The internals of NT meant that a proper hot-pluggable USB driver was always going to be impossible. Things like NT's inflexibility is one of the reasons it is good to see it go. I have had a good time with NT. I control over 2000 computers and there hasn't been a recorded BSOD when it hasn't been due to faulty harware in 2 years. But, hey, onwards and upwards...
Why? Simply because in organisations, on the desktop there gets to be a natural limit about how much support you can give. I have personally seen it in a number of large companies, Universities and the like, Linux is becoming "the alternative", as in "We support Windows and the alternative". Especially in Universities, I expect to see the rot of Apple continue and anything that happened today (apart from Panther's supposed better integration with Active Directory) wont change that
Proof Apple is still not enterprise ready...
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Jaguar is Over
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Its insanity to kill off an OS after 1 year. How on earth are you meant to develop the system, deploy and support these OSes if they are forcing upgrades all the time. The only place these have is in home machines where they don't have these enterprise considerations. If Microsoft did this sort of thing, they'd be rightly roasted on here...
Don't be daft. If anything, the Pentium 3.2GHz getting out in the open is the biggest thing that will happen today. Of course, the media (especially BBC News - just you watch) will catapult Apple releasing some new hardware are another single-year-supported OS to being major news, despite it affecting only a few percent marks of the IT world.
Linus is more the excpetion than the rule in open source. Look at the likes of RMS and Bruce Perens - ego maniacs desperate to keep their role at the head of their little cliques with more concentration on the politics of it all than the code. Linus at least doesn't care about the politics and only cares about the quality of the code, whilst keeping great humility about it.
> she poured in the LN2 which filled the bowl with dense fog that poured out, over the counter, and down around our ankles, spreading out across the floor...
Easy there, its starting to sound like an erotic story....
they all suffer from missing out a certain bit of information - the expected price. Yes, the 1.8 may well be up there with the high Pentium IVs, but at the moment you can get a very high spec PIV with probably more power than most people need for little over £500. If Apple release this with a price tag where you get little change from £2500, it doesn't matter that much what sort of spec of machine it can match up to...
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If you read all of Cringley's articles, you'll soon realise that no, Cringley is not onto anything EVER.
Indeed. Inbetween dissecting aliens and space craft Microsoft seized from a crash at Roswell, testing special chemical on Gulf War veterans, aligning the Bermuda triangle, carving faces on mountains on Mars and inventing dogs that shoot bees from their mouths, Bill Gates is also covertly helping out SCO.
Easy. Stop making it a big deal. What you are meant to be providing is a solution that suits your company's IT needs. You are not the company Open Source advocater, shouting blue murder every time someone implements a system which isn't open source.
Use clear cut facts. Show the TCO, show the support channels, show the migration cost and schedules, provide a backup plan if things go pear-shaped, etc. Basically, the FACTS. And while you are at it, keep your own mind open. Y'know, often, closed source solutions are far superior than open source solutions. Don't be afraid to keep an open mind and have the openness to choose a proprietry solution if that is the best way forward.
And if you manage to keep an open mind, you'll be superior to the vast majority of open source advocates...
So you sit at your Apple (tm) Computer, load up your Apple (tm) OS, load the Apple (tm) iTunes(tm) software, click on the button which goes to the Apple (tm) iTunes (tm) Music Stores, buy some DRM-ed music and then save it on your MP3 player, which can only be an Apple (tm) iPod (tm).
I believe this belongs to British Telecom, who had a software label called Firebird many many many moons back (the only software I significantly remember being released by them was Elite on the post-Acorn 8-bit comptuers such as the ZX Spectrum and C-64). Obviously, that is dating back to mid-80s so I doubt they still have any claim to the Trademark, but still...
Where'd they find this amazing scoop? Possibly because there is an entire featurette about the realtime generation of CGI in the DVD release of Attack of the Clones? Out circa November 2002...
Yep, see that news story?
"NASA were proud to announce the finding of 18 more satellites around Jupiter. They said, It is thought that 3 of these, w00t, l33t and h4x0r, may be capable of sustaining life.
Soon after the announcement, analysts were sceptical that whilst these planets may contain life, they would not be socialable creature who use a similar form of communication to humans"
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Jeez, can't you guys just go back to your alien autopsy videos and photos of pixies in gardens?
so, did they have the reporter attributing direct quotes from Jesus that "I'm gonna kick Google's ass!"?
The internals of NT meant that a proper hot-pluggable USB driver was always going to be impossible. Things like NT's inflexibility is one of the reasons it is good to see it go. I have had a good time with NT. I control over 2000 computers and there hasn't been a recorded BSOD when it hasn't been due to faulty harware in 2 years. But, hey, onwards and upwards...
Why? Simply because in organisations, on the desktop there gets to be a natural limit about how much support you can give. I have personally seen it in a number of large companies, Universities and the like, Linux is becoming "the alternative", as in "We support Windows and the alternative". Especially in Universities, I expect to see the rot of Apple continue and anything that happened today (apart from Panther's supposed better integration with Active Directory) wont change that
Its insanity to kill off an OS after 1 year. How on earth are you meant to develop the system, deploy and support these OSes if they are forcing upgrades all the time. The only place these have is in home machines where they don't have these enterprise considerations. If Microsoft did this sort of thing, they'd be rightly roasted on here...
Don't be daft. If anything, the Pentium 3.2GHz getting out in the open is the biggest thing that will happen today. Of course, the media (especially BBC News - just you watch) will catapult Apple releasing some new hardware are another single-year-supported OS to being major news, despite it affecting only a few percent marks of the IT world.
Linus is more the excpetion than the rule in open source. Look at the likes of RMS and Bruce Perens - ego maniacs desperate to keep their role at the head of their little cliques with more concentration on the politics of it all than the code. Linus at least doesn't care about the politics and only cares about the quality of the code, whilst keeping great humility about it.
> she poured in the LN2 which filled the bowl with dense fog that poured out, over the counter, and down around our ankles, spreading out across the floor...
Easy there, its starting to sound like an erotic story....
Steve Bullmer is reading that post, shaking his head and muttering, "I told em. Viral". And then throwing another 50 dollar note onto the fire.
they all suffer from missing out a certain bit of information - the expected price. Yes, the 1.8 may well be up there with the high Pentium IVs, but at the moment you can get a very high spec PIV with probably more power than most people need for little over £500. If Apple release this with a price tag where you get little change from £2500, it doesn't matter that much what sort of spec of machine it can match up to...
If you read all of Cringley's articles, you'll soon realise that no, Cringley is not onto anything EVER.
We've explored less than 2% of the ocean floor on this planet so far. Why go to the moon or mars when there is all that to explore first?
Or we could shrink ourselves and explore other people's inner ears!
So you didn't use OS X prior to version 10.1.5?
Indeed. Inbetween dissecting aliens and space craft Microsoft seized from a crash at Roswell, testing special chemical on Gulf War veterans, aligning the Bermuda triangle, carving faces on mountains on Mars and inventing dogs that shoot bees from their mouths, Bill Gates is also covertly helping out SCO.
erm, if that happened in the industry, Apple wouldn't have any features to stick into Panther.
Easy. Stop making it a big deal. What you are meant to be providing is a solution that suits your company's IT needs. You are not the company Open Source advocater, shouting blue murder every time someone implements a system which isn't open source.
Use clear cut facts. Show the TCO, show the support channels, show the migration cost and schedules, provide a backup plan if things go pear-shaped, etc. Basically, the FACTS. And while you are at it, keep your own mind open. Y'know, often, closed source solutions are far superior than open source solutions. Don't be afraid to keep an open mind and have the openness to choose a proprietry solution if that is the best way forward.
And if you manage to keep an open mind, you'll be superior to the vast majority of open source advocates...
And Apple want to give you choice? What about the choice of MP3 players that Apple allow you to upload your Apple-bought music to?
So you sit at your Apple (tm) Computer, load up your Apple (tm) OS, load the Apple (tm) iTunes(tm) software, click on the button which goes to the Apple (tm) iTunes (tm) Music Stores, buy some DRM-ed music and then save it on your MP3 player, which can only be an Apple (tm) iPod (tm).
And everyone on slashdot applauds...
is the same sized, single buttoned mouse but with a little jogdial on it, which is:
a) too small for verticle manipulation, and
b) an RSI magnet when used in the unnatural horizontal way.
I'm looking forward to it!
So, if Windows Server 2003 is just a not-very-radical update to Windows 2000, does that make Linux 2003 a not-very-radical update to Unix 1970?
I believe this belongs to British Telecom, who had a software label called Firebird many many many moons back (the only software I significantly remember being released by them was Elite on the post-Acorn 8-bit comptuers such as the ZX Spectrum and C-64). Obviously, that is dating back to mid-80s so I doubt they still have any claim to the Trademark, but still...
Where'd they find this amazing scoop? Possibly because there is an entire featurette about the realtime generation of CGI in the DVD release of Attack of the Clones? Out circa November 2002...
and your argument, whilst inherently flawed, is why Steve Ballmer is justified in questioning GPL's virus-like licensing...
Yep, see that news story? "NASA were proud to announce the finding of 18 more satellites around Jupiter. They said, It is thought that 3 of these, w00t, l33t and h4x0r, may be capable of sustaining life. Soon after the announcement, analysts were sceptical that whilst these planets may contain life, they would not be socialable creature who use a similar form of communication to humans"
Every person called Lance needs to be punched extremely hard in the face.