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Top 10 Apple Flops
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Apple Pippin
Introduced under Spindler's rule as CEO, the Pippin sould have won
Apple a position in the console market, one Apple had yet to
penetrate. Apple's goal was to make the Pippin a multimedia
machine, capable of reading CD ROMs, surfing the internet and to play
games.
Apple had decided to share the Pippin's source code with developers
for a licensing fee. The developers had a lot more flexibility,
and would be able to redesign the Pippin's software to make it
attractive for any number of markets. However, Apple was able to
recruit on 4500 developers willing to pay the licensing fee.
The operating system of the Pippin was based on the MacOS.
With a PowerPC 603 running at 66 MHZ, the Pippin used a similar
processor to desktop macs. Being a multimedia machine, the Pippin
was capable of producing CD quality sound, and displaying up to
thousands of colors. With the powerful Power PC processor, Apple
thrashed Nintendo and Sega consoles performance wise, but never
won a sizeable portion of the market.
OpenDoc
The concept behind OpenDoc is an intuitive one. Many elements
of applications are redundant (calculators, multimedia players,
spreadsheets). Why not 'cut them up' and use different modules
interchangeably. Each file would then make calls on these
different modules as needed. With OpenDoc, if a user wishes to
create a word processor document that includes a spreadsheet, the user
would not have to copy it over as a table, or use a gimped up version
included with the word processor, instead they could call up the
ClarisWorks for OpenDoc Spreadsheet module and have a full blown
spreadsheet in the middle of a word processing document.
OpenDoc development started in 1995 in collaboration with Novell,
IBM and Apple. In 1997, Apple integrated OpenDoc into its core
strategy, releasing several OpenDoc apps, and including the technology
in Mac OS 7.6. At the same time, the technology was being
developed for Windows and UNIX. The companies created the Ci Labs
which would authorize OpenDoc components that proved to be compatible
as "Live Objects".
In accordance to Apple's vision, it became possible with the OpenDoc
compatible version of ClarisWorks to create a document that integrated
various OpenDoc modules. The example below has an integrated
VideoConferencing session with QuickTime, a browser frame from CyberDog
and a graph from another OpenDoc module.
Since 1996, Novell has ceased Windows development of OpenDoc,
forcing IBM to take on responsibilities for the platform at the same
time they continued development on their AIX (UNIX from IBM). The
two versions both evolved and were mature commerical products in
1997. There were problems for OpenDoc, however. At the same
time, Microsoft released ann updated version of OLE, and released
ActiveX, that closely mimicced the OpenDoc principles. OpenDoc
was embraced by major OS developers, but it had failed to attract third
party developers. Mac OS 8 was the last release from Apple to
include OpenDoc, and it was quietly killed at the hands of Gil Amelio.
Mac TV
Apple was the first major personal computer manufacturer to release
a machine with a bundled TV tuner to the public. The Macintosh TV
was Apple's first effort in merging the home theater and personal
computer. The machine was also one of the only two black Macs
ever made (the second being a special edition 5400 sold only in
Europe)..
The Macintosh TV was first envisioned as a tenth anniversary Mac, but
it was eventually cancelled. After the unexpected success of the
Color Classic, John Sculley requested that a machine comparable to the
Color Classic be made with a CD ROM drive and a 14" Trinitron
CRT. The logic card was a slightly modified IIvx, Apple's
midrange 68030 machine. The Macintosh TV was released on October
23, 1993, shortly after being resurrected.
The new machine was designed to be low cost and have a small
footprint. Its most notable features were its TV tuner card and remote
control. The TV tuner code had RCA and coaxial inputs, allowing
us
King's Quest 6 was the last great adventure game I truly loved. I tried 7 and 8, never liked them much. Quest for Glory 5 didn't interest me after a few minutes. Those old Lucasarts adventures were awesome (Indy Atlantis, The Dig, Full Throttle, etc).
hole in wasky conspiracy theory #1: I live in new york city, and building 7 was not "miles away" as you put it. It was only a few hundred METERS away. It was all part of the same block of buildings (hense the two "twin towers" were buildings 1 and 2, this was building 7).
hole in wasky conspiracy theory #2: (from the video) "Why don't we read hundreds of stories about building 7's collapse and only about the towers?" - maybe because 3,000 people died when building's 1 and 2 fell around ~9am, and ZERO people died when building 7 collapsed much later?
I love to use my 5-button Microsoft mouse for Counterstrike.
Button 1: Fire
Button 2: Walk forward (in direction mouse is pointing)
Button 3: Walk Backwards
Button 4: Microphone talk (I only use it when in a room with a friend - i'm never a "t3h gai" loser
Button 5: Nothing yet (any suggestions?)
I watched the show for the first 2 seasons, and I have to admit, it was kinda fun. There was an interesting story arch they had, about some sort of war over time, and the "Futureman" mysterious dude from the 30th century. Also, there was that crewman from the future who showed up and came back a couple times.
Anyone care to fill me in on how all that resolved? Was it good? I don't remember much about the show, but I'm still upset it's being cancelled.
de_chateau: Great map - defend the house as a CT with great defensive positions, in which you defend from an elevated position. As a terrorist, you can only break a good CT team if you work together to penetrate their defenses. I used to love cs_mansion, but this map seems like a better version of that.
de_prodigy: Is this a new map to source? Maybe I missed it on CS 1.6, but it's a great map with an "Aliens" feel to it (i.e. enclosed base) with a good amount of nooks and crannies to keep it fun.
why are you bringing up a 3rd topic? The parent and i were discussing 9/11 and the tsunami. Iraq was not mentioned once. Oh, and go ahead and say to a New Yorker, to his or her face, that 9/11 is some lame story. If you wanted a need for rhinoplasty surgery, i wouldn't be surprised if they gave you one.
That's arguable. In terms of number of life lost and monetary damage, you're absolutely correct. BUT... the tsunami was an unpreventable natural disaster brought about by natural forces (well, the effects could have been lessened with warning systems, but the quake is not avoidable). 9/11 was a completely human-caused event carried out by villians so evil it defies imagination. They were against "policies" so they decided to kill a few thousand mommies and daddies who in no way whatsoever decide where the US puts military bases or what countries to ally with. The tsunami killed over a hundred thousand people, but it was not an "evil" event.
Very interesting, but no matter when you live, you'll be missing out on the next millenium's features. Sure: Dine on Titan, but not Alpha Centauri. Dine on Alpha Centauri, but never live to 500, etc.
I'm just glad I live in an era where I do not have a reasonable chance of starving to death, and I DO have a reasonable chance of flying through the atmosphere 25,000 feet above the ground WHENEVER I WANT, living to 80 or more or talking to someone on the other side of the planet instantly without having to wait 6 months or more for the 200-person caravan to relay my message (and which I would never be able to send had I not been a king or something). That's a hell of a lot better than those suckers 1,000 years ago in 1005 had!
funny you should mention that. I am a medical student who was JUST YESTERDAY looking into a field called "Aerospace Medicine." I would LOVE to risk my life to be a doctor aboard a Mars mission or a Space Station. Unfortunately, my advisor informed me that almost every doctor who has accompanied NASA missions before has been in the Air Force, which I am not. This is very understandable, but means it likely won't happen for me.
Space travel has not progressed like it should have in the decades following the amazing progress of the 1960s. Hell, it hasn't progressed like the exploration of the New World in the 1500s.
I feel that it is because we have become completely and hopelessly terrified of danger. Many men and women died (yes, tragically) in those eras exploring the great unknown. But without their sacrifice, we would never have been able to accomplish what we have (please no "settling the new world = genocide" lectures).
Apollo 1, The Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia's losses were all tragic. And I am NOT saying that their loss should be shrugged off as "eh, someone had to die to explore space." What I am saying is that we as humans needed to grow and explore space, much as the Europeans needed to grow and explore beyond their continent. When there was a tragic event in colonial exploration (Jamestown), those people learned from their mistake and tried again and usually succeeded. When we fail today, we usually cower up and shut down all exploration for a half-decade or so.
Hell, look at how these stupid hippies tried to stop Cassini from ever occuring. They were so afraid of the 0.001% chance of Cassini crashing into Earth (which itself had a fraction of a percent chance of actually contaminating the planet with any plutonium) that they wanted the entire mission shut down.
Scared people like this, afraid to take chances are what almost kept us from everything glorious we're learning today and everything we will learn from Cassini tomorrow. And most scary, these people and all others who are afraid of taking chances have kept us from learning from all the cancelled missions and missions that will never be in the future because it's always "better safe than sorry" to them.
you're a liar and a snotty elitist liar at that. If you "always thought it was a kuiper belt object" then you either never HEARD of Pluto before 1992 (when the Kuiper Belt was discovered), you somehow discovered the Kuiper belt before NASA did (in which case you're an idiot), or you just want to sound smart (in which case you're actually just an idiot). Or maybe you're trying to look "cool" - and even for slashdot, you look like a nerdy idiot (now that's hard to do).
What amazes me is that Mars, a planet with a third the mass of Earth, has two moons
Mars has 2 captured asteroids as moons (most likely), whereas we have a gigantic almost-a-double-planet-system going. It's not surprising that Mars, one of the asteroid belt "border" planets would have such a moon (let a lone 2).
It's really annoying that there's no drag-and-drop uploading for ofoto now that I'm using Firefox (which I love) and I now have to upload the pics in IE (and get 15 popups for my trouble)
GTA: Vice City holds the sales record for console games at around 13M copies.
This generation, maybe. But super mario brothers 3 still is the best selling console game ever at 40 million+ units sold. Even without bundling it, it sold 17.28 million.
Unless I see a/. article talking about one of the following:
the imminent demise of Nintendo
the imminent demise of the home PC
Michael's interesting-enough news stories ruined by adding one line of unnecessary commentary at the end which basically insults anyone who thinks otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple Pippin
Introduced under Spindler's rule as CEO, the Pippin sould have won Apple a position in the console market, one Apple had yet to penetrate. Apple's goal was to make the Pippin a multimedia machine, capable of reading CD ROMs, surfing the internet and to play games.
Apple had decided to share the Pippin's source code with developers for a licensing fee. The developers had a lot more flexibility, and would be able to redesign the Pippin's software to make it attractive for any number of markets. However, Apple was able to recruit on 4500 developers willing to pay the licensing fee.
The operating system of the Pippin was based on the MacOS. With a PowerPC 603 running at 66 MHZ, the Pippin used a similar processor to desktop macs. Being a multimedia machine, the Pippin was capable of producing CD quality sound, and displaying up to thousands of colors. With the powerful Power PC processor, Apple thrashed Nintendo and Sega consoles performance wise, but never won a sizeable portion of the market.
OpenDoc
The concept behind OpenDoc is an intuitive one. Many elements of applications are redundant (calculators, multimedia players, spreadsheets). Why not 'cut them up' and use different modules interchangeably. Each file would then make calls on these different modules as needed. With OpenDoc, if a user wishes to create a word processor document that includes a spreadsheet, the user would not have to copy it over as a table, or use a gimped up version included with the word processor, instead they could call up the ClarisWorks for OpenDoc Spreadsheet module and have a full blown spreadsheet in the middle of a word processing document.
OpenDoc development started in 1995 in collaboration with Novell, IBM and Apple. In 1997, Apple integrated OpenDoc into its core strategy, releasing several OpenDoc apps, and including the technology in Mac OS 7.6. At the same time, the technology was being developed for Windows and UNIX. The companies created the Ci Labs which would authorize OpenDoc components that proved to be compatible as "Live Objects".
In accordance to Apple's vision, it became possible with the OpenDoc compatible version of ClarisWorks to create a document that integrated various OpenDoc modules. The example below has an integrated VideoConferencing session with QuickTime, a browser frame from CyberDog and a graph from another OpenDoc module.
Since 1996, Novell has ceased Windows development of OpenDoc, forcing IBM to take on responsibilities for the platform at the same time they continued development on their AIX (UNIX from IBM). The two versions both evolved and were mature commerical products in 1997. There were problems for OpenDoc, however. At the same time, Microsoft released ann updated version of OLE, and released ActiveX, that closely mimicced the OpenDoc principles. OpenDoc was embraced by major OS developers, but it had failed to attract third party developers. Mac OS 8 was the last release from Apple to include OpenDoc, and it was quietly killed at the hands of Gil Amelio.
Mac TV
Apple was the first major personal computer manufacturer to release a machine with a bundled TV tuner to the public. The Macintosh TV was Apple's first effort in merging the home theater and personal computer. The machine was also one of the only two black Macs ever made (the second being a special edition 5400 sold only in Europe)..
The Macintosh TV was first envisioned as a tenth anniversary Mac, but it was eventually cancelled. After the unexpected success of the Color Classic, John Sculley requested that a machine comparable to the Color Classic be made with a CD ROM drive and a 14" Trinitron CRT. The logic card was a slightly modified IIvx, Apple's midrange 68030 machine. The Macintosh TV was released on October 23, 1993, shortly after being resurrected.
The new machine was designed to be low cost and have a small footprint. Its most notable features were its TV tuner card and remote control. The TV tuner code had RCA and coaxial inputs, allowing us
R.I.P. adventures...
you're right. damn - my bad.
hole in wasky conspiracy theory #1: I live in new york city, and building 7 was not "miles away" as you put it. It was only a few hundred METERS away. It was all part of the same block of buildings (hense the two "twin towers" were buildings 1 and 2, this was building 7).
hole in wasky conspiracy theory #2: (from the video) "Why don't we read hundreds of stories about building 7's collapse and only about the towers?" - maybe because 3,000 people died when building's 1 and 2 fell around ~9am, and ZERO people died when building 7 collapsed much later?
I love to use my 5-button Microsoft mouse for Counterstrike.
Button 1: Fire
Button 2: Walk forward (in direction mouse is pointing)
Button 3: Walk Backwards
Button 4: Microphone talk (I only use it when in a room with a friend - i'm never a "t3h gai" loser
Button 5: Nothing yet (any suggestions?)
Anyone care to fill me in on how all that resolved? Was it good? I don't remember much about the show, but I'm still upset it's being cancelled.
de_chateau: Great map - defend the house as a CT with great defensive positions, in which you defend from an elevated position. As a terrorist, you can only break a good CT team if you work together to penetrate their defenses. I used to love cs_mansion, but this map seems like a better version of that.
de_prodigy: Is this a new map to source? Maybe I missed it on CS 1.6, but it's a great map with an "Aliens" feel to it (i.e. enclosed base) with a good amount of nooks and crannies to keep it fun.
de_dust: Need I say more? Still a classic map.
Any comments? Your favorite maps/most disliked?
why are you bringing up a 3rd topic? The parent and i were discussing 9/11 and the tsunami. Iraq was not mentioned once. Oh, and go ahead and say to a New Yorker, to his or her face, that 9/11 is some lame story. If you wanted a need for rhinoplasty surgery, i wouldn't be surprised if they gave you one.
That's arguable. In terms of number of life lost and monetary damage, you're absolutely correct. BUT... the tsunami was an unpreventable natural disaster brought about by natural forces (well, the effects could have been lessened with warning systems, but the quake is not avoidable). 9/11 was a completely human-caused event carried out by villians so evil it defies imagination. They were against "policies" so they decided to kill a few thousand mommies and daddies who in no way whatsoever decide where the US puts military bases or what countries to ally with. The tsunami killed over a hundred thousand people, but it was not an "evil" event.
I'm just glad I live in an era where I do not have a reasonable chance of starving to death, and I DO have a reasonable chance of flying through the atmosphere 25,000 feet above the ground WHENEVER I WANT, living to 80 or more or talking to someone on the other side of the planet instantly without having to wait 6 months or more for the 200-person caravan to relay my message (and which I would never be able to send had I not been a king or something). That's a hell of a lot better than those suckers 1,000 years ago in 1005 had!
just released!!!
here!
funny you should mention that. I am a medical student who was JUST YESTERDAY looking into a field called "Aerospace Medicine." I would LOVE to risk my life to be a doctor aboard a Mars mission or a Space Station. Unfortunately, my advisor informed me that almost every doctor who has accompanied NASA missions before has been in the Air Force, which I am not. This is very understandable, but means it likely won't happen for me.
close. I wrote the slashdot entry first and then posted it to my site afterwards.
I feel that it is because we have become completely and hopelessly terrified of danger. Many men and women died (yes, tragically) in those eras exploring the great unknown. But without their sacrifice, we would never have been able to accomplish what we have (please no "settling the new world = genocide" lectures).
Apollo 1, The Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia's losses were all tragic. And I am NOT saying that their loss should be shrugged off as "eh, someone had to die to explore space." What I am saying is that we as humans needed to grow and explore space, much as the Europeans needed to grow and explore beyond their continent. When there was a tragic event in colonial exploration (Jamestown), those people learned from their mistake and tried again and usually succeeded. When we fail today, we usually cower up and shut down all exploration for a half-decade or so.
Hell, look at how these stupid hippies tried to stop Cassini from ever occuring. They were so afraid of the 0.001% chance of Cassini crashing into Earth (which itself had a fraction of a percent chance of actually contaminating the planet with any plutonium) that they wanted the entire mission shut down.
Scared people like this, afraid to take chances are what almost kept us from everything glorious we're learning today and everything we will learn from Cassini tomorrow. And most scary, these people and all others who are afraid of taking chances have kept us from learning from all the cancelled missions and missions that will never be in the future because it's always "better safe than sorry" to them.
you're a liar and a snotty elitist liar at that. If you "always thought it was a kuiper belt object" then you either never HEARD of Pluto before 1992 (when the Kuiper Belt was discovered), you somehow discovered the Kuiper belt before NASA did (in which case you're an idiot), or you just want to sound smart (in which case you're actually just an idiot). Or maybe you're trying to look "cool" - and even for slashdot, you look like a nerdy idiot (now that's hard to do).
not all popups are blocked by popup blockers. I already have google taskbar installed, and popups are lowered about 75% (but 75 != 0)
actually the article says there are only 33 known moons.
Mars has 2 captured asteroids as moons (most likely), whereas we have a gigantic almost-a-double-planet-system going. It's not surprising that Mars, one of the asteroid belt "border" planets would have such a moon (let a lone 2).
It's really annoying that there's no drag-and-drop uploading for ofoto now that I'm using Firefox (which I love) and I now have to upload the pics in IE (and get 15 popups for my trouble)
Wow.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (waves hands around in a "spooky" manner)
This generation, maybe. But super mario brothers 3 still is the best selling console game ever at 40 million+ units sold. Even without bundling it, it sold 17.28 million.
If he's selling "popup" ads, he'll have to advertise on another part of his body :)
Unless I see a /. article talking about one of the following:
the imminent demise of Nintendo
the imminent demise of the home PC
Michael's interesting-enough news stories ruined by adding one line of unnecessary commentary at the end which basically insults anyone who thinks otherwise.