The author of Watson did announce today on MacCentral that Watson would continue to be developed and improved.
IMHO, Sherlock 3 didn't try and add more than half of the features of Watson, and Watson will be adding more before Sherlock 3 is released. I intend to keep using Watson for a long time, myself.
Mail takes about the average time to open up for me, say 4 or 5 'bounces'. But then I leave it running most of the time I'm in X, so I usually fire it up after a restart, which usually means after playing some games in 9.22.
Of course, right after a restart, it has to log into my DSL, so there's a wait while the Internet Connect app starts the PPPoE connection. That's another 10 seconds, usually.
I guess that shouldn't surprise me. Early in my OfficeMax career, I found a $2 bible trivia program that someone stole the contents out of. My comment at the time: "I guess they aren't going to do very well."
Better yet, do like I did and register the sucker. Pay the one time fee, and make use of the extra features, like full screen display and saving to disk the movies in your browser. You shouldn't have to register ever again.(though I make no promises)
Too late, the current Apple mouse is called the "Apple Pro Mouse".;-) It's been called that ever since they went optical.
Myself, I've been using four button mice on my Macs for the last 4 years. I do think that a two button mouse + scroll wheel would be just fine(since the third or fourth buttons do completely different things in different programs, I'm sure they'd stay away from three).
G3-400, actually. Close. Though I'm still at 192MB memory, and found that the third party memory is causing freezes in most of my 3D games in X. Works fine for everything else, though, and I'm too broke/unemployed to replace it.
I've actually never used Photoshop; I have GraphicConverter, and even it is overkill for my needs. Viewing a slideshow and occasionally changing format is all I ever do.
I suppose that I could have, if I knew any UNIX command line commands. There's no good help system, and while I remember and could probably teach a class on DOS, UNIX is a bit more complex.
There's a library nearby, perhaps I should renew my library card and see what they have. Judging from the past, though, I'm not getting my hopes up for anything newer than books on the Commodore 64.
Macs that have the required 32MB of memory include many G4 towers, including some older ones that have been upgraded, the flat panel iMac, the eMac, and the new high end Powerbook. That's not too many, so I don't think this 'Enhanced Quartz' will be required to use Jaguar. I don't complain about 2D performance on my 30 month old iMac DV, though with 8MB video memory, it'll never run Giants or RtCW.
I've never enabled root on my system, as I've heard a few warnings a while back, and I've never needed it. The only time I may have been tempted was when StuffIt Expander(the main archive decompressor for the Mac) was updated, and I didn't have permission to delete the old version that came with OS X. I ended up deleting it from 9.22. I do use my Admin account all the time. I tried a personal user account once to see if things would run faster, but there was no change, and a new account felt like a whole new machine to configure to my preferences.
If memory serves, OS/2 was partly crippled by Microsoft's developer rules that people couldn't develop for both Win95 and OS/2. That and little if any marketing. Most of what I've heard about OS/2 had been word of mouth, even before Win95 came out.
Marketshare is also misleading, and has to do with percentage of machines sold each quarter. Macs don't become obsolete as fast as Wintel's, and don't have to be replaced as often. Macs also are rarely thrown away, as old Macs can easily find a new home elsewhere. Heck, I'm running the latest version of OS X on a 30 month old machine, an iMac at that, and the only thing I'd want a newer machine for right now is Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
I've seen that argued elsewhere. If Virtual PC were given away with every Mac, there would be less incentive for developers to write native Mac software, even though there's a large performance hit with emulation. It also doesn't help that right now, Virtual PC runs a lot slower under X than under 9.x.
WMP for X doesn't open some of the.wmv files I've downloaded from LimeWire and elsewhere. It's not a bad looking app, but if it can't always open its own files, it's not that useful.
I suppose that I agree with most of what you said, but I don't see the eMac as something to get to the corporate world. (granted, I have no understanding of enterprise computing, and think they're a little nuts) This isn't Apple's first education only Mac, in spite of poorly researched news stories to the contrary. The All-In-One G3 was released a few months before the iMac was first announced, and is something like a slow eMac with legacy ports. It stayed education-only.
I was just thinking about that job interview question "What do you see yourself doing in five years?" I certainly can't predict what computers will be like in five years, and with articles like this, I can't predict much else that far down the road, either. Perhaps they will be able to fix every imperfection in my body(flat feet, nearsighted, etc.), but I won't be able to afford any of the fixes.
Sound cards? For all practical purposes, there are no Mac sound cards. Creative released a SB Live about a year ago, but with buggy drivers for 9.x and NO support for X. Thing is, X reportedly has some very nice sound and music support built in, but the programmers haven't figured out how to use it yet.
SCSI cards? I didn't think PC users used those much anyway, and Firewire would be better.
I've upgraded my 29 month old iMac DV fairly well, with new mouse,keyboard, iSub, memory, hard drive. Just can't do anything about video, but the new games that need more also need more CPU power.
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The author of Watson did announce today on MacCentral that Watson would continue to be developed and improved.
IMHO, Sherlock 3 didn't try and add more than half of the features of Watson, and Watson will be adding more before Sherlock 3 is released. I intend to keep using Watson for a long time, myself.
Mail takes about the average time to open up for me, say 4 or 5 'bounces'. But then I leave it running most of the time I'm in X, so I usually fire it up after a restart, which usually means after playing some games in 9.22.
Of course, right after a restart, it has to log into my DSL, so there's a wait while the Internet Connect app starts the PPPoE connection. That's another 10 seconds, usually.
I guess that shouldn't surprise me. Early in my OfficeMax career, I found a $2 bible trivia program that someone stole the contents out of. My comment at the time: "I guess they aren't going to do very well."
Better yet, do like I did and register the sucker. Pay the one time fee, and make use of the extra features, like full screen display and saving to disk the movies in your browser. You shouldn't have to register ever again.(though I make no promises)
Too late, the current Apple mouse is called the "Apple Pro Mouse". ;-) It's been called that ever since they went optical.
Myself, I've been using four button mice on my Macs for the last 4 years. I do think that a two button mouse + scroll wheel would be just fine(since the third or fourth buttons do completely different things in different programs, I'm sure they'd stay away from three).
G3-400, actually. Close. Though I'm still at 192MB memory, and found that the third party memory is causing freezes in most of my 3D games in X. Works fine for everything else, though, and I'm too broke/unemployed to replace it.
I've actually never used Photoshop; I have GraphicConverter, and even it is overkill for my needs. Viewing a slideshow and occasionally changing format is all I ever do.
I suppose that I could have, if I knew any UNIX command line commands. There's no good help system, and while I remember and could probably teach a class on DOS, UNIX is a bit more complex. There's a library nearby, perhaps I should renew my library card and see what they have. Judging from the past, though, I'm not getting my hopes up for anything newer than books on the Commodore 64.
Macs that have the required 32MB of memory include many G4 towers, including some older ones that have been upgraded, the flat panel iMac, the eMac, and the new high end Powerbook. That's not too many, so I don't think this 'Enhanced Quartz' will be required to use Jaguar. I don't complain about 2D performance on my 30 month old iMac DV, though with 8MB video memory, it'll never run Giants or RtCW.
Nah, Mac Central gets like this every time major announcements come out. Usually just around MacWorld Expo time, though.
I'm surprised that no one here's mentioned the rack mounted servers being announced next week, unless I'd just missed it.
A very nice post, thank you.
I've never enabled root on my system, as I've heard a few warnings a while back, and I've never needed it. The only time I may have been tempted was when StuffIt Expander(the main archive decompressor for the Mac) was updated, and I didn't have permission to delete the old version that came with OS X. I ended up deleting it from 9.22. I do use my Admin account all the time. I tried a personal user account once to see if things would run faster, but there was no change, and a new account felt like a whole new machine to configure to my preferences.
If memory serves, OS/2 was partly crippled by Microsoft's developer rules that people couldn't develop for both Win95 and OS/2. That and little if any marketing. Most of what I've heard about OS/2 had been word of mouth, even before Win95 came out.
Marketshare is also misleading, and has to do with percentage of machines sold each quarter. Macs don't become obsolete as fast as Wintel's, and don't have to be replaced as often. Macs also are rarely thrown away, as old Macs can easily find a new home elsewhere. Heck, I'm running the latest version of OS X on a 30 month old machine, an iMac at that, and the only thing I'd want a newer machine for right now is Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
I've seen that argued elsewhere. If Virtual PC were given away with every Mac, there would be less incentive for developers to write native Mac software, even though there's a large performance hit with emulation. It also doesn't help that right now, Virtual PC runs a lot slower under X than under 9.x.
WMP for X doesn't open some of the .wmv files I've downloaded from LimeWire and elsewhere. It's not a bad looking app, but if it can't always open its own files, it's not that useful.
I suppose that I agree with most of what you said, but I don't see the eMac as something to get to the corporate world. (granted, I have no understanding of enterprise computing, and think they're a little nuts) This isn't Apple's first education only Mac, in spite of poorly researched news stories to the contrary. The All-In-One G3 was released a few months before the iMac was first announced, and is something like a slow eMac with legacy ports. It stayed education-only.
I was just thinking about that job interview question "What do you see yourself doing in five years?" I certainly can't predict what computers will be like in five years, and with articles like this, I can't predict much else that far down the road, either. Perhaps they will be able to fix every imperfection in my body(flat feet, nearsighted, etc.), but I won't be able to afford any of the fixes.
Sound cards? For all practical purposes, there are no Mac sound cards. Creative released a SB Live about a year ago, but with buggy drivers for 9.x and NO support for X. Thing is, X reportedly has some very nice sound and music support built in, but the programmers haven't figured out how to use it yet. SCSI cards? I didn't think PC users used those much anyway, and Firewire would be better. I've upgraded my 29 month old iMac DV fairly well, with new mouse,keyboard, iSub, memory, hard drive. Just can't do anything about video, but the new games that need more also need more CPU power.