I don't care about the organs... Just set me up with a replacement for my borked teeth! That's all I ask. I know this is an entirely attainable goal, as teeth have been found to grow on teratomas (benign tumors that grow from sperms or ovum)
Please! No more of this stainless-anchored porcelain crap! Set me up with the real thing!
His critics claim that he is driving away any chance of a significant economy.
What are they thinking!? Imagine what this will do for the profit margins on Hemp Jewelry and Stained Glass Mushrooms! I know I know... moderated to -1...:P
in that time the lead hardware manufacturer has changed from Comodore/Apple to IBM, to Compaq, to Dell and is likely to shift again in the future
Those are just vessels for CPU's and Chipsets made by Intel, AMD, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Via, etc.
When you look at it that way, Intel has always been the 800 Lb Gorilla, even back in the days when Apple was selling more Motorola CPU's in its "Apple][" vessel...
It takes years and several tries but by working long and hard at it they end up with a better product
that's where your analogy gets lost on me... Sure, Microsoft got an OS out the door with Pre-Emptive Multi-Tasking first, but "better"? Even that female tech-guru analyst that Bill Gates looks to for market analysis was quoted as saying that the Mac OS has always been better thought out and more usable...(Im afraid I don't have a link as I saw it on a goofy TV show a few months back)
But anyways... I was going to post just what you posted (That Palm appears to be pulling an 'Apple Circa 1994') and that this will inevitably lead to domination by Microsoft in yet another market where their vile tentacles haven't cut off the air supply of the competition...
The cheapest G4 Apple now sells goes for $1299 and includes a 15" LCD - incorporated with the case no less!
The closest any x86-pimping competition comes to offering a comparable system is the low-end Gateway Profile (Also $1299) with a CD-ROM (to Apple's CD-RW), 900 Mhz Celery (to Apple's 700Mhz G4), and a FIXED monitor (to Apple's Adjustable, swiveling, floating monitor)... Both machines sport 128 Megs SDRAM (yet the Gateway has no 802.11 antenna, slot, nor FireWire ports)
"waa I can build a Athlon 1900 system for 20 Dollars"... Yeah.. and you can troubleshoot that thing until the cows come home. The G4 just WORKS.
My my my.... (as gropo looks upon this ignoramus much as Strider looked at the Orcs as he weilded his sword at the end of the film)
Shouting out "We care more about style then function!!!!" is kinda inane.
Nobody is shouting any such thing. What people are shouting is: "We want our interfaces to be as organic and inobtrusive as can be achieved"
and even some of us are screaming: "I DON'T WANT TO BUY SERVICES FROM MY OS AUTHOR's PREFERRED VENDOR, NOR DO I WANT TO BE DIRECTED TO MY OS AUTHOR's INTERNET PORTAL EVERY 5 #$#@( MINUTES"
If I need something I buy it and it works.
And then 30% of the time my @#%^ DLL's get corrupted... or my Drivers become completely useless... or my Motherboard fries my 90Watt-sucking-CPU.... or some of my games don't playback sound correctly anymore.......
It will never cease to amaze me how PeeSee Sheep think that such problems are commonplace and expected in modern logic/information systems. You buy a Sun Blade solution if you want 99.999% uptime reliability... You buy a Mac if you want the Blade's consumer/creative equivalent.
Firewire? Haven't seen a single firewire product
WOW! I guess you've been too busy troubleshooting that "Do Shit Fast" system to notice all the Digital Video Cameras made by Sony or Canon in the last 3 years huh? The iPod!? Portable Hard Drives that are capable of video playback? Tip: Go see an optometrist about that myopia
And don't claim that OSX is a superior OS just because it does all the same stuff as any other half assed GUI, but just with pretty transparencies and fancy colored boxs.
Nobody is asserting such a thing. Instead, they choose to assert that the marriage between the Mach3 and FreeBSD kernels as a harmonic base OS, layered with innovative application frameworks and an even more innovative vector-based Window Management System makes both WindowsXP and any l00nix build look like 20th century TRIPE!
You want to talk about "chopping up a turd into little round pieces and painting it pretty colors" let's take a good hard look at WindowsXP. Hmm.. Still the same old Win32 API's... Same old window management paradigm... new $&^%@ Fischer Price colors slapped on top of Dave Cutler's "VMS-For-Intel" kernel.
OH WAIT! It's got "Orwell Inside(TM)"!!! I almost FORGOT!
Fuck said people. Anybody who likes form over substance has yet to get out of that 4 year old 'oooh, pretty shiny thing!!!
THANK YOU DR. FREUD! Another possible analysis is that said people's brains are generally more active than yours, and understand that any interface paradigm incurs mental causalities in both the conscious and subconscious, and that it follows that a well designed UI can be an asset to one's daily mental state... Perhaps said people would also prefer a nice Mozart or Rachmaninov concerto to Britney's latest cookie-cutter hit single as well.
I really don't know why I wasted these past 25 minutes on you... Well.. it was good mental exercise anyhow:)
Back when it was called the Apple G4 Cube... <br>Except that the cube needed no CPU fan... And was designed by people with talent. Hmm...<br><br>
On top of that.. The non-symmetric monitor would make my head explode after 2 hours of usage. Not too sure about the 60's era TV throwback industrial design thing either...<br><br>
summary: leave the innovative industrial design to Apple and keep to making those hideous grey or beige boxes, HP...<br>
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I don't care about the organs... Just set me up with a replacement for my borked teeth! That's all I ask. I know this is an entirely attainable goal, as teeth have been found to grow on teratomas (benign tumors that grow from sperms or ovum)
Please! No more of this stainless-anchored porcelain crap! Set me up with the real thing!
heaven forbid someone should appreciate a fine piece of hardware, devoid of subjective emotional preclusions!!!!
What are they thinking!? Imagine what this will do for the profit margins on Hemp Jewelry and Stained Glass Mushrooms!
I know I know... moderated to -1...
Those are just vessels for CPU's and Chipsets made by Intel, AMD, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Via, etc.
When you look at it that way, Intel has always been the 800 Lb Gorilla, even back in the days when Apple was selling more Motorola CPU's in its "Apple][" vessel...
that's where your analogy gets lost on me... Sure, Microsoft got an OS out the door with Pre-Emptive Multi-Tasking first, but "better"? Even that female tech-guru analyst that Bill Gates looks to for market analysis was quoted as saying that the Mac OS has always been better thought out and more usable...(Im afraid I don't have a link as I saw it on a goofy TV show a few months back)
But anyways... I was going to post just what you posted (That Palm appears to be pulling an 'Apple Circa 1994') and that this will inevitably lead to domination by Microsoft in yet another market where their vile tentacles haven't cut off the air supply of the competition...
You are entirely off base!
The cheapest G4 Apple now sells goes for $1299 and includes a 15" LCD - incorporated with the case no less!
The closest any x86-pimping competition comes to offering a comparable system is the low-end Gateway Profile (Also $1299) with a CD-ROM (to Apple's CD-RW), 900 Mhz Celery (to Apple's 700Mhz G4), and a FIXED monitor (to Apple's Adjustable, swiveling, floating monitor)... Both machines sport 128 Megs SDRAM (yet the Gateway has no 802.11 antenna, slot, nor FireWire ports)
"waa I can build a Athlon 1900 system for 20 Dollars"... Yeah.. and you can troubleshoot that thing until the cows come home. The G4 just WORKS.
Still, it's nice that there is now a choice for quality interfaces on MP3 players for various desires/needs.
Nobody is shouting any such thing. What people are shouting is: "We want our interfaces to be as organic and inobtrusive as can be achieved"
and even some of us are screaming: "I DON'T WANT TO BUY SERVICES FROM MY OS AUTHOR's PREFERRED VENDOR, NOR DO I WANT TO BE DIRECTED TO MY OS AUTHOR's INTERNET PORTAL EVERY 5 #$#@( MINUTES"
And then 30% of the time my @#%^ DLL's get corrupted... or my Drivers become completely useless... or my Motherboard fries my 90Watt-sucking-CPU.... or some of my games don't playback sound correctly anymore.......
It will never cease to amaze me how PeeSee Sheep think that such problems are commonplace and expected in modern logic/information systems. You buy a Sun Blade solution if you want 99.999% uptime reliability... You buy a Mac if you want the Blade's consumer/creative equivalent.
WOW! I guess you've been too busy troubleshooting that "Do Shit Fast" system to notice all the Digital Video Cameras made by Sony or Canon in the last 3 years huh? The iPod!? Portable Hard Drives that are capable of video playback? Tip: Go see an optometrist about that myopia
Nobody is asserting such a thing. Instead, they choose to assert that the marriage between the Mach3 and FreeBSD kernels as a harmonic base OS, layered with innovative application frameworks and an even more innovative vector-based Window Management System makes both WindowsXP and any l00nix build look like 20th century TRIPE!
You want to talk about "chopping up a turd into little round pieces and painting it pretty colors" let's take a good hard look at WindowsXP. Hmm.. Still the same old Win32 API's... Same old window management paradigm... new $&^%@ Fischer Price colors slapped on top of Dave Cutler's "VMS-For-Intel" kernel.
OH WAIT! It's got "Orwell Inside(TM)"!!! I almost FORGOT!
THANK YOU DR. FREUD! Another possible analysis is that said people's brains are generally more active than yours, and understand that any interface paradigm incurs mental causalities in both the conscious and subconscious, and that it follows that a well designed UI can be an asset to one's daily mental state... Perhaps said people would also prefer a nice Mozart or Rachmaninov concerto to Britney's latest cookie-cutter hit single as well.
I really don't know why I wasted these past 25 minutes on you... Well.. it was good mental exercise anyhow
roflmfao!
:)
"A poll that teleports any users who vote for CowboyNeal to Afghanistan (to meet Jon Katz's e-mail friend)."
that's my favorite
Good point...
I cut my teeth on a DEC 350 back then... Ahh the days of Intel CPU's *not* tailored specifically for IBM/clone motherboards...
Like Bush even understands what a network is, let alone being able to wrap his pawltry grey matter around the concept of "Unhackable"
wtf!?! I had no TT hypertext in there goddamit! Why isnt it reading my freaking BR's as HTML!?! freaks!
Back when it was called the Apple G4 Cube... <br>Except that the cube needed no CPU fan... And was designed by people with talent. Hmm...<br><br>
On top of that.. The non-symmetric monitor would make my head explode after 2 hours of usage. Not too sure about the 60's era TV throwback industrial design thing either...<br><br>
summary: leave the innovative industrial design to Apple and keep to making those hideous grey or beige boxes, HP...<br>
who would've figured... Jane Swift (acting governor) is a bigger 'publican shill than Dubya could ever be...