I was in college from Fall '88 through Fall '92. Over that period of time, I lived in twelve different places (not to mention places I stayed in for a week or less). I would have loved to have a laptop, just because carrying around my XT clone and the monochrome TTL monitor (later an AT clone) was so damn heavy.
I have a 104-key Unicomp keyboard, and I use it with a PS/2 to USB adapter on my Power Mac G5 at work. The PS/2 to USB adapter sometimes gets the caps lock / num lock / scroll lock state confused when waking from sleep (although the problem of it dropping out entirely went away when I plugged it into a USB hub), and the uControl software that switches the command (Windows) and Control keys seems to yield errors with shift-dragging for some unknown reason. (Tiger has this built in, but I haven't upgraded yet.)
In spite of this, I really like my Unicomp keyboard. I switched to Mac in 1995 and this is one of the few things I missed about the PC. I used to have a bunch of IBM 84-key AT keyboards (in addition to liking the feel, at the time, I was used to using the number pad for arrows) bought from surplus stores. These were hard to find even in 1995.
Yes, it's true that sovereignty over the island will grant rights to the marine area around it. But the strait it's in is quite small enough to be entirely covered by Canadian or Danish marine rights anyway. (See the map on wikipedia.) So at most it's going to be a small area around the island, no more than a few tens of square km.
I think Canada and Denmark should agree to divide the island between them. Each of them only has one other country with which it shares a land border (Canada's with the US a bit longer than Denmark's with Germany) and this would give them a second.
Market share is not an end in itself. Apple could, undoubtedly, increase its market share at the expense of revenue, but it's not going to, because market share doesn't keep it in business.
Yes, at some point, an insufficient market share can preclude third-party developers from making applications and thus beginning an exodus from the platform, but Apple isn't anywhere near that point.
Apple is not going to do anything that hurts its bottom line, no matter how many people dream of running OS X on their beige boxes. For those of us who want to see OS X continue to exist, this is not a bad thing.
I had two G4 cubes at one time (one for home, one for work). If somebody can make one of these near-obsolete machines be useful for them, who am I to complain? Better that than the landfill or sitting on a shelf.
The original article talked about people stealing Mac software being a new problem for Apple, and at first I thought it meant application software. (Which wouldn't make much sense, but now I realize they meant the OS might be stolen.)
But now I wonder if someday there will be an open-source implementation of the Mac OS X APIs (other than GNUstep).
Of course, the last time Adobe bought a company that owned Freehand, Adobe was forced to sell it to another company. There is still some hope that this will happen again, but the Bush DOJ is, I think, less likely to care than the Clinton DOJ.
Adobe and Macromedia competed directly with Illustrator and Freehand, GoLive and Dreamworks, Photoshop and Fireworks...
How does this affect Quark? Not too much immediately, although there was a Freehand-XPress bundle for sale by Macromedia at one time. But a Quark-Macromedia merger would have been the obvious competitor to Adobe, if one were interested in preserving competition in the graphic design software market.
By contrast, the limitations of using Quark XPress and InDesign are available manpower/time and computer equipment. One can do anything, but not much can be automated ``merely'' using stylesheets and graphic placement rules.
I don't know about QuarkXPress, but InDesign has a very detailed scripting capability built-in. You can program it in VisualBasic on Windows, AppleScript on Mac OS X, and in Java on either platform.
It's not the same as TeX, of course, but it's simply not true that InDesign has that kind of limitations on automation.
I suppose somebody's going to give me a good reason why this is impossible (endedness, maybe) but it seems to me that it would be possible to have the kernal live in fast x86 (or Itanium or whatever) space, x86 programs live in x86 space, but PPC programs run on a fast-enough 1.42Ghz Freescale G4 processor for three or four years until software emulation catches up.
Just a thought. I don't really believe Apple is thinking of this.
(My prediction: Airport Super running on some Intel chip, with the video equivalent of AirTunes, and the introduction of the iTunes Video Store. Conceivably an Apple DVR.)
Normal users want to be able to use existing software, and that means every Macintosh program will need to be *at least* recompiled. That's a big shift. It is still possible to use Mac programs from the '80s on current operating systems, and many older programs *are* still in use. (I am not happy about it, but we are still using Aldus Freehand 3.1 for some of the complicated drawn maps we have at work.) Sure, the operating system itself could probably be compiled on anything, but that's really not the point.
Commercial companies do sometimes limit themselves to minority platforms -- for example Ambrosia, who make great games that traditionally were, and with a few exceptions still are, Mac only -- but great though "Escape Velocity: Override" was, it did not cause a tremendous influx of switchers.
And certainly any game developed for Linux by non-commercial entities would be open source -- and thus ported to Windows pretty quickly. Wouldn't it be ironic if Linux was made more popular because of non-open-source software that only ran under it...
I don't understand why anyone would feel it necessary to register in every TLD. The.com name has been established as the top-tier name (unless you're a nonprofit), and I do think people try "fred.com" first. But the second thing people turn to is much more likely to be a search engine or yellow page site or something like that than a random search through fred.net, fred.biz, fred.cc, fred.tv, etc. etc. And in fact this will be more and more true the more TLDs there are.
If you are Kodak and you want to preserve your very strong trademark, I can see how you'd want to preserve your name everywhere. But I think the Kodaks of the world can afford the extremely minor fees of registering in most TLDs. For smaller businesses and organizations and individuals, there is a benefit to having a series of choices when some entity far away happens to have the same name as yours.
I agree. (Am I the only one who didn't realize that "Return of the Jedi" referred to the re-turning of Anakin until Episode II came out? I guess it has several other layers of meaning, too, but this one seems clearer now.)
I do enjoy the books and some of the other ancillary material, but it's difficult for me to believe that a new trilogy could form a coherent whole with the rest of the films (even if the execution of much of the first trilogy leaves much to be desired).
On October 1, 1994, the Presidio became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Since 1998, the Presidio has been jointly managed by the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust. The Presidio Trust is a special public-private governmental agency tasked with managing most of the buildings of the Presidio and making the park financially self-sufficient by 2013.
Certain areas are rented to non-profit groups, and much is set aside for public space, but development in the Presidio is required for it to pay for itself. It is the only National Park Service unit expected to do so.
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I was in college from Fall '88 through Fall '92. Over that period of time, I lived in twelve different places (not to mention places I stayed in for a week or less). I would have loved to have a laptop, just because carrying around my XT clone and the monochrome TTL monitor (later an AT clone) was so damn heavy.
Another difference between the US and the UK: Americans say "Don't Tread On Me."
In spite of this, I really like my Unicomp keyboard. I switched to Mac in 1995 and this is one of the few things I missed about the PC. I used to have a bunch of IBM 84-key AT keyboards (in addition to liking the feel, at the time, I was used to using the number pad for arrows) bought from surplus stores. These were hard to find even in 1995.
Not yet, anyway. http://www.newcaliforniarepublic.org/index.html
Yes, it's true that sovereignty over the island will grant rights to the marine area around it. But the strait it's in is quite small enough to be entirely covered by Canadian or Danish marine rights anyway. (See the map on wikipedia.) So at most it's going to be a small area around the island, no more than a few tens of square km. I think Canada and Denmark should agree to divide the island between them. Each of them only has one other country with which it shares a land border (Canada's with the US a bit longer than Denmark's with Germany) and this would give them a second.
As I've written elsewhere, the Apple equivalent to WINE would be "Cider."
Market share is not an end in itself. Apple could, undoubtedly, increase its market share at the expense of revenue, but it's not going to, because market share doesn't keep it in business.
Yes, at some point, an insufficient market share can preclude third-party developers from making applications and thus beginning an exodus from the platform, but Apple isn't anywhere near that point.
Apple is not going to do anything that hurts its bottom line, no matter how many people dream of running OS X on their beige boxes. For those of us who want to see OS X continue to exist, this is not a bad thing.
I had two G4 cubes at one time (one for home, one for work). If somebody can make one of these near-obsolete machines be useful for them, who am I to complain? Better that than the landfill or sitting on a shelf.
The original article talked about people stealing Mac software being a new problem for Apple, and at first I thought it meant application software. (Which wouldn't make much sense, but now I realize they meant the OS might be stolen.)
But now I wonder if someday there will be an open-source implementation of the Mac OS X APIs (other than GNUstep).
I hope that if so, it will be called "Cider."
Of course, the last time Adobe bought a company that owned Freehand, Adobe was forced to sell it to another company. There is still some hope that this will happen again, but the Bush DOJ is, I think, less likely to care than the Clinton DOJ.
Adobe and Macromedia competed directly with Illustrator and Freehand, GoLive and Dreamworks, Photoshop and Fireworks...
How does this affect Quark? Not too much immediately, although there was a Freehand-XPress bundle for sale by Macromedia at one time. But a Quark-Macromedia merger would have been the obvious competitor to Adobe, if one were interested in preserving competition in the graphic design software market.
I don't know about QuarkXPress, but InDesign has a very detailed scripting capability built-in. You can program it in VisualBasic on Windows, AppleScript on Mac OS X, and in Java on either platform.
It's not the same as TeX, of course, but it's simply not true that InDesign has that kind of limitations on automation.
Just a thought. I don't really believe Apple is thinking of this.
(My prediction: Airport Super running on some Intel chip, with the video equivalent of AirTunes, and the introduction of the iTunes Video Store. Conceivably an Apple DVR.)
I have all these old IBM PC games that only work at 4.77 Mhz...
Normal users want to be able to use existing software, and that means every Macintosh program will need to be *at least* recompiled. That's a big shift. It is still possible to use Mac programs from the '80s on current operating systems, and many older programs *are* still in use. (I am not happy about it, but we are still using Aldus Freehand 3.1 for some of the complicated drawn maps we have at work.) Sure, the operating system itself could probably be compiled on anything, but that's really not the point.
Commercial companies do sometimes limit themselves to minority platforms -- for example Ambrosia, who make great games that traditionally were, and with a few exceptions still are, Mac only -- but great though "Escape Velocity: Override" was, it did not cause a tremendous influx of switchers.
And certainly any game developed for Linux by non-commercial entities would be open source -- and thus ported to Windows pretty quickly. Wouldn't it be ironic if Linux was made more popular because of non-open-source software that only ran under it...
I don't understand why anyone would feel it necessary to register in every TLD. The .com name has been established as the top-tier name (unless you're a nonprofit), and I do think people try "fred.com" first. But the second thing people turn to is much more likely to be a search engine or yellow page site or something like that than a random search through fred.net, fred.biz, fred.cc, fred.tv, etc. etc. And in fact this will be more and more true the more TLDs there are.
If you are Kodak and you want to preserve your very strong trademark, I can see how you'd want to preserve your name everywhere. But I think the Kodaks of the world can afford the extremely minor fees of registering in most TLDs. For smaller businesses and organizations and individuals, there is a benefit to having a series of choices when some entity far away happens to have the same name as yours.
I think "You can get anything you want / At Alice's Restaurant" is more traditional when fighting coercive government policies.
"Anyone caught being sirius will be sent to Bob Klahn for technical support." -- OPUS-CBCS documentation, 1986 or so
Yeah, since 640K^W850Gb should be enough for anyone.
Yoda never meets Chewbacca in the original trilogy, does he?
I agree. (Am I the only one who didn't realize that "Return of the Jedi" referred to the re-turning of Anakin until Episode II came out? I guess it has several other layers of meaning, too, but this one seems clearer now.) I do enjoy the books and some of the other ancillary material, but it's difficult for me to believe that a new trilogy could form a coherent whole with the rest of the films (even if the execution of much of the first trilogy leaves much to be desired).
From http://www.nps.gov/prsf/
Certain areas are rented to non-profit groups, and much is set aside for public space, but development in the Presidio is required for it to pay for itself. It is the only National Park Service unit expected to do so.
The Presidio Trust site is here.
Mmm, broadband so good you can taste it! Seems to me this would work for downloads, but uploads would have to go through the sewers.