I'm relieved to know Microsoft are still looking out for the little man on the street, the ordinary defenseless consumer, and so I am grieving real tears to hear they're unhappy.
It's ruined my day. I might go to bed without dessert tonight.
Carly Fiorina - she just buys up someone else's technology, what IT guru Thurrott calls 'the crappy AAC' - while Microsoft, now they're always innovating, aren't they, coming up with new and groovy ideas.
I think we should support Microsoft more. They try harder - for us.
to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio
Oh PUH-leeze. This guy - Thurrott - is trying to outdo himself in being provocative and nasty. Even Vegas shills have more decency and dignity than this creep. Perhaps he's desperate to get visitors to his incredibly yucky 'super site'. The pics of him and his wife and kids and dog - are we supposed to be lured into thinking this is a nice guy?
If they ever make a movie out of this, I think Brad Dourif should play Thurrott - he already did such a good job with Grima Wormtongue.
They slumber for the longest - but when they wake, no one should mess with them. Least of all William H. Gates. These might be the moves so many of us have waited for so long now - against Darl, against Gates, etc.
I jog with my 17" PowerBook all the time too. But I don't listen to music - I watch movies. Or streaming video with Steve Jobs. No problems with the hard drive... Next week the g/f and I are taking our Xgrids for a walk in the park.
I think we're seeing something happening here. I can't put my finger on it yet - what it is ain't exactly clear - but there's this change of direction in the marketplace. I'm not talking just doodads and gizmos, but the lower-priced item, slimmer and slimmer and smaller and smaller, trendy status items, almost as if the era of the computer has been eclipsed. And I still don't understand how it's going to work: there are no direct revenues to speak of on selling songs online, and yet everyone is going for it, and iPods, for all the markup, only cost so much, so 75% of very little is still very little.
But there's a new market here, which they are exploiting and opening up. They wouldn't do this - or sell songs online - if there weren't a pretty penny in it, at least way down the line, and to me it sounds like strategic planning far into the future.
OK, I haven't explained all that very well, but it is a feeling, and I think there's something there, and I am pretty sure if you talked to any of those marketing droids, they'd already have an expression to describe it - they probably invented it.
I wasn't aware the 100 million songs was just a rumour. I remember both Steve Jobs and the PepsiCo NA CEO mentioning this at that 'Apple Music Event' - and that it would start on 1 February.
Marshall Brainiac wasted eleven hours. For me, this article wasted about five minutes. Typing this reply wasted about two.
But the biggest waste of all is pecuniary and pompous in nature: why bother commenting on how shitty Microsoft software is? Don't we all know that already?
I spent zero hours and zero minutes taking care of my Apple network in December. This was a decrease in support time over November by zero hours and zero minutes, when there was, as per usual, no time wasted on such nonsense.
Meester Brainiac: We have no interest in your Winoze Woze. Either get out or stop complaining.
I wouldn't recommend 98SE to my worst enemy, but in the sticky situation where you know someone is going to be running Windoze no matter how much you proselytise against it, 98SE is one of the least horrible alternatives.
Yes, it is a shitty 16-bit insecure system with a funky 32-bit wrapper around great inventions like the Win16Mutex, and yes, it's got a lot of migration going on because Bill and company were up against the wall in Washington DC, but it doesn't possess the evils of later versions such as Win2K, WinME, and WinXP.
And there are always forums - people will exchange ideas and tips.
No one needs Microsoft. For the effort made to find a good forum on 98SE and an answer to a question, people in the future will be able to download a Linux distro and fare so much better.
I don't like the way they just let content run off the bottom of the page. They've always done that, and I don't like it. They should, IMHO, put a discreet narrow white space at the bottom. I don't know. I know it just doesn't look right for me the way it is - it feels 'half baked'.
Their location bar, with all the other doodads they've already got up there, is about wide enough for 'apple.com' but no more. I suspect this is going to be a real pain for users of the new version.
And I've had no joy with ever getting OW to run for more than a few minutes without crashing all over the place - and not when rendering web pages, but when trying the possible in configuration settings and the like.
And all the Omni PR people have had to say about that is: 'a lot of our users don't experience crashes'. So wow - that's how you deal with crashes at Omni Group support?
No thanks. I got Safari if I want, and Safari is an honest effort, and Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.
Creating a souped-up version of Safari might give them back a market niche, but it's not honest the way they're going at it, IMHO. Show you can write a browser first - then worry about the doodads. I for one will not go near OW5 until I hear the word that Omni have suddenly learned how to produce good, stable code.
I just don't know. Omni have been around for ages, and in the NeXT camp, but their browser has been around for ages too, and crashing for ages, and was totally eclipsed there for a while until they came up with the idea of using the same code as Safari to rejuvenate and refurbish their own product. And yes, that is the essence of the GPL, but what irks me is that prior to the introduction of Safari, Omni could not get a stable browser out the door.
There is no doubt in my mind that D Hyatt and Co could make this Omni browser if they wanted - but they ostensibly opt not to, and for reasons which are not that hard to fathom. A lot of people like - even prefer - Safari for its simplicity - and for its relative stability.
I prefer good coding. I don't care much what great new UI gizmos a company dreams up. I want dependability and stability, and without disparaging anyone unnecessarily, it seems that these two virtues have been difficult to achieve for the Omni Group, and I see no indication they're suddenly going to get any better.
And you're thinking OW might be the answer to these Safari woes? That's funny.
The one thing Omni don't have online are MOV or MP4 files of how their latest browser crashes. That would be nice. You will just have to wait until you try it - preferably before you shell out another tenner.
The real blame for ruining the party goes not to those poor souls who've been burdened with faulting hardware, but to the Apple reps who've handled these cases so poorly, and to the increasingly lacking QA in hardware production.
Apple have it in their power to right the wrongs and improve production quality so it's back on track where it's supposed to be. People don't make up stories about bad mobos if there's nothing wrong with their mobos.
Apple are off the 'good guys' list at Consumer Affairs. If they want to get back on, they'll have to get the party rolling.
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something that is so profound and yet so hard to name
Very akin with one's first sexual experience...
I'm relieved to know Microsoft are still looking out for the little man on the street, the ordinary defenseless consumer, and so I am grieving real tears to hear they're unhappy.
It's ruined my day. I might go to bed without dessert tonight.
Big Blue might find it hard to compete with the free ADC tools, no matter the quality of their XLC.
Carly Fiorina - she just buys up someone else's technology, what IT guru Thurrott calls 'the crappy AAC' - while Microsoft, now they're always innovating, aren't they, coming up with new and groovy ideas.
I think we should support Microsoft more. They try harder - for us.
Haha.
to add support for Microsoft's superior Windows Media Audio
Oh PUH-leeze. This guy - Thurrott - is trying to outdo himself in being provocative and nasty. Even Vegas shills have more decency and dignity than this creep. Perhaps he's desperate to get visitors to his incredibly yucky 'super site'. The pics of him and his wife and kids and dog - are we supposed to be lured into thinking this is a nice guy?
If they ever make a movie out of this, I think Brad Dourif should play Thurrott - he already did such a good job with Grima Wormtongue.
They slumber for the longest - but when they wake, no one should mess with them. Least of all William H. Gates. These might be the moves so many of us have waited for so long now - against Darl, against Gates, etc.
Go Big Blue!
This name is familiar - can't place him. He's at IBM now, has worked at Bell Labs - but it's something else - anybody remember what?
PS. Good article...
Now if they could only do this with NeXTSTEP - er, OPENSTEP - er, Cocoa - then we might have something. Sans the Carbon puckey of course.
Is this what's next? Pastel coloured PowerBooks, or at least iBooks? Eeeee...
ThankYouIWasGonnaPostThatButItFeltSoSillyGladYouDi dItInstead.
IHaveNeverProgrammedInPascal. NeverNeverNever.
Jobs and the Pepsi NA CEO announced at the Apple Music Event that it would be 300 million bottles of Pepsi and Sierra Mist.
With a free song in one cap out of three.
I jog with my 17" PowerBook all the time too. But I don't listen to music - I watch movies. Or streaming video with Steve Jobs. No problems with the hard drive... Next week the g/f and I are taking our Xgrids for a walk in the park.
I think we're seeing something happening here. I can't put my finger on it yet - what it is ain't exactly clear - but there's this change of direction in the marketplace. I'm not talking just doodads and gizmos, but the lower-priced item, slimmer and slimmer and smaller and smaller, trendy status items, almost as if the era of the computer has been eclipsed. And I still don't understand how it's going to work: there are no direct revenues to speak of on selling songs online, and yet everyone is going for it, and iPods, for all the markup, only cost so much, so 75% of very little is still very little.
But there's a new market here, which they are exploiting and opening up. They wouldn't do this - or sell songs online - if there weren't a pretty penny in it, at least way down the line, and to me it sounds like strategic planning far into the future.
OK, I haven't explained all that very well, but it is a feeling, and I think there's something there, and I am pretty sure if you talked to any of those marketing droids, they'd already have an expression to describe it - they probably invented it.
Where's the quadruple G5 (or G6) PowerBooks? I wanted one!
I wasn't aware the 100 million songs was just a rumour. I remember both Steve Jobs and the PepsiCo NA CEO mentioning this at that 'Apple Music Event' - and that it would start on 1 February.
Marshall Brainiac wasted eleven hours. For me, this article wasted about five minutes. Typing this reply wasted about two.
But the biggest waste of all is pecuniary and pompous in nature: why bother commenting on how shitty Microsoft software is? Don't we all know that already?
I spent zero hours and zero minutes taking care of my Apple network in December. This was a decrease in support time over November by zero hours and zero minutes, when there was, as per usual, no time wasted on such nonsense.
Meester Brainiac: We have no interest in your Winoze Woze. Either get out or stop complaining.
Goodbye, Meester Brainiac.
I wouldn't recommend 98SE to my worst enemy, but in the sticky situation where you know someone is going to be running Windoze no matter how much you proselytise against it, 98SE is one of the least horrible alternatives.
Yes, it is a shitty 16-bit insecure system with a funky 32-bit wrapper around great inventions like the Win16Mutex, and yes, it's got a lot of migration going on because Bill and company were up against the wall in Washington DC, but it doesn't possess the evils of later versions such as Win2K, WinME, and WinXP.
And there are always forums - people will exchange ideas and tips.
No one needs Microsoft. For the effort made to find a good forum on 98SE and an answer to a question, people in the future will be able to download a Linux distro and fare so much better.
I don't like the way they just let content run off the bottom of the page. They've always done that, and I don't like it. They should, IMHO, put a discreet narrow white space at the bottom. I don't know. I know it just doesn't look right for me the way it is - it feels 'half baked'.
Their location bar, with all the other doodads they've already got up there, is about wide enough for 'apple.com' but no more. I suspect this is going to be a real pain for users of the new version.
And I've had no joy with ever getting OW to run for more than a few minutes without crashing all over the place - and not when rendering web pages, but when trying the possible in configuration settings and the like.
And all the Omni PR people have had to say about that is: 'a lot of our users don't experience crashes'. So wow - that's how you deal with crashes at Omni Group support?
No thanks. I got Safari if I want, and Safari is an honest effort, and Safari is not playing leap frog or riding on the tails of anyone else's efforts. Omni should first attempt to get their own browser out the door without crashing all over the place; when they've demonstrated they too can write solid code, then they can do what they want.
Creating a souped-up version of Safari might give them back a market niche, but it's not honest the way they're going at it, IMHO. Show you can write a browser first - then worry about the doodads. I for one will not go near OW5 until I hear the word that Omni have suddenly learned how to produce good, stable code.
I just don't know. Omni have been around for ages, and in the NeXT camp, but their browser has been around for ages too, and crashing for ages, and was totally eclipsed there for a while until they came up with the idea of using the same code as Safari to rejuvenate and refurbish their own product. And yes, that is the essence of the GPL, but what irks me is that prior to the introduction of Safari, Omni could not get a stable browser out the door.
There is no doubt in my mind that D Hyatt and Co could make this Omni browser if they wanted - but they ostensibly opt not to, and for reasons which are not that hard to fathom. A lot of people like - even prefer - Safari for its simplicity - and for its relative stability.
I prefer good coding. I don't care much what great new UI gizmos a company dreams up. I want dependability and stability, and without disparaging anyone unnecessarily, it seems that these two virtues have been difficult to achieve for the Omni Group, and I see no indication they're suddenly going to get any better.
The biggest of all of them being the crashes
And you're thinking OW might be the answer to these Safari woes? That's funny.
The one thing Omni don't have online are MOV or MP4 files of how their latest browser crashes. That would be nice. You will just have to wait until you try it - preferably before you shell out another tenner.
The real blame for ruining the party goes not to those poor souls who've been burdened with faulting hardware, but to the Apple reps who've handled these cases so poorly, and to the increasingly lacking QA in hardware production.
Apple have it in their power to right the wrongs and improve production quality so it's back on track where it's supposed to be. People don't make up stories about bad mobos if there's nothing wrong with their mobos.
Apple are off the 'good guys' list at Consumer Affairs. If they want to get back on, they'll have to get the party rolling.
>the hard part isn't the coding
Oh give me a break, brainiac. You sit and hack it out with BR, and see how far you get.
I am so sick and tired of all these lusers lording it over everyone.
You want form? And flash? Fine. Don't underestimate the programmer ever again. Next thing you know, you won't have a toy to play with.
But it's not NATIVE, Herr von Plank. That's the issue. The Mac crowd don' like da X11 much.
Drink tea. EB in the morning, Darjeeling in the afternoon in the garden, and an Earl Grey late at night in the drawing room before retiring.
It is important when counting backwards, that if you should run into someone counting forwards, keep your head inside the window.