"Mac users are worse clueless, GUI addicted, button pushing, know-nothing LUSERS than microcrap users are.
Figure out how to use a command prompt you drooling baboon."
Wow... he put me in my place...
Oh well, back to OS X and tcsh
"What do you mean Panther will tear up Longhorn? Apple to suddenly have 90% market share?"
Tear up meaninging... that Apple will lengthen the gap with which its OS is better than Windows.
"Shiny spinny stuff is cool and all that, but windows doesn't have huge market share because of an amazing interface."
That's for sure.
"It is because they arrived at market at the right time, with the right product, with the right marketing strategies.
The vast majority of consumers don't CHOOSE windows... it is chosen for them as the result of illegal business practices which caused microsoft to dominate the industry...
"(Perhaps not morally right.. but the proof is in the pudding as far as $$ go)"
You bring up an interesting point... The best way to gauge user preference is to measure boxed OS sales... something Apple has consistently outpaced Microsoft by a large margin.
I use wifi on a regular basis. It seems to me that you either bought a bad card, are trying to access a hot spot from too far away or are using the wrong technology.
Rather than using "A" for your fast-wireless needs, you ought to use the "G" standard instead. not only is it known for being more reliable, but its also combatible with "B" access points... unlike the "A" standard.
Will it be based on 802.11a 802.11b or 802.11g?
Lets hope "G" is used so that all our "B" hardware can be maintained.
Knowing Intel though, they'll probably back "A" just to spite everybody.
This guy is just trying to bait somebody so that he can scream... "nuh uhh... Apple the OS from Xerox"
Meanwhile, he doesn't realize that Xerox was compensated for the code Apple used, and that Apple totally re-invented the technology that Xerox had in the labs. He makes it sound like Apple had an instant GUI once the transaction was made. (For those that don't know, the IP that was purchased from Xerox amounted to little more than a window with a few icons in it. The windows didn't scale (at least not on the fly, they didn't overlap, there was no desktop, there was no trash can, there wasn't even drop down menus! Apple invented all that!
Regardless, this guy is implying that Apple hasn't invented anything, which simply isn't true.
We had the EXACT same idea and created a boadcast blog... but instead of video, we chose to use streaming MPEG4 audio. For content management, we use manilla.
We got the company that hosts our portal to offer MPEG4 streaming AND Manilla hosting packages that will allow you to create your own radio or television web log very easily and with little training... not to mention for a a REALLY decent price. If you're interested in doing any of this, you should check it out.
The following article from oscast seeks out alternatives to the now-tainted Virtual PC software and finds a worthy alternative in OpenOSX's WinTel software, which utilizes software from the open source Bochs project.
I've been hypothesizing the posability that Apple might integrate something like this into OS X, but replace Window's UI with that of the Mac OS.
Now consider this as a posability: IBM and Apple working together to integrate x86 32-bit instructions on the PPC 970 so that PPC Linux and OS X could emulate Win32 without the performace hit.
I mean, if you were IBM, wouldn't you want to take away all of Intel's market share, and if you were Apple wouldn;t you want to do the same for Microsoft. Such a strategy would definately cause people to take a second look at switching... especially considering Microsoft's intentions with Paludium and all.
Kindof gives a whole new definition to the term RedBochs
Something to thik about...
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"Mac users are worse clueless, GUI addicted, button pushing, know-nothing LUSERS than microcrap users are. Figure out how to use a command prompt you drooling baboon." Wow... he put me in my place... Oh well, back to OS X and tcsh
I thought my OS X aqua icons turned into these nasty, square-shaped, clunky, windows-esch styled buttons.
"What do you mean Panther will tear up Longhorn? Apple to suddenly have 90% market share?"
Tear up meaninging... that Apple will lengthen the gap with which its OS is better than Windows.
"Shiny spinny stuff is cool and all that, but windows doesn't have huge market share because of an amazing interface."
That's for sure.
"It is because they arrived at market at the right time, with the right product, with the right marketing strategies.
The vast majority of consumers don't CHOOSE windows... it is chosen for them as the result of illegal business practices which caused microsoft to dominate the industry...
"(Perhaps not morally right.. but the proof is in the pudding as far as $$ go)"
You bring up an interesting point... The best way to gauge user preference is to measure boxed OS sales... something Apple has consistently outpaced Microsoft by a large margin.
They appear to be on there now...
Because the guy was wrong with the way he phrased his comment
$5000?! Which Mac are you buying? The average Mac is about $1500
"Hell if I had the money I'd buy a PowerMac based on the PPC 970 rather than buy a very nice used car."
Huh?
The average Power Mac is about $2000. (not too far off a nicely upgraded (equivilent) name-brand PC.
Arguments about Apples being more expensive than PCs is no longer so... unless you consider stripped, under-equiped towers that you build yourself.
"Don't worry. You'll probably never use 802.16a explicitly, but rather through an 802.11b system."
You got that wrong. To suggest that somebody will access an 802.11a network over an 802.11b connection is incorrect.
802.11a (high-speed) is incompatible with 802.11b (slow-er speed). Only 802.11g (high-speed) is compatible with 802.11b (slow-er speed).
I use wifi on a regular basis. It seems to me that you either bought a bad card, are trying to access a hot spot from too far away or are using the wrong technology. Rather than using "A" for your fast-wireless needs, you ought to use the "G" standard instead. not only is it known for being more reliable, but its also combatible with "B" access points... unlike the "A" standard.
Will it be based on 802.11a 802.11b or 802.11g? Lets hope "G" is used so that all our "B" hardware can be maintained. Knowing Intel though, they'll probably back "A" just to spite everybody.
>>> "you're quite the Apple fanboy/troll."
I don't run oscast, although I do work for the company.
I don't even own a Mac, but I do get upset when people troll messageboards with incorrect information.
This guy is just trying to bait somebody so that he can scream... "nuh uhh... Apple the OS from Xerox" Meanwhile, he doesn't realize that Xerox was compensated for the code Apple used, and that Apple totally re-invented the technology that Xerox had in the labs. He makes it sound like Apple had an instant GUI once the transaction was made. (For those that don't know, the IP that was purchased from Xerox amounted to little more than a window with a few icons in it. The windows didn't scale (at least not on the fly, they didn't overlap, there was no desktop, there was no trash can, there wasn't even drop down menus! Apple invented all that! Regardless, this guy is implying that Apple hasn't invented anything, which simply isn't true.
Not quite the same.
You need to brush up on your knowledge of Zeroconf / Rendezvous
http://www.oscast.com/stories/storyReader$160
What's worse than a buzzword? a buzzword in French.
Call it Zeroconf then...
>>>"Sounds exploitable" Nah... You need to brush up on your Rendezvous / Zeroconf... Check this out: http://www.oscast.com/stories/storyReader$160
Just to name a few of their more recent ones: 802.11b, 802.11g, IEEE-1394, ZeroConf
We had the EXACT same idea and created a boadcast blog... but instead of video, we chose to use streaming MPEG4 audio. For content management, we use manilla.
The end result is a very refined, web radio show.
We got the company that hosts our portal to offer MPEG4 streaming AND Manilla hosting packages that will allow you to create your own radio or television web log very easily and with little training... not to mention for a a REALLY decent price. If you're interested in doing any of this, you should check it out.
Ya, I know all about Red box (at least from the rumor sites...) hence the reason for the post. ; )
Boxed Wine?
Nah... that stuff is gross.
hmmmmm... Why not Red Bochs? hmmmm?
The following article from oscast seeks out alternatives to the now-tainted Virtual PC software and finds a worthy alternative in OpenOSX's WinTel software, which utilizes software from the open source Bochs project. I've been hypothesizing the posability that Apple might integrate something like this into OS X, but replace Window's UI with that of the Mac OS. Now consider this as a posability: IBM and Apple working together to integrate x86 32-bit instructions on the PPC 970 so that PPC Linux and OS X could emulate Win32 without the performace hit. I mean, if you were IBM, wouldn't you want to take away all of Intel's market share, and if you were Apple wouldn;t you want to do the same for Microsoft. Such a strategy would definately cause people to take a second look at switching... especially considering Microsoft's intentions with Paludium and all. Kindof gives a whole new definition to the term RedBochs Something to thik about...