I guarentee the average person in Illinois won't ever know about this. Of those who DO know about it, the vast majority will blame the "activist" judge.
How old was the child? If it was 12 years, then maybe breastfeeding could be a legitimate case of child abuse. If it was 12 weeks, then perhaps the case has less merit.
I don't even both comparing the price of a Mac to any other computer. I want a Mac and I don't bother looking at anything else. I honestly don't know what a PC costs because I have no use for a Windows PC.
How do they not help game developers? I just got back from WWDC, there were sessions on game development. What do "game developers" want that they aren't getting?
Of course he doesn't know any BMW drivers. He is a cheap bastard (which is why he hates the Mac - he can't afford one) and every one else he knows lives in the same hole in the ground trailer park. They sit around, get stoned, work at some fast food job, and complain on Slashdot about Apple being too expensive using their thrift shop reject PCs.
Right. I've bought thousands of dollars worth of Macs over the years. In the same amount of time I have spent exactly zero dollars and zero cents on Dell equipment. Therefore, Dell is cheaper.
I'm so sick of people bringing up Xerox Alto to zing Apple. You have never used a Xerox Alto - and you never will and you never would have even HEARD of the damn thing if Apple hadn't come out of the GUI. First, the interface on the Alto was very primite compared to the Mac. Second, Xerox would never have allowed the Alto - or anything else from PARC such as Ethernet or Smalltalk - to see the light of day left to their own devices. Third, many of the people who worked on the Alto came over to Apple to work on the Lisa and/or Mac. Fourth, many of the ideas that the Alto was based on came from Jef Raskin's PhD. dissertation (Jef Raskin started the Mac project at Apple). Fifth, Apple PAID Xerox 80 million dollars to use ideas from the Alto.
The fact is that there were people shopping some good ideas around Silicon valley at that time. Apple was the only company at the time with the guts to bring these radical ideas to market. Not Microsoft. Not Xerox. Not IBM. Not Digital Research (they made CPM and were a big deal at the time).
I, for one, didn't see too many features in Leopard that made me want to plunk down $70 for it.
There are a lot of features they are showing the developers (I'm at the conference) that make ME, for one, want to use some of the new APIs. This will in turn require that you have Leopard to run my software. Multiply by 4000 other developers here.
Microsoft literally stole Apple's source code for Quicktime and stuck it into their own products. They got away with it by threatening to cancel Office for Mac unless Apple dropped that lawsuit and several others.
When Apple does something even remotely that sleasy we'll talk.
Oh, and to rebut you point by point: 1. Defending your trade dress is a smart thing to do. 2. They don't sue journalists for talking about their products. They sue bloggers who are involved in industrial espionage. 3. They BOUGHT power computing. They also didn't pull any license. They just didn't renew the license. Apple acted in a completely legal manner. 4. They have a legal right to sue people who are trying to break their DRM. 5. Apple bends over backwards to fix people's problems with both iPods and Macs.
When you upgrade to a new version of MacOS X, (for example Panther to Tiger), there are significant pieces of the OS itself (by pretty much anyone's definition of what an OS is) that have been upgraded.
There are new programming APIs that developers can take advantage of which is why newer software often requires newer versions of MacOS X.
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I guarentee the average person in Illinois won't ever know about this. Of those who DO know about it, the vast majority will blame the "activist" judge.
Or could it be that the pay is not worth the constant headaches
Unless you are crooked.
It is OK to read Slashdot, just don't read it aloud,
How old was the child? If it was 12 years, then maybe breastfeeding could be a legitimate case of child abuse. If it was 12 weeks, then perhaps the case has less merit.
Cheap PCs use more power??? I'm a Mac guy but this is a new one on me.
(I know we have a control panel called "Energy Saver", but I thought PCs were mostly Energy Star compliant?)
I don't even both comparing the price of a Mac to any other computer. I want a Mac and I don't bother looking at anything else. I honestly don't know what a PC costs because I have no use for a Windows PC.
Apple chooses not to compete in the "build your own computer" market. They don't have a microscope big enough to find said market.
How do they not help game developers? I just got back from WWDC, there were sessions on game development. What do "game developers" want that they aren't getting?
Of course he doesn't know any BMW drivers. He is a cheap bastard (which is why he hates the Mac - he can't afford one) and every one else he knows lives in the same hole in the ground trailer park. They sit around, get stoned, work at some fast food job, and complain on Slashdot about Apple being too expensive using their thrift shop reject PCs.
It is retarded because it is Windows.
Like the PowerPC was any different. Please!
They already preload the best OS in the world.
I could give a fuck about Windows.
Right. I've bought thousands of dollars worth of Macs over the years. In the same amount of time I have spent exactly zero dollars and zero cents on Dell equipment. Therefore, Dell is cheaper.
I'm so sick of people bringing up Xerox Alto to zing Apple. You have never used a Xerox Alto - and you never will and you never would have even HEARD of the damn thing if Apple hadn't come out of the GUI. First, the interface on the Alto was very primite compared to the Mac. Second, Xerox would never have allowed the Alto - or anything else from PARC such as Ethernet or Smalltalk - to see the light of day left to their own devices. Third, many of the people who worked on the Alto came over to Apple to work on the Lisa and/or Mac. Fourth, many of the ideas that the Alto was based on came from Jef Raskin's PhD. dissertation (Jef Raskin started the Mac project at Apple). Fifth, Apple PAID Xerox 80 million dollars to use ideas from the Alto.
The fact is that there were people shopping some good ideas around Silicon valley at that time. Apple was the only company at the time with the guts to bring these radical ideas to market. Not Microsoft. Not Xerox. Not IBM. Not Digital Research (they made CPM and were a big deal at the time).
You are over thinking. Head down to the nearest church and have them beat your brains out with a rock. That way, you won't question religion anymore.
Why would anyone actually swear to turn themself in?
The blogger and the employee together represent a conspiracy to commit industrial espionage.
Paul Thurrot is a drunk.
I, for one, didn't see too many features in Leopard that made me want to plunk down $70 for it.
There are a lot of features they are showing the developers (I'm at the conference) that make ME, for one, want to use some of the new APIs. This will in turn require that you have Leopard to run my software. Multiply by 4000 other developers here.
You saw the Core Animaiton demo? Very cool.
You must hate Pepsi.
Microsoft literally stole Apple's source code for Quicktime and stuck it into their own products. They got away with it by threatening to cancel Office for Mac unless Apple dropped that lawsuit and several others.
When Apple does something even remotely that sleasy we'll talk.
Oh, and to rebut you point by point:
1. Defending your trade dress is a smart thing to do.
2. They don't sue journalists for talking about their products. They sue bloggers who are involved in industrial espionage.
3. They BOUGHT power computing. They also didn't pull any license. They just didn't renew the license. Apple acted in a completely legal manner.
4. They have a legal right to sue people who are trying to break their DRM.
5. Apple bends over backwards to fix people's problems with both iPods and Macs.
I heard that sucks off fags in bathrooms at the airport.
When you upgrade to a new version of MacOS X, (for example Panther to Tiger), there are significant pieces of the OS itself (by pretty much anyone's definition of what an OS is) that have been upgraded.
There are new programming APIs that developers can take advantage of which is why newer software often requires newer versions of MacOS X.
Another really good example is fast user switching.
I found it. NASA can thank me later.