Okay, I'm not sure why you'd be wanting to put the computer to sleep after you've selected restart or shut down. So are you now expecting the behavior to be when you wake the computer up, it'll continue with the two minute countdown to restart/shut down? Jus' wonderin'.......
Well, that's kinda ture, but with Apple's DRM on tthe songs purchased from iTunes, you can at least play them on both Windows and on the MacOS. And with not too much effort, you can play those songs on Linux.
With TiVo's DRM or whatever, you're still limited to playing them on only Windows.
Tiger's got a lot of nice new features. However, the one thing I'm looking for is being able to compose emails in HTML in the Mail.app. When making nice text formatting and what not, it's only best viewed by another user using Mail.appl. Seems to get screwed up in other email clients.
Sure I could use Thunderbird or something, but I like Mail.app's interface and junk mail filtering. Oh well, maybe it's in Tiger, but not just mentioned in all the previews I've been reading.
Yeah, I can see that. Being limited to CLI eliminates the chance of getting distracted with porn.:-D Well, there is asciiporn, but if that does it for you, then you have other things to worry about.
Thought there were going to be some big plans for a digital hub. Seems that a unit capable of displaying digital pictures (iPhoto), digital tunes (Tunes), digital movies (DVD player, Quicktime), and digital TV shows (through their own means or if they acquired TiVo) would be at the top of the digital hubs. I thought the Mac Mini would've been a great digital hub item, but it's missing a digital audio out.
That is true, however, the Apple laptop still only come with one mouse(trackpad) button. Yes, one could connect a multibutton mouse to it, but that makes it just one more thing to carry around.
The new iMac design is pretty similar to the "spy shots" that popped up on the net a few days back (which itself turned out to be a hoax). I wonder if the person who took those picturew knew how close he actually was......
Averatec came out with a reasonably priced tablet PC. I've seen it at Costco for roughly $1,299. I think there are rumors about Dell releasing a sub $1,000 tablet PC.
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
Then thing in the Apple universe, if you want to buy a computer that can run the Mac OS, you have to buy it from Apple. They can release whatever type of computers they want, for any price they want, and that's what we have to live with if we want to run the Mac OS.
Would allowing clones out there for the rest of the Mac community have helped? Maybe in the long run. The more computers out there built for the Mac OS, the more PowerPC chips being made, the more money for Mot (now IBM), more incentive to invest in chip design and research, and so forth.
I think what we found out when Apple did allow clones was that people who wanted to run the Mac didn't have to have the coolest looking machines with the liquid cooling, flip open doors (okay neither of those existed back then, but...). They just wanted something that was affordable. That's something the clone makers could do. Make something for cheaper and, in the case of Power Computing, cheaper. Apple couldn't keep up and they started to lose market share to the Mac clones (heck, I bought several clones during that time period). Heh, instead of competing with them, they shut down the cloning business.
Oh well, who knows how things would've turned out. I say instead of pushing for licensing and clones, push to have the latest games released simultaneously for Mac and Windows. Most of the people I know buy Windows so they can play games when they're hot. They could care less which platform they do email, web browsing, word processing on. They just want to make sure they can play all the games out there.
Yeah, I can kinda see that. It's like the "if you take enough shots on the goal, one of them will eventually go in" theory. Only in this case it would be a bad thing.
Having 1 gig of space is a lot to fill up for us regalar joes. As hard as that would be for me to fill up, I have heard that Google employees have 1 terrabyte of space. Imagine all the email that would add up to!
Coming back to this comment. This reminds me of the line from the movie White Men Can't Jump where Billy was telling Sidney, "You rather look good and lose than look bad and win." Kinda fits in here....
I'm not sure if you can say no one agrees with SCO. I believe there were a few small time payouts from some companies to SCO. However, it should be safe to say none of the "big players" agrees with SCO.
Hmmmm, I guess you could say no one wants to agree with SCO other than SCO.
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Okay, I'm not sure why you'd be wanting to put the computer to sleep after you've selected restart or shut down. So are you now expecting the behavior to be when you wake the computer up, it'll continue with the two minute countdown to restart/shut down? Jus' wonderin'.......
Well, that's kinda ture, but with Apple's DRM on tthe songs purchased from iTunes, you can at least play them on both Windows and on the MacOS. And with not too much effort, you can play those songs on Linux.
With TiVo's DRM or whatever, you're still limited to playing them on only Windows.
Because a G5 powerbook is "the mother of all thermal challenges" (direct quote from Apple).
:-D
Yeah, I can see it now. The new G5 Powerbook -- with built in skillet!
Woohoo!
Tiger's got a lot of nice new features. However, the one thing I'm looking for is being able to compose emails in HTML in the Mail.app. When making nice text formatting and what not, it's only best viewed by another user using Mail.appl. Seems to get screwed up in other email clients.
Sure I could use Thunderbird or something, but I like Mail.app's interface and junk mail filtering. Oh well, maybe it's in Tiger, but not just mentioned in all the previews I've been reading.
Yeah, I can see that. Being limited to CLI eliminates the chance of getting distracted with porn. :-D Well, there is asciiporn, but if that does it for you, then you have other things to worry about.
Thought there were going to be some big plans for a digital hub. Seems that a unit capable of displaying digital pictures (iPhoto), digital tunes (Tunes), digital movies (DVD player, Quicktime), and digital TV shows (through their own means or if they acquired TiVo) would be at the top of the digital hubs. I thought the Mac Mini would've been a great digital hub item, but it's missing a digital audio out.
You know how it is, two negatives makes a positive. Using that, it comes to two "dying" companies makes one thriving company.
That is, until they come out with the iPod video. Heh, then we may see posts quoting "No wireless. Smaller than a Dell VJ. Lame."
That is true, however, the Apple laptop still only come with one mouse(trackpad) button. Yes, one could connect a multibutton mouse to it, but that makes it just one more thing to carry around.
I think the poster may be referring to one of Sony's Symnbian based PDA phones.
Hmmmm, yeah, I think I've heard that it's his kids in the iMovie demos or something.....
The new iMac design is pretty similar to the "spy shots" that popped up on the net a few days back (which itself turned out to be a hoax). I wonder if the person who took those picturew knew how close he actually was......
Now they just need to start working on Mr. Fusion....
Averatec came out with a reasonably priced tablet PC. I've seen it at Costco for roughly $1,299. I think there are rumors about Dell releasing a sub $1,000 tablet PC.
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
Then thing in the Apple universe, if you want to buy a computer that can run the Mac OS, you have to buy it from Apple. They can release whatever type of computers they want, for any price they want, and that's what we have to live with if we want to run the Mac OS.
Would allowing clones out there for the rest of the Mac community have helped? Maybe in the long run. The more computers out there built for the Mac OS, the more PowerPC chips being made, the more money for Mot (now IBM), more incentive to invest in chip design and research, and so forth.
I think what we found out when Apple did allow clones was that people who wanted to run the Mac didn't have to have the coolest looking machines with the liquid cooling, flip open doors (okay neither of those existed back then, but...). They just wanted something that was affordable. That's something the clone makers could do. Make something for cheaper and, in the case of Power Computing, cheaper. Apple couldn't keep up and they started to lose market share to the Mac clones (heck, I bought several clones during that time period). Heh, instead of competing with them, they shut down the cloning business.
Oh well, who knows how things would've turned out. I say instead of pushing for licensing and clones, push to have the latest games released simultaneously for Mac and Windows. Most of the people I know buy Windows so they can play games when they're hot. They could care less which platform they do email, web browsing, word processing on. They just want to make sure they can play all the games out there.
It would've been funny if you had to register with your email address to take this test.
I wonder if TiVo will allow a transfer of the lifetime service for people who upgrade.
....to see them make one for the iPod.
You sure it's not the new low carb ones being offered by McDonalds?
Yeah, I can kinda see that. It's like the "if you take enough shots on the goal, one of them will eventually go in" theory. Only in this case it would be a bad thing.
Having 1 gig of space is a lot to fill up for us regalar joes. As hard as that would be for me to fill up, I have heard that Google employees have 1 terrabyte of space. Imagine all the email that would add up to!
So I guess there'll be a first post of "First post!" and a first post of "Can I ssh into my server with this?"
Coming back to this comment. This reminds me of the line from the movie White Men Can't Jump where Billy was telling Sidney, "You rather look good and lose than look bad and win." Kinda fits in here....
I'm not sure if you can say no one agrees with SCO. I believe there were a few small time payouts from some companies to SCO. However, it should be safe to say none of the "big players" agrees with SCO.
Hmmmm, I guess you could say no one wants to agree with SCO other than SCO.