- You have to pay for point releases of the operating systems to stay current. Microsoft still supports six year old operating systems with frequent and free patches. Solaris still provides free updates for Solaris 2.6
Only if you read the versioning that way. I tend to look at them like this: 10.x.y, where 10 is the product (Mac OS 10), X is the major version, and Y is the minor version. The updates you get with each X release are certainly worth the cost. The Y updates are free.
Besides, Windows XP is just a point release upgrade from Windows 2000 (5.0 -> 5.1). So, in the Microsoft world, you're also paying for point release upgrades.
If you look at it by version numbering, it may look like a ripoff. But if you look at what you actually get, its a damn good deal.
- Some schmuck who paid $2,000 for an Apple serial laser printer in 1997 got reamed by Apple in 1998 when it retired all legacy interfaces in new Macs. Either pay $300 for an ethernet adapter or enjoy your $2000 paperweight
Bummer. I'm glad Apple eschews backwards compatibility, however. Not having floppy drivers and parallel ports is a good thing.
The fools who decided to include Apple systems in an enterprise environment is now stuck with two hardware platforms to support. I'm sure the University of Virginia is really happy that they've wasted thousands of man-hours developing computatinon software on Power.
Most enterprises are likely supporting multiple environments anyway (Windows, UNIX, etc). U of V can probably port their software quite easily (especially if they developed it in Xcode). Not to mention, it was likely developed by students. Porting to the new platform would be a good exercise for current students.
The even more foolish souls who try to sell software to Apple users get fucked, since Apple will steer lots of consumers towards Apple software solutions when consumers complain about "slow" programs running in emulation. (End Mac-users don't know shit about processor architectures or emulation)
Apple try to sell their own solution? That's unthinkable! This is no different than any other company.
Um, the G5's are quiter because they are liquid cooled. That does jack up the price a bit though.
Only the top of the line PowerMac G5 (Currently the Dual 2.7 GHz model - for the previous models, it was the Dual 2.5s) has liquid cooling. The iMac, and lower end PowerMac have conventional fan-based cooling.
The GP was modded interesting because he was referring to RDP implementations on Linux. Like say, for example rdesktop or tsclient, both of which are based on the Microsoft RDP protocol.
Classic formulation: if you're not interested in adopting the Unix mindset (text-based text processing, pipes, small well-defined tools, a de-emphasis on graphical user interfaces, non-data-processing devices, etc.) then why choose a Unix operating system?
Try telling that to a Mac OS X user..:)
There's no reason Linux can't do both. Hiding all of that UNIXy goodness under a pretty UI can be quite useful.
Why is Intel getting slapped so hard with anti trust when Microsoft seems to get away with it.
It's pretty early to be making this statement, I think. Initially, MS WAS investigated pretty hard, much like Intel is being investigated now (I seem to recall OEMs being asked to provide documentation and what not about their dealings with MS). It was only once the case went to trial that things fell apart.
So how much is that 50% exactly? A megabyte? 100 gigabytes?
Well, that'd depend on what you've set the Recycle Bin size to. By default, it uses 10% of the drive, apparently. Take a look at the Properties for the Recycle Bin sometime.
Your link is a typical M$ defense using NT4.0 to prove different versions are different, because quite frankly NT4.0 WAS the last version that had a different architecture. That's why there was no NTswitch for NT4.0.
Actually, I think you have it backwards. There was a hack for NT 4 which you could use to install Server with a Workstation CD, just by switching a couple files (mainly txtsetup.sif I believe).
Sadly, I'm a day late with my response, so I don't think anyone will see it:(
Oh - by the way - those extensions (tabbed browsing, adblocking, etc) ARE NOT FREE.
Tabbed browsing is an extension for Safari? Strange, I seem to recall having the option to use tabs right there in the options immediately upon installing Panther (And later Tiger).
My G4 shipped with 256 mb RAM, and I added 2x512MB DIMMs. I pulled the Apple memory module, and the machine has been fine since. I think mixing and maxing memory modules from different manufacturers causes some issues (why OS X is so picky about memory is a bit of a mystery to me).
But in response to the main premise, surely most people actually connect to the web through routers, protected networks etc.
I doubt it.. most people don't have a clue about such things.. maybe most of the slashdot crowd, but typical clueless end-users just plug it in and they're ready to go.
Likewise, Windows users should be very thankful for Linux. Without Linux, Microsoft (which has never innovated in its history) would not even have to play catch-up and improve its product (see IE vs. Firefox).
Say what? What does FireFox have to do with Linux?
How does iTunes support for podcasts "brutalize" the FREE iPodder product? Especially when iPodder appears to be a more useful product (I don't think there's any method for subscribing to podcasts not featured in the iTunes Music Store with Apple's new release).
I won't even start on Konfabulator.. if you'd mentioned Sherlock/Watson, you MIGHT have a valid point (though I'd still disagree).
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In the rest of the world, Labor day is May 1st.
Lies! here in Canada, its in September as well.
- You have to pay for point releases of the operating systems to stay current. Microsoft still supports six year old operating systems with frequent and free patches. Solaris still provides free updates for Solaris 2.6
Only if you read the versioning that way. I tend to look at them like this: 10.x.y, where 10 is the product (Mac OS 10), X is the major version, and Y is the minor version. The updates you get with each X release are certainly worth the cost. The Y updates are free.
Besides, Windows XP is just a point release upgrade from Windows 2000 (5.0 -> 5.1). So, in the Microsoft world, you're also paying for point release upgrades.
If you look at it by version numbering, it may look like a ripoff. But if you look at what you actually get, its a damn good deal.
- Some schmuck who paid $2,000 for an Apple serial laser printer in 1997 got reamed by Apple in 1998 when it retired all legacy interfaces in new Macs. Either pay $300 for an ethernet adapter or enjoy your $2000 paperweight
Bummer. I'm glad Apple eschews backwards compatibility, however. Not having floppy drivers and parallel ports is a good thing.
The fools who decided to include Apple systems in an enterprise environment is now stuck with two hardware platforms to support. I'm sure the University of Virginia is really happy that they've wasted thousands of man-hours developing computatinon software on Power.
Most enterprises are likely supporting multiple environments anyway (Windows, UNIX, etc). U of V can probably port their software quite easily (especially if they developed it in Xcode). Not to mention, it was likely developed by students. Porting to the new platform would be a good exercise for current students.
The even more foolish souls who try to sell software to Apple users get fucked, since Apple will steer lots of consumers towards Apple software solutions when consumers complain about "slow" programs running in emulation. (End Mac-users don't know shit about processor architectures or emulation)
Apple try to sell their own solution? That's unthinkable! This is no different than any other company.
Um, the G5's are quiter because they are liquid cooled. That does jack up the price a bit though.
Only the top of the line PowerMac G5 (Currently the Dual 2.7 GHz model - for the previous models, it was the Dual 2.5s) has liquid cooling. The iMac, and lower end PowerMac have conventional fan-based cooling.
How badly did Carly's golden parachute skew that number though?
If you want to use Linux, hire someone who has a favorite distro and use that.
An enterprise is going to need more than one systems administrator...
The GP was modded interesting because he was referring to RDP implementations on Linux. Like say, for example rdesktop or tsclient, both of which are based on the Microsoft RDP protocol.
Classic formulation: if you're not interested in adopting the Unix mindset (text-based text processing, pipes, small well-defined tools, a de-emphasis on graphical user interfaces, non-data-processing devices, etc.) then why choose a Unix operating system?
:)
Try telling that to a Mac OS X user..
There's no reason Linux can't do both. Hiding all of that UNIXy goodness under a pretty UI can be quite useful.
Why is Intel getting slapped so hard with anti trust when Microsoft seems to get away with it.
It's pretty early to be making this statement, I think. Initially, MS WAS investigated pretty hard, much like Intel is being investigated now (I seem to recall OEMs being asked to provide documentation and what not about their dealings with MS). It was only once the case went to trial that things fell apart.
SGI Irix, FreeBSD and NetBSD run on IA64.
SGI has pretty much abandoned IRIX, and it doesn't run on anything other than MIPS.
HP-UX and OpenVMS are supported on IA-64, as well as FreeBSD and NetBSD (and maybe others).
I was working at Microsoft back in late 1992 - and played with early, early builds of Windows 95 (code named Windows 93 at the time)
Funny, I thought Windows 95 was code-named Chicago.
So how much is that 50% exactly? A megabyte? 100 gigabytes?
Well, that'd depend on what you've set the Recycle Bin size to. By default, it uses 10% of the drive, apparently. Take a look at the Properties for the Recycle Bin sometime.
Did you notice how the OS underlying Apple's Tiger looks just like FreeBSD?
Yeah, except for the totally different kernel, and lack of an "init" process, among other things.
Yup, sure seems that crApple has been copying Free Software recently. Not that that's bad, of course.
Copying, or integrating? Apple hasn't copied any Free Software, they've integrated it into their OS.
Want to see one area where Apple is innovating? Take a look at launchd.
Your link is a typical M$ defense using NT4.0 to prove different versions are different, because quite frankly NT4.0 WAS the last version that had a different architecture. That's why there was no NTswitch for NT4.0.
Actually, I think you have it backwards. There was a hack for NT 4 which you could use to install Server with a Workstation CD, just by switching a couple files (mainly txtsetup.sif I believe).
Sadly, I'm a day late with my response, so I don't think anyone will see it
HADOOOOGIN!
Huh? It's Hadoken.. wtf is a hadoogin?
...ensure that there will native software for Mactel.
English is easier said than done.
Indeed...
Oh - by the way - those extensions (tabbed browsing, adblocking, etc) ARE NOT FREE.
Tabbed browsing is an extension for Safari? Strange, I seem to recall having the option to use tabs right there in the options immediately upon installing Panther (And later Tiger).
My G4 shipped with 256 mb RAM, and I added 2x512MB DIMMs. I pulled the Apple memory module, and the machine has been fine since. I think mixing and maxing memory modules from different manufacturers causes some issues (why OS X is so picky about memory is a bit of a mystery to me).
But in response to the main premise, surely most people actually connect to the web through routers, protected networks etc.
I doubt it.. most people don't have a clue about such things.. maybe most of the slashdot crowd, but typical clueless end-users just plug it in and they're ready to go.
I believe the laptops mentioned in the summary are made by Tadpole and one other company, but will probably be branded as Sun laptops.
Looks that way. The picture on Sun's webpage has 2 laptops, one with a Tadpole logo, and another with a Naturetech logo on the displays.
Look at shows like Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly, etc.
It's obvious shows beginning with the letter 'F' are destined to fail.
If an actor is shorted and receives $50k instead of $75 is it fine for them to sue?
I wish I could be shorted like that
Thanks! I hadn't had a chance to really look at it yet.
:)
I still don't feel Apple is "brutalizing" anyone, however..
Likewise, Windows users should be very thankful for Linux. Without Linux, Microsoft (which has never innovated in its history) would not even have to play catch-up and improve its product (see IE vs. Firefox).
Say what? What does FireFox have to do with Linux?
How does iTunes support for podcasts "brutalize" the FREE iPodder product? Especially when iPodder appears to be a more useful product (I don't think there's any method for subscribing to podcasts not featured in the iTunes Music Store with Apple's new release).
I won't even start on Konfabulator.. if you'd mentioned Sherlock/Watson, you MIGHT have a valid point (though I'd still disagree).