It is unethical and in violation of the Apple EULA to do that. It also may be supporting piracy of OSX, and cut into Macintosh sales if this is allowed to be done unchecked. Besides, it is easier for a layman to spend $500 on a Mac Mini, than hack together an image file that is OSX running on an expensive X86 system using emulators.
Much as I'd like to use and develop for OSX, this is not something I would condone doing or using. Besides I have a lifetime of Apple-bashing and Macintosh-bashing, and now that the PC is the Macintosh and the Macintosh is the PC, I no longer have the need or desire to Apple-bash or Macintosh-bash. I welcome our Macintosh brothers and sisters into the PC Universe, running on X86 processors, and now finally there can be peace in the Universe. Solutions to world hunger, poverty, and a cure for cancer, dogs and cats living together, and the usual signs of the Apocalypse that signal that Jesus is coming back. All that is left is that the Chicago Cubs win a World Series, and we will know for sure if the Apocalypse is true or not.;)
and keep brand names of game fresh. After all, who wants to Play Civilization II when Civilization IV and V are coming out? Maybe the abandonware sites can allow Civ I and II to be downloaded, but if IV and V are out, they can claim to be based off of I and II, and thus they are not abandonware.
I heard in Civlization V, that you can play as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, or Osama bin Laden, and other timely figures in Modern Civlization.
It looks like Marvel got one right about Cosmic Rays and Space Travel. Stan Lee is a man ahead of his time!
Ok, you found four different powers, but what about the Red Ghost and his Super Apes? What about Dark Phoenix? Someone create an electromagetic force field to keep out the cosmic rays, or some sort of cosmic ray dampening device. Either that, or become The Silver Surfer and soak in those cosmic rays to icrease your powers.
One of them was http://www.cc-game.net/ but they fixed it after many people complained. It used the "`" character instead of single quotes for the link to the VIP section of the game. They changed it back to single quotes. CC has good programmers and web designers who make changes for bugs and things that are found.
There are other sites out there, but I do not know off the top of my head what they are. Most people just tell me that Firefox won't work with their gaming site, and that the people who run the site refuse to change for Firefox or follow web standards.
http://www.eisonline.com/twforum/forum.asp has a messed up look in Firefox and Mozilla, but renders fine in IE. It is a web forum for Tradewars. Use that to compare, they refuse to change for Firefox and claim anyone who wants to use their forum must use IE.
I'm sawing to bring down the chand.... no I can't do it!
Opera is like Xerox, and IE is like Microsoft, and Mozilla/Netscape is like Apple. Xerox had it first, Apple made theirs like Xerox but a bit different, and then Microsoft came in and monopolized the market.
For those who say that Apple had it first, the original Macintosh resembled the Cannon Cat and was based on the Apple// series. After visiting Xerox, Jobs had new ideas on how to make changes to the Macintosh and Lisa projects.
Yeah but why make B-Movies when better movies are made on a lower budget? Just get good writers, hire some good actors that are not too well known yet but want to be seen on screen and are willing to work for cheap, and use what special effects your budget allows for. Some movies are good without special effects because they have a better plot and storyline. You could have a time travel movie, and use the special effects for the trip to the past and then back to the future, and have actors in costumes of that era and all it requires is mostly makeup and wardrobe costs, plus that of the actors and crew.
Try telling that to people who won't switch to Firefox because there are a few web games he/she is playing that IE renders, but Firefox won't.
Things as simple as turning the "`" character into the single quote "'" character so that links are broken in Firefox and Mozilla and other Non-IE browsers. Usually the web game does this to break non-IE browsers because the banners contain spyware that installs and only IE allows them to install it.
Until Firefox and Mozilla fix stupid stuff like that, a majority of the IE users won't switch.
Is this about getting users to switch, or are we going to debate about propert HTML formatting?
As long as Mozilla Firefox developers refuse to fix the browser to render pages that use tricks like that to discorage Firefox use and Non-IE use, they will never be able to convert a majority of IE users, and thus doom the projects.
Try telling a Gamehead that he/she should simply not use web games that do not render HTML properly in their design.
Even harder, try telling those webmasters to render HTML properly when they create the web applications that power the web games.
Both of them will respond to you very negativly, or call you names. Why should I change for Firefox when IE does what I want? Would be the response of the Gamehead. Why should I change my HTML to work with Firefox when it works fine in IE? Would be the response of the Web Game maker.
Am I the only one who sees this problem?
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I am willing to wait for 1.5, provided they fix the WONTFIX bugs about rendering web pages properly so I can help switch my brother and other IE users away from their webgames in IE to webgames in Firefox.
Apparently rendering web pages properly is not a priority, but adding extra AOL-Like features that cause more bugs are a priority? Well at least they do have a priority to fix security holes and make the browser more stable.
Yet, WTF? I thought that the last version of Mozilla would be the last one to be developed, and now the major changes will be in the Mozilla browser? Did they have their fingers crossed or something when they posted that?
because it allows people to easily install software on your system without your knowledge. That is how all the adware and spyware companies stay in businesses, because the bulk of web users still use the Free IE, which is free of any decent security, not free as in beer or speech.
for each Telemarketer that calls, I will use an air horn hooked up to my telephone to blast the caller's eardrums who try to sell me something. After telemarketers start to go deaf, they will be fewer in numbers.
That or I will use this device to screen calls and use the star key to tell off any telemarketer that dares try to get through. I will make a custom recording for them, telling them to take me off their calling list and cuss them out in 6 different languages. English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and German.
They lost the rights to Star Trek to Spike TV. They cannot afford to pick up Doctor Who reruns, or any other BBC SciFi (Red Dwarf, Blake's Seven, Star Cops, etc). They canceled FarScape and Lexx, WTF? Those where good shows and they flushed them down the toliet!
They remade BattleStar Galactica into a Space Opera, more emphesis on Opera than Space. Cyclons look and act human now, they stole^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed that from "The Terminator". A few characters got their gender changed.
SciFi had a chance to pick up "Space: Above and Beyond" one of the best SciFi shows made on network TV, and they refused.
Stargate SG1 wasn't lame enough, so they made a Stargate Atlantis, and now they recognize the lameness and are trying to change the actors with some who were on FarScape in an effort to jumpstart the show. Yet it jumped the shark long ago.
Now SciFi is buying movies that I can rent for $1 at the local video stores because they are B-Movies that hardly anyone wants to see, so they got marked down. Some are two for $1. At least the video rentals of those movies won't be edited for TV with all the good parts taken out.
Yeah OK, but why would Apple think they would have better success of third party driver support than Linux or OS/2 has? What if the third party hardware vendors refuse to support OSXi, or only a few of them actually do? What is the motivation for them to do so? Windows obviously has the majority market share so it is a safe bet for them to develop Windows drivers. Ironically a lot of the same hardware used on PCs, are also used on PowerMacs, yet very few companies want to support the OSX driver model for PCI cards, USB devices, etc. If hardware vendors mostly refuse to support OSX now, why would they support OSXi in 18 months from now?
It is a Catch-22 situation, first Apple has to have the large base of OSXi users before vendors support the OSX/OSXi platform, and that will not happen until there is a large enough user base for vendors to make it worth their while.
The only logical way to do this, is if Apple starts to make drivers for most popular hardware choices and fund the development themselves. They can also make deals with PC Makers to develop OSXi drivers for the machines they sell, and license an OEM copy of OSXi for the PC Makers to sell. Imagine IBM, Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, eMachines, etc offering a choice between Windows and OSXi. Yet this route makes Apple more of a Microsoftish company, does Jobs really want to go down that road?
I thought OSXi only ran on Intel based Macs and not the garden variety type X86 PC clones? Is Apple going to allow OSXi to run on el cheapo $300USD PC systems like Linspire and Xandros run on? Wasn't there a Mactel lockout chip or something that prevents OSXi from running on anything other than a genuine Intel based Macintosh?
Move along, nothing to see here. Just the typical troll being accepted as a story by Slashdot editors, yet again, with no evidence or facts to back up any words of it.
Linux has far passed OSX and MacOS in marketshare, many PC users dual-boot Windows and Linux. If Mactel runs OSXi, chances are Linux can be modified to run on Mactel systems too.
Well there are a lot of insecure machines out there. Mostly run by people who have no idea how to lock them down, or have no software firewall or anti-malware software. Most of the malware infections have been reported to be on AOL customers' machines. AOL markets as being easy to use, but apparently the AOL software protection is not good enough.
Yeah but what if someone infected a system and used it as a Zombie to do attacks from? How can the counter-attack program tell the difference between a real attack and one launched by a zombie system?
For example, my Linux server has a random IP addess trying to do an attack on SSH using some dictionary method. One day in Brazil, the next in Korea. If I launched a counter-attack (say a DoS) the machine that was infected with malware and acted as a zombie, now is taken offline, and the owner of said machine will be ticked off that I launched an attack on his/her machine/network and report my IP to my ISP and try to get my access rights removed. Meanwhile the attacker keeps infecting a random IP somewhere in the world and has the malware do the attacking for him/her, and does not get caught.
Imaging if IP spoofing is used. You can trick one of these networks into launching attacks towards the IP your program is spoofing as. Spoof as the Microsoft.com IP address and watch as Microsoft turns around and tries to sue the company that launched the counter-attack.
K5 users on Slashdot have already modded down my post, even if it is mostly the truth about K5.
I left K5 long ago, it is like the Titanic and Rusty and crew are too busy rearranging the deck chairs to patch the huge gaping hole in their service. Trolls run rampant and only trolls with viewpoints the editors don't agree with get anonymized. Yet even that is pointless as the anonymized trolls keep coming back with new accounts. The editors are the K5 Cabal, and often troll with their own fake accounts.
I am amazed that people cross post K5 stories on Slashdot, as K5 tends to make fun of Slashdot a lot, and considers themselves the superior journaling/story site. Mostly due to elitish snobs on K5, who think they are better than anyone.
Just read the diary section on K5 some day, it is scary.
IBM couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag since they used Charlie Chaplin to represent their PC line of computers. No wonder Microsoft took a lot of the market away from them.
Will this become the world's fastest privetly pwn3d Supercomputer once it is on the Internet? Got Unix exploits and script-kiddies?
Then the people Rusty conned out of their money invested in CMF project which Rusty wasted on booze and hookers will get their investments back. More information shows that the CMF is still not formed, and that the community is not benefiting from the $35,000 donated. The CMF has all the earmarks of a Non-Profit Dotcom scam. It exists in email lists and a web page only plus a few scattered diary entries on K5. Not a single product has it sponsored yet, as promised.
Besides K5 owns Google. Most likely due to some black hat activity.
Maybe once Google buys out Kuro5hin, they can finally release a version of Scoop for Apache2 that does not break the server? Also maybe they can fix the broken moderation system?
True story. I tried to find another company, but it was 2000 and 2001, when the IT jobs were scarce and nobody wanted to hire, as the Dotcom bubble burst and they got 500 IT resumes a week and considered that "Programmers are a dime a dozen".
I got really sick with the extra stress, so sick that in 2001 I lost my job, found another in 2002, same thing happened, and finally my doctor ordered me not to work any more.
I am now the pathetic creature you see before you, true story.
Of course and the fact that Apple will be using the same hardware as that lower priced PC, but charges more for it, the software and added functionality are enough to justify a $300 to $500 higher price tag. Even if Apple sells OSXi for $129, it has a much higher value than that. OSXi will have a web browser, email program, video editor, media player, calendar program, and a user friendly UI. You cannot find that with any Windows or Linux bundled PC, nor can you find it for paying $300 to $500 more for software to do the same thing in Linux or Windows as OSXi does. Only Apple will bring those programs to you, for $129 for the OS, and a premium price for the hardware. Yet it is quality hardware, while the same as other PC systems that cost less, they do not have the Apple brand logo on them that certify their quality.
#1 Bingo, too many chiefs, not enough braves. Programmers need to be empowered as well to decide what to accept and refuse based on their knowledge of the technology.
#2 Do you mean Just In Time (JIT) development? That usually has a prototype with a small group of people who provide feedback and changes. Yet even that is managed so that it does not change daily, and the changes actually make sense. The way I had it originally was "The Right Way" that the end users wanted it, but Managers kept reading books like "Don't make me think" which told them what UI changes to make to make things intuitive, yet all that did was tick off the end users, because the design changed to something they did not like or wanted to use, and it made training a lot harder. If managers had the goal in ticking off the end users, they succeeded. If not, they failed miserably.
#3 I would have done it another way, but management required the SQL Queries in the source code, so they could see what the program was doing. EJBs, Objects, DLLs, I had to debate with them to use stored procedures so the SQL canges can be more dynamic and the database ran faster. Everything else was rejected and I was told I'd be fired if I used EJBs, Objects, DLLs, etc. We used Visual BASIC, so EJBs is a Java technology, which they also rejected. I suggested Java once, for the Extranet to connect to clients who did not use Windows or IE, and everytime I turned in a program I got asked "You didn't use Java did you?" Apparently they wanted clients to use Windows and IE, and anything else was not supported.
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wrong to do so.
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It is unethical and in violation of the Apple EULA to do that. It also may be supporting piracy of OSX, and cut into Macintosh sales if this is allowed to be done unchecked. Besides, it is easier for a layman to spend $500 on a Mac Mini, than hack together an image file that is OSX running on an expensive X86 system using emulators.
Much as I'd like to use and develop for OSX, this is not something I would condone doing or using. Besides I have a lifetime of Apple-bashing and Macintosh-bashing, and now that the PC is the Macintosh and the Macintosh is the PC, I no longer have the need or desire to Apple-bash or Macintosh-bash. I welcome our Macintosh brothers and sisters into the PC Universe, running on X86 processors, and now finally there can be peace in the Universe. Solutions to world hunger, poverty, and a cure for cancer, dogs and cats living together, and the usual signs of the Apocalypse that signal that Jesus is coming back. All that is left is that the Chicago Cubs win a World Series, and we will know for sure if the Apocalypse is true or not.
and keep brand names of game fresh. After all, who wants to Play Civilization II when Civilization IV and V are coming out? Maybe the abandonware sites can allow Civ I and II to be downloaded, but if IV and V are out, they can claim to be based off of I and II, and thus they are not abandonware.
I heard in Civlization V, that you can play as George W. Bush, Tony Blair, or Osama bin Laden, and other timely figures in Modern Civlization.
because WGA passes on Windows 2000 and lower. WINE emulates Windows 9X, IIRC.
There is a trick to download the Geneuinecheck.exe on XP and run it in Windows 2000 mode to fool it into passing.
This is not due to WINE, or Microsoft, just the way Windows WGA was designed to work.
This is all common knowledge, why did it make it to a Slashdot story?
It looks like Marvel got one right about Cosmic Rays and Space Travel. Stan Lee is a man ahead of his time!
Ok, you found four different powers, but what about the Red Ghost and his Super Apes? What about Dark Phoenix? Someone create an electromagetic force field to keep out the cosmic rays, or some sort of cosmic ray dampening device. Either that, or become The Silver Surfer and soak in those cosmic rays to icrease your powers.
One of them was http://www.cc-game.net/ but they fixed it after many people complained. It used the "`" character instead of single quotes for the link to the VIP section of the game. They changed it back to single quotes. CC has good programmers and web designers who make changes for bugs and things that are found.
There are other sites out there, but I do not know off the top of my head what they are. Most people just tell me that Firefox won't work with their gaming site, and that the people who run the site refuse to change for Firefox or follow web standards.
http://www.eisonline.com/twforum/forum.asp has a messed up look in Firefox and Mozilla, but renders fine in IE. It is a web forum for Tradewars. Use that to compare, they refuse to change for Firefox and claim anyone who wants to use their forum must use IE.
I'm sawing to bring down the chand.... no I can't do it!
// series. After visiting Xerox, Jobs had new ideas on how to make changes to the Macintosh and Lisa projects.
Opera is like Xerox, and IE is like Microsoft, and Mozilla/Netscape is like Apple. Xerox had it first, Apple made theirs like Xerox but a bit different, and then Microsoft came in and monopolized the market.
For those who say that Apple had it first, the original Macintosh resembled the Cannon Cat and was based on the Apple
Yeah but why make B-Movies when better movies are made on a lower budget? Just get good writers, hire some good actors that are not too well known yet but want to be seen on screen and are willing to work for cheap, and use what special effects your budget allows for. Some movies are good without special effects because they have a better plot and storyline. You could have a time travel movie, and use the special effects for the trip to the past and then back to the future, and have actors in costumes of that era and all it requires is mostly makeup and wardrobe costs, plus that of the actors and crew.
Try telling that to people who won't switch to Firefox because there are a few web games he/she is playing that IE renders, but Firefox won't.
Things as simple as turning the "`" character into the single quote "'" character so that links are broken in Firefox and Mozilla and other Non-IE browsers. Usually the web game does this to break non-IE browsers because the banners contain spyware that installs and only IE allows them to install it.
Until Firefox and Mozilla fix stupid stuff like that, a majority of the IE users won't switch.
Is this about getting users to switch, or are we going to debate about propert HTML formatting?
As long as Mozilla Firefox developers refuse to fix the browser to render pages that use tricks like that to discorage Firefox use and Non-IE use, they will never be able to convert a majority of IE users, and thus doom the projects.
Try telling a Gamehead that he/she should simply not use web games that do not render HTML properly in their design.
Even harder, try telling those webmasters to render HTML properly when they create the web applications that power the web games.
Both of them will respond to you very negativly, or call you names. Why should I change for Firefox when IE does what I want? Would be the response of the Gamehead. Why should I change my HTML to work with Firefox when it works fine in IE? Would be the response of the Web Game maker.
Am I the only one who sees this problem?
I am willing to wait for 1.5, provided they fix the WONTFIX bugs about rendering web pages properly so I can help switch my brother and other IE users away from their webgames in IE to webgames in Firefox.
Apparently rendering web pages properly is not a priority, but adding extra AOL-Like features that cause more bugs are a priority? Well at least they do have a priority to fix security holes and make the browser more stable.
Yet, WTF? I thought that the last version of Mozilla would be the last one to be developed, and now the major changes will be in the Mozilla browser? Did they have their fingers crossed or something when they posted that?
Will the OSX version of Firefox be Cocoa based?
because it allows people to easily install software on your system without your knowledge. That is how all the adware and spyware companies stay in businesses, because the bulk of web users still use the Free IE, which is free of any decent security, not free as in beer or speech.
for each Telemarketer that calls, I will use an air horn hooked up to my telephone to blast the caller's eardrums who try to sell me something. After telemarketers start to go deaf, they will be fewer in numbers.
That or I will use this device to screen calls and use the star key to tell off any telemarketer that dares try to get through. I will make a custom recording for them, telling them to take me off their calling list and cuss them out in 6 different languages. English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and German.
They lost the rights to Star Trek to Spike TV. They cannot afford to pick up Doctor Who reruns, or any other BBC SciFi (Red Dwarf, Blake's Seven, Star Cops, etc). They canceled FarScape and Lexx, WTF? Those where good shows and they flushed them down the toliet!
They remade BattleStar Galactica into a Space Opera, more emphesis on Opera than Space. Cyclons look and act human now, they stole^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed that from "The Terminator". A few characters got their gender changed.
SciFi had a chance to pick up "Space: Above and Beyond" one of the best SciFi shows made on network TV, and they refused.
Stargate SG1 wasn't lame enough, so they made a Stargate Atlantis, and now they recognize the lameness and are trying to change the actors with some who were on FarScape in an effort to jumpstart the show. Yet it jumped the shark long ago.
Now SciFi is buying movies that I can rent for $1 at the local video stores because they are B-Movies that hardly anyone wants to see, so they got marked down. Some are two for $1. At least the video rentals of those movies won't be edited for TV with all the good parts taken out.
1337 Key extension in Firefox. Gets them every time! ;)
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Yeah OK, but why would Apple think they would have better success of third party driver support than Linux or OS/2 has? What if the third party hardware vendors refuse to support OSXi, or only a few of them actually do? What is the motivation for them to do so? Windows obviously has the majority market share so it is a safe bet for them to develop Windows drivers. Ironically a lot of the same hardware used on PCs, are also used on PowerMacs, yet very few companies want to support the OSX driver model for PCI cards, USB devices, etc. If hardware vendors mostly refuse to support OSX now, why would they support OSXi in 18 months from now?
It is a Catch-22 situation, first Apple has to have the large base of OSXi users before vendors support the OSX/OSXi platform, and that will not happen until there is a large enough user base for vendors to make it worth their while.
The only logical way to do this, is if Apple starts to make drivers for most popular hardware choices and fund the development themselves. They can also make deals with PC Makers to develop OSXi drivers for the machines they sell, and license an OEM copy of OSXi for the PC Makers to sell. Imagine IBM, Dell, Gateway, HP/Compaq, eMachines, etc offering a choice between Windows and OSXi. Yet this route makes Apple more of a Microsoftish company, does Jobs really want to go down that road?
I thought OSXi only ran on Intel based Macs and not the garden variety type X86 PC clones? Is Apple going to allow OSXi to run on el cheapo $300USD PC systems like Linspire and Xandros run on? Wasn't there a Mactel lockout chip or something that prevents OSXi from running on anything other than a genuine Intel based Macintosh?
Move along, nothing to see here. Just the typical troll being accepted as a story by Slashdot editors, yet again, with no evidence or facts to back up any words of it.
Linux has far passed OSX and MacOS in marketshare, many PC users dual-boot Windows and Linux. If Mactel runs OSXi, chances are Linux can be modified to run on Mactel systems too.
Well there are a lot of insecure machines out there. Mostly run by people who have no idea how to lock them down, or have no software firewall or anti-malware software. Most of the malware infections have been reported to be on AOL customers' machines. AOL markets as being easy to use, but apparently the AOL software protection is not good enough.
Yeah but what if someone infected a system and used it as a Zombie to do attacks from? How can the counter-attack program tell the difference between a real attack and one launched by a zombie system?
For example, my Linux server has a random IP addess trying to do an attack on SSH using some dictionary method. One day in Brazil, the next in Korea. If I launched a counter-attack (say a DoS) the machine that was infected with malware and acted as a zombie, now is taken offline, and the owner of said machine will be ticked off that I launched an attack on his/her machine/network and report my IP to my ISP and try to get my access rights removed. Meanwhile the attacker keeps infecting a random IP somewhere in the world and has the malware do the attacking for him/her, and does not get caught.
Imaging if IP spoofing is used. You can trick one of these networks into launching attacks towards the IP your program is spoofing as. Spoof as the Microsoft.com IP address and watch as Microsoft turns around and tries to sue the company that launched the counter-attack.
\/\/3 0wn y0u, |\/|1(r050f7, 7h3 5(r1p7-k1dd135.
Save the drama for yer momma.
K5 users on Slashdot have already modded down my post, even if it is mostly the truth about K5.
I left K5 long ago, it is like the Titanic and Rusty and crew are too busy rearranging the deck chairs to patch the huge gaping hole in their service. Trolls run rampant and only trolls with viewpoints the editors don't agree with get anonymized. Yet even that is pointless as the anonymized trolls keep coming back with new accounts. The editors are the K5 Cabal, and often troll with their own fake accounts.
I am amazed that people cross post K5 stories on Slashdot, as K5 tends to make fun of Slashdot a lot, and considers themselves the superior journaling/story site. Mostly due to elitish snobs on K5, who think they are better than anyone.
Just read the diary section on K5 some day, it is scary.
IBM couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag since they used Charlie Chaplin to represent their PC line of computers. No wonder Microsoft took a lot of the market away from them.
Will this become the world's fastest privetly pwn3d Supercomputer once it is on the Internet? Got Unix exploits and script-kiddies?
Then the people Rusty conned out of their money invested in CMF project which Rusty wasted on booze and hookers will get their investments back. More information shows that the CMF is still not formed, and that the community is not benefiting from the $35,000 donated. The CMF has all the earmarks of a Non-Profit Dotcom scam. It exists in email lists and a web page only plus a few scattered diary entries on K5. Not a single product has it sponsored yet, as promised.
Besides K5 owns Google. Most likely due to some black hat activity.
Maybe once Google buys out Kuro5hin, they can finally release a version of Scoop for Apache2 that does not break the server? Also maybe they can fix the broken moderation system?
True story. I tried to find another company, but it was 2000 and 2001, when the IT jobs were scarce and nobody wanted to hire, as the Dotcom bubble burst and they got 500 IT resumes a week and considered that "Programmers are a dime a dozen".
I got really sick with the extra stress, so sick that in 2001 I lost my job, found another in 2002, same thing happened, and finally my doctor ordered me not to work any more.
I am now the pathetic creature you see before you, true story.
Of course and the fact that Apple will be using the same hardware as that lower priced PC, but charges more for it, the software and added functionality are enough to justify a $300 to $500 higher price tag. Even if Apple sells OSXi for $129, it has a much higher value than that. OSXi will have a web browser, email program, video editor, media player, calendar program, and a user friendly UI. You cannot find that with any Windows or Linux bundled PC, nor can you find it for paying $300 to $500 more for software to do the same thing in Linux or Windows as OSXi does. Only Apple will bring those programs to you, for $129 for the OS, and a premium price for the hardware. Yet it is quality hardware, while the same as other PC systems that cost less, they do not have the Apple brand logo on them that certify their quality.
#1 Bingo, too many chiefs, not enough braves. Programmers need to be empowered as well to decide what to accept and refuse based on their knowledge of the technology.
#2 Do you mean Just In Time (JIT) development? That usually has a prototype with a small group of people who provide feedback and changes. Yet even that is managed so that it does not change daily, and the changes actually make sense. The way I had it originally was "The Right Way" that the end users wanted it, but Managers kept reading books like "Don't make me think" which told them what UI changes to make to make things intuitive, yet all that did was tick off the end users, because the design changed to something they did not like or wanted to use, and it made training a lot harder. If managers had the goal in ticking off the end users, they succeeded. If not, they failed miserably.
#3 I would have done it another way, but management required the SQL Queries in the source code, so they could see what the program was doing. EJBs, Objects, DLLs, I had to debate with them to use stored procedures so the SQL canges can be more dynamic and the database ran faster. Everything else was rejected and I was told I'd be fired if I used EJBs, Objects, DLLs, etc. We used Visual BASIC, so EJBs is a Java technology, which they also rejected. I suggested Java once, for the Extranet to connect to clients who did not use Windows or IE, and everytime I turned in a program I got asked "You didn't use Java did you?" Apparently they wanted clients to use Windows and IE, and anything else was not supported.