Apple switching to Intel is the best thing to happen to tech analysts. Everyone's getting page hits.
Cringley must be going through bricks of crack given his recent output.
The worse thing is that there's no end in sight. A good writer, or Cringely, can feed the flames until MacIntels actually come out and then keep it going to for a long long time.
Let me start with:
* RSOD (red screens of death)
* Dropping the prefix "My" from "My computer", "My network places", etc
Looks like you win. It's been 1/2 an hour and no one's added anything. I can' think of anything. Then again, I'm not trying to hard since waiting out the clock to go home.
I had two friends who help beta test EQ long long ago. They stopped playing once they actually had to pay for a subscription.
And now what are they playing? Guild Wars. They both ran out to buy it when it was released. Maybe a free trial period would help EQ bring in some more gamers. The type that are willing to buy a game but not willing to pay a subscription. Well, they won't pay until the EverCrack syndrome hits them.
I bought it too so we could group but soon proved to myself that I have no time to play any MMORPG.
IMO, getting NTFS working should be the easier task. It's the difference between getting one driver working versus getting a whole bunch of hacks and drivers working.
Microsoft made it hard to reverse-engineer NFTS. Apple is going to make it as hard as possible to run non-Apple HW. They'll probably make things difficult until there's a hit on performance. I can't see why you'd think it'd be a few simple hacks. It's in Apple's best interest to make things hard.
Hacking OS X to run anywhere is only the first step. Then you'll still need drivers for the hardware. Someone's going having to write those drivers. You'll need drivers for video, audio, IDE chipsets, etc. Apple's not going to supply them. The component makers aren't going to supply them. Linux programmers know how hard it is to get specs on hardware.
But, I realize this is a pretty stupid and abstract arguement until a MacIntel actually ships.
...it will take perhaps a day to get it running on your average Dell.
You're dreaming. It'll take much more than a day to break whatever methods Apple uses and write the proper drivers for the Dell hardware. In your post you've already mentioned 4 major hacks that'll be needed to get a usable system.
There'll probably be more than one method of checking if OS X is running on Apple hardware.
I'll start believing as soon as Linux can safely write to NTFS partitions. Once this happens, I'll start believing that OS X will run on any x86 box.
Change the dog graphics to cats, and then turn off the responses to any inputs.
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I used to be in a graduate psychology program.
If it was a social psych. experiment, 29 participants would have been considered enough. I have no idea why.
I was in developmental psych. and was expected to get a minimum of 200 participants for my own study. Likewise, people in the cogntive psych. program had to get 100 or more participants.
Outstrip Sony's ability to produce them in quantity? Or outstrip Sony's ability to produce them with quality? I think it's the latter.
Over the past month, I've been to my three local Target stores. They each have about 20 PSPs sitting behind the glass cases, in each store.
I haven't gotten one myself because I'm still paranoid about defects. But I don't have any worries about finding one to purchase.
If it's made, for the 4th movie they should just combine So Long and Thanks for All the Fish with Mostly Harmless. I don't know if I could stand watching a whole movie of Mostly Harmless, even if it was exactly like the book.
And because a trilogy in 5 parts has already been done...but a trilogy in 4 parts?
I just thought about this very question a few days ago. I had just started to play around with mini distributions, i.e. DSL, BeatrIX. They're supposed to be burnt onto 3" discs or those business card discs. But all I had were regular sized 700mb dics. And I wondered if I could somehow burn config files or newly installed program onto the unused space.
I'm not a programmer so I don't know if it's truly feasible. And frankly I didn't think any more of it. But if a Live CD could burn new info onto itself, I think it'd be a huge step forward for Live CD distros.
Or better yet, burn a Live CD distro, like Knoppix, onto a DVD and use the remain GBs as storage space.
In any case, I suspect it would take huge amount of ram.
Why not just iTvo? They'd only have to hire a guy to switch the letters on the corporate logo and it'd still fit. Then they could just do a global search and replace. Think of all the savings from not having to repaginate....
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Did it miss something? Not to troll, but I can only think of a few hardware companies that even try to support linux.
Cringley must be going through bricks of crack given his recent output.
The worse thing is that there's no end in sight. A good writer, or Cringely, can feed the flames until MacIntels actually come out and then keep it going to for a long long time.
Speaking as a stockholder and for a smaller number of stockholder friends : Woohoo!
Looks like you win. It's been 1/2 an hour and no one's added anything. I can' think of anything. Then again, I'm not trying to hard since waiting out the clock to go home.
And now what are they playing? Guild Wars. They both ran out to buy it when it was released. Maybe a free trial period would help EQ bring in some more gamers. The type that are willing to buy a game but not willing to pay a subscription. Well, they won't pay until the EverCrack syndrome hits them.
I bought it too so we could group but soon proved to myself that I have no time to play any MMORPG.
Fool! You ignored a perfectly good ' in Soviet Russia' punchline.
Microsoft made it hard to reverse-engineer NFTS. Apple is going to make it as hard as possible to run non-Apple HW. They'll probably make things difficult until there's a hit on performance. I can't see why you'd think it'd be a few simple hacks. It's in Apple's best interest to make things hard.
Hacking OS X to run anywhere is only the first step. Then you'll still need drivers for the hardware. Someone's going having to write those drivers. You'll need drivers for video, audio, IDE chipsets, etc. Apple's not going to supply them. The component makers aren't going to supply them. Linux programmers know how hard it is to get specs on hardware.
But, I realize this is a pretty stupid and abstract arguement until a MacIntel actually ships.
You're dreaming. It'll take much more than a day to break whatever methods Apple uses and write the proper drivers for the Dell hardware. In your post you've already mentioned 4 major hacks that'll be needed to get a usable system.
There'll probably be more than one method of checking if OS X is running on Apple hardware.
I'll start believing as soon as Linux can safely write to NTFS partitions. Once this happens, I'll start believing that OS X will run on any x86 box.
I won't start panicking until Duke Nukem Forever goes gold.
Most porn is utter crap probably because the director (if any) and the cameraman have no idea what they're doing.
Change the dog graphics to cats, and then turn off the responses to any inputs.
If it was a social psych. experiment, 29 participants would have been considered enough. I have no idea why.
I was in developmental psych. and was expected to get a minimum of 200 participants for my own study. Likewise, people in the cogntive psych. program had to get 100 or more participants.
Outstrip Sony's ability to produce them in quantity? Or outstrip Sony's ability to produce them with quality? I think it's the latter. Over the past month, I've been to my three local Target stores. They each have about 20 PSPs sitting behind the glass cases, in each store. I haven't gotten one myself because I'm still paranoid about defects. But I don't have any worries about finding one to purchase.
Just look at SCO's share prices.
Some companies actually try to design and test their products first.
And I'm still waiting for MSFT to learn from its mistakes.
Would someone or something just go aehad and take over the world already?
I'm tired of having to change my welcome banner every few days.
Orwell was an optimist.
Have Christopher Walken as the Electric Monk.
For no reason at all, just for the hell of it.
And because a trilogy in 5 parts has already been done...but a trilogy in 4 parts?
I'm not a programmer so I don't know if it's truly feasible. And frankly I didn't think any more of it. But if a Live CD could burn new info onto itself, I think it'd be a huge step forward for Live CD distros.
Or better yet, burn a Live CD distro, like Knoppix, onto a DVD and use the remain GBs as storage space.
In any case, I suspect it would take huge amount of ram.
Linus probably keeps all the secret fixes under his security blanket.
Why not just iTvo? They'd only have to hire a guy to switch the letters on the corporate logo and it'd still fit. Then they could just do a global search and replace. Think of all the savings from not having to repaginate....
Screw easily available. Anyone with a budget to buy 2,282 servers and 4,564 processors can afford custom parts.
Call me when it's also easily affordable and I can pick up the parts at my local Fry's, or better yet, my local supermarket.
The only real item of interest was that it was made with all IBM parts and Linux.
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Come to think of it, if Fry's also sold groceries I won't have to shop anywhere else...
PETDA protesters are currently rushing to surround the offices of Michigan State University and Nintendo.
That's ok. With our newly combined skills from GTA and Civ, we'll be able to hijack another country's GDP.