Years ago the Walt Disney World was looking for additional magical things to add to the roads for their upcoming Millennium Celebration. On a desolate piece of road on property speed warning indicators were tested (the kind you encounter on the side of the road or before a toll road) that played a song. That song was "Zip A Dee Do Dah", and for years it stayed there.
There were problems with it. First, was the fact in order for it to work, you would have to be driving a VERY specific speed, not faster, not slower, or it would seem like a random assortment of rumbles. And when someone would go the wrong speed, they'd think there was something wrong (veering of the road, toll soon, etc), and would try to break, get the car back on the road, etc, that it became dangerous.
Since it was dangerous, no one would drive the correct speed, and the fact they'd need to tear up the roads just to install it, Disney mothballed the idea.
So they say "Intel Chip" and everyone thinks "PENTIUM! Cheap MACS!" I say "First adoption of the WiMax standard". Intel's WiMax uses a chipset, Apple was the first major company to widely adopt 802.11b, so why not WiMax? I see it as a more logical and probable thing than porting every single Mac application to x86 based architecture.....
Remember when Gmail was supposed to debut in 3 months? 3 months after it was announced. Now it's more like 10 months. I guess the HTML version was what they waited for before the release.
With the announcement of no 1.8, it shows that people arn't buying the whole "all-for-one" app concept anymore. Do you think suite applications, like Micromedia's and Adobe's, are the future, or that seperate non-suite apps are the way to go?
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Years ago the Walt Disney World was looking for additional magical things to add to the roads for their upcoming Millennium Celebration. On a desolate piece of road on property speed warning indicators were tested (the kind you encounter on the side of the road or before a toll road) that played a song. That song was "Zip A Dee Do Dah", and for years it stayed there. There were problems with it. First, was the fact in order for it to work, you would have to be driving a VERY specific speed, not faster, not slower, or it would seem like a random assortment of rumbles. And when someone would go the wrong speed, they'd think there was something wrong (veering of the road, toll soon, etc), and would try to break, get the car back on the road, etc, that it became dangerous. Since it was dangerous, no one would drive the correct speed, and the fact they'd need to tear up the roads just to install it, Disney mothballed the idea.
So they say "Intel Chip" and everyone thinks "PENTIUM! Cheap MACS!" I say "First adoption of the WiMax standard". Intel's WiMax uses a chipset, Apple was the first major company to widely adopt 802.11b, so why not WiMax? I see it as a more logical and probable thing than porting every single Mac application to x86 based architecture.....
Remember when Gmail was supposed to debut in 3 months? 3 months after it was announced. Now it's more like 10 months. I guess the HTML version was what they waited for before the release.
With the announcement of no 1.8, it shows that people arn't buying the whole "all-for-one" app concept anymore. Do you think suite applications, like Micromedia's and Adobe's, are the future, or that seperate non-suite apps are the way to go?