Even skipping past the other implications, I never heard the Great Man giving credit to anyone else but himself.
Watch the WWDC and MacWorld keynote addresses. Jobs always makes a point of thanking the Apple engineers, asking them to stand up and be applauded, and so on.
68k support in Mac OS X? Unless you mean in Classic - in which case 68k applications could run in 10.4 - there was no 68k support in Mac OS X. Mac OS 8.1 was the last to boot on a 68040.
Even if they drop support for PowerPC, they will most likely not drop support for running PPC apps in Rosetta.
to confirm it. All this article is is a claim that a Blu-Ray version of the 360 is being manufactured - which is what rumour sites have been suggesting since the death of HD-DVD. Until Microsoft confirms it, or we see one in the wild, this is still hearsay and speculation.
More to the point, why did you waste this time clicking and commenting on a story which clearly doesn't interest you? Not everything on Slashdot exists purely to please you. Or does it really offend you that much to see a story about a platform other than your own?
Not going to happen, I'm afraid. Apple would be treading on very thin ice with their developers, after urging them to switch to producing Intel code and promising them that Intel was the way forward, to suddenly declare, "Whoops! PowerPC for everyone!"
If a friend tells you libellous comments face-to-face, the chances of him being sued successfully for it is virtually nil. Publish it in a newspaper, television programme, or on the web, and that probability shoots upwards. Traditional journalism must meet some standards of accountability, whereas you and your mates down the pub don't.
Don't be ashamed! I grew up with an A3000 as my main computer and still love RISC OS. My RiscPC may be much faster (StrongARM!) but that Acorn badge on the front still makes me smile.
The difference is that Apple provides you with a boot loader, drivers, and easy partitioning utilities to let you boot Windows on a Mac. All official, all fully supported. The only part of Boot Camp which isn't is Windows itself. Compare this to OSX86, where you're completely on your own.
Actually, it's only PowerPC Macs which cannot boot from USB . PPC can boot from internal ATA, SCSI, or FireWire. Intel Macs can boot from those, plus USB.
Foreign Country In Different Terminology Shock!
Mains: the mains electricity or water supply is simply the supply to your home/place of work/etc.
Earthed: providing a connection to the Earth; grounded.
I don't see how they can even mention Diablo III with a straight face. How can it count as vapourware when it's never been officially announced by Blizzard? Meanwhile, I thought Starcraft: Ghost had been officially put on "permanent hiatus", or in other words, cancelled?
112 is the European emergency telephone number, alongside whichever national ones exist. For example, here in the UK both 999 and 112 will connect you to emergency services.
Why not just authorise your work and home computers? You're allowed five concurrent authorisations. Sure, it's an annoying DRM limitation. But it's fallacious to say you can only play the same song on multiple computers if they're on the same LAN. (Unless I'm missing something)
According to the friendly article, when you put the Dock on the left- or right-hand side, it uses a revised 2D appearance instead:
For those who like their Dock positioned on the right or left side of the screen, Apple has offered up a late surprise in the final release of Leopard. Now, when the Dock is positioned vertically, it no longer looks like a glass shelf turned on its side; instead, it looks like an updated version of the two-dimensional Tiger Dock, sporting a translucent, dark background instead if the old Scotch tape ribbon. It's clean, elegant and modern. Good move, Apple!
And the lack of a Linux client and recent somewhat hostile moves toward Linux users with the new iPods isn't helping either.
Considering that the desktop user base of Linux is probably fairly small, I think at present Apple are able to look at the time and effort it would take to maintain iTunes for Linux and simply decide it isn't worth it. There simply isn't the demand for it yet. They're hardly the first to do this: look at how many programs aren't ported to Linux. It's not because there's anything technically wrong with the OS, there just simply isn't the demand to warrant the cost.
I'm going to have to correct your first point. The PS2 uses the PS1's CPU as its I/O processor, allowing original PlayStation games to run on their original CPU. (Source: Wikipedia )
I'm going to hunt down the relevant addresses and start sending letters. The BBC pay for their bandwidth usage. I pay for mine. At what point are the ISPs getting short-changed in this equation?
Then, don't buy it. Since when did Nintendo force you to buy the game multiple times? Some people don't have a NES, SNES or GBA and still would like Super Mario 2; some would like to have the series on one console; some may simply not fancy connecting up their old systems for impulsive Mario Bros.
If you're happy with what you've got, then good for you, enjoy it and stop complaining that - heaven forbid - you have some choice in the world.
There's a voluntary age rating from PEGI on every game, that's not legally binding (i.e., a shop can happily sell one marked as 16+ to a 5-year-old should they wish). Games that have also been rated by the BBFC, however, are subject to the same restrictions as films and carry the same certificates as well, hence a game with a BBFC 18 rating cannot legally be sold to someone under that age.
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68k support in Mac OS X? Unless you mean in Classic - in which case 68k applications could run in 10.4 - there was no 68k support in Mac OS X. Mac OS 8.1 was the last to boot on a 68040. Even if they drop support for PowerPC, they will most likely not drop support for running PPC apps in Rosetta.
to confirm it. All this article is is a claim that a Blu-Ray version of the 360 is being manufactured - which is what rumour sites have been suggesting since the death of HD-DVD. Until Microsoft confirms it, or we see one in the wild, this is still hearsay and speculation.
More to the point, why did you waste this time clicking and commenting on a story which clearly doesn't interest you? Not everything on Slashdot exists purely to please you. Or does it really offend you that much to see a story about a platform other than your own?
Not going to happen, I'm afraid. Apple would be treading on very thin ice with their developers, after urging them to switch to producing Intel code and promising them that Intel was the way forward, to suddenly declare, "Whoops! PowerPC for everyone!"
If a friend tells you libellous comments face-to-face, the chances of him being sued successfully for it is virtually nil. Publish it in a newspaper, television programme, or on the web, and that probability shoots upwards. Traditional journalism must meet some standards of accountability, whereas you and your mates down the pub don't.
Not to mention the linguistic atrocity, "incentivises". Ah well. Verbing weirds language, I guess.
Just out of curiosity, why buy second-hand 3.5" floppy drives? You can still buy new ones, at least still in the UK.
Don't be ashamed! I grew up with an A3000 as my main computer and still love RISC OS. My RiscPC may be much faster (StrongARM!) but that Acorn badge on the front still makes me smile.
The difference is that Apple provides you with a boot loader, drivers, and easy partitioning utilities to let you boot Windows on a Mac. All official, all fully supported. The only part of Boot Camp which isn't is Windows itself. Compare this to OSX86, where you're completely on your own.
Actually, it's only PowerPC Macs which cannot boot from USB . PPC can boot from internal ATA, SCSI, or FireWire. Intel Macs can boot from those, plus USB.
Foreign Country In Different Terminology Shock! Mains: the mains electricity or water supply is simply the supply to your home/place of work/etc. Earthed: providing a connection to the Earth; grounded.
I don't see how they can even mention Diablo III with a straight face. How can it count as vapourware when it's never been officially announced by Blizzard? Meanwhile, I thought Starcraft: Ghost had been officially put on "permanent hiatus", or in other words, cancelled?
112 is the European emergency telephone number, alongside whichever national ones exist. For example, here in the UK both 999 and 112 will connect you to emergency services.
Why not just authorise your work and home computers? You're allowed five concurrent authorisations. Sure, it's an annoying DRM limitation. But it's fallacious to say you can only play the same song on multiple computers if they're on the same LAN. (Unless I'm missing something)
According to the friendly article, when you put the Dock on the left- or right-hand side, it uses a revised 2D appearance instead:
Which is nice.
Clearly somebody didn't keep watching after the credits...
Considering that the desktop user base of Linux is probably fairly small, I think at present Apple are able to look at the time and effort it would take to maintain iTunes for Linux and simply decide it isn't worth it. There simply isn't the demand for it yet. They're hardly the first to do this: look at how many programs aren't ported to Linux. It's not because there's anything technically wrong with the OS, there just simply isn't the demand to warrant the cost.
I'm going to have to correct your first point. The PS2 uses the PS1's CPU as its I/O processor, allowing original PlayStation games to run on their original CPU. (Source: Wikipedia )
I'm going to hunt down the relevant addresses and start sending letters. The BBC pay for their bandwidth usage. I pay for mine. At what point are the ISPs getting short-changed in this equation?
Then, don't buy it. Since when did Nintendo force you to buy the game multiple times? Some people don't have a NES, SNES or GBA and still would like Super Mario 2; some would like to have the series on one console; some may simply not fancy connecting up their old systems for impulsive Mario Bros.
If you're happy with what you've got, then good for you, enjoy it and stop complaining that - heaven forbid - you have some choice in the world.
There's a voluntary age rating from PEGI on every game, that's not legally binding (i.e., a shop can happily sell one marked as 16+ to a 5-year-old should they wish). Games that have also been rated by the BBFC, however, are subject to the same restrictions as films and carry the same certificates as well, hence a game with a BBFC 18 rating cannot legally be sold to someone under that age.
What do you think the biggest business on the Web is? ;-)
So you mean you couldn't care less, then? Saying you "could care less" implies you care a great deal, contradicted by your post itself.
(Yes, this drives me up the wall.)