That's hardly fair: you're comparing the download size of Phoenix to the full program size of Safari. Safari is a 3 MB download. And by the way, Phoenix is Windows-only.
They blamed the whole thing on the hardware Co. that they got some of their stuff from. Sadly i cannot find the letter, probably junked it, so i cannot post it today.
Fortunately (or is it sadly?), I never junk e-mail.
Dear.Mac Member,
We hope you haven't been greatly inconvenienced by the two.Mac network outages we've experienced in the past two weeks (including this morning) and we sincerely apologize for any problems you've experienced. The outages were the result of equipment failures, and since the equipment vendor has not been able to persuade us that the problem will not occur again, we've already begun installing new equipment from a different vendor.
We're completely back up and running now, and no data or mail was lost. We expect the equipment change over to be complete within the next several weeks, and we'll be working hard to ensure that there are no further issues during that time. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience while we make this transition, and if you do experience any difficulties, please go to www.apple.com/support for up-to-the-minute information and status.
Date of the e-mail? OCTOBER 7, 2002! So it's a little late to be posting this now.
I have had few problems with.Mac, especially when compared with my ISP and my web hosting company, each of whom get much more of my money per year than Apple does for.Mac.
I did read, I'm not flaming (at least I don't think I am -- disagreeing != flaming), and I somehow suspect that iDVD isn't the only "upgrade" that contains the full application -- which was my point.
Try buying an upgrade version of Office, Windows or Photoshop to save money without having an earlier version installed. Are you going to be miffed if that doesn't work either? It's not the company's fault if you try to save money by trying to get around their requirements and it doesn't work.
Or it could be the fact that in OS 9 an application can hog more CPU cycles than it can under OS X's preemptive multitasking. Not having to share has advantages in speed, but disadvantages elsewhere.
I'll take the multitasking, personally, as well as the stability, over brute speed -- I run too many programs at once.
For the record, here's another iCal/WebDAV tutorial (via Forwarding Address: OS X). They're cropping up all over the place, aren't they? Looks like quite a few people have decided that local publishing would be nice to have.
"There are people with laptops out there."
-- Yes, and I'm one of them: the Mac I was talking about is an iBook 600 combo. I keep it in sleep mode when I'm not using it, when I'm moving it, etc.
Choosing your boot icon might be important if you actually saw it more than once or twice a month, but this is OS X here. I don't reboot my Mac unless it crashes (very seldom, under known circumstances) or I've installed something (security update) that requires a reboot --otherwise, it stays on (or in sleep mode). I don't want to see a boot icon, at least not very often.
Berlin, Ontario was renamed Kitchener in 1917, during World War I; Kitchener was a British General. Waterloo, Ontario was named in honour of Napoleon's defeat.
MA (Waterloo, 1996), and not happy about my alma mater doing this.
Apple doesn't promote Mac OS X enough. Fewer people shift to the platform than Microsoft would like. Microsoft Office for OS X doesn't sell as many copies as they wanted. Microsoft is pissed.
Apple puts considerable effort into the next version of OS X, code-named Jaguar. New features are added that make competition-obsessed Microsoft nervous. Microsoft is pissed.
Microsoft is pissed if Apple doesn't promote OS X enough. Microsoft is pissed if Apple develops OS X too much or advertises the platform too aggressively. (And what flavour of nuts will Microsoft go if Apple launches an OS-specific ad campaign?) Apple can't win, so they have nothing to lose.
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Since Phoenix is a Gecko browser, it's actually the Win32 equivalent of Chimera.
That's hardly fair: you're comparing the download size of Phoenix to the full program size of Safari. Safari is a 3 MB download. And by the way, Phoenix is Windows-only.
iDisk uses WebDAV. iCal uses standard calendar formats. iTunes uses MP3. Explain how that represents "proprietary lock-in"?
Okay, somebody's been playing too much Civ.
Fortunately (or is it sadly?), I never junk e-mail.Date of the e-mail? OCTOBER 7, 2002! So it's a little late to be posting this now.
I have had few problems with
ColorSync! ColorSync! ColorSync!
It's not just about the processor, people.
I did read, I'm not flaming (at least I don't think I am -- disagreeing != flaming), and I somehow suspect that iDVD isn't the only "upgrade" that contains the full application -- which was my point.
Try buying an upgrade version of Office, Windows or Photoshop to save money without having an earlier version installed. Are you going to be miffed if that doesn't work either? It's not the company's fault if you try to save money by trying to get around their requirements and it doesn't work.
Since you can't buy iDVD separately (i.e., without a Mac equipped with an internal DVD burner), I call bullshit on this "true" story.
Or it could be the fact that in OS 9 an application can hog more CPU cycles than it can under OS X's preemptive multitasking. Not having to share has advantages in speed, but disadvantages elsewhere.
I'll take the multitasking, personally, as well as the stability, over brute speed -- I run too many programs at once.
The 3:2 screen ratio, for one thing.
The "article":
PowerBook G4 specs: weighs 5.4 pounds and measures 13.4 inches wide, 9.5 inches deep, and 1.0 inch thick.
It's still smaller and lighter.
That's AAC.
No, Pixar is majority-owned by Jobs; he's the CEO. They have a business relationship with Disney.
Did someone forget to count The Animated Series?
That's not a bug; that's a feature.
For the record, here's another iCal/WebDAV tutorial (via Forwarding Address: OS X ). They're cropping up all over the place, aren't they? Looks like quite a few people have decided that local publishing would be nice to have.
"There are people with laptops out there." -- Yes, and I'm one of them: the Mac I was talking about is an iBook 600 combo. I keep it in sleep mode when I'm not using it, when I'm moving it, etc.
Choosing your boot icon might be important if you actually saw it more than once or twice a month, but this is OS X here. I don't reboot my Mac unless it crashes (very seldom, under known circumstances) or I've installed something (security update) that requires a reboot --otherwise, it stays on (or in sleep mode). I don't want to see a boot icon, at least not very often.
There is an alternative that works with external drives, but it costs $1,000.
Would it be better if Apple offered iDVD for external DVD-RWs for, say, $199?
Berlin, Ontario was renamed Kitchener in 1917, during World War I; Kitchener was a British General. Waterloo, Ontario was named in honour of Napoleon's defeat.
MA (Waterloo, 1996), and not happy about my alma mater doing this.
And what does this have to do with the possible return of Macworld to Boston, exactly?
I had Quicktime 5 Pro for maybe 2 months tops, and I probably wouldn't have wasted my $30 if I knew that Quicktime 6 was right around the bend.
Don't give me that -- QuickTime 6 was preannounced last February. It's been right around the bend for months.
Mark Frauenfelder is not Greg Proops! At least I don't think he is.
- Apple doesn't promote Mac OS X enough. Fewer people shift to the platform than Microsoft would like. Microsoft Office for OS X doesn't sell as many copies as they wanted. Microsoft is pissed.
- Apple puts considerable effort into the next version of OS X, code-named Jaguar. New features are added that make competition-obsessed Microsoft nervous. Microsoft is pissed.
Microsoft is pissed if Apple doesn't promote OS X enough. Microsoft is pissed if Apple develops OS X too much or advertises the platform too aggressively. (And what flavour of nuts will Microsoft go if Apple launches an OS-specific ad campaign?) Apple can't win, so they have nothing to lose.