Except that I don't recall IE being touted as a "Netscape Killer" on release. It was only after the fact that everyone realised it. Similarly, Word and WP were the same price, but Office cost only a bit more than Word, and came with Excel and Powerpoint as well. MS sold the integration of Word/Excel/Powerpoint, compared with WordPerfect+SuperCalc (or Lotus 1-2-3, although it cost more)+Harvard Graphics
So, MS developed killers were not sold as such, but became them. I think this shows that anything touted as "*-Killer" won't succeed, but that some new products will end up killing others.
As this poster points out, there is no "Queen of Canada". However, by including the full official title, he has also neatly proved that there is no "Queen of England" either.
(Union of the Crowns in 1603, meant that the last "Queen of England" was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII)
n the UK, the Labour party just got reelected with only 36% of the vote. Yup. That's a minority. Almost 2/3 of the population didn't want them in power.
With a turnout of 61%, as well as the 2/3 of voters who actively did not want New Labour back in, there is also the one third who were not moved strongly enough to make any preference.
Funny how the Conservatives (now that they are not in power) are coming round to the proportional representation idea (they were dead against it when they were in power; now Labour is against it. Plus ca change)
But... black cat's are lucky, so that cancels out the ladder. There's nothing unlucky about a salt shaker (unless you spill it), while the mirror would have to be really big to be able to shatter and crush
Apple's rumour-monger has an identity (ASOTV); Microsoft's one posts AC. Maybe coincidence, but ASOTV appeared just after the fuss over stuff leaked to thinksecret had been resolved, so he could have the job title of "Official 'unofficial and off-the-record' spokesman". After all, Apple used to have "Evangelists" (maybe they still do).
Actually, that may not be such a bad idea. Anyone trying to be inconspicuous watching will see you are playing a MMORPG. All the IP logs will also show it. However, it's who you contact while playing that is the key. So, provided the "friends" are also online, then they can be contacted.
OK, so it's a bit of security through obscurity, but it may work.
If he wants to use iTunes, then there are many MP3 players out there (iTunes 2.0 for OS9, which predated the iPod, included support for a number from Rio, Nomad and Nakamichi).
However, if he wants to use the iTunes Music Store, then (without other hacks), he is limited to an iPod of some description.
It should be possible. Metrowerks CodeWarrior, for example, allowed MacOS and Windows binaries to be created from the same source. I'm sure there are other cross-platform compliers.
Looking at the AppleWorks6.app (control click to see the package contents), there is a folder called "Contents". Inside that are folders called Mac OS and MacOSClassic. This allows it to run as OS X native and also from MacOS 9. AFAIK, the same principle can be used to include any binary.
It is possible that they would only have to develop one version, provided the Cocoa frameworks are fully ported to x86, but then compile twice (once for PPC, and once for x86). Or even, compile three times (one for G4, one optimised for G5 and one for x86). Because the photoshop.app can contain multiple versions, as fas as the user is concerned, "Photoshop for OS X" would work on OS X, whatever platform it is on.
Until there is true hardware abstraction at the application layer (and hence the one code set will run anywhere), the "multiple version within a.app" approach is at least platform agnostic for the user.
The other, similar one, was floppy to floppy copying (with only one drive).
The PC crowd would go on about "eject the disk, leaving it's image on the desktop? How unintuitive is that? All I do is 'copy a: a: ' "
The Mac crowd would then respond with "ah yes, but at least the system will spit out the disk when it wants the other one, and will check that you have put in the disk asked for before carrying on. If you get confused between which disk is 'source', and which is 'destination', then you end up overwriting your source with an incomplete copy of itself"
You might also want to dig out your QuickTime 6 player (even with QT7). On my 450Mhz iMac G3, I found that playback was dropping too many frames if the movie was too big (player 7), and yet would play fine with player 6. (I used the 2004 update to the 1984 Apple ad - 480 x 360 pixels)
On the other hand, there were some movie trailers that did seem "crisper" in QT7. Having read the Ars article, which explains the differences under the hood, it is probably not just my imagination.
Wasn't Terry Jones the one who played the piano nude in Monty Python? (or was that Terry Gilliam?) Either way, sounds like a reasonable choice
I think that "Mostly Harmless" seems to have a very "Look, no more Hitchhikers. No, I mean it. I'm not doing any more. Ever. No, really! I'm not joking. There! Write a sequel to that" type ending. Unlike the notes to the radio scripts book, where DNA thought that there would be only one series, so pretty much wrapped it up, and had to do the mental judo to write series two. So he left it more open ended to allow for series three, which never happened in his lifetime.
What would be interesting would be if someone could attempt to tie up all DNA's loose ends from the "Salmon of Doubt" excerpts, and finish off the book. It had a good start, and it was a great disappointment to come to the end, just as it was getting interesting.
Although, I'm not sure who I would trust to finish it off.
Of the sig: very appropriate, given that H2G2 is a trilogy in 5 parts (which would probably have been better left as a 4-parter)
Slashdot Mirror
Except that I don't recall IE being touted as a "Netscape Killer" on release. It was only after the fact that everyone realised it. Similarly, Word and WP were the same price, but Office cost only a bit more than Word, and came with Excel and Powerpoint as well. MS sold the integration of Word/Excel/Powerpoint, compared with WordPerfect+SuperCalc (or Lotus 1-2-3, although it cost more)+Harvard Graphics
So, MS developed killers were not sold as such, but became them. I think this shows that anything touted as "*-Killer" won't succeed, but that some new products will end up killing others.
Queen of England or the Queen of Canada?
As this poster points out, there is no "Queen of Canada". However, by including the full official title, he has also neatly proved that there is no "Queen of England" either.
(Union of the Crowns in 1603, meant that the last "Queen of England" was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII)
n the UK, the Labour party just got reelected with only 36% of the vote. Yup. That's a minority. Almost 2/3 of the population didn't want them in power.
With a turnout of 61%, as well as the 2/3 of voters who actively did not want New Labour back in, there is also the one third who were not moved strongly enough to make any preference.
Funny how the Conservatives (now that they are not in power) are coming round to the proportional representation idea (they were dead against it when they were in power; now Labour is against it. Plus ca change)
The war in Iraq didn't help, but the clincher was probably when the performers sang flat.
I'm sure it was no coincidence that Britain never did well during the Thatcher years (with the term "Eurosceptic" no doubt hacking off many in Europe)
Greece gives 12 points to Cyprus, Cyprus gives 12 points to Greece, and on and on...
However, this time round, Greece gave 12 points to Turkey. Even Terry Wogan was impressed "time was when they wouldn't give each other any points"
Interesting. However, Apple has managed to mix GPL (Darwin) with non-GPL (all the Aqua bits on top of Darwin), so presumably MS could do the same:
"New from Microsoft. Run Linux, but with Window's ease of use"
(don't forget, MS reckon that everyone really does want to use the Windows UI)
So you're saying it's Mach 2.5, not Mach 3?
Or, roughly F-15 Eagle, not XB-70 Valkyrie !
But... black cat's are lucky, so that cancels out the ladder. There's nothing unlucky about a salt shaker (unless you spill it), while the mirror would have to be really big to be able to shatter and crush
I'd just thought of that one too.
Apple's rumour-monger has an identity (ASOTV); Microsoft's one posts AC. Maybe coincidence, but ASOTV appeared just after the fuss over stuff leaked to thinksecret had been resolved, so he could have the job title of "Official 'unofficial and off-the-record' spokesman". After all, Apple used to have "Evangelists" (maybe they still do).
tell them to play EverQuest
Actually, that may not be such a bad idea. Anyone trying to be inconspicuous watching will see you are playing a MMORPG. All the IP logs will also show it. However, it's who you contact while playing that is the key. So, provided the "friends" are also online, then they can be contacted.
OK, so it's a bit of security through obscurity, but it may work.
I half expect to see a headline announcing Google Music one of these days
/. so:
But.... this is
1. See an emerging trend in music download services
2. Launch "Slashdot Music" (ogg format, naturally)
3. Profit!
If he wants to use iTunes, then there are many MP3 players out there (iTunes 2.0 for OS9, which predated the iPod, included support for a number from Rio, Nomad and Nakamichi).
However, if he wants to use the iTunes Music Store, then (without other hacks), he is limited to an iPod of some description.
It should be possible. Metrowerks CodeWarrior, for example, allowed MacOS and Windows binaries to be created from the same source. I'm sure there are other cross-platform compliers.
Looking at the AppleWorks6.app (control click to see the package contents), there is a folder called "Contents". Inside that are folders called Mac OS and MacOSClassic. This allows it to run as OS X native and also from MacOS 9. AFAIK, the same principle can be used to include any binary.
It is possible that they would only have to develop one version, provided the Cocoa frameworks are fully ported to x86, but then compile twice (once for PPC, and once for x86). Or even, compile three times (one for G4, one optimised for G5 and one for x86). Because the photoshop.app can contain multiple versions, as fas as the user is concerned, "Photoshop for OS X" would work on OS X, whatever platform it is on.
.app" approach is at least platform agnostic for the user.
Until there is true hardware abstraction at the application layer (and hence the one code set will run anywhere), the "multiple version within a
The other, similar one, was floppy to floppy copying (with only one drive).
The PC crowd would go on about "eject the disk, leaving it's image on the desktop? How unintuitive is that? All I do is 'copy a: a: ' "
The Mac crowd would then respond with "ah yes, but at least the system will spit out the disk when it wants the other one, and will check that you have put in the disk asked for before carrying on. If you get confused between which disk is 'source', and which is 'destination', then you end up overwriting your source with an incomplete copy of itself"
Ahem, I think this may help...
...but if your wife asks, you could always say that you thought it was the cable you needed for gigabit Ethernet.
Or just get a good pair of running shoes.
You might also want to dig out your QuickTime 6 player (even with QT7). On my 450Mhz iMac G3, I found that playback was dropping too many frames if the movie was too big (player 7), and yet would play fine with player 6. (I used the 2004 update to the 1984 Apple ad - 480 x 360 pixels)
On the other hand, there were some movie trailers that did seem "crisper" in QT7. Having read the Ars article, which explains the differences under the hood, it is probably not just my imagination.
Wasn't Terry Jones the one who played the piano nude in Monty Python? (or was that Terry Gilliam?) Either way, sounds like a reasonable choice
I think that "Mostly Harmless" seems to have a very "Look, no more Hitchhikers. No, I mean it. I'm not doing any more. Ever. No, really! I'm not joking. There! Write a sequel to that" type ending. Unlike the notes to the radio scripts book, where DNA thought that there would be only one series, so pretty much wrapped it up, and had to do the mental judo to write series two. So he left it more open ended to allow for series three, which never happened in his lifetime.
6 times 9 does equal 42, if you use base 13
What would be interesting would be if someone could attempt to tie up all DNA's loose ends from the "Salmon of Doubt" excerpts, and finish off the book. It had a good start, and it was a great disappointment to come to the end, just as it was getting interesting.
Although, I'm not sure who I would trust to finish it off.
Of the sig: very appropriate, given that H2G2 is a trilogy in 5 parts (which would probably have been better left as a 4-parter)
...who became a three legged cat, and helped me write some stuff
Hmm... must update pages this millennium.
hey fuse together the two- and three-legged cats, and create Cat5
Would that Cat5 be twisted pair, then?
Come on, if you're going to quote a joke, at least get the punchline right! It's "20 minutes to copy a 17Mb file"
I liked this description of Simo, the author of the piece:
MJ 'Simo' Simpson has sent us a copy of his newsletter. Simo has worked for SFX magazine, has published one book on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and has a Douglas Adams biography being published next year, and always buys a round.
I'd hold him to the "buy a round" bit.
Of course, for Microsoft, April 1st follows the Longhorn release schedule, and is, in fact, on May 2nd
For all we know, Patrick Stewart may have taken on the Picard role to avoid being typecast as a mainly stage actor (I, Claudius notwithstanding)