Micrsoft bought $150M of shares as part of a settlement years ago and later sold them later at a massive profit. Microsoft do not 'own' part of Apple. Please get your fact straight.
the source code to Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional or Mac OS X under a BSD license would cost considerably more than the prices you quote. Just because that's how much a retail license costs don't reflect the value of the source code.
I went to the same boys school as Newton originally went to, called the 'Kings School' in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England where Newton scratched his name into the wall of the old library. As was the custom at the time, many other students scratched and carved their names. His looks considerably less impressive than others.
We were all taught that he attended the school and about his subsequent accomplishments. There is a garden named after him with a single apple tree in the middle, although it's not one he ever sat under. One of the various 'houses' in the school is also named after him.
The town has a statue of him in front of the guildhall (equivalent to a town hall). However, in their rush to name things after him they have named a travisty of a shopping mall after him, which is awful, it's called the 'Isaac Newton Shopping Centre' and is particularlly down market with a big plastic apple hanging high near one of the entrances.
Growing up asa kid I saw Newton's name and face everywhere as he adorned the back of the one pound note, the equivalent of a $1 bill. Sadly that was replaced by a coin with nobody on the reverse of the queens 'head' side.
Even worse my home town is now remembered more for 'Maggie Thatcher' than Newton. I hope that one day the place will be associated more for Newton than Thatcher, but it is unlikely as he wasn't born there (he was born in Colsterworth nearby), only attending school there for a while when he was young.
Lastly, I hope that Apple Computer bring back their Newton as it was a fantastic machine which deserved to bear the name of such an amazing man.
Ed
Nice to hear that you've had good experience with an eMac. I think the educational software aspect is interesting. I was just talking with my cousin about him getting an emac for his niece. she's only three, but plays with all sorts of stuff at the moment and he thought she'd be bright enough to use a computer. we got our heads together and decided against a pc right away. the mac has plenty of educational software available most of which is very good quality. i guess this goes back to apple getting apple II's into schools early on and the support just continued.
I'd like to pose my own question.
what exactly would apple need to change about the current mac platform to make you switch to a real mac?
more powerful video cards?
faster processors?
cheaper machines?
personally, I'd like them to be cheaper, but you get what you pay for. I'd rather have a machine that is well built and looks fantastic (it actually makes other techies i know drool) than have a slightly cheaper crappier machine.
when i bought my powerbook (after owning a 17" iMac for a year) I realised that in that year I had had exactly ZERO problems with the machine. no software conflicts, no viruses, no spyware, no driver issues, no lack of a particular type of program that I needed... nothing. it took me about 2 seconds to decide to drop the 2 grand I need for buying the 17"pb.
how often have you thought that about a PC product huh?
drop a few hundred dollars (or pounds) on an eMac. If you find out that you don't like it flog it on ebay - mac's have great resale values. If you find that you do like it flog it on ebay and buy a more powerful model... duh!
there's no chance that apple will release OS X for X86.... and the software developers will not stand for another platform, cpu, os change.
also, the apple mac hardware would get left behind which is where apple make the money. unless of course osx86 was a poor cousin that lacked features or support and why bother in that case.
The less expensive option is Linux. Not just because it's open source, but because they can reuse existing hardware (PC's) to run it.
As much as I do love Mac's (as my 17"PB would testify:-) for an organisation of this size to move exclusively to OS X would be prohibitively expensive.
I suggest that they try Linux as well as OS X and ensure that all common internal applications can run on both. It's not exactly trival to port Linux apps to run on OS X but in many instances it's relatively easy. For those wo still need MS Office they can run Mac's. For those who can run OO.org get Linux.
Yep, you read that correctly. Apple's Xserve RAID product is cheaper bang for buck than virtually any other solution from any other manufactuer, plus it works with Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and more.
You can use regular ATA drives and administer it from an easy to use interface either on a Mac or a web interface.
Yep. Totally, especially from the little information i got from thr RSS feed, I thought the article was going to be about Jobs demoing Tigers' search tech.
I've figured out what the kink in the trend is... it should have been obvious to me. It was the USA going to sleep. The sales slowed down when it was just the EU countries, UK, France & Germany left on their own. When the USA wakes up again the sales will accerlate back to their previous level again. When the EU goes to sleep the sales will slow down a little bit, but not as much as when the USA dropped out earlier. It's going to be interesting to chart this cycle overtime. Shame we can't get separate counters for each store becuase I'd be real interested as to when people are buying most in each country. I'd imagine that the most sales would happen in the evenings and at weekends because people are at work or school. So, as the EU are coming home from work/school the USA also wakes up and adds to the sales. When the EU goes to sleep the USA are coming home and will increase their sales as well.
well, the trend has continued pretty much as a straight line. a slight kink in it earlier this morning.
my webpage worked perfectly. i had it open in the background and when the colour changed to yellow and then orange i was there. i bought a song when it was about 2,500 away, then at 1,000ish and then it came up as 98 songs away!! blimey, i was clicking like crazy.
It's now 97756 until the next one. Fingers crossed for everyone here! Good luck
i've written a little webpage that tracks the counter value and displays how many song sales to go before the next 100,000 milestone. The background changes colour from green, yellow , orange and finally red when it's about time to get buying a tune. it updates every 60 seconds. Apple's counter appears to update every 2 to 5 minutes.
Plotting a graph the sales over time seem very linear - it's a straight line at the moment. It's trivial to extract the value for the counter, although i'm not spilling the beans here to avoid everyone hitting apples server even harder than it is now.
I hope to get an ipod as my 40gb model that i purchased whlst on holiday in the USA was stolen when my car was broken into the other week.
anyway, there should be 50 chances to hit it correctly. A friend of mine was talking about getting his script to SMS him just before he should get getting online to make a purchase... i could do with that if it happens in the middle of the night!
Apart from SF movies, books and tv shows, can anyone suggest other technology predicted by video/computer games that we might actually see in the near future?
I'm still waiting for my robot maid, holiday on the moon and flying car. how about you?
Actually the English spelling is 'FIBRE' not 'FIBER'. The American spelling is 'FIBER' because for obvious reasons any word that sounds like it ends in 'ER' has to end in 'ER' when spelt in America as it's too damn difficult to remember how to spell things correctly.
Other words Americans manage to spell incorrectly: THEATRE, METRE, CHEQUE, COLOUR
Many words are similar in English and French as both languages evolved along side each other an dhave influenced each other over time. You acutally think that DEJA-VU, ENTREE, PARDON are English?
I agree entirely. I wanted to get started with Cocoa & ObjC only to find that every book I could find dealt with Project Builder!
Seeing as this is a 2nd edition I would have thought that they'd had time to address this by know, as Xcode was released along with Panther (10.3) and there's plenty of Panther books around nowdays.
I switched from Windows to an iMac with OS X last year. I have no problems with spyware, viruses, malware, whatever at home.
At work it is still a nightmare to deal with all the PC's I have to maintain - especailly the home PC that belongs to my boss. His kids are constantly downloading shit and installing it - sometimes without knowing.
Nothing to do with the government. The BBC is granted a charter from Parliment, but is not government run or funded. The BBc is funded by a compulsory license fee for owning equipment capable of recieving and decoding their broadcasts such as a TV or tuner card. Basically it's a tax on virtually every household and business in the UK. There is a discount for black & white TV's, pensioners and those with vision based disabilities. In the 'old days' you used to need a 'wireless licence' as well for radios!
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Micrsoft bought $150M of shares as part of a settlement years ago and later sold them later at a massive profit. Microsoft do not 'own' part of Apple. Please get your fact straight.
ever heard of OS X? It's got Photoshop and all the Unixy goodness you need. However, you'll need to shell out for a Mac as well as Photoshop.
the source code to Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional or Mac OS X under a BSD license would cost considerably more than the prices you quote. Just because that's how much a retail license costs don't reflect the value of the source code.
I went to the same boys school as Newton originally went to, called the 'Kings School' in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England where Newton scratched his name into the wall of the old library. As was the custom at the time, many other students scratched and carved their names. His looks considerably less impressive than others. We were all taught that he attended the school and about his subsequent accomplishments. There is a garden named after him with a single apple tree in the middle, although it's not one he ever sat under. One of the various 'houses' in the school is also named after him. The town has a statue of him in front of the guildhall (equivalent to a town hall). However, in their rush to name things after him they have named a travisty of a shopping mall after him, which is awful, it's called the 'Isaac Newton Shopping Centre' and is particularlly down market with a big plastic apple hanging high near one of the entrances. Growing up asa kid I saw Newton's name and face everywhere as he adorned the back of the one pound note, the equivalent of a $1 bill. Sadly that was replaced by a coin with nobody on the reverse of the queens 'head' side. Even worse my home town is now remembered more for 'Maggie Thatcher' than Newton. I hope that one day the place will be associated more for Newton than Thatcher, but it is unlikely as he wasn't born there (he was born in Colsterworth nearby), only attending school there for a while when he was young. Lastly, I hope that Apple Computer bring back their Newton as it was a fantastic machine which deserved to bear the name of such an amazing man.
Ed Nice to hear that you've had good experience with an eMac. I think the educational software aspect is interesting. I was just talking with my cousin about him getting an emac for his niece. she's only three, but plays with all sorts of stuff at the moment and he thought she'd be bright enough to use a computer. we got our heads together and decided against a pc right away. the mac has plenty of educational software available most of which is very good quality. i guess this goes back to apple getting apple II's into schools early on and the support just continued.
I agree with the gig of ram, exactly what i did. my hdd is 5400rpm, and i've got 7200rpm external firewire drives connected with fw800.
I'd like to pose my own question. what exactly would apple need to change about the current mac platform to make you switch to a real mac? more powerful video cards? faster processors? cheaper machines? personally, I'd like them to be cheaper, but you get what you pay for. I'd rather have a machine that is well built and looks fantastic (it actually makes other techies i know drool) than have a slightly cheaper crappier machine. when i bought my powerbook (after owning a 17" iMac for a year) I realised that in that year I had had exactly ZERO problems with the machine. no software conflicts, no viruses, no spyware, no driver issues, no lack of a particular type of program that I needed... nothing. it took me about 2 seconds to decide to drop the 2 grand I need for buying the 17"pb. how often have you thought that about a PC product huh?
drop a few hundred dollars (or pounds) on an eMac. If you find out that you don't like it flog it on ebay - mac's have great resale values. If you find that you do like it flog it on ebay and buy a more powerful model... duh!
there's no chance that apple will release OS X for X86.... and the software developers will not stand for another platform, cpu, os change.
also, the apple mac hardware would get left behind which is where apple make the money. unless of course osx86 was a poor cousin that lacked features or support and why bother in that case.
The less expensive option is Linux. Not just because it's open source, but because they can reuse existing hardware (PC's) to run it.
:-) for an organisation of this size to move exclusively to OS X would be prohibitively expensive.
As much as I do love Mac's (as my 17"PB would testify
I suggest that they try Linux as well as OS X and ensure that all common internal applications can run on both. It's not exactly trival to port Linux apps to run on OS X but in many instances it's relatively easy. For those wo still need MS Office they can run Mac's. For those who can run OO.org get Linux.
actaully, you can own an icon. It had to be designed.
;-)
just because something is open source doesn't automatically make it righteous.
remember, this has come from a company who have tried in the past to rip off apple's iphoto virtually button for button before hand.
I can tell you stand by your opinions 100% by the fact that you've posted using your slashdot account Mr Coward
is it just me, or is the icon for PhoneGaim just a complete rip-off of the iChat AV icon on Mac OS X.
I can't get excited about this PhoneGaim as I already use a SIP phone client as well as iChat AV.
I expect Apple to add voicemail in the next version anyway. It's been touted in many of the forums I read already.
Xserve RAID.
Yep, you read that correctly. Apple's Xserve RAID product is cheaper bang for buck than virtually any other solution from any other manufactuer, plus it works with Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and more.
You can use regular ATA drives and administer it from an easy to use interface either on a Mac or a web interface.
Also check out Xsan on Apple's website.
enjoy!
Yep. Totally, especially from the little information i got from thr RSS feed, I thought the article was going to be about Jobs demoing Tigers' search tech.
I've figured out what the kink in the trend is... it should have been obvious to me. It was the USA going to sleep. The sales slowed down when it was just the EU countries, UK, France & Germany left on their own. When the USA wakes up again the sales will accerlate back to their previous level again. When the EU goes to sleep the sales will slow down a little bit, but not as much as when the USA dropped out earlier. It's going to be interesting to chart this cycle overtime. Shame we can't get separate counters for each store becuase I'd be real interested as to when people are buying most in each country. I'd imagine that the most sales would happen in the evenings and at weekends because people are at work or school. So, as the EU are coming home from work/school the USA also wakes up and adds to the sales. When the EU goes to sleep the USA are coming home and will increase their sales as well.
I'm an idiot. I didn't read the rules. Apparently the prizes are from 95,100,000 to 100,000,000. So, it didn't include the 95,000,000th song :-(
Next time I will do as suggested and buy an album. Although, buying 50 albums at 7.99 each in order to win an iPod works out at 399.50 anyway.
Maybe, I'll stick with single purchases until around the 100 million mark.
well, the trend has continued pretty much as a straight line. a slight kink in it earlier this morning.
my webpage worked perfectly. i had it open in the background and when the colour changed to yellow and then orange i was there. i bought a song when it was about 2,500 away, then at 1,000ish and then it came up as 98 songs away!! blimey, i was clicking like crazy.
It's now 97756 until the next one. Fingers crossed for everyone here! Good luck
i've written a little webpage that tracks the counter value and displays how many song sales to go before the next 100,000 milestone. The background changes colour from green, yellow , orange and finally red when it's about time to get buying a tune. it updates every 60 seconds. Apple's counter appears to update every 2 to 5 minutes.
Plotting a graph the sales over time seem very linear - it's a straight line at the moment. It's trivial to extract the value for the counter, although i'm not spilling the beans here to avoid everyone hitting apples server even harder than it is now.
I hope to get an ipod as my 40gb model that i purchased whlst on holiday in the USA was stolen when my car was broken into the other week.
anyway, there should be 50 chances to hit it correctly. A friend of mine was talking about getting his script to SMS him just before he should get getting online to make a purchase... i could do with that if it happens in the middle of the night!
Apart from SF movies, books and tv shows, can anyone suggest other technology predicted by video/computer games that we might actually see in the near future?
I'm still waiting for my robot maid, holiday on the moon and flying car. how about you?
Troll? Figures huh, i shouldn't have been baited by the troll parent.
I thought i was being 'informative'.
Actually the English spelling is 'FIBRE' not 'FIBER'. The American spelling is 'FIBER' because for obvious reasons any word that sounds like it ends in 'ER' has to end in 'ER' when spelt in America as it's too damn difficult to remember how to spell things correctly.
Other words Americans manage to spell incorrectly:
THEATRE, METRE, CHEQUE, COLOUR
Many words are similar in English and French as both languages evolved along side each other an dhave influenced each other over time. You acutally think that DEJA-VU, ENTREE, PARDON are English?
Seeing as this is a 2nd edition I would have thought that they'd had time to address this by know, as Xcode was released along with Panther (10.3) and there's plenty of Panther books around nowdays.
yeah, i know. thanks for the thought.
mods on crack? surely not!
That doesn't mean 11th May 2004 like you think it does.
US date format mean that 11-5-2004 is 5th November 2004 (guy fawkes night akak bonfire night) here in the UK.
I switched from Windows to an iMac with OS X last year. I have no problems with spyware, viruses, malware, whatever at home.
At work it is still a nightmare to deal with all the PC's I have to maintain - especailly the home PC that belongs to my boss. His kids are constantly downloading shit and installing it - sometimes without knowing.
Nothing to do with the government. The BBC is granted a charter from Parliment, but is not government run or funded. The BBc is funded by a compulsory license fee for owning equipment capable of recieving and decoding their broadcasts such as a TV or tuner card. Basically it's a tax on virtually every household and business in the UK. There is a discount for black & white TV's, pensioners and those with vision based disabilities. In the 'old days' you used to need a 'wireless licence' as well for radios!