for improvement. just complaints.
sure Linux GUIs are alot like Windows and Mac. the Mac interface was a good idea, and still is. that's why windows tries so hard to be like it.
if improvements need to be made, let's make them without throwing out good ideas with the bad.
not that a whole different approach would be unwelcome, assuming it makes as much sense as going from command line to GUI, but Linux isn't trying to do that. they wanted an alternative way to do what they already do, and do some of it better. i think they've done that nicely.
i guess Apple wasn't doing anything that got under his skin this week.
hey John, how about an article about all the innovations Microsoft is making? nothing? oh well.
i always like to mention when responding to an article by Dvorak that he used to be a MacUser columnist, and a Mac User. he left during the dark times and can't seem to get over the fact that they were able to go on without him.
i see these slams against linux as his way of avoiding change, just like slamming Apple is his way of justifying his decision to leave the platform.
he just seems a little too venomous to be simply reviewing those topics.
looks like the OS/2 folks will continue to travel at 1/4 impulse.
no WARP for you!
so now who will use it? the ten people who still haven't upgraded their NeXT Cubes?
i think Mac Users screwing around would have been a big portion of their users. Ex-Next'ers trying to get their OS back by coupling this with GNU-Step and Windowmaker(Good luck) are probably another group.
who else cares? the only thing this will do is convince Apple not to dabble in OSS. nice going.
i thought Mac users were a stubborn bunch, but we have nothing on GPL'ers. everyone is not using closed source as a method of controlling a market as Microsoft does. for some it is the only feasible way to make money.
i can't understand this awe at the fact that Apple hasn't released their code under the GPL. what did you expect?
they will never do it, and they never ever should. the GUI is one of their crown jewels. to release it would be suicide.
just because the GPL works for Linux and other applications does not mean everyone should just automatically adopt it, and whoever doesn't is just a money-grubbing corporate scum. that one-sided narrowminded attitude is typical of the GPL supporters though.
hey kids, one environment doesn't work for everything. going forward there will be a mixture of GPL and other licenses of varying degrees of freeness. companies will decide where their business model best fits, and they are neither good for going with GPL, or evil for not going with it.
and an open attitude towards companies who venture, wholeheartedly or not, into GPL land will just increase their comfort zone with doing so. and not requiring that a company release everything or nothing to gain acceptance by the open source community will go a long way towards making companies more and more willing to get their feet wet.
but even so, there will always be some companies that use closed source licenses, and that is fine if it suits their business model better.
if you want to add value to being open source, taking away functionality from an opensource product is probably not the way to do it.
if anything needs to be opened, it's the minds of these OSS nazis. can we get the source code for these predjudices?
if i buy a cd it is mine! fair use should dictate that i can do with it what i will. i am so sick of this administration and corporate america(one and the same really) trampling on my rights.
as long as i am not copying it for sale, ANY OTHER USE should be legal.
used cd stores recycle things that would otherwise end up in a garbage heap, so they are very good things. they are not a significant threat to new retail sales as they have no constant production stream. the trickle of sales being diverted to used records is small.
and those who sell their old cds often buy new ones with the money they get.
the issue here is obviously control. when a corporation or other large entity realizes that they are losing control, they tighten their grip.
not realizing that this just causes more iritation with their policies and strengthens the cause of their rivals. very stupid business move, but they never seem to learn that lesson.
if you want to keep customers, keep adding value. if you try to force them to your products you will only succeed in sending them screaming to your competitors.
you hold up that inane, unimaginitive crap as both examples of how the recording industry is not lording it over new artists, and examples of "New Rock"?
are you kidding me? go play with you're Britney Spears doll and lunchbox and come back when you're 16 kid. i think we can see the demographic you are in.
those "artist" are not artists at all, they are entertainers, and barely that. they are more like Sinatra and Martin or Sammy Davis Junior than say, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Dylan.
Art is truth, and those schills are just singing what they're told to sing and only the truly vapid and plastic mindless consumer buys it.
at 7 bucks an hour(a generous assumption), 40 hours a week, in one month you would make roughly 900 after taxes. take out maybe 150 for rent in an off-campus house, say 150 maybe for food, maybe 200(or more) for drinking and other expenses, and you've got about 400 left if you're lucky.
since most college kids don't make much, a free laptop after you complete part of a degree that you're supposedly there to complete all of anyway sounds like a good deal to me.
i'm sure some universities force you to buy a pc. that's the only way they'd get me to buy one.
when it's an Apple that's being given away it IS more newsworthy. why? for the same reason it would be more newsworthy id they were giving away Mercedes as opposed to Buicks.
are you an avid computer user? if so, what operating system do you favor?
in one of your books, Kirk is resurrected by the Borg due to an aliance with a Romulan Commander bent on revenge.
any chance Kirk will be reborn, or pop out of the Nexxus to delite us again?
Corel products have always sucked. in this market those companies who've been hanging on with a substandard product hoping no one would notice are biting the dust.
no one is going to experiment with a non-standard interface and confusing tools when they can get a sure thing from Adobe.
gee, maybe one day they'll be like a Newton. Apple had the right idea all along. if they would've been given the chance Palm had to perfect it, imagine the cool devices we'd have today.
instead, we have the devices that were developed from a PCjr version of the Newton that Palm initially came out with that are just, or have yet, to match the functionality of the Newton.
i hope Apple leverages the popularity of the iPod to release a similar sized PDA with an embedded version of Darwin.