The Macintosh Way for virtual desktops is hiding. Apple-H hides an app and the Option and Command keys give you additional ways to hide and un-hide apps. Within an app, you minimize windows.
I first heard about Firewire in 1994 IIRC. Apple had it for a while in their Advanced Technology Group, but it took Jobs to figure out what to do with it. In general, Apple's Advanced Technology Group and Advanced Computation Group kick serious ass.
I heard that they want to implement the protocol over wireless, and the engineers were geeked that they could call it Wireless FireWire (super cool, IMHO). Marketing got wind of it, was horrified by the "wireless" and "wire" in the name, and came up with Gigawire (Giga works for them because it's Gigahertz wireless).
Then again, the Apple world is full of crazy rumours!
But a collection of white male engineers would be so boring! You could pay for the trip and get people interested in space travel if you structured the mission around a Temptation Island TV show. The best you could hope for from white male engineers would be passive-aggressive back-stabbing and we are all sick and tired of that at work, but two slutty chicks, the clicks-and-grunts guy, an Italian minister and a preist--I'd pay to watch that!
how do you expand your market share? Easy. You get more people on your distro than other distros
Unfortunately, this happened in the Macintosh clone market circa 1996. It was easier for Power Computing et al to canabalize Apple's market than go out and get new customers. But canabalization thins the herd, so expect a loss of distros.
This may be necassary consolidation or short-sighted business practices, time will tell.
Apple was going to release a version of Cocoa for Windows called Yellowbox that would be free. That way developers could write Cocoa apps and be assured of a large target market by bundling Yellowbox for Windows customers. When the iMac started selling gangbusters, Apple quietly killed Yellowbox for marketing purposes.
Jobs was also obsessed with building hardware. And this proved to be the company's downfall.' Ironic, because this has been Apple's salvation...
Or you can argue that if Apple had only made the OS from the begining and never made hardware, they would be ones in the enviable position of being pretend-pursued by the Justice Department.
This is a big myth that it is going to be bad for the United States (or whatever other country is dominant) if countries that are currently mired in all kinds of third world problems manage to pull themselves out of that mire and join the "first world."
I did not mean to imply that.
If India becomes an economic powerhouse it will be good for everyone in the world, including the United States.
I completely agree with this.
What I was saying: America will not be the only country in the world with competent programmers, excellent R&D, and a powerful millitary; get used to it.
While you bemoan the growing dominance of foreign programmers, note that foreigners bemoan the dominance of American IT. "All these American computers when we could build our own, slap restrictions on their import!" America makes a lot of money exporting IT products abroad.
So if we make money selling products and services abroad, is it so terrible that other countries do the same? That's the way the global free market works. If we try to restrict foreign programmers, you can be sure they will slap tarrifs back on our products.
In general, I find most people have a very naive idea of the way things work: they assume America is God's Country (TM) and so we will always make tons of money and all the other nations will always be reduced to begging for scraps. The reality is that the rise of America coincided with a very strange period for others: colonization and WWII. As countries have rebuilt after the devastation of colonization and WWII, expect more competition for America and a more even distribution of capabilities and wealth.
SPARC, Alpha, PA-RISC and MIPS are hardly desktop chips. They don't really compete directly with chips in desktop boxes. IBM divisions really do compete with each other on/everything/, and are pretty antonomous.
IBM is less a single company than a banner under which a whole group of companies operates. Each division has a different culture and different goals. They sometimes even compete with each other.
IBM is the only company that would make a microprocessor (the PowerPC) and then build desktops using the rival's processors (Intel). This is why it sometimes seems they support Linux, and sometimes not. Sun would be just another division in the mix.
Not that I like the idea of a buyout. Diversity is good. And Sun standing alone is more independent and more likely to act differently.
There would be no advantage whatsoever for Apple in a merger with IBM or anyone else, and it would likely be counterproductive. Apple's culture is too different from the rest of the industry. And IBM has not been successful with hardware on the desktop, nor are they very interested in it.
I understand your desire for competition to Microsoft, but another monopoly is not the answer. It is important that there are smaller companies like Apple that try different things. Computing should not be reduced to a two-party system between AIX and Windows.
AMD (NYSE- AMD) today announced the introduction of the Alchemy(TM) Au1100(TM) processor, targeting the non-PC mobile internet appliance market, such as web pads, telematics, and PDAs.
What in god's name is a telematic, and do I want one?
Interesting. OS X minimal workload at 600 MHz I get around 5 hours. Using it hard (constant mp3 decoding, drive and cd usage) I get around 3.5 hrs (fav coffee shop just got Airport so will report back on that).
I have 5 mouse buttons on my iBook. They are even named. Mouse button, Control, Option, Command, and Shift.
I'm also curious as to how Linux apps run on OSX since I'm considering a new computer purchase.
Standard Linux binaries will not run on OS X, because Linux binaries assume x86, X and some WM. However, OS X really is a Unix, so installing X, hacking and a compile should work./. types are already doing this and OS X binaries are starting to appear.
However, you may find you don't want to run standard Linux apps after your OS X purchase. Very nice commercial apps already exist for OS X, and the shareware community is mature and strong. And some of the best Unix apps have already been ported to use Apple APIs.
I really can't say that PPC is so mega-cool, but walking around with an Apple laptop (very rare)
You must not go to the same coffee shops I do. At the ones I hang out, you'd think the 90% marketshare belonged to Apple. I guess wintel users don't find their 1 hour battery life too useful.
And that is one of the (many) mega-cool PPC things--massive battery life. Don't know what kind of power management the Linux distros have, though.
Can't his parents co-sign or something? I can't believe Apple Legal can't come up with something. They are not showing much concern for someone remarkable who has contributed so positively.
If the Soviets could make robot frieghters dock with Mir, why can't someone make a robot tug just large enough to fly to high orbit satellites like this, and tow them down to where the shuttle can retrieve them?
We don't want to make robot frieghters because robot heros aren't as sexy as human heros. If we send a cool, new design shuttle up and have humans floating around, we can make a movie out of it. OTOH, who the hell made a movie about the Soviet frieghters? So I say ffft to your frieghters!
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The Macintosh Way for virtual desktops is hiding. Apple-H hides an app and the Option and Command keys give you additional ways to hide and un-hide apps. Within an app, you minimize windows.
More info from OS X Hints.
Intelligent? This is /. my friend. Check your brains in at the door.
Now /this/ is a troll. But it will probably get modded up at insightful. Or funny.
*Sigh*
I really was interested to know where the respective Machs stand and what OSS/joint dev is going on.
I first heard about Firewire in 1994 IIRC. Apple had it for a while in their Advanced Technology Group, but it took Jobs to figure out what to do with it. In general, Apple's Advanced Technology Group and Advanced Computation Group kick serious ass.
I heard that they want to implement the protocol over wireless, and the engineers were geeked that they could call it Wireless FireWire (super cool, IMHO). Marketing got wind of it, was horrified by the "wireless" and "wire" in the name, and came up with Gigawire (Giga works for them because it's Gigahertz wireless).
Then again, the Apple world is full of crazy rumours!
How does this compare to the Darwin Mach kernel?
from the and-i-say-that-the-middle-east-is-a-great-vacation -spot-this-year dept.
You are thinking of South Asia. Just remember to take lots of sunscreen. Oh, say, SPF 1,000,000,000.
The Xserve has a DDR bus.
The G4 will remain at 133 or 166 MHz because all effort is going into the G5's pipe.
But a collection of white male engineers would be so boring! You could pay for the trip and get people interested in space travel if you structured the mission around a Temptation Island TV show. The best you could hope for from white male engineers would be passive-aggressive back-stabbing and we are all sick and tired of that at work, but two slutty chicks, the clicks-and-grunts guy, an Italian minister and a preist--I'd pay to watch that!
how do you expand your market share? Easy. You get more people on your distro than other distros
Unfortunately, this happened in the Macintosh clone market circa 1996. It was easier for Power Computing et al to canabalize Apple's market than go out and get new customers. But canabalization thins the herd, so expect a loss of distros.
This may be necassary consolidation or short-sighted business practices, time will tell.
Apple was going to release a version of Cocoa for Windows called Yellowbox that would be free. That way developers could write Cocoa apps and be assured of a large target market by bundling Yellowbox for Windows customers. When the iMac started selling gangbusters, Apple quietly killed Yellowbox for marketing purposes.
Jobs was also obsessed with building hardware. And this proved to be the company's downfall.' Ironic, because this has been Apple's salvation...
Or you can argue that if Apple had only made the OS from the begining and never made hardware, they would be ones in the enviable position of being pretend-pursued by the Justice Department.
Do they remember that they are in the penalty phase of an antitrust trial?
More importantly, they remember who is in the White House. Don't worry, they know exactly what they are doing.
This is a big myth that it is going to be bad for the United States (or whatever other country is dominant) if countries that are currently mired in all kinds of third world problems manage to pull themselves out of that mire and join the "first world."
I did not mean to imply that.
If India becomes an economic powerhouse it will be good for everyone in the world, including the United States.
I completely agree with this.
What I was saying: America will not be the only country in the world with competent programmers, excellent R&D, and a powerful millitary; get used to it.
While you bemoan the growing dominance of foreign programmers, note that foreigners bemoan the dominance of American IT. "All these American computers when we could build our own, slap restrictions on their import!" America makes a lot of money exporting IT products abroad.
So if we make money selling products and services abroad, is it so terrible that other countries do the same? That's the way the global free market works. If we try to restrict foreign programmers, you can be sure they will slap tarrifs back on our products.
In general, I find most people have a very naive idea of the way things work: they assume America is God's Country (TM) and so we will always make tons of money and all the other nations will always be reduced to begging for scraps. The reality is that the rise of America coincided with a very strange period for others: colonization and WWII. As countries have rebuilt after the devastation of colonization and WWII, expect more competition for America and a more even distribution of capabilities and wealth.
*Bully from Simpsons voice* HA-ha!
In their more probable strategy, it is simply bad management making a poor investment outside of their core competencies.
I think you are giving them more credit than is due. I don't think Gateway even has a core competency.
SPARC, Alpha, PA-RISC and MIPS are hardly desktop chips. They don't really compete directly with chips in desktop boxes. IBM divisions really do compete with each other on /everything/, and are pretty antonomous.
IBM is less a single company than a banner under which a whole group of companies operates. Each division has a different culture and different goals. They sometimes even compete with each other.
IBM is the only company that would make a microprocessor (the PowerPC) and then build desktops using the rival's processors (Intel). This is why it sometimes seems they support Linux, and sometimes not. Sun would be just another division in the mix.
Not that I like the idea of a buyout. Diversity is good. And Sun standing alone is more independent and more likely to act differently.
There would be no advantage whatsoever for Apple in a merger with IBM or anyone else, and it would likely be counterproductive. Apple's culture is too different from the rest of the industry. And IBM has not been successful with hardware on the desktop, nor are they very interested in it.
I understand your desire for competition to Microsoft, but another monopoly is not the answer. It is important that there are smaller companies like Apple that try different things. Computing should not be reduced to a two-party system between AIX and Windows.
AMD (NYSE- AMD) today announced the introduction of the Alchemy(TM) Au1100(TM) processor, targeting the non-PC mobile internet appliance market, such as web pads, telematics, and PDAs.
What in god's name is a telematic, and do I want one?
Interesting. OS X minimal workload at 600 MHz I get around 5 hours. Using it hard (constant mp3 decoding, drive and cd usage) I get around 3.5 hrs (fav coffee shop just got Airport so will report back on that).
I have 5 mouse buttons on my iBook. They are even named. Mouse button, Control, Option, Command, and Shift.
I'm also curious as to how Linux apps run on OSX since I'm considering a new computer purchase.
Standard Linux binaries will not run on OS X, because Linux binaries assume x86, X and some WM. However, OS X really is a Unix, so installing X, hacking and a compile should work. /. types are already doing this and OS X binaries are starting to appear.
However, you may find you don't want to run standard Linux apps after your OS X purchase. Very nice commercial apps already exist for OS X, and the shareware community is mature and strong. And some of the best Unix apps have already been ported to use Apple APIs.
I really can't say that PPC is so mega-cool, but walking around with an Apple laptop (very rare)
You must not go to the same coffee shops I do. At the ones I hang out, you'd think the 90% marketshare belonged to Apple. I guess wintel users don't find their 1 hour battery life too useful.
And that is one of the (many) mega-cool PPC things--massive battery life. Don't know what kind of power management the Linux distros have, though.
Can't his parents co-sign or something? I can't believe Apple Legal can't come up with something. They are not showing much concern for someone remarkable who has contributed so positively.
If the Soviets could make robot frieghters dock with Mir, why can't someone make a robot tug just large enough to fly to high orbit satellites like this, and tow them down to where the shuttle can retrieve them?
We don't want to make robot frieghters because robot heros aren't as sexy as human heros. If we send a cool, new design shuttle up and have humans floating around, we can make a movie out of it. OTOH, who the hell made a movie about the Soviet frieghters? So I say ffft to your frieghters!