Sorry to see a decent product like Palm OS succumb to a dismal effort like WINCE, but at least the customers still have a few alternatives to pick from.
Building universal isn't twice the work. Most apps don't have any intrinsic byte-order dependencies, and very few people ever wrote CPU-specific code that depended on Alitvec (for example).
Remember the Sun 386i? Nobody believed it had a future, and that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Apple hadn't committed to a switch, then a lot of developers wouldn't have bothered to build their apps for Intel, since they could just run under Rosetta.
The thing that keeps pissing me off is the nuts who claim that the towers were destroyed in a controlled demolition when 1) a building that's being imploded starts with detonations at ground level and 2), preparing a building for implosion is a major construction project. It takes weeks to strip the drywall from around the structural members, place the shaped charges, wire the detonators back to a control panel, etc, etc. Thousands of people worked in those buildings; we're supposed to swallow the notion that nobody would notice all that activity?
Rosie O'Donnell gives stupid, loud-mouthed fat chicks a bad name.
Maybe it's time Apple re-thinks their super-secret policies.
Get serious.
Shortly after I went to work there, a colleague explained to me exactly what that secrecy is worth in monetary terms. Apple got the iMac G4 on the cover of Time magazine. You can't buy Time's cover as an ad placement, but if you could it would probably be worth a tens of millions of dollars.
Well, I've got to say I'm surprised, but very pleased at this development. Good job, whoever convinced the management at Comcast to abandon a Microsoft product in a mission-critical application.
My understanding is that IBM has more patents than any other company, whats the chances of them telling Microsoft to back off or face a nasty patent war?
If MSFT gets into a patent war with IBM, they will lose, and it will be remembered as Ballmer's greatest fuck-up of all time: even worst than the Longhorn debacle. IBM's patent portfolio is sufficient to completely drain MSFT's entire operating profit, if they charged all the royalties that they're legally entitled to.
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Do you want the next authored epic poem to be written in SMS-speak?
That's not for me or for you to decide. An author's free to write whatever they want, and your approval is not required.
-jcr
Sorry to see a decent product like Palm OS succumb to a dismal effort like WINCE, but at least the customers still have a few alternatives to pick from.
-jcr
Those errors almost made me feel nauseous.
Psychopharmacology is making great strides. Maybe they have a pill to cure you of the anxiety you feel when people don't obey your demands.
-jcr
I think the Macromedia developers themselves would tell you that their work wasn't typical.
-jcr
why you should work twice more
Building universal isn't twice the work. Most apps don't have any intrinsic byte-order dependencies, and very few people ever wrote CPU-specific code that depended on Alitvec (for example).
-jcr
At the time that ad was made, it was accurate. The PPCs were beating the pentiums quite easily.
They lie in your face,
Nope.
-jcr
How much software is "optimized" for a specific architecture, beyond what the compiler does?
Very little of it, outside of the libraries that Apple provides.
-jcr
But Apple didn't have to switch
Remember the Sun 386i? Nobody believed it had a future, and that was a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Apple hadn't committed to a switch, then a lot of developers wouldn't have bothered to build their apps for Intel, since they could just run under Rosetta.
-jcr
Nope.
If Apple had been waiting until now for a 64-bit chip they could put into a portable, they'd be in Very Big Trouble.
The PPC has a lot going for it, but Apple made the right choice.
-jcr
What effect does a boycott from people who don't want to pay for anything have?
-jcr
Ninjas are too busy to waste time on ships.
-jcr
Admiralty law, established by treaties that just about every country with a coastline are parties to.
-jcr
You're leaving out the effect of the aircraft impact knocking out the windows and blowing the insulation off the steel.
-jcr
Billions of dollars in revenue growth is trivial? Wow, you must be really rich or something.
-jcr
The thing that keeps pissing me off is the nuts who claim that the towers were destroyed in a controlled demolition when 1) a building that's being imploded starts with detonations at ground level and 2), preparing a building for implosion is a major construction project. It takes weeks to strip the drywall from around the structural members, place the shaped charges, wire the detonators back to a control panel, etc, etc. Thousands of people worked in those buildings; we're supposed to swallow the notion that nobody would notice all that activity?
Rosie O'Donnell gives stupid, loud-mouthed fat chicks a bad name.
-jcr
Although, even with that much "paid advertising" it still didn't help them garner any market share.
What's your next guess?
It wasn't until they started to move to Intel that they picked up any gains.
Apple's market share has been rising for the last four years, and the Intel transition only started two years ago.
-jcr
I doubt there will be much Apple can do to them
That's the SEC's job, not Apple's.
-jcr
Maybe it's time Apple re-thinks their super-secret policies.
Get serious.
Shortly after I went to work there, a colleague explained to me exactly what that secrecy is worth in monetary terms. Apple got the iMac G4 on the cover of Time magazine. You can't buy Time's cover as an ad placement, but if you could it would probably be worth a tens of millions of dollars.
-jcr
That's the most likely scenario. There's an awful lot of $105 options hanging out there that expire in two days.
-jcr
That simply hasn't been true since 2000, and you are flat out lying.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if vehement denial was all it took to fix bugs?
Now that I've utterly and completely owned you,
In your dreams, monkey-boy.
-jcr
Mission crticial? It's a set-top box for christ sake.
What would you consider mission-critical for a cable TV company?
-jcr
BSODs are virtually obsolete on Microsoft products.
Not sure what you mean when you call them "obsolete", but they still keep happening, Mr. Ballmer.
-jcr
Well, I've got to say I'm surprised, but very pleased at this development. Good job, whoever convinced the management at Comcast to abandon a Microsoft product in a mission-critical application.
-jcr
My understanding is that IBM has more patents than any other company, whats the chances of them telling Microsoft to back off or face a nasty patent war?
If MSFT gets into a patent war with IBM, they will lose, and it will be remembered as Ballmer's greatest fuck-up of all time: even worst than the Longhorn debacle. IBM's patent portfolio is sufficient to completely drain MSFT's entire operating profit, if they charged all the royalties that they're legally entitled to.
-jcr
They don't have a big pedophile problem
Do a bit more research.
-jcr