But to do all that, very often they used non-standard components.
If you mean "standard" is whatever the lowest common denominator is, then yes, to improve and become better, you must be non-standard. But if you can do it better, you can become the new standard. There was a time people like you would have derided Firewire as "non-standard", but this is what Apple does best, invents the new standards that others will copy.
I want my products to be better, not just standard.
I beleive the hard drive and optical drives are integrated in all computers
That's the point that I was trying to make. Integrated hard drives aren't a problem, so why should an integrated screen be? For its target market, the screen is just another component like the hard drive and is better off integrated.
You could say the same of the old iMac. But do you know they sold 6 million? Its target market doesn't care that the screen is integrated any more than they care that the hard drive is integrated or the Superdrive (DVD burner) is integrated. For the target market, this is an advantage. They don't have to think about screen or hd or burner: they plug it in and it works.
Had em on the Mac ever since the trasition to PowerPC. They can do it if they want to. But Apple wants you to run their apps on/their/ OS on/their/ hardware, not some alternative that brings them no revenue and is a nightmare to troubleshoot.
A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea. Why should citizens of any country hesitate to wage such a war if they have the machinery? War has recently seemed so terrible that civilized societies view it as a last resort. But American history is crammed with technological innovations that are neither discussed nor much thought out. Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible.
Nonsense. What would be the point of a "war without sacrifice"? The point of war is to at least inflict sacrifice on your enemy, and better, to defeat him. If you didn't want to do that, you might as well flip a coin.
The major difference today is not whatever latest fancy machinery is being used. It is that without two superpowers to impose checks and balances on each other, the sole remaining superpower can attack whomever it pleases, and this has so far meant the world's weakest. What Katz calls "civilized societies" have always been happy to go to war as long as they didn't suffer, and now they can.
To me, the more interesting and disturbing occurance has been the "legitamacy" our actions have given others to launch "wars against terror" of their own. India is currently waving a big stick over Pakistan's head to get people deported, and like us dismisses the need for evidence. The real change in war is two nuclear-armed countries finding it perfectly acceptable to go to war despite their new nuclear status.
Maybe so. But the naming issue seems to be a symptom of a bigger problem. Why does the Linux community value copying existing products--down to similar product names--instead of trying something new?
We got a good report from Macworld on/. where we were told Apple continues to blaze new trails. Where are the new killer apps on Linux? The Linux community seems content to copy existing apps and names, and thus can only claim "Freer" instead of also "innovative".
Exactly. I thought the high prices on the tower line (they had been/raised/ recently) meant for sure G5s were due. When I saw the G4 iMacs, there could be no question about it.
So I let the stream run, waiting for "One more thing...". Nothing. Can you believe the gall of the man, he just left!
The only thing I can think of is Macworld Expo Tokyo in a month. They like to send clear messages, and for now they want the iMac on the cover of magazines. It also makes sense that they save something for Japan.
Reasons there will never be an OS X for x86.
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There will never be an OS X for x86, for all the reasons explained here.
Unfortunately, gcc is only installed (as cc) as part of the Developer Tools. And unfortunately, you only get the Developer Tools if you shell out for a shrinkwrapped version of the OS. The good news is that you can get them for $19.95 with the OS X 10.1 upgrade.
Otherwise, you were doing the right thing. The Developer Tools are a free download from developer.apple.com. Sign up as an Online Member.
Your analysis is interesting. However, I don't think there will be one digital home appliance, just as there isn't one kitchen appliance. There will be many, and unfortunately from the ones in existence (Gamecube, iPod, Palms) they will be proprietary and non-upgradable.
Best Buy: "Some mumbo jumbo crap, a nice menu."
Me:
Some chick: "Hello, Welcome to Best Buy."
Me: "Hello, do you have any Gamecubes?"
Chick: "No."
Me: "Do you expect any soon?"
Chick: "We will get more but we don't know when."
Chick (voice dropping to a whisper): "We were supposed to get some today but they didn't come in. Stop by later tonight."
Either Best Buy employees are just looking to have fun (either way) or there is mass hysteria over this console.
This cloak-and-dagger shit has been going on for two weeks. If Gamecubes are readily available, could someone tell me/where/?!
If they couldn't make it illegal to tell you how to build an atom bomb, how could they make it illegal to tell you how to delete one file?
Welcome to the new milenium. It is apparently now also legal to arrest people without warrant, deny access to lawyers, and use military tribunals. Be afraid, be very afraid.
What _would_ be wrong was if I (probably as a reseller) bought a bunch of the upgrade CD's, and resold them as the full thing (at full price).
Huh? A reseller can't sell this as a full version, but you can use it as a full version? Either people can treat this as a full version or not, make up your mind.
The worrying thing here is the supression of free speech. IP issues also bring up the wider question of ownership and compensation for a commodity that can be freely copied. But the argument that if someone forgets to lock their door, you are entitled to everything in their house, is a stupid one and obscures important issues IMHO.
I went to CompUSA the morning of the 10.1 release. There were 15 - 20 others there. CompUSA got a box of 100 nicely packaged disks overnighted from Apple, and we all left with completely free upgrades.
A friend at Apple told me the Apple Store wanted to sell all upgrades, but when Steve found out, he specifically ordered free disks overnighted to stores. The Apple Store then began calling registered OS X users, saying the free copies would be scarce, and offering free overnight shipping if they bought from them. Apple is a large company, and different departments sometimes have different interests.
The only non-free software that I own are my Linux and console games... Maybe some day I will be able to dump non-free software altogether.
If you count consoles, you must also count washing machines, home security systems, and your automobile. Software has become as ubiqitous as screws. And in appliances, it is almost all non-Free.
So I think more than just creating another Free copy of a non-Free package, the ideal should be to inform people's understanding of the issue. Show managers the advantages of Free software. Encourage thought on new definitions of ownership.
IMHO feeding starving people is more important than checking email, reading/. etc...
Actually, checking mail and reading/. is how companies thrive. It's called infrastructure. When companies thrive, they hire and pay people. Who can then eat.
And reading news and participating in discussion is how strong and stable democracies and governments are built. Infrastructure is more important than food drops.
Don't forget that we - 'zilians - are a society based on paper. I work for a bunch of burocreaps and despite my futile attempts at introducing them to the wonders of sending memos to other sectors via email or our intranet BBS those f*cks preffer to print the stuff out and hand them out.
I'm in the US and it's the same story. The number of trees we kill because of useless memos is unbelievable. To the Training Department: printing memos and schedules for Word and Excel training on brightly colored paper only lets me know which mail to throw away without looking.
Isn't this the place we struck after the embassy bombings? We claimed we bombed a chem weapons plant. Turns out we destroyed their largest pharmaceuticals factory.
All people are both more intelligent, and more imaginitive than even the smartest computer.
Yes, but most people want to use their intelligence and time to do what they do (edit images, write lawsuits, cure Parkinson's disease) and not fiddle with their filesystem. Which is why when possible they hire secretaries. If people wanted to learn to program their filesystems, everybody would be using command line UNIX, grepping and piping away to hearts content.
I don't think you really get to know someone watching movies. You sit in a dark room not seeing anyone else. You watch the movie and then leave.
That's why when I sense a first date may be awkward I suggest a movie. You don't have to talk much, you have fun, and hopefully you've relaxed around the other person and built trust for the next date. If I don't think a date is going to be awkward, I suggest dinner or coffee at my apartment where we can talk and kick back.
Beer is good for this too. My coworkers and I get to talk and know each other better, and the beer takes away inhibitions. Works for dates too!:)
I'm surprised to see so many people say that they don't hang out and drink beer after work with fellow geeks.
Every Friday me and my friends drink beer at The Church. A couple of geeks are from my company, others from other geek institutions. Before the dot.com bust, a lot of single pretty nongeek girls would hang out there too. And every month or two, Pittsburgh Geeks throw a big beer bash among other events (check out the pictures from Geek Nights past).
I also have Saturday afternoon Dreamcast sessions (that turn into Sunday morning) with geeks from my previous job, but I find I am better friends with the guys I drink with, and the gaming is more just about the games.
I also disagree that depending on your job for your social life is a bad thing. When we're in school, we depend on school for our social lives. No different when you work. It's natural you meet and share things with the people you spend the most time around.
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I don't know, crashes within 24 hours and user processes monopolizing the machine, doesn't sound much better than Mac OS 9 to me.
Except Mac OS 9 actually has a decent user interface.
But to do all that, very often they used non-standard components.
If you mean "standard" is whatever the lowest common denominator is, then yes, to improve and become better, you must be non-standard. But if you can do it better, you can become the new standard. There was a time people like you would have derided Firewire as "non-standard", but this is what Apple does best, invents the new standards that others will copy.
I want my products to be better, not just standard.
I beleive the hard drive and optical drives are integrated in all computers
That's the point that I was trying to make. Integrated hard drives aren't a problem, so why should an integrated screen be? For its target market, the screen is just another component like the hard drive and is better off integrated.
You could say the same of the old iMac. But do you know they sold 6 million? Its target market doesn't care that the screen is integrated any more than they care that the hard drive is integrated or the Superdrive (DVD burner) is integrated. For the target market, this is an advantage. They don't have to think about screen or hd or burner: they plug it in and it works.
Had em on the Mac ever since the trasition to PowerPC. They can do it if they want to. But Apple wants you to run their apps on /their/ OS on /their/ hardware, not some alternative that brings them no revenue and is a nightmare to troubleshoot.
A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea. Why should citizens of any country hesitate to wage such a war if they have the machinery? War has recently seemed so terrible that civilized societies view it as a last resort. But American history is crammed with technological innovations that are neither discussed nor much thought out. Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible.
Nonsense. What would be the point of a "war without sacrifice"? The point of war is to at least inflict sacrifice on your enemy, and better, to defeat him. If you didn't want to do that, you might as well flip a coin.
The major difference today is not whatever latest fancy machinery is being used. It is that without two superpowers to impose checks and balances on each other, the sole remaining superpower can attack whomever it pleases, and this has so far meant the world's weakest. What Katz calls "civilized societies" have always been happy to go to war as long as they didn't suffer, and now they can.
To me, the more interesting and disturbing occurance has been the "legitamacy" our actions have given others to launch "wars against terror" of their own. India is currently waving a big stick over Pakistan's head to get people deported, and like us dismisses the need for evidence. The real change in war is two nuclear-armed countries finding it perfectly acceptable to go to war despite their new nuclear status.
Maybe so. But the naming issue seems to be a symptom of a bigger problem. Why does the Linux community value copying existing products--down to similar product names--instead of trying something new?
We got a good report from Macworld on /. where we were told Apple continues to blaze new trails. Where are the new killer apps on Linux? The Linux community seems content to copy existing apps and names, and thus can only claim "Freer" instead of also "innovative".
Exactly. I thought the high prices on the tower line (they had been /raised/ recently) meant for sure G5s were due. When I saw the G4 iMacs, there could be no question about it.
So I let the stream run, waiting for "One more thing...". Nothing. Can you believe the gall of the man, he just left!
The only thing I can think of is Macworld Expo Tokyo in a month. They like to send clear messages, and for now they want the iMac on the cover of magazines. It also makes sense that they save something for Japan.
There will never be an OS X for x86, for all the reasons explained here.
Let me guess: You don't get promoted much.
Now it's software. "All your code base belong to us!" they rant.
It's "All your code base are belong to us!". Please learn the grammer.
Unfortunately, gcc is only installed (as cc) as part of the Developer Tools. And unfortunately, you only get the Developer Tools if you shell out for a shrinkwrapped version of the OS. The good news is that you can get them for $19.95 with the OS X 10.1 upgrade.
Otherwise, you were doing the right thing. The Developer Tools are a free download from developer.apple.com. Sign up as an Online Member.
Two resources I've found useful in Cocoa programming are stepwise.com and O'Reilly's Mac Devcenter.
Your analysis is interesting. However, I don't think there will be one digital home appliance, just as there isn't one kitchen appliance. There will be many, and unfortunately from the ones in existence (Gamecube, iPod, Palms) they will be proprietary and non-upgradable.
Best Buy: "Some mumbo jumbo crap, a nice menu."
/where/?!
Me:
Some chick: "Hello, Welcome to Best Buy."
Me: "Hello, do you have any Gamecubes?"
Chick: "No."
Me: "Do you expect any soon?"
Chick: "We will get more but we don't know when."
Chick (voice dropping to a whisper): "We were supposed to get some today but they didn't come in. Stop by later tonight."
Either Best Buy employees are just looking to have fun (either way) or there is mass hysteria over this console.
This cloak-and-dagger shit has been going on for two weeks. If Gamecubes are readily available, could someone tell me
If they couldn't make it illegal to tell you how to build an atom bomb, how could they make it illegal to tell you how to delete one file?
Welcome to the new milenium. It is apparently now also legal to arrest people without warrant, deny access to lawyers, and use military tribunals. Be afraid, be very afraid.
What _would_ be wrong was if I (probably as a reseller) bought a bunch of the upgrade CD's, and resold them as the full thing (at full price).
Huh? A reseller can't sell this as a full version, but you can use it as a full version? Either people can treat this as a full version or not, make up your mind.
The worrying thing here is the supression of free speech. IP issues also bring up the wider question of ownership and compensation for a commodity that can be freely copied. But the argument that if someone forgets to lock their door, you are entitled to everything in their house, is a stupid one and obscures important issues IMHO.
I went to CompUSA the morning of the 10.1 release. There were 15 - 20 others there. CompUSA got a box of 100 nicely packaged disks overnighted from Apple, and we all left with completely free upgrades.
A friend at Apple told me the Apple Store wanted to sell all upgrades, but when Steve found out, he specifically ordered free disks overnighted to stores. The Apple Store then began calling registered OS X users, saying the free copies would be scarce, and offering free overnight shipping if they bought from them. Apple is a large company, and different departments sometimes have different interests.
The only non-free software that I own are my Linux and console games... Maybe some day I will be able to dump non-free software altogether.
If you count consoles, you must also count washing machines, home security systems, and your automobile. Software has become as ubiqitous as screws. And in appliances, it is almost all non-Free.
So I think more than just creating another Free copy of a non-Free package, the ideal should be to inform people's understanding of the issue. Show managers the advantages of Free software. Encourage thought on new definitions of ownership.
IMHO feeding starving people is more important than checking email, reading /. etc...
Actually, checking mail and reading /. is how companies thrive. It's called infrastructure. When companies thrive, they hire and pay people. Who can then eat.
And reading news and participating in discussion is how strong and stable democracies and governments are built. Infrastructure is more important than food drops.
Don't forget that we - 'zilians - are a society based on paper. I work for a bunch of burocreaps and despite my futile attempts at introducing them to the wonders of sending memos to other sectors via email or our intranet BBS those f*cks preffer to print the stuff out and hand them out.
I'm in the US and it's the same story. The number of trees we kill because of useless memos is unbelievable. To the Training Department: printing memos and schedules for Word and Excel training on brightly colored paper only lets me know which mail to throw away without looking.
Isn't this the place we struck after the embassy bombings? We claimed we bombed a chem weapons plant. Turns out we destroyed their largest pharmaceuticals factory.
Great.
All people are both more intelligent, and more imaginitive than even the smartest computer.
Yes, but most people want to use their intelligence and time to do what they do (edit images, write lawsuits, cure Parkinson's disease) and not fiddle with their filesystem. Which is why when possible they hire secretaries. If people wanted to learn to program their filesystems, everybody would be using command line UNIX, grepping and piping away to hearts content.
I don't think you really get to know someone watching movies. You sit in a dark room not seeing anyone else. You watch the movie and then leave.
:)
That's why when I sense a first date may be awkward I suggest a movie. You don't have to talk much, you have fun, and hopefully you've relaxed around the other person and built trust for the next date. If I don't think a date is going to be awkward, I suggest dinner or coffee at my apartment where we can talk and kick back.
Beer is good for this too. My coworkers and I get to talk and know each other better, and the beer takes away inhibitions. Works for dates too!
I'm surprised to see so many people say that they don't hang out and drink beer after work with fellow geeks.
Every Friday me and my friends drink beer at The Church. A couple of geeks are from my company, others from other geek institutions. Before the dot.com bust, a lot of single pretty nongeek girls would hang out there too. And every month or two, Pittsburgh Geeks throw a big beer bash among other events (check out the pictures from Geek Nights past).
I also have Saturday afternoon Dreamcast sessions (that turn into Sunday morning) with geeks from my previous job, but I find I am better friends with the guys I drink with, and the gaming is more just about the games.
I also disagree that depending on your job for your social life is a bad thing. When we're in school, we depend on school for our social lives. No different when you work. It's natural you meet and share things with the people you spend the most time around.