OSX 10.0 lost quite a few obvious things. They're slowly coming back, and not losing any of OSX's advantages either. It's shaping up well I think
I don't really agree to that... the 10.3 (panther) finder is supposed to grow back towards OS9 friendlyness, but it still sux imho. That right-half bar is almost useless (you can go to all these places with the Go menu, or put stuff in your dock. Its big, takes up space and sits in my way. They should at least have assigned a keyboard shortcut to show/hide it.). The network browser is a MAJOR pain in the ass. Still doesn't connect properly. Printing got somewhat better now that they have a print icon per printer.
I don't think 10.3 will bring us closer to the feel i had with OS8. The jump they made from 6 to 7 was insanely great. From userfriendlyness point of view, they never surpassed or even approached that stepsize.
Crossing the atlantic (for example) adds a bandwidth bottleneck and increases ping times by at least 50ms (roundtrip). The whole point of caching is to avoid the former and the latter isn't peanuts either.
Do they have to cross the atlantic ? How about setting things up in Mexico, right across the border ? A few miles of fibre and you're in the USA...
Don't flame me if this isn't feasible... I'm just wondering.
a typical example of microsoft having so much money that they don't know where to spend it first... And in a bizarre result, they tend to spend it on the thoughest oponents !
Google is good and popular technology, very unlikely they can improve on it, yet they will throw millions at it just *because* it's a 'monopoly'. Very much like the XBox being the dead-end answer to the PS2.
i know from reliable source that this is not an inhouse development. It's just an arm they found in a steel-melting factory, along with a chip they haven't identified yet. And some frozen blubber.
un-fsking-believable. Someone posts opinion of java being then emacs and he gets modded into flamebait ?/. editors : please revoke this flamebait moderator of his moderation rights. IU have never used emacs NOR vi, but how can u possibly call something flamebait if one compares two projects of teh same author !
I don't think they'll kill of media player first : WMP is about content. *.wmv files are nowhere near the marketshare of *.mov or *.mpg. They want every inch of marketshare they can get to promote their DRM. Even if mac is only 3%, they'll fight for those 3% as if their lives depended on it. Messenger has the same issues, albeit not as profitable (and sooner or later, AOL & MSN will merge their formats. Mark my words.)
IE has rrived at a point where they have all the marketshare they need, so the 'embrace & extend' phase is over. Time to move in fo rthe kill
um.. my guess is that they expected it to be bundled with the OS when shipping the machine. That's probably why MS poked them in the ass with a hot stick when they decided NOT to ship XP with java.
Might I add that upgrading java on OSX is seamless via Software Update ?
As a sidenote : it would be a move of genius for Apple to extend Software Update for 3rd party soft... Make a deal with VersionTracker or sumtin...
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many medium size corporations are seriously in love with Sun, even if they wouldn't see the difference bewteen solaris and linux when someone would crunch their skull with it.
Sun still has this magical "it's a sun, so it must be expandable, performant and reliable" thing floating around it. A bit like the Microsoft "it's MS, so it must be cheap, userfriendly and er... cheap" myth.
My guess is that those myths will stand longer than Moore's law. I call it Selderrr's law:-)
well, most of those sites just copy from eachother, xcpt from thinksecret who seems to have an insider source.
I myself, like many others, know someone who knows someone that works at Apple (+ another one at IBM) who had this rumor confirmed quite a while a go. The guy from Apple only had access to a G5 prototype once, about 6 months ago, and confirmed the machine to be a total screamer, esp for video thanks to the wickedfast bus and a huge gub of ram.
The only remaining issues now are : what will they be called and when will they ACTUALLY be released (see the 17inch powerbook story)
I honestly can not imagine Weta digital producing such an animation if they were not 100% sure they were going to win. Additionally, I can't imagine them doing it overnight.
I know I have a suspicious mind, but this sure smells like MTV setting up the 'contest' and letting WETA know they'd win quite some time in advance.
What do you mean by that? Is this site done by Steve or what? Or is it a joke? I don't understand it...
No, i was joking. It's not a site done by Jobs himself, but it is a well known fact that many apple employees (supposedl including his steveness) are fan of appleturns. Especially the Polls:-)
those rumors have been floating around for a few weeks, if not months on other sites. For the wannabe-mac fanatics among yuo : here are other rumor adresses :
macrumors (reliable, good forums) macosrumors (unreliable, bloated, no forums) looprumors(reliable, low traffic forums) thinksecret(reliable, low traffic content, low traffic forums) macwhispers (reliable, mostly hardware info, no forums) macslash(slashdot for mac, mostly blahblah) macbidouille(french, rather new, so reliability unconfirmed) appleturns(100% reliable news by Steve Jobs's alter ego)
I know that the US is not really into SMS, but in europe, it's HUGE. In belgium alone, a few MILLION smss are sent every day. At 40cents/message, that's big bucks for a service that costs next to nothing.
The situation has gone so far that studies have shown teens to use their thumbs for stuff that the previous generation would have used the index finger for. Like dialing an ordinary phone, or pressing the doorbell.
The ID you enter isn't displayed on the webpage for the public to see. It is simply logged. Just like Slashdot's logs will have your IP address stored somewhere.
So you mean all korean messageboards are going to run over SSL ? Comeon, most of these boeards store IDs in cookies, unencrypted. Walk into any public room, copy cookie, done.
And besides that : since the ID is apparently something associated with paper passport, who is going to stop kids from writing down dad's passport id ? Or the librarian from writing down mine ? Unless they add a smartcard chip to every passport and plug extra hardware into every internet connected computer, such measures are ridiculous.
I don't want to spoil your fun, but 20 albums a week is not really much. After downloading iTunes, I finally decided to digitize my CD collection. 443 CDs in 6 days. I seriously can not imagine Apple not having 2 iMacs free to do the digitizing.
Okay, okay, I know they rip from mastertapes and all that fanchyscmanchy stuff, but that's no excuse for being so terribly slow. I would expect them to rip 2000 albums a week !!!!!!
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...It has 32mb of RAM, with 16mb available for use...
umpf... my iPod has 30GB. How come they can't build PDAs with a decent storage inside ?
OSX 10.0 lost quite a few obvious things. They're slowly coming back, and not losing any of OSX's advantages either. It's shaping up well I think
I don't really agree to that... the 10.3 (panther) finder is supposed to grow back towards OS9 friendlyness, but it still sux imho. That right-half bar is almost useless (you can go to all these places with the Go menu, or put stuff in your dock. Its big, takes up space and sits in my way. They should at least have assigned a keyboard shortcut to show/hide it.). The network browser is a MAJOR pain in the ass. Still doesn't connect properly. Printing got somewhat better now that they have a print icon per printer.
I don't think 10.3 will bring us closer to the feel i had with OS8. The jump they made from 6 to 7 was insanely great. From userfriendlyness point of view, they never surpassed or even approached that stepsize.
The new system is expected to halve operating costs
aaah, so they move from 32 to 64 bit then ?
(ducks for cover)
Crossing the atlantic (for example) adds a bandwidth bottleneck and increases ping times by at least 50ms (roundtrip). The whole point of caching is to avoid the former and the latter isn't peanuts either.
Do they have to cross the atlantic ? How about setting things up in Mexico, right across the border ? A few miles of fibre and you're in the USA...
Don't flame me if this isn't feasible... I'm just wondering.
if they move all their assets to India or other low-cost countries, they hit a double whammy : cheaper labour + no pattent fees.
The US pattent office is well on it's way to push every profitable tech offshore... hey, maybe I should pattent that !
a typical example of microsoft having so much money that they don't know where to spend it first... And in a bizarre result, they tend to spend it on the thoughest oponents !
Google is good and popular technology, very unlikely they can improve on it, yet they will throw millions at it just *because* it's a 'monopoly'. Very much like the XBox being the dead-end answer to the PS2.
one car suddenly brakes and all honda drivers behind it are strangled by their auto-tightening seatbelts.
4-point seatbelt wearers are castrated rather than strangled.
i know from reliable source that this is not an inhouse development. It's just an arm they found in a steel-melting factory, along with a chip they haven't identified yet. And some frozen blubber.
un-fsking-believable. Someone posts opinion of java being then emacs and he gets modded into flamebait ? /. editors : please revoke this flamebait moderator of his moderation rights. IU have never used emacs NOR vi, but how can u possibly call something flamebait if one compares two projects of teh same author !
I don't think they'll kill of media player first : WMP is about content. *.wmv files are nowhere near the marketshare of *.mov or *.mpg. They want every inch of marketshare they can get to promote their DRM. Even if mac is only 3%, they'll fight for those 3% as if their lives depended on it. Messenger has the same issues, albeit not as profitable (and sooner or later, AOL & MSN will merge their formats. Mark my words.)
IE has rrived at a point where they have all the marketshare they need, so the 'embrace & extend' phase is over. Time to move in fo rthe kill
um.. my guess is that they expected it to be bundled with the OS when shipping the machine. That's probably why MS poked them in the ass with a hot stick when they decided NOT to ship XP with java.
Might I add that upgrading java on OSX is seamless via Software Update ?
As a sidenote : it would be a move of genius for Apple to extend Software Update for 3rd party soft... Make a deal with VersionTracker or sumtin...
many medium size corporations are seriously in love with Sun, even if they wouldn't see the difference bewteen solaris and linux when someone would crunch their skull with it.
:-)
Sun still has this magical "it's a sun, so it must be expandable, performant and reliable" thing floating around it. A bit like the Microsoft "it's MS, so it must be cheap, userfriendly and er... cheap" myth.
My guess is that those myths will stand longer than Moore's law. I call it Selderrr's law
well, most of those sites just copy from eachother, xcpt from thinksecret who seems to have an insider source.
I myself, like many others, know someone who knows someone that works at Apple (+ another one at IBM) who had this rumor confirmed quite a while a go. The guy from Apple only had access to a G5 prototype once, about 6 months ago, and confirmed the machine to be a total screamer, esp for video thanks to the wickedfast bus and a huge gub of ram.
The only remaining issues now are : what will they be called and when will they ACTUALLY be released (see the 17inch powerbook story)
I honestly can not imagine Weta digital producing such an animation if they were not 100% sure they were going to win. Additionally, I can't imagine them doing it overnight.
I know I have a suspicious mind, but this sure smells like MTV setting up the 'contest' and letting WETA know they'd win quite some time in advance.
What do you mean by that? Is this site done by Steve or what? Or is it a joke? I don't understand it...
:-)
No, i was joking. It's not a site done by Jobs himself, but it is a well known fact that many apple employees (supposedl including his steveness) are fan of appleturns. Especially the Polls
those rumors have been floating around for a few weeks, if not months on other sites. For the wannabe-mac fanatics among yuo : here are other rumor adresses :
macrumors (reliable, good forums)
macosrumors (unreliable, bloated, no forums)
looprumors(reliable, low traffic forums)
thinksecret(reliable, low traffic content, low traffic forums)
macwhispers (reliable, mostly hardware info, no forums)
macslash(slashdot for mac, mostly blahblah)
macbidouille(french, rather new, so reliability unconfirmed)
appleturns(100% reliable news by Steve Jobs's alter ego)
At my organization we use it to relay around half a million messages per day
Yo Ralsky ! Loong time no see buddy !
All jokes aside, half a million messages/day isn't really that much. Does anyone know which software the spammers use ?
I know that the US is not really into SMS, but in europe, it's HUGE. In belgium alone, a few MILLION smss are sent every day. At 40cents/message, that's big bucks for a service that costs next to nothing.
The situation has gone so far that studies have shown teens to use their thumbs for stuff that the previous generation would have used the index finger for. Like dialing an ordinary phone, or pressing the doorbell.
You gotta give it to the man for taking up challenges : as if this relativity stuff isn't complicated enough, he even wrote it in german !
When will they sell me a bucket of boiling adamantium ?
ah, the good old days of marathon : their slogan was
kill your enemies
kill your friends enemies
kill your friends
The ID you enter isn't displayed on the webpage for the public to see. It is simply logged. Just like Slashdot's logs will have your IP address stored somewhere.
So you mean all korean messageboards are going to run over SSL ? Comeon, most of these boeards store IDs in cookies, unencrypted. Walk into any public room, copy cookie, done.
And besides that : since the ID is apparently something associated with paper passport, who is going to stop kids from writing down dad's passport id ? Or the librarian from writing down mine ? Unless they add a smartcard chip to every passport and plug extra hardware into every internet connected computer, such measures are ridiculous.
How are they going to verify that I don't just pick one of pre-posted IDs and us ethat one ?
It always amazes me how stupid government regulations can be. Do these guys even think for a second before pooping out such a law ?
iPodPop.com...
When will we see the iPodPopCorn.com ?
I don't want to spoil your fun, but 20 albums a week is not really much. After downloading iTunes, I finally decided to digitize my CD collection. 443 CDs in 6 days. I seriously can not imagine Apple not having 2 iMacs free to do the digitizing.
Okay, okay, I know they rip from mastertapes and all that fanchyscmanchy stuff, but that's no excuse for being so terribly slow. I would expect them to rip 2000 albums a week !!!!!!
Most of all, where's blue note ?????