Why? The only reason you want OS X on x86 is because the hardware is more open. This is only true in the Apple mobo/processor area, where there aren't a lot of vendors, everything else is standard parts.
Next time you buy your new computer, it could just be a PPC board+proc, instead of an x86 one to run your OS of choice on(it won't, but lets pretend).
It was easy to go pc-xbox and xbox->pc for 1 reason, they ran the SAME OS(kernel) and directx. Mac's dont' have directx, and they run MacOS, not XP. It will be no easier to port to Macs simply because it is still porting from a stripped down Windows OS to a desktop MacOS.
Just because they are on the same processor, doesn't make it the same OS.
My bet? No, Microsoft will not be switching processors, there just isn't a need to, Pentiums are still clock-for-clock faster. VPC was a 2-fold buy, give MS the software to develop virtual machine technology for their server line, and be able to control the mac market a bit better. Mac's basicly need Office to be a business app, VPC is also a 'missing link' app for those trying to switch.
The Xbox 2 won't be backward compatable unless it was done through hardware, VPC and a G5 processor(or the next gen of them,even) are not even CLOSE to being able to run games at acceptable speeds.
The reason I first used, and continued to use google when I first learned of it? I am on dialup, and the Yahoo page tooks many seconds to load while the google page was basicly instant.
Google is a search company. They have a text box in the middle of the page and a brief text menu bar above it... The page is so small, that for all users, impatient and on slow connections, Google is one of the only sites I can use that is nearly instant.
Microsoft can add all the software they want, but to satisfy me, they must give me the OPTION to uninstall any software they include. This is done on the mac just fine. itunes, terminal, iphoto, etc... uninstall them? Sure, you can! Actually, you just have to delete the binary file.
If i could uninstall IE, MSN Messenger, the Firewall, the AV software, the... and not just hide it, but truly uninstall it like any other STANDARD program, then I really wouldn't mind nearly as much. But i can't uninstall IE, and am open to the potential holes in that software, I can't uninstall MSN messenger, and have to fiddl with it to tell it to not run on startup. I have to fiddle with Media Player and the burning software, ad nasuem..
Why did the FBI get 9 days, and the hosting company(who owns and is familiar with their own equipment) get only a few hours... Hypocritical, cheap, and dirty. The FBI shouldn't be allowed to opperate like this.
the 'tried' for several hours, then quit and took ALL their hardware for over a week. The FBI shutdown a perfectly innocent company because they didn't have the patience to do the same work onsite as they did for a week back at their labs!
So, then, the FBI can take several DAYS to do the job that trained professionals(on their own equipment) are allowed to only do in several hours? Is it even possible to load all their achives(the several terabytes) onto a removable tape drive or similar in that time? I would assume it would take several hours to physically move it all over, let alone trying to DO anything with that about of data.
you NEVER have to open a commond prompt, EVER. Besides, for a non-technical person, who is going to be tech supporting the computer, reinstalling after viruses, removing spyware, install pop-ups removers?
Trust, i have mac classic experience, moved to windows, 98 through XP. XP made me switch to something else(linux was too difficult) macs were always appealing.
I made the switch, it took about 10 minutes to get my barrings on the absolute basisics. Beyond that, I have only needed to learn when I wanted to do something new, basic computer users can learn 90% of how to use the system within the first day, no kidding.
ofcourse not. I meant that common sense does not always appear in the ruling of court cases.... Stories of a robber breaking into a house, falling on a knife, and suing the owner of the house... and winning.. Stories like that, wether they be true or not, reflect what many people think of our court system. It can be bought by lawyers, and common sense can go out the window.
Nope, i don't, but common sense makes it easy. You know damn well that you don't have a legal right to download that britney spears song, and after going out of your way to LOOK for that song, which clearly you have no right to posess, you then download it... Well, in my eyes, it is obvious you went out of your way to obtain illegal material...
The courts ofcourse, are not bound by common sense, as we often hear in the 6 o'clock news.
yes, but on a p2p network, you search and download stuff you know damn well you don't have a legal right to. Atleast in the garage sale example, you have no way of knowing if it is stolen, and no reason to suspect it is stolen...
any chance you can give me a hint on how to make a buck off my 12"... powerbook? Well worth the money, but I would love to find and excuse to help make money I can spend on more hardware.:)
Disney is riding on it's amazing history, the last 5+ years have been what, in the way of ground breaking, must see, hit movies? Pixar. If you took a snapshot of animation STUDIOS(excluding Disneyland/world, non movie/studio stuff) pixar would be 10 fold ahead of disney.
Disney has an amazing history of greatness, a diversified business with 4-something theme parks, ABC, ESPN, cartoons, cable channel... but their animation studio BLOWS right now. There are the monolithic 800-lb bull of animation, and pixar is the lightweight fast-on-their-feet studio that puts out blockbuster hit regularly.
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not only is that fix easy, it is impossible to do with windows. there is no 'extensions off' in windows. There are always two sides to the argument, but having mac be so dynamic in install/uninstall/extentsions and system folder 'stuff' is just awesome... no registry or similar crap to deal with.
with the high power of client machines, why would a large business choose the thin client route? that just puts more work on the server, requiring a beefy server, while offloading work from the clients, any decent workstation would be able to handle the load of a linux install, so why not do local installs...
In my experience, the best way to deploy windows is to ghost+multicast over a subnet. Would this be the ideal way to install en mas a group of linux boxen, if you used the local install system, as well?
that is a pathetic and sad statement to read. a NATIVE open-source program(that is well liked and supported in the community) loads slower than a non-native office suite running under WINE(not emulation, but also not native).
We need some real development behind oo.o, why isn't it lightning fast compared to office?
No, we won't, because it isn't their code to port. IBM can't take MS code and rerelease it, so don't bother thinking they can. They CAN, however, back developement of Koffice, OO.o or Lotus' port, and bring MS Office more competition.
porting something to OS X(aqua) does not necesarily mean it was ported to darwin. Darwin is the kernel, aqua, the user interface and behemoth system on top of darwin is, to my understanding, what it was 'ported' to. I might be wrong, but porting it to the Aqua UI/system doesn't mean it would be easy to port to X11 and linux.
i respectfully disagree. to be a unix distro, it has to be a 'true unix'... solaris, tru64, hpux, the big boy's old skool unix(i forgot several, i am sure).
A linux distro is something with linux in it. the linux kernel.
in the case of debian supporting different kernels... i would assume that they just ported their package manager, either way, that would be a 'debian distro'... a distro is a subversion of a larger group... linux distro is a subversion of 'linux'. Debian can use freebsd or hurd, but that immediately makes it no longer a linux distro.
actually, that would make it freebsd+apt, or a freebsd distro. but anyway. if it doesn'f run ontop of linux, it isn't a linux distro.:)
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Why? The only reason you want OS X on x86 is because the hardware is more open. This is only true in the Apple mobo/processor area, where there aren't a lot of vendors, everything else is standard parts.
Next time you buy your new computer, it could just be a PPC board+proc, instead of an x86 one to run your OS of choice on(it won't, but lets pretend).
ENTIRELY missed the point.
It was easy to go pc-xbox and xbox->pc for 1 reason, they ran the SAME OS(kernel) and directx. Mac's dont' have directx, and they run MacOS, not XP. It will be no easier to port to Macs simply because it is still porting from a stripped down Windows OS to a desktop MacOS.
Just because they are on the same processor, doesn't make it the same OS.
My bet? No, Microsoft will not be switching processors, there just isn't a need to, Pentiums are still clock-for-clock faster. VPC was a 2-fold buy, give MS the software to develop virtual machine technology for their server line, and be able to control the mac market a bit better. Mac's basicly need Office to be a business app, VPC is also a 'missing link' app for those trying to switch.
The Xbox 2 won't be backward compatable unless it was done through hardware, VPC and a G5 processor(or the next gen of them,even) are not even CLOSE to being able to run games at acceptable speeds.
The reason I first used, and continued to use google when I first learned of it? I am on dialup, and the Yahoo page tooks many seconds to load while the google page was basicly instant.
Google is a search company. They have a text box in the middle of the page and a brief text menu bar above it... The page is so small, that for all users, impatient and on slow connections, Google is one of the only sites I can use that is nearly instant.
How can someone downloading illegal content not always be breaking the law?
Microsoft can add all the software they want, but to satisfy me, they must give me the OPTION to uninstall any software they include. This is done on the mac just fine. itunes, terminal, iphoto, etc... uninstall them? Sure, you can! Actually, you just have to delete the binary file.
If i could uninstall IE, MSN Messenger, the Firewall, the AV software, the... and not just hide it, but truly uninstall it like any other STANDARD program, then I really wouldn't mind nearly as much. But i can't uninstall IE, and am open to the potential holes in that software, I can't uninstall MSN messenger, and have to fiddl with it to tell it to not run on startup. I have to fiddle with Media Player and the burning software, ad nasuem..
Why did the FBI get 9 days, and the hosting company(who owns and is familiar with their own equipment) get only a few hours... Hypocritical, cheap, and dirty. The FBI shouldn't be allowed to opperate like this.
the 'tried' for several hours, then quit and took ALL their hardware for over a week. The FBI shutdown a perfectly innocent company because they didn't have the patience to do the same work onsite as they did for a week back at their labs!
So, then, the FBI can take several DAYS to do the job that trained professionals(on their own equipment) are allowed to only do in several hours? Is it even possible to load all their achives(the several terabytes) onto a removable tape drive or similar in that time? I would assume it would take several hours to physically move it all over, let alone trying to DO anything with that about of data.
You mean like Watson or Sherlock for Mac OS X?
you NEVER have to open a commond prompt, EVER. Besides, for a non-technical person, who is going to be tech supporting the computer, reinstalling after viruses, removing spyware, install pop-ups removers?
Trust, i have mac classic experience, moved to windows, 98 through XP. XP made me switch to something else(linux was too difficult) macs were always appealing.
I made the switch, it took about 10 minutes to get my barrings on the absolute basisics. Beyond that, I have only needed to learn when I wanted to do something new, basic computer users can learn 90% of how to use the system within the first day, no kidding.
I'll see your 1ghz, and'll raise you 512meg of RAM!
Ya, hardcoding the answer into the program would REALLY save computational time...
ofcourse not. I meant that common sense does not always appear in the ruling of court cases.... Stories of a robber breaking into a house, falling on a knife, and suing the owner of the house... and winning.. Stories like that, wether they be true or not, reflect what many people think of our court system. It can be bought by lawyers, and common sense can go out the window.
Nope, i don't, but common sense makes it easy. You know damn well that you don't have a legal right to download that britney spears song, and after going out of your way to LOOK for that song, which clearly you have no right to posess, you then download it... Well, in my eyes, it is obvious you went out of your way to obtain illegal material...
The courts ofcourse, are not bound by common sense, as we often hear in the 6 o'clock news.
The study removed all the virus/etc from the study, which I think was a pretty big deal to do.
yes, but on a p2p network, you search and download stuff you know damn well you don't have a legal right to. Atleast in the garage sale example, you have no way of knowing if it is stolen, and no reason to suspect it is stolen...
any chance you can give me a hint on how to make a buck off my 12"... powerbook? Well worth the money, but I would love to find and excuse to help make money I can spend on more hardware. :)
Disney is riding on it's amazing history, the last 5+ years have been what, in the way of ground breaking, must see, hit movies? Pixar. If you took a snapshot of animation STUDIOS(excluding Disneyland/world, non movie/studio stuff) pixar would be 10 fold ahead of disney.
Disney has an amazing history of greatness, a diversified business with 4-something theme parks, ABC, ESPN, cartoons, cable channel... but their animation studio BLOWS right now. There are the monolithic 800-lb bull of animation, and pixar is the lightweight fast-on-their-feet studio that puts out blockbuster hit regularly.
not only is that fix easy, it is impossible to do with windows. there is no 'extensions off' in windows. There are always two sides to the argument, but having mac be so dynamic in install/uninstall/extentsions and system folder 'stuff' is just awesome... no registry or similar crap to deal with.
with the high power of client machines, why would a large business choose the thin client route? that just puts more work on the server, requiring a beefy server, while offloading work from the clients, any decent workstation would be able to handle the load of a linux install, so why not do local installs...
In my experience, the best way to deploy windows is to ghost+multicast over a subnet. Would this be the ideal way to install en mas a group of linux boxen, if you used the local install system, as well?
that is a pathetic and sad statement to read. a NATIVE open-source program(that is well liked and supported in the community) loads slower than a non-native office suite running under WINE(not emulation, but also not native).
We need some real development behind oo.o, why isn't it lightning fast compared to office?
No, we won't, because it isn't their code to port. IBM can't take MS code and rerelease it, so don't bother thinking they can. They CAN, however, back developement of Koffice, OO.o or Lotus' port, and bring MS Office more competition.
porting something to OS X(aqua) does not necesarily mean it was ported to darwin. Darwin is the kernel, aqua, the user interface and behemoth system on top of darwin is, to my understanding, what it was 'ported' to. I might be wrong, but porting it to the Aqua UI/system doesn't mean it would be easy to port to X11 and linux.
i respectfully disagree. to be a unix distro, it has to be a 'true unix'... solaris, tru64, hpux, the big boy's old skool unix(i forgot several, i am sure).
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A linux distro is something with linux in it. the linux kernel.
in the case of debian supporting different kernels... i would assume that they just ported their package manager, either way, that would be a 'debian distro'... a distro is a subversion of a larger group... linux distro is a subversion of 'linux'. Debian can use freebsd or hurd, but that immediately makes it no longer a linux distro.
actually, that would make it freebsd+apt, or a freebsd distro. but anyway. if it doesn'f run ontop of linux, it isn't a linux distro.