The best diet is one that you can stick to. I have lost ten pounds over 8 weeks without ever feeling hungry or giving up junk food. I did it by following the food guide, walking/cycling, and lifting weights.
Keep in mind, this is a net of ten pounds lost - I have gained muscle mass.
I agree. While I must admit I am lucky to have better than average metabolism, I've never understood why people go for all these fancy diets rather than trying to eat decently healthy and do a good workout (about an hour) each day. If I get lazy and lax for a while, I'll put on a few pounds, But I'll be damned that if I start working out and eating right I'm not in decent or better shape within a month. Too many people look for the quick fix.
First, check your math. Apple is reported as having around a 5-7% marketshare. This means there are about 15-20 times the number of x86 machines as there are PPC, not 100 as you claim.
Second, most consumers make a total new hardware investment every few years. Do you think it's that unreasonable for them to want to spend a little more for a Mac that will give them a far more enjoyable user experience than your average brand name x86?
Apple is doing exactly what they need to do to be more than a niche without porting (well, releasing their highly speculated port) of OS X to x86. OS X is far and away a superior OS to anything M$ has put out, and Apple has been making great strides in creating innovative hardware to help them achieve inroads in the consumer PC marketshare. It would not be surprising at all to see Apple with a 10-20% marketshare in a few years.
Ultimately, Linux users should quit looking at Apple as a competitor in what has previously shown to be a futile race to dethrone M$. Being a die hard Mac guy, there is nothing that would bring me more joy than seeing Apple somehow topple M$. However, this does not mean I don't thoroughly love to hear about everyone that has moved to Linux from Windows. Either way, the evil empire is falling and that's what matters.
Frankly, I think the more Apple does to gain hold and open people up to the idea that there are excellent alternatives to Windows, be it OS X, Linux, or something else, the more potential users Linux will gain. Since Linux runs just as well on PPC as it does on x86, the hardware that is out there is irrelevant to the Linux community from a standpoint of potential users. Would you rather have the hardware be from Apple or from a manufacturer that is paying royalties to M$ in the end?
I go to USC as well and I can vouch bandwidth is not a problem. I am on our network and my connection is faster than anyone I know. And that is with people sharing files pretty much as normal already.
I go to USC, and I *highly* doubt this is the case. There already is a lot of filesharing going on and we still have an incredible amount of bandwidth. We already have a bandwidth cap of something like 2 gigs a day, but no one in their right mind can even approach that without operating a file sharing server 24/7. Ultimately, it is probably a mixture of legality and morality.
On an only slightly related note. The campus network is handled by ISD (Internet Services Division) which has nothing to do with the CS department. The CS department has an eternal grudge with ISD. (As do a good number of CS students)
Maybe because our ISD is a bunch of retards and the CS department is the only one to realize it... (Yes, I'm a CS major obviously)
They are NOT banning all P2P traffic. They are only saying that users caught illegally trading music will have their rights to use the university ISP revoked. Stories like this should not be posted without all the proper facts so people like this don't make false accusations.
To give you people a background and a somewhat informed opinion of their motives, a couple years ago they started placing bandwidth caps on users (something ridiculous that you could pretty much only exceed if you ran a file sharing server all day long) because of a significant number of users taking up way too much bandwidth. Our ISD department has always remind students that piracy is illegal, so this does not represent a significant change in university policy. What I guess is that under some pressure from the RIAA, MPAA, and/or rich influential alumni in the music or film industry that they have decided to start cracking down on pirates.
Here is the whole copy of what was sent to all students here:
Dear Student:
This email is being sent to all students at USC to make sure
they have the same information about copyright compliance.
Introduction
The University of Southern California is committed to the education
of its students. Part of the educational process includes the
provision of internet connections for students in classrooms,
residences, libraries, eating establishments, and other places on
campus. Students who live off campus may also access the internet
through USC's computers via modems. Over the past two years the
university has made efforts to make students aware of policies
governing the use of its computing facilities and systems to enhance
their educational experience and keep them from violating university,
state, federal polices and laws that would negatively impact their
student status.
As a part of this ongoing effort we want to alert you to the fact
that many of you are risking complete loss of access to the USC
computer system and both disciplinary and legal sanctions. Below is
an overview of how students are placing themselves in jeopardy by
inappropriately using USC's internet connections.
Is File Sharing Worth Losing Student Privileges at USC?
You are undoubtedly aware of the development of file-sharing software
such as Napster, Gnutella, and Hotline, also known as peer-to-peer
networks ("P2P networks"), and the fact that the use of P2P networks
to share copyrighted material, such as movies, music and software,
can violate the rights of copyright owners. As you probably know,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that the majority
of Napster users are directly infringing federal copyright law by
sharing music files without the permission of musical artists and
recording companies who own these materials.
Copyright infringement occurs whenever you make a copy of any
copyrighted work - songs, videos, software, cartoons, photographs,
stories, novels - without purchasing that copy from the copyright
owner, or obtaining permission some other way. Infringement also
occurs when one person purchases an authorized copy, but allows
others to reproduce further "pirated" copies. For example, if a
student purchases a CD and creates an MP3 copy on his or her hard
drive, and then uses a P2P network to share that MP3 copy with
others, both the student and those making copies are infringing the
owners' copyright rights and violating federal copyright law.
USC prohibits any infringement of intellectual property rights by any
member of the USC community. As an academic institution, USC's
purpose is to promote and foster the creation of intellectual
property. It is antithetical to this purpose for USC to play any
part, even inadvertently, in the violation of the intellectual
property rights of others. The USC policy regarding student use of
USC computing resources clearly states that a student who reproduces
or distributes copyrighted materials in electronic form without
permission from the material's owner may be removed from the USC
computer system and face further disciplinary action.
Further, infringing conduct exposes the infringer to serious legal
penalties. In response to the growth of infringement through P2P
networks, the recording and motion picture industries have increased
their efforts to identify and stop those who download unauthorized
music and video files. Organizations such as the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA) can and do monitor P2P users, obtaining "snapshots" of
the users' Internet protocol addresses, the files they are
downloading or uploading from their P2P directories, the time that
downloading occurs, and the Internet service provider (ISP) through
which the files travel. (Gathering this information is not a
violation of the users' privacy rights, because the user has
voluntarily made his or her P2P directory available for public file
sharing.)
Once this information is obtained, RIAA, MPAA and others can demand
that an ISP remove any infringing copies from its system and may
obtain a court order directing the ISP to identify the infringing
user and to cut off the infringing user's access to the ISP's system.
Further, if the user is determined to have infringed copyright
rights, whether through P2P networks or other means, he or she can
also be subject to sanctions such as the destruction of all
unauthorized copies and monetary damages. In some cases, criminal
sanctions - imprisonment and fines - may be imposed.
As an ISP for its students and faculty, USC has received an
increasing number of notices from RIAA and MPAA identifying the IP
addresses of USC students who are sharing copies of music and videos
without authorization. USC will be forwarding such notices to the
individual students involved and taking further steps to ensure that
the infringing conduct ceases immediately, including, where
necessary, depriving that student of any access to the USC computer
system and further disciplinary sanctions. Obviously, if the
complaining organization decides to take further steps to identify
and prosecute the infringer, such conduct also runs the risk of
incurring sanctions under federal copyright law, which can include
monetary damages, and, in cases that are sufficiently extreme,
criminal penalties - both imprisonment and fines. Copyright law
provides no exception from liability for university students.
You should be aware that sharing music, videos, software, and other
copyrighted material is a violation of law and can expose you and
those with whom you share to legal sanctions, as well as sanctions
under USC's own policy. Please do not put yourself, your friends,
parents, and USC in the awkward position of having to confront such
issues. We trust that you will take this issue seriously and conduct
yourself accordingly.
Sincerely,
Jerry D. Campbell
Dean of Libraries and Chief Information Officer
Sincerely,
Michael L. Jackson
Vice President for Student Affairs
A website known as Slashdot has created an army of Linux computers willing and able to launch a DDos attack at moments notice. Efforts to patch this worm have been as yet unsuccessful.
Our connection from there to the backbone is what makes this puppy sing - any speed problems are at your end, bub.
I got this from the guy who copied what the site served by the Newton before it got/.'d. Funny, I don't think the speed (or lack thereof) problems I'm getting right now are on my end...
So, it seems the more you buy, the more likely you are to download and burn your own, or, to put it another way, the more you burn the more you buy.
His "mathematical" approach to this conclusion is fundamentally flawed. He talks about how the Offline and Nonusers make up 54% percent of the population but only buy 39% of the CDs. Yeah no shit sherlock. When you look at who probably makes up the Offline and Nonusers groups, it is no surprise. Today, pretty much the only people who are offline are older people who are afraid of/unable to learn the "new" technology. I highly doubt these people buy many CDs; hell, they may not even own a CD player. As for the nonusers, this splits into two main groups the way I see it: younger people who are against piracy and older people who don't use their computer for much more than web browsing and email.
Ultimately, I think the only relevant numbers would be if you could figure out the statistics for Nonusers, Dabblers, Learners, and Lovers between the ages of 13 and 25 or so and their CD purchasing habits because these are the users who make up the statistically significant number of music downloaders and purchasers. I would be willing to bet that if you looked at these numbers, the CD purchases of Nonusers and Dabblers would be more per person than Learners and especially Lovers.
even though it's not fun to admit, people DO pirate music.
Well I'm probably risking getting labeled a troll for this, but oh well. Virtually everyone posting on slashdot seems to think that pirating music is their right. However, just because you may believe in open source and the accompanying ideals of free (not as in beer) software does NOT mean that you can force these ideals on the record industry. They (and the artists who choose to sign with them) obviously feel that they own the intellectual property rights to the music. If you want to argue there is no such thing as intellectual property that makes most of this moot, but it also opens up a whole new can of worms that I have never the time nor the desire to delve into.
I certainly think there are a lot of things wrong with the record industry and how it is driven by the dollar and not the music, but like it or not it is their right to sell the music. This is just the same as any developer who sells proprietary hardware; they spent the time to make it and it is their right and their right alone to decide if and how they wish to sell it. If people pirated software as much as they pirated music, there would not be a software industry left standing.
Software developers take measures to make sure their works aren't pirated. Yes there are extreme examples like M$, but what about say game developers who require you to have the CD and/or a CD key to play the game. I know this is not a foolproof method, but it is fairly simple and helps cut down on piracy. No one jumps on these developers for doing this, yet the RIAA can't even be mentioned on slashdot without hordes of people mudslinging. While I don't agree with stuff like the legislation to DoS P2P network users, the RIAA also tries on much more legitimate legal grounds to stunt piracy. Is it really that bad of them to try and protect what is legally theirs in the first?
This does not affect computers that people already own in any way; this just means any comp bought in 2003 or later won't support OS 9.
As for your computer, sounds like something in OS 9 got corrupted. I would try doing a clean install (not a reinstall) and see how it works. Jaguar does nothing to prevent you from booting into OS 9.
Most of the popular games that do not have OS X versions like UT, Rogue Spear, or Rainbow Six are fairly old games. I'm sure any new computer bought in 2003 or later will be *plenty* powerful enough to run them in classic fine. Heck, I play Rainbow Six in Classic on a 500 mhz TiBook and I have no problems with it.
PS - Looking over it again, I cannot think of any major game for the Mac besides the three mentioned above that hasn't been ported to X. Am I right or am I missing something?
it's annoying for those who have thousansd in software that will only run in OS9, they get a bit of a cold shoulder from Apple is seems as of late.
People are too quick to blame Apple for this; the real fault lies in the developers who have not ported their apps. Apple has ported all of its applications to OS X, and Classic is there for running applications by developers who have not made the switch yet. Besides, Classic runs excellently under Jaguar. There is no reason you can't switch to OS X and still run the few applications from OS 9 you may need in Classic
Of course it's legal. It is their hardware; they aren't required to support OS 9 or technically even OS X for that matter (even though that would never happen). People act like this is a big surprise. Apple has always discontinued support for their older OS's after a certain time. Could I boot up System 4 on my TiBook if I wanted to? No. Well, this is more of an extreme example, but you get the picture. I for one am somewhat surprised they are stopping OS 9 support on new machines this quickly; however, I think they are just trying to force the OS 9 stalwarts (Mac users can be a stubborn bunch) into OS X one way or another.
It is *hardly* too slow to use on current Apple hardware. I have a 500 mhz TiBook with 512 megs of RAM, and Jaguar runs great on my system. Hell, 10.1 was definitely fast enough to where it wasn't noticeable. Are there other faster GUIs like Platinum (OS 9) or Linux GUIs. Sure. But all the other great things about Aqua really make that irrelevant in my mind. I have a feeling that a lot of people who have complained about Aqua's speed have not tried it on machines with a good amount of memory. I put a memory stick into someone's 400 mhz G3 iMac for them; the difference between 64 MB and 320 MB afterwards was amazing. If a 400 mhz G3 with 320 MB of memory can run it fine, pretty much any Mac can.
This has to be one of the dumbest Mac user stereotypes I have heard. The reason why fewer games come to the Mac has NOTHING to do with it not conforming to the Mac "look and feel" as you stated. Look at some of the most popular games for the Mac: WC3, Rogue Spear, AOE2, etc. These are games that take over your entire screen and have GUIs that are in no way "Mac-like." We Mac users are not stupid; we do not get "confused" by these oh so fucking complex GUIs that genius Windows users must have for all their great games. The only reason there aren't as many games for Macs is because it still takes the same amount as effort to make a game for Windows but the market is significantly smaller.
I recognize the first number as being something over in Saratoga probably, but I've never heard of a joke line. (Of course considering that I wasn't even born when you were in middle school maybe that has something to do with it.) But you touched on something that can't be overlooked about Woz. He donates more computers to schools than anyone else I have ever heard of. Anyone who has gone to public school in the south bay probably has used a computer either he personally or Apple donated, especially anyone from the Los Gatos school district.
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The best diet is one that you can stick to. I have lost ten pounds over 8 weeks without ever feeling hungry or giving up junk food. I did it by following the food guide, walking/cycling, and lifting weights. Keep in mind, this is a net of ten pounds lost - I have gained muscle mass.
I agree. While I must admit I am lucky to have better than average metabolism, I've never understood why people go for all these fancy diets rather than trying to eat decently healthy and do a good workout (about an hour) each day. If I get lazy and lax for a while, I'll put on a few pounds, But I'll be damned that if I start working out and eating right I'm not in decent or better shape within a month. Too many people look for the quick fix.
First, check your math. Apple is reported as having around a 5-7% marketshare. This means there are about 15-20 times the number of x86 machines as there are PPC, not 100 as you claim.
Second, most consumers make a total new hardware investment every few years. Do you think it's that unreasonable for them to want to spend a little more for a Mac that will give them a far more enjoyable user experience than your average brand name x86?
Apple is doing exactly what they need to do to be more than a niche without porting (well, releasing their highly speculated port) of OS X to x86. OS X is far and away a superior OS to anything M$ has put out, and Apple has been making great strides in creating innovative hardware to help them achieve inroads in the consumer PC marketshare. It would not be surprising at all to see Apple with a 10-20% marketshare in a few years.
Ultimately, Linux users should quit looking at Apple as a competitor in what has previously shown to be a futile race to dethrone M$. Being a die hard Mac guy, there is nothing that would bring me more joy than seeing Apple somehow topple M$. However, this does not mean I don't thoroughly love to hear about everyone that has moved to Linux from Windows. Either way, the evil empire is falling and that's what matters.
Frankly, I think the more Apple does to gain hold and open people up to the idea that there are excellent alternatives to Windows, be it OS X, Linux, or something else, the more potential users Linux will gain. Since Linux runs just as well on PPC as it does on x86, the hardware that is out there is irrelevant to the Linux community from a standpoint of potential users. Would you rather have the hardware be from Apple or from a manufacturer that is paying royalties to M$ in the end?
I go to USC as well and I can vouch bandwidth is not a problem. I am on our network and my connection is faster than anyone I know. And that is with people sharing files pretty much as normal already.
I go to USC, and I *highly* doubt this is the case. There already is a lot of filesharing going on and we still have an incredible amount of bandwidth. We already have a bandwidth cap of something like 2 gigs a day, but no one in their right mind can even approach that without operating a file sharing server 24/7. Ultimately, it is probably a mixture of legality and morality.
On an only slightly related note. The campus network is handled by ISD (Internet Services Division) which has nothing to do with the CS department. The CS department has an eternal grudge with ISD. (As do a good number of CS students)
Maybe because our ISD is a bunch of retards and the CS department is the only one to realize it... (Yes, I'm a CS major obviously)
They are NOT banning all P2P traffic. They are only saying that users caught illegally trading music will have their rights to use the university ISP revoked. Stories like this should not be posted without all the proper facts so people like this don't make false accusations.
To give you people a background and a somewhat informed opinion of their motives, a couple years ago they started placing bandwidth caps on users (something ridiculous that you could pretty much only exceed if you ran a file sharing server all day long) because of a significant number of users taking up way too much bandwidth. Our ISD department has always remind students that piracy is illegal, so this does not represent a significant change in university policy. What I guess is that under some pressure from the RIAA, MPAA, and/or rich influential alumni in the music or film industry that they have decided to start cracking down on pirates.
Here is the whole copy of what was sent to all students here:
Dear Student:
This email is being sent to all students at USC to make sure they have the same information about copyright compliance.
Introduction
The University of Southern California is committed to the education of its students. Part of the educational process includes the provision of internet connections for students in classrooms, residences, libraries, eating establishments, and other places on campus. Students who live off campus may also access the internet through USC's computers via modems. Over the past two years the university has made efforts to make students aware of policies governing the use of its computing facilities and systems to enhance their educational experience and keep them from violating university, state, federal polices and laws that would negatively impact their student status.
As a part of this ongoing effort we want to alert you to the fact that many of you are risking complete loss of access to the USC computer system and both disciplinary and legal sanctions. Below is an overview of how students are placing themselves in jeopardy by inappropriately using USC's internet connections.
Is File Sharing Worth Losing Student Privileges at USC?
You are undoubtedly aware of the development of file-sharing software such as Napster, Gnutella, and Hotline, also known as peer-to-peer networks ("P2P networks"), and the fact that the use of P2P networks to share copyrighted material, such as movies, music and software, can violate the rights of copyright owners. As you probably know, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that the majority of Napster users are directly infringing federal copyright law by sharing music files without the permission of musical artists and recording companies who own these materials.
Copyright infringement occurs whenever you make a copy of any copyrighted work - songs, videos, software, cartoons, photographs, stories, novels - without purchasing that copy from the copyright owner, or obtaining permission some other way. Infringement also occurs when one person purchases an authorized copy, but allows others to reproduce further "pirated" copies. For example, if a student purchases a CD and creates an MP3 copy on his or her hard drive, and then uses a P2P network to share that MP3 copy with others, both the student and those making copies are infringing the owners' copyright rights and violating federal copyright law.
USC prohibits any infringement of intellectual property rights by any member of the USC community. As an academic institution, USC's purpose is to promote and foster the creation of intellectual property. It is antithetical to this purpose for USC to play any part, even inadvertently, in the violation of the intellectual property rights of others. The USC policy regarding student use of USC computing resources clearly states that a student who reproduces or distributes copyrighted materials in electronic form without permission from the material's owner may be removed from the USC computer system and face further disciplinary action.
Further, infringing conduct exposes the infringer to serious legal penalties. In response to the growth of infringement through P2P networks, the recording and motion picture industries have increased their efforts to identify and stop those who download unauthorized music and video files. Organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) can and do monitor P2P users, obtaining "snapshots" of the users' Internet protocol addresses, the files they are downloading or uploading from their P2P directories, the time that downloading occurs, and the Internet service provider (ISP) through which the files travel. (Gathering this information is not a violation of the users' privacy rights, because the user has voluntarily made his or her P2P directory available for public file sharing.)
Once this information is obtained, RIAA, MPAA and others can demand that an ISP remove any infringing copies from its system and may obtain a court order directing the ISP to identify the infringing user and to cut off the infringing user's access to the ISP's system. Further, if the user is determined to have infringed copyright rights, whether through P2P networks or other means, he or she can also be subject to sanctions such as the destruction of all unauthorized copies and monetary damages. In some cases, criminal sanctions - imprisonment and fines - may be imposed.
As an ISP for its students and faculty, USC has received an increasing number of notices from RIAA and MPAA identifying the IP addresses of USC students who are sharing copies of music and videos without authorization. USC will be forwarding such notices to the individual students involved and taking further steps to ensure that the infringing conduct ceases immediately, including, where necessary, depriving that student of any access to the USC computer system and further disciplinary sanctions. Obviously, if the complaining organization decides to take further steps to identify and prosecute the infringer, such conduct also runs the risk of incurring sanctions under federal copyright law, which can include monetary damages, and, in cases that are sufficiently extreme, criminal penalties - both imprisonment and fines. Copyright law provides no exception from liability for university students.
You should be aware that sharing music, videos, software, and other copyrighted material is a violation of law and can expose you and those with whom you share to legal sanctions, as well as sanctions under USC's own policy. Please do not put yourself, your friends, parents, and USC in the awkward position of having to confront such issues. We trust that you will take this issue seriously and conduct yourself accordingly.
Sincerely,
Jerry D. Campbell Dean of Libraries and Chief Information Officer
Sincerely,
Michael L. Jackson Vice President for Student Affairs
A website known as Slashdot has created an army of Linux computers willing and able to launch a DDos attack at moments notice. Efforts to patch this worm have been as yet unsuccessful.
Our connection from there to the backbone is what makes this puppy sing - any speed problems are at your end, bub. /.'d. Funny, I don't think the speed (or lack thereof) problems I'm getting right now are on my end...
I got this from the guy who copied what the site served by the Newton before it got
Fish, barrel, howitzer is more your average Geocities /.'ing. This Newton was more like fish, barrel, M1 Abrams.
Yeah this sounds great and all, but what about practical uses? I mean, will this really help porn viewing *that* much?
So, it seems the more you buy, the more likely you are to download and burn your own, or, to put it another way, the more you burn the more you buy.
His "mathematical" approach to this conclusion is fundamentally flawed. He talks about how the Offline and Nonusers make up 54% percent of the population but only buy 39% of the CDs. Yeah no shit sherlock. When you look at who probably makes up the Offline and Nonusers groups, it is no surprise. Today, pretty much the only people who are offline are older people who are afraid of/unable to learn the "new" technology. I highly doubt these people buy many CDs; hell, they may not even own a CD player. As for the nonusers, this splits into two main groups the way I see it: younger people who are against piracy and older people who don't use their computer for much more than web browsing and email.
Ultimately, I think the only relevant numbers would be if you could figure out the statistics for Nonusers, Dabblers, Learners, and Lovers between the ages of 13 and 25 or so and their CD purchasing habits because these are the users who make up the statistically significant number of music downloaders and purchasers. I would be willing to bet that if you looked at these numbers, the CD purchases of Nonusers and Dabblers would be more per person than Learners and especially Lovers.
Because there are so many people out there who are worth $40 billion dollars, let alone giving away $100 million to charity...
How do you make your website temporarily obsolete (or at least unusable)? Get posted on slashdot and let the slashdotting begin.
even though it's not fun to admit, people DO pirate music.
Well I'm probably risking getting labeled a troll for this, but oh well. Virtually everyone posting on slashdot seems to think that pirating music is their right. However, just because you may believe in open source and the accompanying ideals of free (not as in beer) software does NOT mean that you can force these ideals on the record industry. They (and the artists who choose to sign with them) obviously feel that they own the intellectual property rights to the music. If you want to argue there is no such thing as intellectual property that makes most of this moot, but it also opens up a whole new can of worms that I have never the time nor the desire to delve into.
I certainly think there are a lot of things wrong with the record industry and how it is driven by the dollar and not the music, but like it or not it is their right to sell the music. This is just the same as any developer who sells proprietary hardware; they spent the time to make it and it is their right and their right alone to decide if and how they wish to sell it. If people pirated software as much as they pirated music, there would not be a software industry left standing.
Software developers take measures to make sure their works aren't pirated. Yes there are extreme examples like M$, but what about say game developers who require you to have the CD and/or a CD key to play the game. I know this is not a foolproof method, but it is fairly simple and helps cut down on piracy. No one jumps on these developers for doing this, yet the RIAA can't even be mentioned on slashdot without hordes of people mudslinging. While I don't agree with stuff like the legislation to DoS P2P network users, the RIAA also tries on much more legitimate legal grounds to stunt piracy. Is it really that bad of them to try and protect what is legally theirs in the first?
This does not affect computers that people already own in any way; this just means any comp bought in 2003 or later won't support OS 9. As for your computer, sounds like something in OS 9 got corrupted. I would try doing a clean install (not a reinstall) and see how it works. Jaguar does nothing to prevent you from booting into OS 9.
If Apple does not include functionality to use OS7/8/9 apps in OSX, then it will hurt them.
I'm going to wager you have never heard of Classic...
Most of the popular games that do not have OS X versions like UT, Rogue Spear, or Rainbow Six are fairly old games. I'm sure any new computer bought in 2003 or later will be *plenty* powerful enough to run them in classic fine. Heck, I play Rainbow Six in Classic on a 500 mhz TiBook and I have no problems with it. PS - Looking over it again, I cannot think of any major game for the Mac besides the three mentioned above that hasn't been ported to X. Am I right or am I missing something?
it's annoying for those who have thousansd in software that will only run in OS9, they get a bit of a cold shoulder from Apple is seems as of late.
People are too quick to blame Apple for this; the real fault lies in the developers who have not ported their apps. Apple has ported all of its applications to OS X, and Classic is there for running applications by developers who have not made the switch yet. Besides, Classic runs excellently under Jaguar. There is no reason you can't switch to OS X and still run the few applications from OS 9 you may need in Classic
Of course it's legal. It is their hardware; they aren't required to support OS 9 or technically even OS X for that matter (even though that would never happen). People act like this is a big surprise. Apple has always discontinued support for their older OS's after a certain time. Could I boot up System 4 on my TiBook if I wanted to? No. Well, this is more of an extreme example, but you get the picture. I for one am somewhat surprised they are stopping OS 9 support on new machines this quickly; however, I think they are just trying to force the OS 9 stalwarts (Mac users can be a stubborn bunch) into OS X one way or another.
It is *hardly* too slow to use on current Apple hardware. I have a 500 mhz TiBook with 512 megs of RAM, and Jaguar runs great on my system. Hell, 10.1 was definitely fast enough to where it wasn't noticeable. Are there other faster GUIs like Platinum (OS 9) or Linux GUIs. Sure. But all the other great things about Aqua really make that irrelevant in my mind. I have a feeling that a lot of people who have complained about Aqua's speed have not tried it on machines with a good amount of memory. I put a memory stick into someone's 400 mhz G3 iMac for them; the difference between 64 MB and 320 MB afterwards was amazing. If a 400 mhz G3 with 320 MB of memory can run it fine, pretty much any Mac can.
This has to be one of the dumbest Mac user stereotypes I have heard. The reason why fewer games come to the Mac has NOTHING to do with it not conforming to the Mac "look and feel" as you stated. Look at some of the most popular games for the Mac: WC3, Rogue Spear, AOE2, etc. These are games that take over your entire screen and have GUIs that are in no way "Mac-like." We Mac users are not stupid; we do not get "confused" by these oh so fucking complex GUIs that genius Windows users must have for all their great games. The only reason there aren't as many games for Macs is because it still takes the same amount as effort to make a game for Windows but the market is significantly smaller.
Considering that you think 44k-66k is good money for a developer, I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say you aren't from California.
I recognize the first number as being something over in Saratoga probably, but I've never heard of a joke line. (Of course considering that I wasn't even born when you were in middle school maybe that has something to do with it.) But you touched on something that can't be overlooked about Woz. He donates more computers to schools than anyone else I have ever heard of. Anyone who has gone to public school in the south bay probably has used a computer either he personally or Apple donated, especially anyone from the Los Gatos school district.