So much for software. Must be using Windows.
Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!
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Yeah, but Apple's already said that they won't support running OS X on any white box machine, and if the only way to do it is via a torrent, hack, or other seedy mechanism (that's going to break with each update), where's the danger?
Sure, there is an undercurrent of folks who won't pay for anything, or will run it "just 'cause they can," but at the end of the day those people want to use it without hassle, they'll make a hardware switch. If they don't, it's revenue that Apple wouldn't have booked anyway.
Think about it. You can get free music from wherever you want. So why is iTunes such a success? It's because people will pay for perceived value: convenience, safety, support, whatever.
That's why I switched from technology to marketing!:-) Plus the girls are cuter.
It's more of a nuisance. Even Steve Jobs once famously declared that "anything with a key can be cracked," (or words to that effect). A cracked OS X will play mostly to the geek types, while yielding publicity dividends with the rest of the Wintel crowd. Average consumers will continue to buy whatever OS they choose retail.
My first computer was a TRS-80 "Pocket Computer," which was a little gadget the size of a small ruler, about an inch thick, with a two-line, 40-character (?) display.
Followed by a Timex Sinclair and then an Apple//, but I can never forget the glee when I typed something that I saw on the display of the TRS-80 pocket ("run") only to have it start beeping and ask me to play a game (forget what the game was). That got me hooked on computers.
With a DirecTV hacked with vserver, John Susek's TivoTool (with built-in iTunes integration), and soon-to-own Apple video iPod, I've got everything I need.
I wonder how they're going to make that time with the current FAA restrictions that do not permit supersonic travel by passenger jets within the continental United States?
So what's the use of a 5KM transmission range in one of these fancy antenna if my little PowerBook can't crank a WiFi single back more than 500 feet or so?
My guess is that any corporate sysadmin who runs this program in their enterprise is likely to affect 90% of other sysadmin boxes and 2% of locked down user workstations.
I'm only half-kidding. My experience after managing both in this industry for close to a decade is that most really good coders are poor designers, and most really good designers are poor coders (this is my experience and as such I don't mean to generalize -- YMMV).
While both skills are creative endeavors, they are truly different disciplines. There's only a handful of developers that I've worked with that have truly been able to bridge both talents successfully.
Seriously -- you can't fit a square peg in a round hole. Trying to turn logical artists into visual artists is likely to produce just as many terrible looking applications -- they'll just be crappy in a 3-D, aqua-ripoff sort of way.
How come none of you goofballs has asked the important question yet: does this new interface work with standards-compliant browsers, or is this just more crap that will require Internet Explorer?
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Apple isn't a player in this market? Hello, they own this market! Perhaps you meant the "crippled WMA market."
Carry on!
So much for software. Must be using Windows. Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!
Yeah, but Apple's already said that they won't support running OS X on any white box machine, and if the only way to do it is via a torrent, hack, or other seedy mechanism (that's going to break with each update), where's the danger?
:-) Plus the girls are cuter.
Sure, there is an undercurrent of folks who won't pay for anything, or will run it "just 'cause they can," but at the end of the day those people want to use it without hassle, they'll make a hardware switch. If they don't, it's revenue that Apple wouldn't have booked anyway.
Think about it. You can get free music from wherever you want. So why is iTunes such a success? It's because people will pay for perceived value: convenience, safety, support, whatever.
That's why I switched from technology to marketing!
It's more of a nuisance. Even Steve Jobs once famously declared that "anything with a key can be cracked," (or words to that effect). A cracked OS X will play mostly to the geek types, while yielding publicity dividends with the rest of the Wintel crowd. Average consumers will continue to buy whatever OS they choose retail.
My first computer was a TRS-80 "Pocket Computer," which was a little gadget the size of a small ruler, about an inch thick, with a two-line, 40-character (?) display. Followed by a Timex Sinclair and then an Apple //, but I can never forget the glee when I typed something that I saw on the display of the TRS-80 pocket ("run") only to have it start beeping and ask me to play a game (forget what the game was). That got me hooked on computers.
How do they plan on keeping fingerprints off the screen?
To be, or not to be: that is the question. :~/
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WOW!
"Because when we blue screen, all of your data goes down into a black hole."
Did Apple jump the gun? Not for me.
I wonder how they're going to make that time with the current FAA restrictions that do not permit supersonic travel by passenger jets within the continental United States?
No, but Microsoft Bob did get Bill Gates laid.
Then what?
Kirstie Alley?
Just a guess.
You can most certainly open more than one spreadsheet file using Office for the Mac.
While both skills are creative endeavors, they are truly different disciplines. There's only a handful of developers that I've worked with that have truly been able to bridge both talents successfully.
Seriously -- you can't fit a square peg in a round hole. Trying to turn logical artists into visual artists is likely to produce just as many terrible looking applications -- they'll just be crappy in a 3-D, aqua-ripoff sort of way.
My new plan:
1. Create a crappy-looking web application.
2. Run it through Microsoft's new design software.
3. ???
4. Profit!
How come none of you goofballs has asked the important question yet: does this new interface work with standards-compliant browsers, or is this just more crap that will require Internet Explorer?
"Boonesfarm."
...a cracka-ass cracka!
Because it wouldn't be as cool or expensive to develop. Duh.
$200K won't even buy a crapshack.
Is it some kind of water-fetish pr0n channel? Chicks in swimcaps and such?
Dollars always trumps the Constitution. Haven't you been paying attention to recent politics?