This has nothing to do with new development and has a lot to do with people still needing some old program or another that is OS 9 only. A lot of DTP houses STILL have workflows that are stuck with Quark 4 in OS 9 because Quark on OS X never did work well with the Quark Publishing System. I have lots of old classic games whose companies have long since bitten the dust, but I still want to play them - their fun certainly hasn't diminished with time.
I think a lot of the Classic resentment is because we fail to see a technical reason for Classic being abandoned. What about it cannot be piped through Rosetta?
Maybe I'm just a little too accepting of conventional wisdom, but...
Apple loved to pull Phil Schiller onstage to do side-by-side speed tests showing how much faster in real life the G4s and G5s were than their Pentium equivalents. Was that so much BS?
Yes. This is Phil Schiller, Vice President of Marketing. Of course it's BS.
So is Intel going to do a cheaper Itanium for Apple or is Apple going to pretend that 64-bit never existed? Yes to both is my guess, which explains why the word "Pentium" was hardly used in the Jobs presentation. Certainly, he never said WHICH Intel chip they'd be using
just mentioning an unnamed 3.6-Ghz development system -- a system which apparently doesn't benchmark very well, either (it's in the links)
My God, a development prototype doesn't fare well in benchmarks run through a prototype emulator. Amazing, never would have guessed. Personally, I'll trust firsthand usage.
If Apple is willing to embrace the Intel architecture because of its performance and low power consumption, then why not go with AMD, which equals Intel's power specs, EXCEEDS Intel's performance specs AND does so at a lower price point across the board? Apple and AMD makes far more sense than Apple and Intel any day.
Apple is looking at long-term, and has spent the last dozen years chasing great technology from (relatively) smaller players. They want a reliable source of great desktop and notebook chips. Meanwhile, although AMD has done an excellent job of the Athlon, the Pentium M has done extremely well in the laptop arena, and that's what the upcoming Intel desktop chips will be based on. See the Ars story above.
So why would Steve Jobs --snip-- pre-announce this chip change that undercuts not only his present product line but most of the machines he'll be introducing in the next 12 to 18 months?
Because he needs developers to be working on it - Rosetta is great but we need native apps. However, a lot of other people dismissed the rumor on the same grounds.
The vaunted Intel roadmap is nice, but no nicer than the AMD roadmap, and nothing that IBM couldn't have matched. If Apple was willing to consider a processor switch, moving to the Cell Processor would have made much more sense than going to Intel or AMD, so I simply have to conclude that technology has nothing at all to do with this decision.
Apple is in this for the long haul, not a handful of years. IBM is certainly capable, but they clearly didn't have any focus there. This is Intel's ONLY focus.
And face it, I'm sure most of the people downloading Naruto wouldn't even think of buying the DVDs.
Actually, my experience has been that the vast majority of people buy the DVD's. The quality difference is staggering (DVD really shines with anime) and the extras are usually quite good. I buy very little anime (I have friends who are MUCH more into that I am), but when I see a really good series via BitTorrent, I'll buy it (Haibane Renmei, Azumanga Daioh, etc). Otherwise, I'll watch it once and delete it, which to me is just like renting (except it's VERY hard to find good places to rent anime...).
I mean, just look at all the complaints on the forums when the Naruto license was announced, when their free flow of episodes was in danger of getting shut down.
That has nothing to do with fans being cheap, it has to do with being stuck at episode #[something damn high] and the having to wait for the official release to catch up - that can take months or more likely years. So, they're stuck either doing the ethical thing and waiting forever, or finding ways to go underground.
Expect legislation on this soon. Congress would certainly love a way to finally say filtering is possible and enforceable - protecting the children and all that.
Nevermind they could only legislate American sites...
- LCD's don't look fugly at other resolutions IF you turn off scaling. Really there's no reason to run an LCD at non-native resolution unless you're a developer testing what something looks like on other screen sizes. If so, turn off scaling and deal with the black bars - it's temporary.
- LCD's have equivalent contrast if you buy a quality unit. Dell's 20-inch LCD has been rightly praised, as have Apple's offerings. You buy a shit LCD, you get a shit picture. Same with CRT's.
- LCD's don't slowly lose their calibration/contrast/brightness over the years. I have what was once a wonderful high-end flat 21" Sony Trinitron that no longer gets anywhere NEAR black - it's deep gray even in the daylight. My LCD's look exactly the same as they did the day I got them (and no dead pixels on any of them).
- Humans are limited to 24-bit color (32-bit is simply alpha blending, the number of colors displayed is still 16.7 million), so it stands to reason both your CRT's and LCD's are as well.
- CRT's *can* last a long time, or can crap out. LCD's *can* last a long time, or can crap out.
Meanwhile, you can get the aforementioned Dell 20" widescreen LCD for under $400. It's razor sharp, likely has a higher resolution than you're running your CRT at, won't cause eyestrain, saves electricity, saves desk space, is easy to move....
Don't know why I'm responding to this since no one will ever see it, but you're being a prick. Offense taken.
Here, from Northwestern University (course numbers are as of the late-90's):
Course - [GPA] Title A11 - [4.0] Intro to computer programming [Scheme, required] B11 - [4.0] Intro to computer programming [C++, required] C11 - [4.0] Data Structures [required] C95 - [3.7] Component Software Design C95 - [3.3] Human Interface Design C48 - [3.7] Introduction to AI C25 - [1.7] Artificial Intelligence [realized 4 weeks in I *hated* AI] C43 - [4.0] Operating Systems C95 - [3.0] Internet Services C22 - [3.3] Compiler Construction C95 - [3.0] Advanced Operating Systems B01 - [4.0] Digital Logic B05 - [2.3] Fundamentals of Assembly C94 - [3.0] Software Engineering C95 - [4.0] Internet Quality of Service C95 - [3.7] Computational Grids C99 - [4.0] Independent Project
As for the math courses, how is B90 - Accelerated Calculus (which I'll freely admit I no longer remember any of)?
I use Macs because they're a better system and platform, and because I *think* about such things, and I don't follow the blind sheep who use PC's "because everyone else does". I like things that work, and work damn well, and in computers, that's a Mac.
No, we appreciate elegant design (I'm a CS person, so I think in terms of OS architecture, not necessarily UI) and not having to fight our computers to get them to work.
Sure Apple is here to make money. However, you can do that by being innovative and appealing to a more sophisticated customer who realizes it's not all about Ghz and specs (Apple), you can do that by making it dirt cheap (Dell et al), or you can do it by artificially locking in your users at every chance (Microsoft).
How I wish that were the case. I've had to use several tools in the last couple days (expense reimbursement and career development) that are unabashedly IE only. What's even worse is they're simple Java apps, but use some damnable IE-specific launching system.
Unfortunately, portability is the anathema to expandability. If you keep room for slots, expansion, and other niceties, you end up with a larger, bulkier device. That will kill you in the cell-phone or portable market.
Desktops have multiple PCI slots. Laptops might have one or two stacked PC Card slots. Desktops can upgrade the video card, processor, etc. Good luck finding a laptop that you can do more than add a new port (ala PC Card), upgrade the hard drive, and upgrade memory.
I doubt anyone other than true iPod/Apple devotees have encoded their music in AAC, and so far the vast majority of most people's music libraries are from their own CD's or P2P, so there's not as much lock-in as you're making it out to be. Finally, anyone who ripped their stuff as AAC clearly *could* re-rip as MP3 if they want.
Nah, the reason people won't leave the iPod is they generall haven't wanted to. I see lots of posts talking about how people switch to the iPod, and only once in a blue moon do I see one switching away.
Now, portable video and other major shifts like that could very possibly dethrone the iPod by presenting a real impetus to change, but nothing in the music market is going to.
It's only expensive if your time is worth nothing. Not only have numerous flame wars shown that if you configure a PC similarly it's equivalently priced, but it's just easier to set up and deal with than a PC. The Mac Mini is as low as Apple will go, and it's got USB2, Firewire, 100baseT, a decent graphics subsystem, DVI, and options for 802.11g, Bluetooth, and a DVD burner (although those will obviously move the price up a bit). Low-end PC's don't offer packages like that (let alone the form factor, low noise, and low power usage). Mac OS X has very few to zero hardware issues to deal with, zero viruses/worms/trojans (yet), and a rapidly advancing OS that's already delivering things Microsoft is talking about for next year.
Sounds like a zealot, doesn't it? Well, it's the state of things, and I stand by it. You can keep insisting Macs are too expensive, and I can keep getting more work done because I don't deal with the hassle of a PC.
You know, on top of my other post, I'm going to rebut other parts of this. Bear with me.
Size: The Creative Zen Micro is 2" x 3.3" x 0.7", or 4.62 cubic inches, and weighs 3.8 ounces. The iPod Mini is 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5, which is 3.6 cubic inches, and weighs 3.6 ounces. Now, I'm willing to argue that the size difference here is negligible, but you brought it up, not me.
Features: The Creative Zen Micro has a built-in FM radio and a voice recorder, as well as a removable battery. Your mileage may vary, but every review I've seen of *any* MP3 player with an FM radio says it's crap as you can't put a decent antenna in that size player. This is a shame, as I'd personally love to have one. As for the voice recorder, if you want it on the iPod mini, you can buy a third party one. Now, the iPod Mini of course features iTunes compatibility, the click-wheel, and a VAST array of third party add ons. You may not care about these things, but I may not care about your features above. To each their own.
Design: The sheer fact that you think *color* is a part of design; well, I don't even know where to start, I really don't. Any discussion of HCI would be completely lost on you. Read about a billion different articles and blogs on it - I don't have the time.
The iPod excels as a simple music player that Just Works. None of the "PlaysForSure" camp have had anywhere near the seamless software/hardware integration of iTunes/iPod. It has little to do with marketing, nothing to do with the iTunes music store, and a hell of a lot to do with a simple, seamless design.
Maybe some people buy it based on marketing, but I'll bet damn few do. My experience has been that people don't drop several hundred dollars based on an ad. They see the ad, it gets them interested, but then they talk to friends and coworkers, and if they hear good things *then* they buy it. People buy iPods because iPod owners love the things and gush about them, not because of "hey, neat ad, I think I'll pay a few hundred bucks!".
The vast majority of anti-iPod posts focus on feature comparisons. The market has spoken quite loudly that people would rather have something that works and they enjoy using than get an extra feature or two.
Okay, He-Man, *YOU* lug this thing around (probably well over 10 pounds) with the AC adapter, cables, bag, and everything else you need to take with you. I guarantee your shoulders will be hurting, while everyone around you with a 15" laptop will be much more comfortable.
And when they get home, they'll plug into the 20" LCD they bought with the savings.
No, because as you said, out of the box security is important. Mac OS X has no services running out of the box; Windows had several exploitable ones prior to XP SP2 (which I give them credit for doing a good job with).
As for this vulnerability, it is Safari categorizing a Dashboard widget as "safe" when it clearly isn't. Yes, it's a vulnerability, one with an exploit already shown, and it needs to be fixed NOW. No one is saying Apple is perfect or OS X is immune, but so far there has been very little to point to in Apple's track record.
What's really important is Apple's response. Anyone post this in RADAR yet? "As Seen On TV", any thoughts from your unique position?
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Kiwi.
That's the dumbest thing I've seen today.
The United States does not own the internet.
Now please, kindly, STFU.
Interesting then that Word launches in under 5 seconds on my 800Mhz G3 iBook. Certainly no "symbiotic loader" here.
So, we hve a review by someone with an announced bias and a b0rked system. Yup, that's definitely "stuff that matters"...
This has nothing to do with new development and has a lot to do with people still needing some old program or another that is OS 9 only. A lot of DTP houses STILL have workflows that are stuck with Quark 4 in OS 9 because Quark on OS X never did work well with the Quark Publishing System. I have lots of old classic games whose companies have long since bitten the dust, but I still want to play them - their fun certainly hasn't diminished with time.
I think a lot of the Classic resentment is because we fail to see a technical reason for Classic being abandoned. What about it cannot be piped through Rosetta?
Yes. This is Phil Schiller, Vice President of Marketing. Of course it's BS.
See Ars.
My God, a development prototype doesn't fare well in benchmarks run through a prototype emulator. Amazing, never would have guessed. Personally, I'll trust firsthand usage.
Apple is looking at long-term, and has spent the last dozen years chasing great technology from (relatively) smaller players. They want a reliable source of great desktop and notebook chips. Meanwhile, although AMD has done an excellent job of the Athlon, the Pentium M has done extremely well in the laptop arena, and that's what the upcoming Intel desktop chips will be based on. See the Ars story above.
Because he needs developers to be working on it - Rosetta is great but we need native apps. However, a lot of other people dismissed the rumor on the same grounds.
Apple is in this for the long haul, not a handful of years. IBM is certainly capable, but they clearly didn't have any focus there. This is Intel's ONLY focus.
Complete and utter bullshit.
So, anyone find out how to torrent a motherboard?
And face it, I'm sure most of the people downloading Naruto wouldn't even think of buying the DVDs.
Actually, my experience has been that the vast majority of people buy the DVD's. The quality difference is staggering (DVD really shines with anime) and the extras are usually quite good. I buy very little anime (I have friends who are MUCH more into that I am), but when I see a really good series via BitTorrent, I'll buy it (Haibane Renmei, Azumanga Daioh, etc). Otherwise, I'll watch it once and delete it, which to me is just like renting (except it's VERY hard to find good places to rent anime...).
I mean, just look at all the complaints on the forums when the Naruto license was announced, when their free flow of episodes was in danger of getting shut down.
That has nothing to do with fans being cheap, it has to do with being stuck at episode #[something damn high] and the having to wait for the official release to catch up - that can take months or more likely years. So, they're stuck either doing the ethical thing and waiting forever, or finding ways to go underground.
Expect legislation on this soon. Congress would certainly love a way to finally say filtering is possible and enforceable - protecting the children and all that.
Nevermind they could only legislate American sites...
- LCD's don't look fugly at other resolutions IF you turn off scaling. Really there's no reason to run an LCD at non-native resolution unless you're a developer testing what something looks like on other screen sizes. If so, turn off scaling and deal with the black bars - it's temporary.
- LCD's have equivalent contrast if you buy a quality unit. Dell's 20-inch LCD has been rightly praised, as have Apple's offerings. You buy a shit LCD, you get a shit picture. Same with CRT's.
- LCD's don't slowly lose their calibration/contrast/brightness over the years. I have what was once a wonderful high-end flat 21" Sony Trinitron that no longer gets anywhere NEAR black - it's deep gray even in the daylight. My LCD's look exactly the same as they did the day I got them (and no dead pixels on any of them).
- Humans are limited to 24-bit color (32-bit is simply alpha blending, the number of colors displayed is still 16.7 million), so it stands to reason both your CRT's and LCD's are as well.
- CRT's *can* last a long time, or can crap out. LCD's *can* last a long time, or can crap out.
Meanwhile, you can get the aforementioned Dell 20" widescreen LCD for under $400. It's razor sharp, likely has a higher resolution than you're running your CRT at, won't cause eyestrain, saves electricity, saves desk space, is easy to move....
WHY did you want a CRT again?
Don't know why I'm responding to this since no one will ever see it, but you're being a prick. Offense taken.
Here, from Northwestern University (course numbers are as of the late-90's):
Course - [GPA] Title
A11 - [4.0] Intro to computer programming [Scheme, required]
B11 - [4.0] Intro to computer programming [C++, required]
C11 - [4.0] Data Structures [required]
C95 - [3.7] Component Software Design
C95 - [3.3] Human Interface Design
C48 - [3.7] Introduction to AI
C25 - [1.7] Artificial Intelligence [realized 4 weeks in I *hated* AI]
C43 - [4.0] Operating Systems
C95 - [3.0] Internet Services
C22 - [3.3] Compiler Construction
C95 - [3.0] Advanced Operating Systems
B01 - [4.0] Digital Logic
B05 - [2.3] Fundamentals of Assembly
C94 - [3.0] Software Engineering
C95 - [4.0] Internet Quality of Service
C95 - [3.7] Computational Grids
C99 - [4.0] Independent Project
As for the math courses, how is B90 - Accelerated Calculus (which I'll freely admit I no longer remember any of)?
I use Macs because they're a better system and platform, and because I *think* about such things, and I don't follow the blind sheep who use PC's "because everyone else does". I like things that work, and work damn well, and in computers, that's a Mac.
No, we appreciate elegant design (I'm a CS person, so I think in terms of OS architecture, not necessarily UI) and not having to fight our computers to get them to work.
Sure Apple is here to make money. However, you can do that by being innovative and appealing to a more sophisticated customer who realizes it's not all about Ghz and specs (Apple), you can do that by making it dirt cheap (Dell et al), or you can do it by artificially locking in your users at every chance (Microsoft).
I know who I'd give my money to.
All that bitching, and you *still* misspelled "grammar".
There have been rumors of Apple using Intel chips for 15 YEARS now.
How I wish that were the case. I've had to use several tools in the last couple days (expense reimbursement and career development) that are unabashedly IE only. What's even worse is they're simple Java apps, but use some damnable IE-specific launching system.
I'll shut up about it when people quit saying "Al Gore said he invented the internet".
Unfortunately, portability is the anathema to expandability. If you keep room for slots, expansion, and other niceties, you end up with a larger, bulkier device. That will kill you in the cell-phone or portable market.
Desktops have multiple PCI slots. Laptops might have one or two stacked PC Card slots. Desktops can upgrade the video card, processor, etc. Good luck finding a laptop that you can do more than add a new port (ala PC Card), upgrade the hard drive, and upgrade memory.
I doubt anyone other than true iPod/Apple devotees have encoded their music in AAC, and so far the vast majority of most people's music libraries are from their own CD's or P2P, so there's not as much lock-in as you're making it out to be. Finally, anyone who ripped their stuff as AAC clearly *could* re-rip as MP3 if they want.
Nah, the reason people won't leave the iPod is they generall haven't wanted to. I see lots of posts talking about how people switch to the iPod, and only once in a blue moon do I see one switching away.
Now, portable video and other major shifts like that could very possibly dethrone the iPod by presenting a real impetus to change, but nothing in the music market is going to.
It's only expensive if your time is worth nothing. Not only have numerous flame wars shown that if you configure a PC similarly it's equivalently priced, but it's just easier to set up and deal with than a PC. The Mac Mini is as low as Apple will go, and it's got USB2, Firewire, 100baseT, a decent graphics subsystem, DVI, and options for 802.11g, Bluetooth, and a DVD burner (although those will obviously move the price up a bit). Low-end PC's don't offer packages like that (let alone the form factor, low noise, and low power usage). Mac OS X has very few to zero hardware issues to deal with, zero viruses/worms/trojans (yet), and a rapidly advancing OS that's already delivering things Microsoft is talking about for next year.
Sounds like a zealot, doesn't it? Well, it's the state of things, and I stand by it. You can keep insisting Macs are too expensive, and I can keep getting more work done because I don't deal with the hassle of a PC.
You know, on top of my other post, I'm going to rebut other parts of this. Bear with me.
Size: The Creative Zen Micro is 2" x 3.3" x 0.7", or 4.62 cubic inches, and weighs 3.8 ounces. The iPod Mini is 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5, which is 3.6 cubic inches, and weighs 3.6 ounces. Now, I'm willing to argue that the size difference here is negligible, but you brought it up, not me.
Features: The Creative Zen Micro has a built-in FM radio and a voice recorder, as well as a removable battery. Your mileage may vary, but every review I've seen of *any* MP3 player with an FM radio says it's crap as you can't put a decent antenna in that size player. This is a shame, as I'd personally love to have one. As for the voice recorder, if you want it on the iPod mini, you can buy a third party one. Now, the iPod Mini of course features iTunes compatibility, the click-wheel, and a VAST array of third party add ons. You may not care about these things, but I may not care about your features above. To each their own.
Design: The sheer fact that you think *color* is a part of design; well, I don't even know where to start, I really don't. Any discussion of HCI would be completely lost on you. Read about a billion different articles and blogs on it - I don't have the time.
The iPod excels as a simple music player that Just Works. None of the "PlaysForSure" camp have had anywhere near the seamless software/hardware integration of iTunes/iPod. It has little to do with marketing, nothing to do with the iTunes music store, and a hell of a lot to do with a simple, seamless design.
Maybe some people buy it based on marketing, but I'll bet damn few do. My experience has been that people don't drop several hundred dollars based on an ad. They see the ad, it gets them interested, but then they talk to friends and coworkers, and if they hear good things *then* they buy it. People buy iPods because iPod owners love the things and gush about them, not because of "hey, neat ad, I think I'll pay a few hundred bucks!".
The vast majority of anti-iPod posts focus on feature comparisons. The market has spoken quite loudly that people would rather have something that works and they enjoy using than get an extra feature or two.
Actually, IBM provides a JVM as part of its WebSphere Micro environment for the Palm.
Okay, He-Man, *YOU* lug this thing around (probably well over 10 pounds) with the AC adapter, cables, bag, and everything else you need to take with you. I guarantee your shoulders will be hurting, while everyone around you with a 15" laptop will be much more comfortable.
And when they get home, they'll plug into the 20" LCD they bought with the savings.
Blame the record labels in your country.
No, because as you said, out of the box security is important. Mac OS X has no services running out of the box; Windows had several exploitable ones prior to XP SP2 (which I give them credit for doing a good job with).
As for this vulnerability, it is Safari categorizing a Dashboard widget as "safe" when it clearly isn't. Yes, it's a vulnerability, one with an exploit already shown, and it needs to be fixed NOW. No one is saying Apple is perfect or OS X is immune, but so far there has been very little to point to in Apple's track record.
What's really important is Apple's response. Anyone post this in RADAR yet? "As Seen On TV", any thoughts from your unique position?
You haven't been able to afford $129 in the past two and a half YEARS?
Damn, man - add a paypal donate link as a sig.