...didn't Dvork-ak predict Mac was moving to M$ OSes because of parallels ? I guess this confirms it, eh ?:-P
Stop running M$ on your macbook - you're feeding the Windoze zealots with misleading statistics !
As an aside, I do occasionaly need to use IE for cr@ppily encoded sites - maybe this stat can be interpreted as an increase in cr@ppy websites is driving macbook users to use parallels/IE for browsing...
There's a sucker [%s/sucker/stat/g] born every minute...
Why is something that gobbles up power & sounds like a lawn mower considered attractive to people ? I'd rather have something quiet & efficient. Are games really needing this type of power ?
I can imagine plenty of business uses for a box like this, however is the home draw for this very big ? If so, is it purely the "pimp my PC" crowd that goes for this ?
... $0.99 seems good, until you realize that this is a rental, not a purchase.
Rental schemes in the music industry have yet to take off (Napster? Yahoo music?). iTunes provides ownership, which I think is a cause of it's popularity...
Absolutely - movie reviews on their own have the potenial to be biased or shill-work.
However if you average enough reviews together an overal vision of how good or bad a movie is comes forward - I rottentomatoes every movie that I think of seeing (apart from Star Wars - let's not get crazy), and 9 times out of 10 I'm glad I waited for the movie to come out on video.
Movies today are rubbish, and with rottentomatoes I don't risk popping down $10 for cr@pola on the off chance it'll be good.
... however the volume of a single issue being seen is massive for a company with relatively good quality control. Othermajorissues also exist with the G5 - I'm only flagging this because the first one stung me after 5 months of use.
Does this remind anyone of the 'old' Mac HDs?
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a la the cube. Sure it has problems, and sure it didn't sell well, however I choose to ignore these shortcomings so as to present Apple technology as years ahead of whatever the 1337 crowd is attempting this month, as is my right as a zealot
There's already a seperate set of suits against apple for being twits to their resellers - this one is a class action for consumers. The thing that is a bit whiffy to my nose here is that the class action is being organized by the same group that represents the resellers, which to me says that this is either:
a smear campaing to make apple look bad in the public's eyes
a cash grab at apple because their business is booming
... I'm not surprised that Steve Jobs isn't the kind and nurturing type when it comes to his resellers, and I'm sure they're ticked off, and there may well be cause to sue in that area, however I'm not sure this specific action has much merit.
Truth be told, if the "apple zealot" level on Slashdot is any indcator, Apple didn't have any users before the iMac G5 (-;
Given that the article mentions : The lawyers are also already representing several aggrieved current and former Apple-authorized resellers who have sued the company in separate actions. ... and TellOnApple is a smear campaign by those self-same ex-resellers you're probably dead on the money...
"Pages lacks... the collaboration, tracking, and security features that make Word so excellent in business settings."
Can someone hilight the securuty features in word? I'm not trolling, I'm serious. The only mention of Word and security I know of comes from cases where Word has shown more than it intended.
I mean, for crying out loud, how desperate are Apple-lovers to find out what Jobs is peddling this January? Mocking up a grill to look like a computer - this takes the "internet appliance" concept too literally. This is the second "headless iMac" photo leak I've seen, and I think it's even less believable than the first one. I mean, where are the RCA jacks? WHERE??!!?
Come on people, the MWSF keynote is on right now, you'll find out what little Stevie has planned for your consumtion soon enough, there's no need for these faked out photos...
I still have the copy of IE 5 that shipped with Jaguar (I keep it for sentimental / comic reasons) - this is the *only* browser that I could get to display the bad stuff...
Agreed that the list is skewed towards game programming, and java isn't the place to be for bleeding edge games, however there is a java games community, and more specifically an eclipse games community.
Note - I am not a games programmer, however given some of the solutions listed ( I mean, I used to love chipmunk basic but I'm not going to use it these days ) I thought eclipse should have been pointed to. Eclipse on mac doesn't seem to be as big as eclipse on linux / windows... I was guessing this was the cause of the overlook (or maybe they hate java (-; )
Let me save you some time: RealBasic SUCKS for game development
... shame the article was about platforms for game development (-;
Agreed however if your market is for basic-style apps (where Visual Basic is thrown in today), real basic looks quite polished (although I didn't see anything regardsing Linux...).
Are you serious? Ever use System 7? It was horrid. It was the reason that Apple stated going down the Copeland road... I can think of few things to recommend this OS. Crash prone, chunky looking, bloated (basically, me as an operating system), and nothing new compared to The old finder that shipped with the original Mac...
Maybe I'm overlooking something pretty obvious, but I thought I was safe being silly about System 7 (It *was* sarcasm...). Mind you, this is Slashdot, where anything that even slightly tarishes Apply it *must* be trolling...
TTFN
... if I want to run a crappy system on PPC architecture, I can simply fire up System 7. Windows not needed - Historical Mac software gives me all the crappy I need - peddle that filth elsewhere...
... gotta love a story abour alternate browsers for IE that links to hotJava... that thing has been dead for years... even the link in the abstract states that Sun has washed their hands of this tripe...
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Stop running M$ on your macbook - you're feeding the Windoze zealots with misleading statistics !
As an aside, I do occasionaly need to use IE for cr@ppily encoded sites - maybe this stat can be interpreted as an increase in cr@ppy websites is driving macbook users to use parallels/IE for browsing ...
There's a sucker [%s/sucker/stat/g] born every minute ...
Why is something that gobbles up power & sounds like a lawn mower considered attractive to people ? I'd rather have something quiet & efficient. Are games really needing this type of power ?
I can imagine plenty of business uses for a box like this, however is the home draw for this very big ? If so, is it purely the "pimp my PC" crowd that goes for this ?
Just curious.
Sheesh ...
Actually, I thought the same thing ... turns out he still has AIDS http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/aids/2001-11-0 6-aids-johnson.htm ... I have no I dea why I (or you) thought this. Oops.
... $0.99 seems good, until you realize that this is a rental, not a purchase.
...
Rental schemes in the music industry have yet to take off (Napster? Yahoo music?). iTunes provides ownership, which I think is a cause of it's popularity
Absolutely - movie reviews on their own have the potenial to be biased or shill-work.
However if you average enough reviews together an overal vision of how good or bad a movie is comes forward - I rottentomatoes every movie that I think of seeing (apart from Star Wars - let's not get crazy), and 9 times out of 10 I'm glad I waited for the movie to come out on video.
Movies today are rubbish, and with rottentomatoes I don't risk popping down $10 for cr@pola on the off chance it'll be good.
... the more things change, the more they stay the same ... http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/512_hd2 0.htm
... the editor should have used the [stupid] tag instead of [sic] ...
Truth be told, if the "apple zealot" level on Slashdot is any indcator, Apple didn't have any users before the iMac G5 (-;
Given that the article mentions : ... and TellOnApple is a smear campaign by those self-same ex-resellers you're probably dead on the money ...
The lawyers are also already representing several aggrieved current and former Apple-authorized resellers who have sued the company in separate actions.
"Pages lacks ... the collaboration, tracking, and security features that make Word so excellent in business settings."
Can someone hilight the securuty features in word? I'm not trolling, I'm serious. The only mention of Word and security I know of comes from cases where Word has shown more than it intended.
... even Netcraft confirmed this ...
... you may be holding out for a long time. Jobs stated that Tiger will be out "before Longhorn" ... I don't take that timeline as a good sign (-;
Come on people, the MWSF keynote is on right now, you'll find out what little Stevie has planned for your consumtion soon enough, there's no need for these faked out photos ...
I still have the copy of IE 5 that shipped with Jaguar (I keep it for sentimental / comic reasons) - this is the *only* browser that I could get to display the bad stuff...
Agreed that the list is skewed towards game programming, and java isn't the place to be for bleeding edge games, however there is a java games community, and more specifically an eclipse games community.
Note - I am not a games programmer, however given some of the solutions listed ( I mean, I used to love chipmunk basic but I'm not going to use it these days ) I thought eclipse should have been pointed to. Eclipse on mac doesn't seem to be as big as eclipse on linux / windows ... I was guessing this was the cause of the overlook (or maybe they hate java (-; )
... shame the article was about platforms for game development (-;
Agreed however if your market is for basic-style apps (where Visual Basic is thrown in today), real basic looks quite polished (although I didn't see anything regardsing Linux ...).
A million different cheez-o basic versions listed, but they forgot eclipse ...
the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "Mwahahahahahahahaha!"
in fact read
the first real-time strategy game whose tag line could have been "four more years!"
... solely due to the "click wheel" thing - no other player has this, no other player is as easy to use.
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Paint them whatever colur you want, make them as small as you like - the competing boxes have lousy interfaces
Are you serious? Ever use System 7? It was horrid. It was the reason that Apple stated going down the Copeland road... I can think of few things to recommend this OS. Crash prone, chunky looking, bloated (basically, me as an operating system), and nothing new compared to The old finder that shipped with the original Mac ...
Maybe I'm overlooking something pretty obvious, but I thought I was safe being silly about System 7 (It *was* sarcasm ...). Mind you, this is Slashdot, where anything that even slightly tarishes Apply it *must* be trolling ...
TTFN
... if I want to run a crappy system on PPC architecture, I can simply fire up System 7. Windows not needed - Historical Mac software gives me all the crappy I need - peddle that filth elsewhere ...
... gotta love a story abour alternate browsers for IE that links to hotJava ... that thing has been dead for years ... even the link in the abstract states that Sun has washed their hands of this tripe ...