10.4 and earlier supports the Classic runtime, which is theoretically capable of running applications built according to Inside Macintosh circa 1983. Of course, things have changed a lot in the intervening 25 years, so most applications won't be compatible (Classic doesn't support FPU and many traps/managers have been eliminated), but the facility is there.
to think of a huge problem like this and surmount it with science.
Why not start with the huge problems that mankind has CREATED here on our home (only) planet?
- pollution, waste, overdevelopment, greed, corruption
- general failure to achieve social justice, in fact rich/poor divide is widening at an increasing rate
- corporations controlling seedstocks for human food? what kind of evil is this?
- environmental destruction increasing rapidly (Amazon, Indonesian forests, and pretty much every other snippet of old growth gone in a decade or two)
- foodstock depletion (major species of fish depleted) and species extinction (forget about meeting a Pangolin, but thousands are already gone) increasing rapidly
- waste of military spending
- the idiocy of burning non-renewable fuels like there's no tomorrow (oh wait, there IS no tomorrow!)
- cars: one of our worst ideas ever
When we can manage this planet with an iota of competence, let's talk about interfering with the rest of the solar system.
Fuck the space programme (in particular the manned space programme).
You sound like you're speaking from actual experience:) 10.2 was indeed the production-ready release, and that was when our studio started to upgrade from OS 9.
10.5 is the first release I'm reluctant to install, however, because I need Classic occasionally. In that sense I am "a Mac user pining for OS 9", but I am far from typical (I only need it for MPW).
It's widely considered a technical failure as well as a marketing failure. References everywhere (not just on/.) - for example, you could look at the reactions of OEMs.
1) it's not "internal" business that is the problem. It's how MS fucks customers, the marketplace, the ecosystem, the truth, etc.
2) "Better for consumers"... Now you're on to something. When a single company can sit on its fat American ass telling the whole world that it has the only single option you should use (and it would criminalise/destroy every other option if it could); overselling the abilities of its product, lying about the competition (insofar as competition survives); use predatory and dishonest bundling/lockin/selling practices; manipulate governments, companies, and individuals through bribes, threats and coercion; it's breaking the law (and not just in the EU, you may recall).
Your post, besides being all of AC -1, is so incoherent and apparently contradictory I don't know why I bothered answering, really.
"sell IP at rates below what their competitors would charge"
Huh? They're not selling "IP".
They're selling some vague kind of "thing" in shrinkwrap, but since the license is inside the shrinkwrap, and it may not even be a license, who knows what the hell you're getting? All you know is that your neighbours need you to have it, your boss needs you to have it, your kids need you to have it, because it doesn't interoperate properly with anyone else.
The competition is FREE, with a real license, and uses open standards. Unfortunately, MS' business model is to snuff out competition dishonestly rather than compete. Hence the lawsuits; adverse judgments; intransigent behaviour; and fines.
Ick... rewarding this apologist with mod points?
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Had to stop at "been treated like an ATM machine by the EU". Ever consider there might be some merit to the EU's side of the argument?
Any trailer narrated by that throat is proof that neither director, producer, or anyone else involved in the film in question has exercised a molecule of imagination.
On the bright side, nice to have such a reliable indicator.
You mean my new friend is NOT depositing USD $40 million into my bank account tomorrow? I gave him all the information he asked for... I already put a deposit on Ferraris for myself and my girlfriend...
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10.4 and earlier supports the Classic runtime, which is theoretically capable of running applications built according to Inside Macintosh circa 1983. Of course, things have changed a lot in the intervening 25 years, so most applications won't be compatible (Classic doesn't support FPU and many traps/managers have been eliminated), but the facility is there.
to think of a huge problem like this and surmount it with science.
Why not start with the huge problems that mankind has CREATED here on our home (only) planet?
- pollution, waste, overdevelopment, greed, corruption
- general failure to achieve social justice, in fact rich/poor divide is widening at an increasing rate
- corporations controlling seedstocks for human food? what kind of evil is this?
- environmental destruction increasing rapidly (Amazon, Indonesian forests, and pretty much every other snippet of old growth gone in a decade or two)
- foodstock depletion (major species of fish depleted) and species extinction (forget about meeting a Pangolin, but thousands are already gone) increasing rapidly
- waste of military spending
- the idiocy of burning non-renewable fuels like there's no tomorrow (oh wait, there IS no tomorrow!)
- cars: one of our worst ideas ever
When we can manage this planet with an iota of competence, let's talk about interfering with the rest of the solar system.
Fuck the space programme (in particular the manned space programme).
Pssst! It's out already, but was re-branded VISTA.
You sound like you're speaking from actual experience :) 10.2 was indeed the production-ready release, and that was when our studio started to upgrade from OS 9.
10.5 is the first release I'm reluctant to install, however, because I need Classic occasionally. In that sense I am "a Mac user pining for OS 9", but I am far from typical (I only need it for MPW).
here (for subscribers. I dare not post a free link here :)
I don't see any change to the monopoly position or behaviour, do you?
Nope, still the same old MS. And stories like this confirm - as hostile as ever to any whiff of fair competition.
Dear AC -1: your love letters notwithstanding, we're not going to rest till your beloved criminal monopoly is history. :)
If you think MS bashing is unfashionable, how do you feel about fighting organised crime?
Yeah but why on Earth would you want to! :)
(Speaking as someone who's used Macs every day for around 22 years with almost no hardware issues.)
It's widely considered a technical failure as well as a marketing failure. References everywhere (not just on /.) - for example, you could look at the reactions of OEMs.
This industry is in FAR worse shape than I thought. [Shivers]
1) it's not "internal" business that is the problem. It's how MS fucks customers, the marketplace, the ecosystem, the truth, etc.
2) "Better for consumers"... Now you're on to something. When a single company can sit on its fat American ass telling the whole world that it has the only single option you should use (and it would criminalise/destroy every other option if it could); overselling the abilities of its product, lying about the competition (insofar as competition survives); use predatory and dishonest bundling/lockin/selling practices; manipulate governments, companies, and individuals through bribes, threats and coercion; it's breaking the law (and not just in the EU, you may recall).
Your post, besides being all of AC -1, is so incoherent and apparently contradictory I don't know why I bothered answering, really.
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Hate to break it to you, but beer is a human creation.
"sell IP at rates below what their competitors would charge"
Huh? They're not selling "IP".
They're selling some vague kind of "thing" in shrinkwrap, but since the license is inside the shrinkwrap, and it may not even be a license, who knows what the hell you're getting? All you know is that your neighbours need you to have it, your boss needs you to have it, your kids need you to have it, because it doesn't interoperate properly with anyone else.
The competition is FREE, with a real license, and uses open standards. Unfortunately, MS' business model is to snuff out competition dishonestly rather than compete. Hence the lawsuits; adverse judgments; intransigent behaviour; and fines.
Had to stop at "been treated like an ATM machine by the EU". Ever consider there might be some merit to the EU's side of the argument?
Well I already called the dealership... No dice... I'm fucked.
Plus my friend overseas isn't returning my calls. Weird.
Thanks for the hint though, but now my cards are in the hole... but maybe my guy can send me a few thou while I wait for the millions.
Then again, my parents preferred we grow up with brains and critical faculties intact, than let TV mould us into good little spenders.
Of course I remember Astroboy though. You can bet the Yanks don't have a taste for that.
If they added that movie announcer Don LaFontaine
Oh my Lord, somebody shoot that guy already.
Any trailer narrated by that throat is proof that neither director, producer, or anyone else involved in the film in question has exercised a molecule of imagination.
On the bright side, nice to have such a reliable indicator.
"Marketing" can indeed be "wrong". Ethics apply to everything, but as has been proven time and again, MS has none.
It looks like you might get your own Great Depression, at least. :-)
You mean my new friend is NOT depositing USD $40 million into my bank account tomorrow? I gave him all the information he asked for... I already put a deposit on Ferraris for myself and my girlfriend...
Since when does "usage that is perfectly commonplace in a country other than I live" = "stupid shit"?
And you wonder why we "who live in other places" get pissed at Americans...
Don't expect the world to change to suit you. It's a lot bigger than you are.
It may help India reject the Swiss Cheese of Microsoft products in favour of a more solid infrastructure.
Life isn't a movie.
You're not the first person to make that stupid string of words that you think is funny; but I sure hope you're the last. *PLONK*