Generally, People don't run their removable hard drives/firewire externals like they run tape. A proper backup set of media is 33 units, 20 units to do incremental or differential backups over 4 weeks and one unit every cycle for off site backup. People buy 33 tapes to back up a unit, no problem. Do they buy 33 hard drives? No, and that's why HDs don't make good backup devices, nobody uses them properly.
OpenOffice for OS X will be supported both as an X11 app and as a Quartz app (native windowing code). There is a Quartz version that works but it's a little behind the X11 work so it isn't at 1.0DR yet but still at the 638 tag. Give them some time and they will catch up. When OS X has Open Office Quartz available, I would expect that MS office sales to take a slowdown. Office V.x isn't getting a lot of penetration and Mac people will certainly evaluate it fairly.
So, any thought over at IBM at working with Apple to make Mac OS X compatible Power4 machines? It would certainly be a higher end market that Apple itself isn't likely to reach and it might goose some sales for Power4 solutions...
Except for the many who don't want to be forced to have a Windows box next to their Unix workstation just so they can run MS Word. Or the ones who like Apple for using IEEE-1275 open firmware instead of IRQ conflict ridden BIOS chips. Or the ones who enjoy the ability to quickly learn new programs because Apple puts out and enforces a very good Human Interface Guide. Or the ones who get their work done faster because of Altivec optimization like the biotech people sequencing their genes more quickly. Or...
You get the picture.
Artists, whoever has them, will always be *visible*, that's what artists always are. that doesn't mean that they are the Apple userbase merely that they hog the stage at any and all opportunities. It's in their blood.
Run the business numbers. Microsoft is in the middle of switching their licensing program and if you weren't upgrading at every rev, it's going to end up being more expensive. Insist on the business paying for all their licenses and then emphasize the unlimited license option on XServe. 300 CALs is *very* expensive.
Call up Apple and ask for a demo unit for a few days. Slip it onto the network and a new pc box at the same time. Ask your PHBs if they can tell the difference without looking at the label on the sheetmetal. If they can't, the case for the cheaper Mac is made.
The people committed to buying boxed sets of RedHat each time they install a linux system won't get it free either but so what? What does that matter to the availability of Red Hat?
From an engineering and business perspective this is important for whacking Apple upside the head with a cluestick when they need it.
Case in point, Steve Jobs doesn't think tape drivers are important. Enough Darwin contributors disagree that there's going to end up being a generalized tape driver for OS X.
In Classic Mac OS land, this never would have happened.
You should see spelling improve as more slashdot readers switch to Mac as Apple is providing a system wide spell checker and any browser written in Cocoa can easily implement real time spell checking.
They pulled all of that software because it wasn't selling. The parent post was a little difficult but he does say that MS "failed at that", i.e. that he knows that they made token efforts to push alternate chip Windows out there and failed miserably.
He doesn't need to read up, just reread before posting to increase clarity.
OK, so Appleworks is "good" but not "adequate"? Usually people use those words the other way around with good being better than adequate.
Another comment, fink includes an option for XWindows so you can install everything via fink and it's pretty good about handling platform specific isues.
Actually, you misstate your case, as a professional programmer committed to the Microsoft tool set you need to run their tool set on Windows. If you were a java developer, you could develop quite well on both Linux or Mac and make good money doing it.
The entire useful existance of Steve Jobs is that he's an anal retentive, obsessive compulsive maniac whose focus is to make sure that your user experience is very good. Mac OS X is the first useful desktop system in the Unix family that is use appropriate for secretaries and grandparents.
One thing that your Windows XP system doesn't have is Open Firmware (IEEE-1275) which makes plug and pray into true plug and play. If you add a bunch of hardware and have to reseat a card to get rid of an IRQ conflict, you'll understand why IRQs simply suck. Implementing IEEE-1275 in the PC standard is simply not in the cards so there is a permanent ease of use advantage.
There are an awful lot of corporations that order $5000 Proliant and PowerEdge systems running Windows for file and print. The XServe fills that market nicely for less monsy. Apparently you are one of the many legions of people who believe Apple owes it to them to market a box specifically at them.
Apple suffers no such obligation and those of us who do happen to fit their target are happy to use their stuff. When I have my IT hat on, I'll recommend Windows, Linux, or Mac depending on whether it's the best tool for that particular job. The number of jobs for which Mac is the best tool just happens to be expanding lately.
So what is the article writer supposed to do, break in and conduct some industrial espionage? The pre-install discounts were always there but they've always been individually negotiated and secret. It's reasonable to believe that the pre-install price curve is just a smaller brother of the retail price curve and extrapolate.
I remember that drive. I worked on an old mac once that had that model and whenever you stopped it, you couldn't get it to run again unless you gave it a whack, just so, on a certain spot on the side of the case. I was the best at it so I got to place the target spot to guide anybody else who needed to do it. Why didn't we fix it? The recall had already expired, we were on tight deadline and by that time it really was a very old mac.
That's just as fatuous a statement as saying Europe doesn't have a right wing. With the sometimes exception of the UK, Europe doesn't have any major political poles of opinion who you can map onto the positions of National Review or Rush Limbaugh.
I don't agree that the left-right divide has anything to do with a two party system since it was invented for a French parliament that had multiple parties. OTOH, I do agree that it's nonsense but it's nonsense that just won't die. I'd rather use an imperfect scale and speak to substantive issues than spend a lot of time teaching people the authoritarian, libertarian, conservative, liberal grid.
That's very nice but it doesn't cover the Blaine amendments issue which I raised in the parent. These are indefensible encroachments on the 1st amendment and were passed to keep the catholics down, something that is obvious from the legislative history. The 1st amendment gets put on the back burner when politically inconvenient. I don't like that sort of hypocricy in an NGO and I won't fund it.
It's not that they are legally obligated to do it all but they represent themselves as defenders of the Constitution, especially the 1st amendment. They try to make themselves out to be even-handed, without a political agenda except fidelity to our country's founding document but they don't put it in practice. A little truth in advertising might get my wallet open.
This is nothing new. US corporations have been undermining the system which enables them for many years. How to get them to stop doing it is the real problem.
From a technical perspective, what if part of the list isn't in Yahoo and what if part of it isn't even in DNS form but rather IP address only? There's no rule that says blocked sites *have* to be by dns label, that's only a convenience. What if a porn site IP is taken over by a legitimate site but remains on the list? How could you tell without access to the list and checking?
Try looking up a case study for Ace or TrueValue hardware. These are networks of 'little guy' hardware stores who have banded together and are giving the big boys a run for their money in the hardware space.
There's no reason that big is necessarily better. In fact, with B2B and buying collectives, there's a good business case for small.
I'll stick to my position that it doesn't *have* to be this way but it's the way it is by choice of the owners.
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Generally, People don't run their removable hard drives/firewire externals like they run tape. A proper backup set of media is 33 units, 20 units to do incremental or differential backups over 4 weeks and one unit every cycle for off site backup. People buy 33 tapes to back up a unit, no problem. Do they buy 33 hard drives? No, and that's why HDs don't make good backup devices, nobody uses them properly.
OpenOffice for OS X will be supported both as an X11 app and as a Quartz app (native windowing code). There is a Quartz version that works but it's a little behind the X11 work so it isn't at 1.0DR yet but still at the 638 tag. Give them some time and they will catch up. When OS X has Open Office Quartz available, I would expect that MS office sales to take a slowdown. Office V.x isn't getting a lot of penetration and Mac people will certainly evaluate it fairly.
Isn't that what Gnustep's trying to do?
http://www.gnustep.org/information/mission.html
So, any thought over at IBM at working with Apple to make Mac OS X compatible Power4 machines? It would certainly be a higher end market that Apple itself isn't likely to reach and it might goose some sales for Power4 solutions...
Except for the many who don't want to be forced to have a Windows box next to their Unix workstation just so they can run MS Word. Or the ones who like Apple for using IEEE-1275 open firmware instead of IRQ conflict ridden BIOS chips. Or the ones who enjoy the ability to quickly learn new programs because Apple puts out and enforces a very good Human Interface Guide. Or the ones who get their work done faster because of Altivec optimization like the biotech people sequencing their genes more quickly. Or ...
You get the picture.
Artists, whoever has them, will always be *visible*, that's what artists always are. that doesn't mean that they are the Apple userbase merely that they hog the stage at any and all opportunities. It's in their blood.
Run the business numbers. Microsoft is in the middle of switching their licensing program and if you weren't upgrading at every rev, it's going to end up being more expensive. Insist on the business paying for all their licenses and then emphasize the unlimited license option on XServe. 300 CALs is *very* expensive.
Call up Apple and ask for a demo unit for a few days. Slip it onto the network and a new pc box at the same time. Ask your PHBs if they can tell the difference without looking at the label on the sheetmetal. If they can't, the case for the cheaper Mac is made.
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The people committed to buying boxed sets of RedHat each time they install a linux system won't get it free either but so what? What does that matter to the availability of Red Hat?
From an engineering and business perspective this is important for whacking Apple upside the head with a cluestick when they need it.
Case in point, Steve Jobs doesn't think tape drivers are important. Enough Darwin contributors disagree that there's going to end up being a generalized tape driver for OS X.
In Classic Mac OS land, this never would have happened.
You should see spelling improve as more slashdot readers switch to Mac as Apple is providing a system wide spell checker and any browser written in Cocoa can easily implement real time spell checking.
They pulled all of that software because it wasn't selling. The parent post was a little difficult but he does say that MS "failed at that", i.e. that he knows that they made token efforts to push alternate chip Windows out there and failed miserably.
He doesn't need to read up, just reread before posting to increase clarity.
People have been making good money for years developing just such customizations. Some people even did it for free. If you want it, have at it.
OK, so Appleworks is "good" but not "adequate"? Usually people use those words the other way around with good being better than adequate.
Another comment, fink includes an option for XWindows so you can install everything via fink and it's pretty good about handling platform specific isues.
Actually, you misstate your case, as a professional programmer committed to the Microsoft tool set you need to run their tool set on Windows. If you were a java developer, you could develop quite well on both Linux or Mac and make good money doing it.
The entire useful existance of Steve Jobs is that he's an anal retentive, obsessive compulsive maniac whose focus is to make sure that your user experience is very good. Mac OS X is the first useful desktop system in the Unix family that is use appropriate for secretaries and grandparents.
One thing that your Windows XP system doesn't have is Open Firmware (IEEE-1275) which makes plug and pray into true plug and play. If you add a bunch of hardware and have to reseat a card to get rid of an IRQ conflict, you'll understand why IRQs simply suck. Implementing IEEE-1275 in the PC standard is simply not in the cards so there is a permanent ease of use advantage.
There are an awful lot of corporations that order $5000 Proliant and PowerEdge systems running Windows for file and print. The XServe fills that market nicely for less monsy. Apparently you are one of the many legions of people who believe Apple owes it to them to market a box specifically at them.
Apple suffers no such obligation and those of us who do happen to fit their target are happy to use their stuff. When I have my IT hat on, I'll recommend Windows, Linux, or Mac depending on whether it's the best tool for that particular job. The number of jobs for which Mac is the best tool just happens to be expanding lately.
So what is the article writer supposed to do, break in and conduct some industrial espionage? The pre-install discounts were always there but they've always been individually negotiated and secret. It's reasonable to believe that the pre-install price curve is just a smaller brother of the retail price curve and extrapolate.
I remember that drive. I worked on an old mac once that had that model and whenever you stopped it, you couldn't get it to run again unless you gave it a whack, just so, on a certain spot on the side of the case. I was the best at it so I got to place the target spot to guide anybody else who needed to do it. Why didn't we fix it? The recall had already expired, we were on tight deadline and by that time it really was a very old mac.
That's just as fatuous a statement as saying Europe doesn't have a right wing. With the sometimes exception of the UK, Europe doesn't have any major political poles of opinion who you can map onto the positions of National Review or Rush Limbaugh.
I don't agree that the left-right divide has anything to do with a two party system since it was invented for a French parliament that had multiple parties. OTOH, I do agree that it's nonsense but it's nonsense that just won't die. I'd rather use an imperfect scale and speak to substantive issues than spend a lot of time teaching people the authoritarian, libertarian, conservative, liberal grid.
Yup, and I bet you still believe that "Arming America" doesn't have falsified data in it.
That's very nice but it doesn't cover the Blaine amendments issue which I raised in the parent. These are indefensible encroachments on the 1st amendment and were passed to keep the catholics down, something that is obvious from the legislative history. The 1st amendment gets put on the back burner when politically inconvenient. I don't like that sort of hypocricy in an NGO and I won't fund it.
It's not that they are legally obligated to do it all but they represent themselves as defenders of the Constitution, especially the 1st amendment. They try to make themselves out to be even-handed, without a political agenda except fidelity to our country's founding document but they don't put it in practice. A little truth in advertising might get my wallet open.
This is nothing new. US corporations have been undermining the system which enables them for many years. How to get them to stop doing it is the real problem.
From a technical perspective, what if part of the list isn't in Yahoo and what if part of it isn't even in DNS form but rather IP address only? There's no rule that says blocked sites *have* to be by dns label, that's only a convenience. What if a porn site IP is taken over by a legitimate site but remains on the list? How could you tell without access to the list and checking?
Try looking up a case study for Ace or TrueValue hardware. These are networks of 'little guy' hardware stores who have banded together and are giving the big boys a run for their money in the hardware space.
There's no reason that big is necessarily better. In fact, with B2B and buying collectives, there's a good business case for small.
I'll stick to my position that it doesn't *have* to be this way but it's the way it is by choice of the owners.