If buy running X you are referring to running the X windows environment, then it does indeed have an OS X version. Check www.macosxapps.com for all your switching and software needs. You may find more and more fo your software is already availible or has a very nice substitute.
Still, nothing beats OS X for an easy install. I'm not trying to start anything here, but seriously, Linux would be worlds easier to install if it came in a nice neat package like OS X does. Granted, I haven't played with the latest Red Hat, but I can't tell you how many times I've wished I could just pop the Linux CD in, click install, have the computer restart for me (or even easier, just start from the CD) and with 4 clicks and a password, be on my way to a nice full install with a grand total time of 15-25 minutes, including configuration. That truly is the one thing Windows and Mac OS have over linux, one nice neat package.
Re:No, Apple should continue to heed Intel
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Intel won the Mhtz war, but the CPU war is still on. AMD is working on their own 64 bit chip, and Apple is doing what Apple does best, being different. Sooner or later Mhtz as a measurment of performance will not matter. Intel has saturated the market with power. They release faster and faster speeds, making things seem out of date long before they really are. But joe schmoe isn't about to lay down another $500 for the next speed bump that will be outdated 6 months from now. The Mhtz war was won, and ruined by intel. Now we need new ways of selling processors and computers. Don't believe me? Then look at Apple touting the Mhtz myth (and briefly the gigflops), look at AMD going to model numbers instead of clock speeds. Look at Intel, trying to push those prosessors they release a while back, the ones that clocked in at 800 and 833 Mhtz.
Re:No, Apple should continue to heed Intel
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I don't know the technical details, but from my own experience:
VPC doesn't just make windows think it's on a PC, it actualy emulates the x86 environment, right down to the hardware. This means you could install any x86 based OS to your mac. It uses (dynamic?) disk images to serve as the harddrive, and runs the machine in it's own window. As near as I've been able to tell, the only thing VPC can't do well is video games. Oh well, that's why I bought a PS2
We already know that for the majority of consumers, espesialy PC users, price is a major factor in determining the computer they buy. The next factor is bennefit / dollar spent. Taking these to factors into account. If OS X was availible for the x86 computers. Even a crippled or slower version. Would you buy a mac as your next computer? What would make you more likely to buy it than if you just walked into the Apple store, saw how damn cool the new iMacs are and bought one then and there?
Less troublesome open hardware? You can't be serious? How is it less troublesome to have to tell your computer to stop trying to use a piece of hardware that isn't there anymore? I had a PC that despite being custom built, and taken to shop still wouldn't stop tellign me that I had new hardware everytime I started up. And yes, all the onboard hardware was turned off so the cards could work. I have never ever had as much trouble getting hardware to work as I have with "open" computers. Generic devices suck. As long as I can get replacements when I need them, give me proprietary any day.
How will it save lives? The only information it would gather is after the fact information. A person is just as dead whether or not you know for sure the kid was driving at 105 or 110
I can give you a fairly rational and perfectly plausible senario. Roughly 90% of all drivers drive slightly above the speed limit, i.e. go out onto the highway, drive 65 and see how many cars pass you by. Now, strictly speaking this is entirely ilegal, but the cops don't seem to bug you, in fact, it's often recomended to stick with the average flow of trafic.
Now, imagine every time your car goes into the shop for a tune up, all the speed data is downloaded and all the GPS information is downloaded. Then your insurance company runs a check to see how often you were over the speed limit of the area you were driving in. If you do so on a semi regular basis, your premiums go up.
Sounds crazy, but then again so do speed traps (limmit is 55 at the top of a hill, 45 at the bottom, cop sits at the bottom and pegs you for doin 55 in a 45 zone) , but they do those too
Where is our senator in all of this? Why is it that all the PVR, VCR, DVD/CD-R(W) manufacturers and everyone else from HD makers to paper and pen manufacturers can't all get together and buy their own senator. Hell for that matter, why doesn't slashdot buy a senator. We need someone to start standing up for us. Someone who will spread our FUD. We need a lobyist group.
They could still stick with IBM. But your right, I haven't liked motorola in a long time (they held up the G4s) and they've been loosing too much ground to stay viable.
How could they really keep it proprietary enough to avoid the price wars? Honestly, the only thing that isn't standard PC hardware in the macs now are really the motherboard and the processor. That's the only reason you can't build your own mac (that and you wouldn't get the cool case). If they switched to a consumer availible MB and Processor set, they would have to become price competative. That's not something apple really needs I don't think, but I'm not an economic analyst either.
It's been said before, so I'll sum it up briefly, if you want a more detailed explination, go find it in the old Apple stories here on slashdot.
Apple is a hardware company. They make their money selling hardware. Unless they control and sell the only x86 box which will run X (an impossibility) they will not release an x86 version of X unless they feel really secure in their market position.
Oooh, very nice computer, I plan I getting one of the newer models in the near future. By the way, a word to the wise, if you ever have to call apple techsupport, and they ask you have you bought an apple product within the last 90 days, always say yes. They never check.
Another argument against a completely open / free video codecs and QT. Somethings in life are best kept controled. Consider what would happen if all the people out there with a little bit of inkling towards coding started making their own variatees of codecs. You could have 30 versions of the next MPEG codec, each just a little different, and each incompatible with the rest of em. Somethings are best left standardized, video codecs are one of them.
I dunno if it came with QT or if it came from the Toast installer, but on my computer, I have the option of encoding video to the toast VCD format. And if you want to make VCDs, and have a buring program that supports the creation of VCDs, I would assume you have an ecoding codec somewhere, go look for it.
I'll bite becasue I'm bored and have nothing better to do.
If we assume that computers have some berring on sexual prefference, and we assume from your above statement that
mac=gay and windows=straight
then we can also surmise that
linux= bisexual prostitutes and solaris= neutered
Ironicaly, if we take the numbers, and assume that windows does indeed have 90% of the market share, then it is more likely than not that the majority of pedophiles as you described in your post are windows users. Sux to be a windows user.
So do your own port if it's not so hard. Hell all the source for darwin is there, and QT is for OS X, so all you would have to do is remove it's dependancies on aqua.
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Question, if your number is correct, and 90% are winblows users, and I believe the last number I saw was 6% are mac users. Then does that mean that *NIX and all the other OSs out there only make up 4%? If so that bites for a lot of the slashdot crowd.
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If buy running X you are referring to running the X windows environment, then it does indeed have an OS X version. Check www.macosxapps.com for all your switching and software needs. You may find more and more fo your software is already availible or has a very nice substitute.
Still, nothing beats OS X for an easy install. I'm not trying to start anything here, but seriously, Linux would be worlds easier to install if it came in a nice neat package like OS X does. Granted, I haven't played with the latest Red Hat, but I can't tell you how many times I've wished I could just pop the Linux CD in, click install, have the computer restart for me (or even easier, just start from the CD) and with 4 clicks and a password, be on my way to a nice full install with a grand total time of 15-25 minutes, including configuration. That truly is the one thing Windows and Mac OS have over linux, one nice neat package.
Intel won the Mhtz war, but the CPU war is still on. AMD is working on their own 64 bit chip, and Apple is doing what Apple does best, being different. Sooner or later Mhtz as a measurment of performance will not matter. Intel has saturated the market with power. They release faster and faster speeds, making things seem out of date long before they really are. But joe schmoe isn't about to lay down another $500 for the next speed bump that will be outdated 6 months from now. The Mhtz war was won, and ruined by intel. Now we need new ways of selling processors and computers. Don't believe me? Then look at Apple touting the Mhtz myth (and briefly the gigflops), look at AMD going to model numbers instead of clock speeds. Look at Intel, trying to push those prosessors they release a while back, the ones that clocked in at 800 and 833 Mhtz.
Slashdot needs and "Amen" modifier
I don't know the technical details, but from my own experience:
VPC doesn't just make windows think it's on a PC, it actualy emulates the x86 environment, right down to the hardware. This means you could install any x86 based OS to your mac. It uses (dynamic?) disk images to serve as the harddrive, and runs the machine in it's own window. As near as I've been able to tell, the only thing VPC can't do well is video games. Oh well, that's why I bought a PS2
Pardon me for being rude, but are you stupid?
We already know that for the majority of consumers, espesialy PC users, price is a major factor in determining the computer they buy. The next factor is bennefit / dollar spent. Taking these to factors into account. If OS X was availible for the x86 computers. Even a crippled or slower version. Would you buy a mac as your next computer? What would make you more likely to buy it than if you just walked into the Apple store, saw how damn cool the new iMacs are and bought one then and there?
Less troublesome open hardware? You can't be serious? How is it less troublesome to have to tell your computer to stop trying to use a piece of hardware that isn't there anymore? I had a PC that despite being custom built, and taken to shop still wouldn't stop tellign me that I had new hardware everytime I started up. And yes, all the onboard hardware was turned off so the cards could work. I have never ever had as much trouble getting hardware to work as I have with "open" computers. Generic devices suck. As long as I can get replacements when I need them, give me proprietary any day.
I know it's redundant, but just imagine the marketing potential if this thig gets bundled with X10 cameras.
"See what you've been missing in your nieghbor's second story bedroom"
They just need to ditch motorola.
How will it save lives? The only information it would gather is after the fact information. A person is just as dead whether or not you know for sure the kid was driving at 105 or 110
I can give you a fairly rational and perfectly plausible senario. Roughly 90% of all drivers drive slightly above the speed limit, i.e. go out onto the highway, drive 65 and see how many cars pass you by. Now, strictly speaking this is entirely ilegal, but the cops don't seem to bug you, in fact, it's often recomended to stick with the average flow of trafic.
Now, imagine every time your car goes into the shop for a tune up, all the speed data is downloaded and all the GPS information is downloaded. Then your insurance company runs a check to see how often you were over the speed limit of the area you were driving in. If you do so on a semi regular basis, your premiums go up.
Sounds crazy, but then again so do speed traps (limmit is 55 at the top of a hill, 45 at the bottom, cop sits at the bottom and pegs you for doin 55 in a 45 zone) , but they do those too
So how is that different than what they have now? All the other hardware is PC hardware
Where is our senator in all of this? Why is it that all the PVR, VCR, DVD/CD-R(W) manufacturers and everyone else from HD makers to paper and pen manufacturers can't all get together and buy their own senator. Hell for that matter, why doesn't slashdot buy a senator. We need someone to start standing up for us. Someone who will spread our FUD. We need a lobyist group.
They could still stick with IBM. But your right, I haven't liked motorola in a long time (they held up the G4s) and they've been loosing too much ground to stay viable.
How could they really keep it proprietary enough to avoid the price wars? Honestly, the only thing that isn't standard PC hardware in the macs now are really the motherboard and the processor. That's the only reason you can't build your own mac (that and you wouldn't get the cool case). If they switched to a consumer availible MB and Processor set, they would have to become price competative. That's not something apple really needs I don't think, but I'm not an economic analyst either.
I'd look into iMovie. I can't imagine they made that without a VCD codec
It's been said before, so I'll sum it up briefly, if you want a more detailed explination, go find it in the old Apple stories here on slashdot.
Apple is a hardware company. They make their money selling hardware. Unless they control and sell the only x86 box which will run X (an impossibility) they will not release an x86 version of X unless they feel really secure in their market position.
Oooh, very nice computer, I plan I getting one of the newer models in the near future. By the way, a word to the wise, if you ever have to call apple techsupport, and they ask you have you bought an apple product within the last 90 days, always say yes. They never check.
Another argument against a completely open / free video codecs and QT. Somethings in life are best kept controled. Consider what would happen if all the people out there with a little bit of inkling towards coding started making their own variatees of codecs. You could have 30 versions of the next MPEG codec, each just a little different, and each incompatible with the rest of em. Somethings are best left standardized, video codecs are one of them.
I dunno if it came with QT or if it came from the Toast installer, but on my computer, I have the option of encoding video to the toast VCD format. And if you want to make VCDs, and have a buring program that supports the creation of VCDs, I would assume you have an ecoding codec somewhere, go look for it.
I'll bite becasue I'm bored and have nothing better to do.
If we assume that computers have some berring on sexual prefference, and we assume from your above statement that
mac=gay
and
windows=straight
then we can also surmise that
linux= bisexual prostitutes
and
solaris= neutered
Ironicaly, if we take the numbers, and assume that windows does indeed have 90% of the market share, then it is more likely than not that the majority of pedophiles as you described in your post are windows users. Sux to be a windows user.
So do your own port if it's not so hard. Hell all the source for darwin is there, and QT is for OS X, so all you would have to do is remove it's dependancies on aqua.
Question, if your number is correct, and 90% are winblows users, and I believe the last number I saw was 6% are mac users. Then does that mean that *NIX and all the other OSs out there only make up 4%? If so that bites for a lot of the slashdot crowd.
Not that suprising, but I guess you haven't been to apple's web site recently.
G4 tower 1,600
iBook 1,200
G4 iMac 1,400
eMac 1,100
And all of those computers are quite capable machines.
When I stop watching TV all together, and the sales plummit and all the big annoying businesses go out of business. What will happen then?