Then why are there two separate versions of XP, one for 64-bit and one for 32-bit? Why couldn't Microsoft do what Leopard has apparently done in that respect?
Because not all PCs are 64 bit. Apple can put out a 64bit-only version of OSX because they manufacture the machines it comes with.
Apple claims Leopard will run 32 and 64 bits side-by-side, top-to-bottom in one OS that supports everything. Maybe I missed something. Why was this so hard to do with XP and Linux?
It's not hard.. XP and Linux both run 32 and 64 bit apps side by side. The problem (and Apple will experience the same) is that plugins, drivers, etc, must be the same as their host application.
A 64 bit version of Safari will *not* have Flash support, since the plugin is a 32 bit plugin.
I know Spaces is a virtual windows knock but Linux window managers never did it quite as well as Apple has demonstrated.
Why do people keep saying this? Compiz does everything Apple demonstrated, just as well. Moving windows between workspaces? Just drag them to the edge, the cube will rotate. Show *all* workspaces? Control-Alt-Down will "unwrap" the cube.
Ruby is an excellent language and one we're happy to see better supported on our platform (and willing to put engineering time and effort towards that goal).
If that's true, then why have you fucked it up for the past two OS releases?
Panther's Ruby was completely jacked (to the point that you can't run Rails at all on Panther's ruby), and Tiger's ruby is miscompiled. The pack and unpack functions get byte order completely backwards!
You've known about it for over two years now, and it's still broken.
You went out of your way to break it. configure was passed flags that told it: one, use little endian byte ordering, and two, target the PPC architecture. Are you retarded?
Really the Finder was fixed for me when they added notifications into the filesystem and Finder windows updated automatically.
While that is nice (it was really frustrating to download something and have it *not* appear on your desktop until you gave the desktop "focus"), the finder is still horribly broken.
Plug in a thumbdrive, or open a network share. Do anything that takes longer than a few seconds and see how Finder completely and utterly locks up. The lack of a multithreaded finder should've been #1 on Apple's TODO list 6 years ago.
The market that doesn't want to spend a ton of money on a desktop, but would still like to upgrade their videocard someday.
Our new company policy requires any mac user to explain exactly why they can't use a PC. We can buy $500 Dell desktops and add a second or third monitor fairly easily.
Photoshop monkeys don't need super fast $2500 desktops, but they do need multiple monitors... something not possible on a mac cheaper than $2k.
Moving to OSX made me miss virtual desktops, but adding a second monitor coupled with Expose` made the longing disappear.
But adding the second monitor totally destroys the whole "one menubar fitts law" thingy. When the app you're currently on has a menubar on the *other* monitor.
OSX was obviously not designed with multiple monitors in mind.
They borrowed some design ideas from Exposé, it looks like; you can view all four of your desktops at once; you can drag-and-drop windows from one to the other; and they all use the same Dock instead of using different Docks for each desktop, which is the one thing I always wanted.
Compiz lets you "unwrap" the cube that your desktops are on to see all 4 desktops at once, and dragging windows between desktops has been around for a *long* time.
They can implement it with the secure delete option.
Oh yay, now I can Delete a file to the Trash, then empty the Trash, then securely delete the file! Only three steps, thanks Apple! (The lack of a Delete without moving to Trash annoys the heck out of me).
Sorry, but Apple doesn't even require a serial number so there's no way they're going to be able to do that.
Apple does do some sort of copy protection though. All of iLife is copyprotected. Install a "came with my machine" version of Tiger on any other machine and it'll refuse to install iLife and many of the other applications.
I live in central wisconsin and own not one but two homes one of which I rent.
Same here in Tucson. I have a 2100 sq ft second home that we rent to a family from San Diego (who couldn't afford to stay in San Diego, despite making $65k/year).
But Tucson has had the largest house boom in the US in the past 2 years. My primary residence has more than doubled in price since I bought it 4 years ago.
Hmm....well, I've not bought from iTunes because they don't offer a high quality lossless format...why the hell would I buy a DVD full of the stuff?
Yeah, it's odd. When I saw the headline, I thought of my brother. He's a music professor (read independent musician), and he puts all his music onto DVD, simply because it's the best place to put 5.1 digital audio.
It's pretty ridiculous that we are still stuck with 2 channel commercial audio today, and Warner blows their opportunity to do 5.1 discreet.
I can't think of anything that Apple's officially announced for any version of OS X that they later pulled.
That's because Apple doesn't make any OSX announcements until they're done with the whole thing.
Who knows what Apple tried to put into Tiger and failed to do?
Apple is still king of unreleased software. The pink team started on a new OS in 1989. It turned into Copland, had several developer releases, and then got scrapped completely in 1997.
Time to go searching for those FF tweaking options again...
Maybe you should do a little research on how cached memory works first. Firefox will mark a page as unused.. and if the OS needs it, it will take it. However, if Firefox needs that page again (like, say, you hit your backbutton), it can pull it up without having to connect to the server.
The memory is indeed freed.. the OS just hasn't bothered reclaiming it yet.
I'd guess it's not a violation because MS is not a monopoly anymore, OSX is a viable alternative. The only people forced to use MS are forced to by their IT department.
It's ridiculous that Apple can bolt Safari into OSX so bad that in order to update Safari you need to update your entire OS, but when MS tries to release a new browser after *5* years, people scream antitrust.
I'm not sure if I have bad taste, unique taste, or if the sample space of Nielson is composed mainly of dangerously stupid shaved apes.
The Nielson ratings are horrendously skewed. If you, or anyone you know has ever been "selected", you'll know why. They make you fill out tons and tons of paperwork. I always assumed there was a little box they installed that kept track of what you were watching. That's not the case. You have to fill out a form instead.
So the only people who would even *bother* doing all the homework they assign are retirees with nothing else to do.
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Because not all PCs are 64 bit. Apple can put out a 64bit-only version of OSX because they manufacture the machines it comes with.
It's not hard.. XP and Linux both run 32 and 64 bit apps side by side. The problem (and Apple will experience the same) is that plugins, drivers, etc, must be the same as their host application.
A 64 bit version of Safari will *not* have Flash support, since the plugin is a 32 bit plugin.
Why do people keep saying this? Compiz does everything Apple demonstrated, just as well. Moving windows between workspaces? Just drag them to the edge, the cube will rotate. Show *all* workspaces? Control-Alt-Down will "unwrap" the cube.
OSX still has a ways to go to catch up to Compiz.
Compiz does this. Ctrl-Alt-Down will "flatten cube".
If that's true, then why have you fucked it up for the past two OS releases?
Panther's Ruby was completely jacked (to the point that you can't run Rails at all on Panther's ruby), and Tiger's ruby is miscompiled. The pack and unpack functions get byte order completely backwards!
You've known about it for over two years now, and it's still broken.
You went out of your way to break it. configure was passed flags that told it: one, use little endian byte ordering, and two, target the PPC architecture. Are you retarded?
While that is nice (it was really frustrating to download something and have it *not* appear on your desktop until you gave the desktop "focus"), the finder is still horribly broken.
Plug in a thumbdrive, or open a network share. Do anything that takes longer than a few seconds and see how Finder completely and utterly locks up. The lack of a multithreaded finder should've been #1 on Apple's TODO list 6 years ago.
Doesn't connect to Exchange Server. Making it as much a failure as the opensource mail/calendaring apps you dismiss.
The market that doesn't want to spend a ton of money on a desktop, but would still like to upgrade their videocard someday.
Our new company policy requires any mac user to explain exactly why they can't use a PC. We can buy $500 Dell desktops and add a second or third monitor fairly easily.
Photoshop monkeys don't need super fast $2500 desktops, but they do need multiple monitors... something not possible on a mac cheaper than $2k.
But adding the second monitor totally destroys the whole "one menubar fitts law" thingy. When the app you're currently on has a menubar on the *other* monitor.
OSX was obviously not designed with multiple monitors in mind.
Compiz lets you "unwrap" the cube that your desktops are on to see all 4 desktops at once, and dragging windows between desktops has been around for a *long* time.
Oh yay, now I can Delete a file to the Trash, then empty the Trash, then securely delete the file! Only three steps, thanks Apple! (The lack of a Delete without moving to Trash annoys the heck out of me).
Apple does do some sort of copy protection though. All of iLife is copyprotected. Install a "came with my machine" version of Tiger on any other machine and it'll refuse to install iLife and many of the other applications.
Same here in Tucson. I have a 2100 sq ft second home that we rent to a family from San Diego (who couldn't afford to stay in San Diego, despite making $65k/year).
But Tucson has had the largest house boom in the US in the past 2 years. My primary residence has more than doubled in price since I bought it 4 years ago.
Yeah, it's odd. When I saw the headline, I thought of my brother. He's a music professor (read independent musician), and he puts all his music onto DVD, simply because it's the best place to put 5.1 digital audio.
It's pretty ridiculous that we are still stuck with 2 channel commercial audio today, and Warner blows their opportunity to do 5.1 discreet.
That's because Apple doesn't make any OSX announcements until they're done with the whole thing.
Who knows what Apple tried to put into Tiger and failed to do?
Apple is still king of unreleased software. The pink team started on a new OS in 1989. It turned into Copland, had several developer releases, and then got scrapped completely in 1997.
Except that Apple had 41% of the education market in 1996. It was under Jobs' watch that they lost that market.
Maybe you should do a little research on how cached memory works first. Firefox will mark a page as unused.. and if the OS needs it, it will take it. However, if Firefox needs that page again (like, say, you hit your backbutton), it can pull it up without having to connect to the server.
The memory is indeed freed.. the OS just hasn't bothered reclaiming it yet.
Hell, I would've thought Toyota and Lexus would've been next to each other, since they're made by the same company.
I'd guess it's not a violation because MS is not a monopoly anymore, OSX is a viable alternative. The only people forced to use MS are forced to by their IT department.
It's ridiculous that Apple can bolt Safari into OSX so bad that in order to update Safari you need to update your entire OS, but when MS tries to release a new browser after *5* years, people scream antitrust.
The ironic thing is that this article wasn't on the front page of the WSJ. The article itself is part of the long tail.
Sounds like he's never played any of the Final Fantasies. A battle is 5 seconds of pressing buttons, and 5 minutes of watching FMV.
Every other round someone hassles you about signing up for overdraft protection.
The Nielson ratings are horrendously skewed. If you, or anyone you know has ever been "selected", you'll know why. They make you fill out tons and tons of paperwork. I always assumed there was a little box they installed that kept track of what you were watching. That's not the case. You have to fill out a form instead.
So the only people who would even *bother* doing all the homework they assign are retirees with nothing else to do.
You mean you're looking at that tiny magazine rack that PC games have been relegated to?
You haven't been looking very hard then. Spore, Bioshock, Mass Effect to name just a few.