The 32/64 split is asinine. Consumers are buying 64-bit machines right now. The iMac has been 64-bit since 2004. You can't even run iTunes on 64-bit Windows, and that is the most popular third-party Windows app. What is their thinking on this?
It's amazing that simply identifying the version number is seen as getting back to basics over there, like wow software comes in versions not just a new 1.0 every 5 years.
Generally speaking the number of vulnerabilities is not important, but when you have a plague on Windows and 3 propfs of concept on Mac that is some difference. The Windows bugs are always bigger because no proper user accounts.
The problem here is that both Microsoft Office and the OSS projects that want to replace it are stuck in the 1980s. The Web itself is a word processor, any time that is spent making DOC or ODF documents is wasted, they should be HTML CSS JS from the beginning. Dreamweaver v1.0 in 1998 is a better model for a word processor than 1984 MS Word. There is absolutely nothing that Word can do that a competing writing tool can't implement in Web-native document code and the app would be to Word as Firefox is to Explorer. The user wouldn't have to worry about anybody's software road map because their documents are readable in a Web browser and editable in any Web toolchain. They can shop for tools based on how they want to work not on what literally crazy bundle of mostly unreadable bits the app wants to encode their work into.
I can translate a single Word document into a Mac bundle that holds all the same content in W3C formats. That is what the document should be from the start so it doesn't need to be translated.
This space is wide open because Microsoft has made so little progress. What is the point of cloning that lack of progress? You don't give the user a reason to switch that is big enough, you have the same limitations as MS Office.
I think we need a special CS course that unlearns you all the things you know because of Microsoft. I can't believe humans are naturally this bad at making software. The entire ODF thing is an embarrassment. I probably wouldn't hire someone who used MS Word during the 21st century but any involemwnt with ODF is even worse. At least MS has the excuse of actually being old to go with being obsolete and out of touch.
Yeah Bonjour seems to be off in iPhone, either for extra security or it's not done yet. An iPhone doesn't know the names of the machines on its own subnet.
> The article goes on to probe delicately at the question of where a person's personality 'is' between death and later revival, > and describes several ongoing scientific studies of near-death experiences."
Obviously the personality is in the same place as before, only it is frozen. Later it is thawed and stays in the same place at that time also. Just like when you are sleeping your personality stays in the same place. It's like asking where does a person's personality go when they're high? Same fucking place as before.
There is a lot of Mac OS in OS X also. For example QuickTime and AppleScript and Software Update. The Mac tools are there just like the Unix tools. There have also been many additions made since 2001, for example CoreAudio has totally pro specs with Audio Units plugs and full device abstraction. Part of what makes OS X different is the different user base of Apple and NeXT.
If you are looking to challenge a desktop CPU then pro audio is a great test case. A single song can have dozens of channels, and they all have to play in sync, and audio processors are virtualized, everything real time.
The problem I have with the code to the metal argument is that it is so arbitrary. I am more impressed with a programmer who can code up to the user, create an interface that is useful and has some art in it.
> From what I understand, the iPhone will mostly be running widget-type apps -- essentially AJAX apps on top of Safari. > I could be entirely wrong, though. But I still strongly doubt it'll be anything as heavy as Quartz.
Even an Ajax app running in Safari requires a graphics layer. Quartz is not heavy, it ran in 2001 on computers that were 5 years old at the time. Windows Vista it is not.
> So not only is Windows CE not a failure, it's not even the same kind of product as Apple's
Window CE is clearly a failure.
- financial: no profits, many losses - market share: the installed base is only about 7 million in a market that is 1000 million per year - technical: after more than 10 years, cannot view a real Web page
You're right it's not the same kind of product as Apple's.
> Is there already an open standard for DRM? I don't know about that stuff.
DRM means closed. Open and closed are opposites. Standards are written to encourage interoperability, DRM is anti-interoperability. The CD is an example of standards working, the MiniDisc is an example of DRM working.
The ISO standard for audio and video is MPEG-4 (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, QuickTime) which does not specify any DRM, it's about audio and video. If you want DRM you add it separately but that makes your audio and video non-standard by definition. You are using the DRM to limit playback to just the players you bless. This is exactly opposite to an open format where the decoder's functionality is precisely documented so anyone can make their own.
The problem I have with this BBC deal is that it's right out of 1998, it's clear that nobody involved on the BBC side knows what time it is. They should be finding ways to get their content out over the Internet to iPods and similar, not worrying about who might get their precious streams. Windows Media already lost this battle years ago, it's surreal to see Microsoft conning somebody like this. The BBC is making a fool of themselves. Five years from now, nobody who worked on this deal for BBC will even mention it on their resume, it is truly embarrassing.
You don't bet against Apple, Sony, and Panasonic when it comes to consumer audio and video, let's be real.
> I know, [Mac OS X is not BSD] but in broad terms (especially in peoples' minds) it's still seems to be "the closest"
Yeah but neither Mac OS X nor FreeBSD runs in the mind at this time. The BSD subsystem in Mac OS X is an optional install, a Unix compatibility layer. The kernel is called xnu and although it is descended from Mach it is also descended from Mac OS and NeXT and also it is not a microkernel.
> A replaceable battery will mean you turn it off for a couple of minutes > replace the battery and turn it back on and you are in buisness again.
The iPod/iPhone method for this is you plug the second battery onto the dock connector. No need to power off the device completely. There is one for iPod nano gives you 56 hours, and one for iPod video that no shit goes all weekend. There are hundreds of them, some work on iPhone already and more will come that are custom made for iPhone. Some are made like a dock so your iPod or iPhone sits inside the external battery, making it as thick as other smart phones.
So if you are taking your iPhone to the woods you just purchase a second battery same as Nokia users. This is a non-issue.
> And since the batteries aren't replacable in the iPhones, after two years, you won't want to get a used one.
The batteries are replaceable, just like iPods. They're replaced in the time-honored tradition favored by watches. You hand it over to someone who is good with small tools and they pop the back and replace the battery. Since this only has to happen once every 800 days it is no big deal. If you want to do it yourself, it is no big deal. If you want to buy the battery from a third-party, no big deal.
There are also external battery packs that users can plug on the dock port if they need more than 8 hours talk time, that will extend the life of the internal battery. Even so, Apple says after 400 cycles you'll still get 6 hours talk time, 1.5x the nearest competitor on a fresh battery.
Also, notice that iPhones have a 2 year life, that's the service contract and the software updates. If that's what you get out of it, then fine. If you look inside it is almost all battery in there. Once you're recycling that, the rest is mostly glass. Some people will just turn them in for 10% off their next iPhone.
> Its not like the iPhone is feature rich as it is
Yes it's not feature rich ha ha ha ha. You're killing me. What do you want, WML and support for.mobi domains? Do you REALLY want to trade the Wi-Fi+EDGE for 3G only like in other phones? Do you want a little joystick you can pilot around the icons?
> no real developer support
You're killing me. There are already more third-party "iPhone apps" than there are Windows Mobile apps or JavaFX apps, without even counting the fact that iPhone can also run Web apps that were not designed for it specifically, which includes an order of magnitude more third-party support than all phone apps ever up until now. And iPhone runs your bank and Flickr and the full Slashdot, there is simply no comparison to the meager third-party app selection on other phone platforms. Even at their best they remind you of 1993, they make you wonder "why wouldn't you just run a better version off the Web?" then you go "oh" no Web browser. Pocket IE oh my gawd. Opera mini you're killing me.
That is not even good FUD that you're shoveling.
> how can you dumb the iPhone down further, and it still be usable as a phone
Terribly ironic given that so many smart phones are not only dumb but suffer from awful usability.
For years a significant portion of Internet bandwidth is faulty Windows computers distributing malware to each other because Microsoft deviated from standard industry practice with regards to network security.
If you're going to start being stingy about bandwidth I suggest network providers bill Microsoft until their tire fires are put out.
Just hook on a $20 7-port USB hub to the back of your iMac and put it just to the side of the system and your USB is taken care of.
The Kensington one that is like a little dome has a port on top for quick and easy use, and then six more on the back. If you do any plugging and unplugging at all then it is well worth it.
I don't know why you guys are hung up on laptops and laptop graphics. If they release a new iMac this year that is 2 inches thin that will be a yawn, not a big thing. They have not been much thicker than that for years now.
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The 32/64 split is asinine. Consumers are buying 64-bit machines right now. The iMac has been 64-bit since 2004. You can't even run iTunes on 64-bit Windows, and that is the most popular third-party Windows app. What is their thinking on this?
It's amazing that simply identifying the version number is seen as getting back to basics over there, like wow software comes in versions not just a new 1.0 every 5 years.
Generally speaking the number of vulnerabilities is not important, but when you have a plague on Windows and 3 propfs of concept on Mac that is some difference. The Windows bugs are always bigger because no proper user accounts.
The problem here is that both Microsoft Office and the OSS projects that want to replace it are stuck in the 1980s. The Web itself is a word processor, any time that is spent making DOC or ODF documents is wasted, they should be HTML CSS JS from the beginning. Dreamweaver v1.0 in 1998 is a better model for a word processor than 1984 MS Word. There is absolutely nothing that Word can do that a competing writing tool can't implement in Web-native document code and the app would be to Word as Firefox is to Explorer. The user wouldn't have to worry about anybody's software road map because their documents are readable in a Web browser and editable in any Web toolchain. They can shop for tools based on how they want to work not on what literally crazy bundle of mostly unreadable bits the app wants to encode their work into.
I can translate a single Word document into a Mac bundle that holds all the same content in W3C formats. That is what the document should be from the start so it doesn't need to be translated.
This space is wide open because Microsoft has made so little progress. What is the point of cloning that lack of progress? You don't give the user a reason to switch that is big enough, you have the same limitations as MS Office.
I think we need a special CS course that unlearns you all the things you know because of Microsoft. I can't believe humans are naturally this bad at making software. The entire ODF thing is an embarrassment. I probably wouldn't hire someone who used MS Word during the 21st century but any involemwnt with ODF is even worse. At least MS has the excuse of actually being old to go with being obsolete and out of touch.
Yeah Bonjour seems to be off in iPhone, either for extra security or it's not done yet. An iPhone doesn't know the names of the machines on its own subnet.
> Call me paranoid, but why do you allow the iPhone into the companys WLAN?
Why would you not?
Why would you let any old Dell/Microsoft notebook computer onto your wireless network but not an iPhone?
> Yeah but how will they distribute it?
Same as iPods. When you plug in to sync your iPhone it is updated.
> The article goes on to probe delicately at the question of where a person's personality 'is' between death and later revival,
> and describes several ongoing scientific studies of near-death experiences."
Obviously the personality is in the same place as before, only it is frozen. Later it is thawed and stays in the same place at that time also. Just like when you are sleeping your personality stays in the same place. It's like asking where does a person's personality go when they're high? Same fucking place as before.
There is a lot of Mac OS in OS X also. For example QuickTime and AppleScript and Software Update. The Mac tools are there just like the Unix tools. There have also been many additions made since 2001, for example CoreAudio has totally pro specs with Audio Units plugs and full device abstraction. Part of what makes OS X different is the different user base of Apple and NeXT.
If you are looking to challenge a desktop CPU then pro audio is a great test case. A single song can have dozens of channels, and they all have to play in sync, and audio processors are virtualized, everything real time.
The problem I have with the code to the metal argument is that it is so arbitrary. I am more impressed with a programmer who can code up to the user, create an interface that is useful and has some art in it.
> From what I understand, the iPhone will mostly be running widget-type apps -- essentially AJAX apps on top of Safari.
> I could be entirely wrong, though. But I still strongly doubt it'll be anything as heavy as Quartz.
Even an Ajax app running in Safari requires a graphics layer. Quartz is not heavy, it ran in 2001 on computers that were 5 years old at the time. Windows Vista it is not.
> So not only is Windows CE not a failure, it's not even the same kind of product as Apple's
Window CE is clearly a failure.
- financial: no profits, many losses
- market share: the installed base is only about 7 million in a market that is 1000 million per year
- technical: after more than 10 years, cannot view a real Web page
You're right it's not the same kind of product as Apple's.
> I am sure if the GPL was worded in a couple ways OS X would be Linux Based not Unix Based.
OS X's BSD-heritage goes back to 1988 which predates Linux.
> Is there already an open standard for DRM? I don't know about that stuff.
DRM means closed. Open and closed are opposites. Standards are written to encourage interoperability, DRM is anti-interoperability. The CD is an example of standards working, the MiniDisc is an example of DRM working.
The ISO standard for audio and video is MPEG-4 (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, QuickTime) which does not specify any DRM, it's about audio and video. If you want DRM you add it separately but that makes your audio and video non-standard by definition. You are using the DRM to limit playback to just the players you bless. This is exactly opposite to an open format where the decoder's functionality is precisely documented so anyone can make their own.
The problem I have with this BBC deal is that it's right out of 1998, it's clear that nobody involved on the BBC side knows what time it is. They should be finding ways to get their content out over the Internet to iPods and similar, not worrying about who might get their precious streams. Windows Media already lost this battle years ago, it's surreal to see Microsoft conning somebody like this. The BBC is making a fool of themselves. Five years from now, nobody who worked on this deal for BBC will even mention it on their resume, it is truly embarrassing.
You don't bet against Apple, Sony, and Panasonic when it comes to consumer audio and video, let's be real.
> I know, [Mac OS X is not BSD] but in broad terms (especially in peoples' minds) it's still seems to be "the closest"
Yeah but neither Mac OS X nor FreeBSD runs in the mind at this time. The BSD subsystem in Mac OS X is an optional install, a Unix compatibility layer. The kernel is called xnu and although it is descended from Mach it is also descended from Mac OS and NeXT and also it is not a microkernel.
> A replaceable battery will mean you turn it off for a couple of minutes
> replace the battery and turn it back on and you are in buisness again.
The iPod/iPhone method for this is you plug the second battery onto the dock connector. No need to power off the device completely. There is one for iPod nano gives you 56 hours, and one for iPod video that no shit goes all weekend. There are hundreds of them, some work on iPhone already and more will come that are custom made for iPhone. Some are made like a dock so your iPod or iPhone sits inside the external battery, making it as thick as other smart phones.
So if you are taking your iPhone to the woods you just purchase a second battery same as Nokia users. This is a non-issue.
> And since the batteries aren't replacable in the iPhones, after two years, you won't want to get a used one.
The batteries are replaceable, just like iPods. They're replaced in the time-honored tradition favored by watches. You hand it over to someone who is good with small tools and they pop the back and replace the battery. Since this only has to happen once every 800 days it is no big deal. If you want to do it yourself, it is no big deal. If you want to buy the battery from a third-party, no big deal.
There are also external battery packs that users can plug on the dock port if they need more than 8 hours talk time, that will extend the life of the internal battery. Even so, Apple says after 400 cycles you'll still get 6 hours talk time, 1.5x the nearest competitor on a fresh battery.
Also, notice that iPhones have a 2 year life, that's the service contract and the software updates. If that's what you get out of it, then fine. If you look inside it is almost all battery in there. Once you're recycling that, the rest is mostly glass. Some people will just turn them in for 10% off their next iPhone.
> Its not like the iPhone is feature rich as it is
.mobi domains? Do you REALLY want to trade the Wi-Fi+EDGE for 3G only like in other phones? Do you want a little joystick you can pilot around the icons?
Yes it's not feature rich ha ha ha ha. You're killing me. What do you want, WML and support for
> no real developer support
You're killing me. There are already more third-party "iPhone apps" than there are Windows Mobile apps or JavaFX apps, without even counting the fact that iPhone can also run Web apps that were not designed for it specifically, which includes an order of magnitude more third-party support than all phone apps ever up until now. And iPhone runs your bank and Flickr and the full Slashdot, there is simply no comparison to the meager third-party app selection on other phone platforms. Even at their best they remind you of 1993, they make you wonder "why wouldn't you just run a better version off the Web?" then you go "oh" no Web browser. Pocket IE oh my gawd. Opera mini you're killing me.
That is not even good FUD that you're shoveling.
> how can you dumb the iPhone down further, and it still be usable as a phone
Terribly ironic given that so many smart phones are not only dumb but suffer from awful usability.
> And [Sprint Blackberry 8830] only cost $225 after rebate.
How much per month is your service?
The iPhone rebate is not on the hardware, it's on the service. At the end of 2 years it's likely both Sprint Blackberry 8830 and iPhone cost the same.
Cloning, the Drug War, and the hint of impending nuclear destruction, that is some news article.
For years a significant portion of Internet bandwidth is faulty Windows computers distributing malware to each other because Microsoft deviated from standard industry practice with regards to network security.
If you're going to start being stingy about bandwidth I suggest network providers bill Microsoft until their tire fires are put out.
This will help Google's YouTube because a lot of YouTube page views last 10 minutes.
No matter how you count popularity, Google will do alright.
Just hook on a $20 7-port USB hub to the back of your iMac and put it just to the side of the system and your USB is taken care of.
The Kensington one that is like a little dome has a port on top for quick and easy use, and then six more on the back. If you do any plugging and unplugging at all then it is well worth it.
The price points stay the same, the screens get bigger, the CPU's faster, etc. etc. etc.
Next time you go to buy an iMac you will almost certainly be able to pay the exact same price as last time but you'll get a bigger system.
I don't know why you guys are hung up on laptops and laptop graphics. If they release a new iMac this year that is 2 inches thin that will be a yawn, not a big thing. They have not been much thicker than that for years now.