3. What happens when the expanding markets of India and China grow a new customer base that is bigger than all existing computer users at present, and they choose not to use Windows in those systems?
Especially since a Linux distribution by the government would fit better in China's economics than inviting an American company in, especially when that company is Microsoft.
Generally we don't like what the french courts are doing (such as their lawsuits against nazi junk on auction sites)
I am assuming when you say "we" you mean you and your other Neo-Nazi comrades. It's a hideous, grotesque concept to me that someone is profiting from what Hitler did.
I want sunshine and lollipops, I want gummi bears and kittens. I want fluffy clouds and happy fun time. Where the fuck is it?
We have a double-agent in the government, it both protects and abuses us. Our only hope going forward is we can swing them our way. Forbidding DRM makes things like the DMCA irrelevant. This also levels the field for a lot of hardware manufacturers. They no longer have to pay a fee to make DVD players.
The end result may be that DVDs won't be sold in France but there's this little thing called the European Union...if they refuse to sell DVDs to France, they cannot do business in the Union. So no DVDs for Europe? Doubt it.
The initial amount of tech support that goes into a product the first few months it launches is not the same that is required down the line. There will be a lot of "seasonal" tech support at Apple because of the deluge caused by a new OS. Sometimes these are simple questions answered by reading the "What's New?" part in help but people don't always do that. They have to get ready for this.
To be fair to all distributors Apple gives time for the shipping of their product to get to all outlets before giving the go ahead. It would not be fair to CompUSA if Frys was able to sell their copy sooner just because they got a quicker shipment from Apple. This also lets outlets design their own "release party". Interestingly enough, Apple is not doing a midnight launch, but a 6PM launch which makes it a great event for any store to throw.
There's lots of really good reasons why there are "release dates" and those are just 2.
When I bought my G5 it came with Jaguar on it and an upgrade disc to Panther. I'm going to assume that the same will be true after next week.
Incidentally when I had to get my iBook refurbished (bad ATI, bad!) for the video issue they gave me a slew of software, including the then-current version of Mac OS X.
Apple's Dock was a similar nod to the popularity of the taskbar in Windows
You make me laugh, really hard, too. This is Slashdot, you know, you shouldn't say such assinine things like the Dock comes from the taskbar. Let's see a raise of hands for everyone who knows where the Dock comes from.
You can't run Windows on the apple hardware (in general) and you can't run OSX on generic PC hardware
Windows has run on Apple hardware since 3.0 through SoftWindows and now VirtualPC which Microsoft owns. In the future I am sure that MS will make VirtualPC run better and better because all MS cares about is how many copies of Windows are sold, not how many PCs are sold.
In general, Windows runs on every Mac since the Mac II.
The Search features are something Microsoft has been touting for a long time, and in any case, Google got there first. Microsoft would almost certainly have implemented it regardless of what Apple did.
The technology that Apple uses in Spotlight comes from the Copland project. It is called VTwin and Apple has been using it since Mac OS 8 with the introduction of Sherlock. VTwin just has an API and file system integration now.
The tech is old as far as Apple is concerned and no, Google wasn't there first, just first on Windows, it wasn't even first on PC because BeOS got there before them.
Easy (ie GUI based) Scripting is something Microsoft and Apple and others have been working on for decades.
No, it's something Apple has been working on for a decade (since its release in 1994) and it's something Microsoft has been working on for a couple years.
Sideshow is likely to be Microsoft's latest attempt at creating a usable "Active Desktop", first released in the mid-nineties. The two are not similar technologies and Microsoft isn't likely to have released their's in response to Apple.
Sideshow is Microsoft's latest attempt at trying to convince people that Explorer needs to be embedded in the OS.
Apple was not first with integrated IM/video. I used Yahoo! Messenger to do the same a while back.
No IM clients existed when Apple invented the QuickTime Conferencing system (which worked on Mac and Windows) in the early 90's. The whole point of what Apple is doing in iChat is basing their conferencing backend on a standard. iChat server for 10.4 Server is Jabber.
At Xerox Parc, the GUI they developed only contained icons for verbs. Cut, copy, paste. There were no icons for nouns, which is where Apple innovated. Apple also invented the pulldown menu. Meaning a stable menu where menus dropped down. That's just a few of the things they came up with. Xerox got Apple stock based on the ability of letting them SEE what they were doing, not actually get any code or know HOW it was done.
The truth of the matter is Xerox invented the wheel and Apple went and invented the Maserati.
There's no universally accepted abbreviation for byte. Some people use B, some use b.
Yes exactly, and some people type "There going to the store to get groceries." some people type "Their going to the store to get groceries." and some people type "They're going to the store to get groceries."
The only reason why it doesn't seem universal is because people don't always use the right one. That does NOT make it more or less correct.
OK, I downloaded Opera...wait, I have Mozilla Firefox...
Everytime a new browser milestone comes out I always try it to see if it renders pages as nicely as what I have set the standard for myself. It used to be Internet Explorer for Mac which used a different rendering engine than Windows and supported almost every standard at the time of its final release. Now it is Safari which uses KHTML (Omniweb uses WebCore as well).
I keep reading that Opera renders pages fastest on the Mac. That may be true but the rendering engine is definitely NOT tweaked for Macintosh. Kerning is a big thing and it doesn't (at least the beta) use Bold and Italic tags. Lots of little bugs, like that an entity's colour is supposed to override the declaration of a link colour (it underlines links in the wrong colour). There's no way to make the tab bar stable instead of throwing the whole window out of whack everytime it goes from one tab to two.
For a version 8 browser put out by a company that makes money from it, it doesn't seem to stack up to the free browsers.
I bought my PS2 because at the time, PSones were $100 and DVD players were $200. I wanted a DVD player and hadn't had a PlayStation in a little while (my first-gen PSX broke and I was in the Dreamcast camp).
I would buy a PS3 solely if it played PS2 games and had HD DVD support.
Why should a parent be limited to either ON or OFF? It seems to me that one of the themes here on/. is that people should have choices about what to do with the content they purchase.
If we were talking about a household cleaning item that kids liked to drink and it poisoned them, I doubt you'd have the same lame attitude. Right now parents too often have the choice of making everyone else raise their kid. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there would be a lot better parenting in this country if parents were held liable for laws their kids broke.
they could provide movies now that seamlessly scale down from an R rating to PG-13, etc.. But they don't. So, in short, no, I doubt they'll be doing what you suggest.
Yeah, strangely that was a big selling point for DVDs from the manufacturers and the studios. Also, why the FUCK can't I watch a DVD that has deleted scenes in it in place where they were deleted, I mean, it's a computer function at that point. That was another big selling point for DVDs early on.
Oh, well. At least the sound and picture is better.
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Aye, that's the rub. I've never seen an ATM or Airport Flight Information kiosk with a kernel panic but I've seen plenty with BSODs.
Especially since a Linux distribution by the government would fit better in China's economics than inviting an American company in, especially when that company is Microsoft.
I am assuming when you say "we" you mean you and your other Neo-Nazi comrades. It's a hideous, grotesque concept to me that someone is profiting from what Hitler did.
Except that French Fries are German and were renamed during WWII. Like French toast.
We have a double-agent in the government, it both protects and abuses us. Our only hope going forward is we can swing them our way. Forbidding DRM makes things like the DMCA irrelevant. This also levels the field for a lot of hardware manufacturers. They no longer have to pay a fee to make DVD players.
The end result may be that DVDs won't be sold in France but there's this little thing called the European Union...if they refuse to sell DVDs to France, they cannot do business in the Union. So no DVDs for Europe? Doubt it.
The initial amount of tech support that goes into a product the first few months it launches is not the same that is required down the line. There will be a lot of "seasonal" tech support at Apple because of the deluge caused by a new OS. Sometimes these are simple questions answered by reading the "What's New?" part in help but people don't always do that. They have to get ready for this.
To be fair to all distributors Apple gives time for the shipping of their product to get to all outlets before giving the go ahead. It would not be fair to CompUSA if Frys was able to sell their copy sooner just because they got a quicker shipment from Apple. This also lets outlets design their own "release party". Interestingly enough, Apple is not doing a midnight launch, but a 6PM launch which makes it a great event for any store to throw.
There's lots of really good reasons why there are "release dates" and those are just 2.
Incidentally when I had to get my iBook refurbished (bad ATI, bad!) for the video issue they gave me a slew of software, including the then-current version of Mac OS X.
The travesty is that it's been 10 years and streaming video still LOOKS like it did on a 68040.
Ah, yes. I agree. I too miss the days when they used to throw the Christians to the lions for sport.
You make me laugh, really hard, too. This is Slashdot, you know, you shouldn't say such assinine things like the Dock comes from the taskbar. Let's see a raise of hands for everyone who knows where the Dock comes from.
Windows has run on Apple hardware since 3.0 through SoftWindows and now VirtualPC which Microsoft owns. In the future I am sure that MS will make VirtualPC run better and better because all MS cares about is how many copies of Windows are sold, not how many PCs are sold.
In general, Windows runs on every Mac since the Mac II.
The technology that Apple uses in Spotlight comes from the Copland project. It is called VTwin and Apple has been using it since Mac OS 8 with the introduction of Sherlock. VTwin just has an API and file system integration now.
The tech is old as far as Apple is concerned and no, Google wasn't there first, just first on Windows, it wasn't even first on PC because BeOS got there before them.
No, it's something Apple has been working on for a decade (since its release in 1994) and it's something Microsoft has been working on for a couple years.
Sideshow is Microsoft's latest attempt at trying to convince people that Explorer needs to be embedded in the OS.
No IM clients existed when Apple invented the QuickTime Conferencing system (which worked on Mac and Windows) in the early 90's. The whole point of what Apple is doing in iChat is basing their conferencing backend on a standard. iChat server for 10.4 Server is Jabber.
The truth of the matter is Xerox invented the wheel and Apple went and invented the Maserati.
The only real advantage 64-bit has over 32-bit for anyone outside of the supercomputing realm is the memory it can access. ALL applications in Tiger can access 64-bit memory if they are written for it meaning the backend is not written for Cocoa but for Darwin. BTW, Darwin is different than POSIX.
The true genius of Apple is that the data model for Tiger is LP64 which means source for Linux, SGI and Sun is easy to port to the G5 with Tiger.
Standard in the Unix world.
What's the point of reuniting the Screen Savers if I can't ogle Patrick Norton?
Yes exactly, and some people type "There going to the store to get groceries." some people type "Their going to the store to get groceries." and some people type "They're going to the store to get groceries."
The only reason why it doesn't seem universal is because people don't always use the right one. That does NOT make it more or less correct.
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Everytime a new browser milestone comes out I always try it to see if it renders pages as nicely as what I have set the standard for myself. It used to be Internet Explorer for Mac which used a different rendering engine than Windows and supported almost every standard at the time of its final release. Now it is Safari which uses KHTML (Omniweb uses WebCore as well).
I keep reading that Opera renders pages fastest on the Mac. That may be true but the rendering engine is definitely NOT tweaked for Macintosh. Kerning is a big thing and it doesn't (at least the beta) use Bold and Italic tags. Lots of little bugs, like that an entity's colour is supposed to override the declaration of a link colour (it underlines links in the wrong colour). There's no way to make the tab bar stable instead of throwing the whole window out of whack everytime it goes from one tab to two.
For a version 8 browser put out by a company that makes money from it, it doesn't seem to stack up to the free browsers.
Interface is a mess and doesn't render as nicely as KHTML or Gecko. Good first releases, though. Oh, wait...
I would buy a PS3 solely if it played PS2 games and had HD DVD support.
If we were talking about a household cleaning item that kids liked to drink and it poisoned them, I doubt you'd have the same lame attitude. Right now parents too often have the choice of making everyone else raise their kid. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there would be a lot better parenting in this country if parents were held liable for laws their kids broke.
Depending on the annoying intros, it's worth it to me to pay the extra $3-$4 for the blank DVD I use to copy just the movie.
Yeah, strangely that was a big selling point for DVDs from the manufacturers and the studios. Also, why the FUCK can't I watch a DVD that has deleted scenes in it in place where they were deleted, I mean, it's a computer function at that point. That was another big selling point for DVDs early on.
Oh, well. At least the sound and picture is better.
When Apple bought Shake and Motion it pretty much solidified the death of Premiere and After Effects. Final Cut Studio is the nail in the coffin.
FYI whoever modded the parent offtopic, you know when you get meta-moderated unfair that you are less likely to get mod points, right?