If I purchased a brand new OS from MS, my only reason for running a old OS virtualised would be updating firmware of my device (e.g. via USB2), using my USB2 gadgets which has no support for Windows 7 yet and so on.
Virtual PC's big issue on OS X and Windows is, it is not supporting USB 2 and doesn't give a "pure" USB 1.1 support either. So, if you have something that needs Windows and healthy USB support or USB 2 support, you are out of luck. Virtual PC 7 for OS X does emulate the x86/MMX same time but I was really surprised when I heard its x86 version (freeware btw) doesn't support either.
Having USB supported claim is one thing, having USB2 supported just like the real PC is another. Ask Intel Mac users who tried to use Blackberry software on Sun Virtual Box. It can't handle weird things Blackberry does with USB so everything goes crazy. No data loss though and it is a reported issue (hopefully fixed). Nokia Software update (for firmware updates) has problems with virtual machines too, not sure about Sony Ericsson weird stuff that can't run reliably on a real PC even:)
I suggest keep a real (and conservative, no betas, hacks) XP on D: , sparing 15 GB partition to it and use Windows 7 as main partition. You may also have advantages as you can "fix" Windows 7 disk issues, config issues, files from XP side. It is the exact thing I do on Mac, I always keep previous major version (without hacks) in a very conservative sized partition just in case.
(for sake of telling people lithium is a serious thing) Lithium lyrics Songwriters: Lee, Amy;
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without Lithium, I wanna stay in love with my sorrow Oh, but God I wanna let it go
Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone Couldn't hide the emptiness, you let it show Never wanted it to be so cold Just didn't drink enough to say you love me
I can't hold on to me Wonder what's wrong with me?
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without Lithium, I wanna stay in love with my sorrow
Don't wanna let it lay me down this time Drown my will to fly Here in the darkness I know myself Can't break free until I let it go, let me go
Darling, I forgive you after all Anything is better than to be alone And in the end I guess I had to fall Always find my place among the ashes
I can't hold on to me Wonder what's wrong with me?
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without Lithium, stay in love with mmm I'm gonna let it go
Lithium is already prescribed to people who suffer from major mania , it is a very serious pill to take with very serious side effects. If we have a real MD on slashdot reading story, he/she can give more information.
Countries with serious health system may prevent any disaster occuring because of this BBC headline as people can't go and buy it but in some countries, prescription system is not taken serious at all.
So what BBC does for sake of having interesting ''weird'' news from Japan may actually kill some people. I am almost sure they will be protested by medical doctors.
It is 2009, people read the ''headline'' from RSS, Google news etc. and that is it. Japanese scientists aren't to blame, they do such research for actual science, not for general public.
I guess your ISP is very technical and you didn't see a "brownout". I have seen one, when the idiots (at billing) decided to give me IP but did not allow any data in or out. Some system parts were seriously shaken, frozen because they weren't coded with such possibility in mind. I reported all to my OS vendor and couple of apps vendors. One application became such a zombie that kill -9 didn't help. Reason? It was checking for updates. That is all! Some apps refused to display a GUI until I hand edited their prefs to disable automatic updates.
Did people watch the CPU usage of Internet Explorer when they hit that site?:)
Or they simply lowered some of priorities in their servers? I mean, yes, Windows 7 has generated a lot of talk around but this is MSDN we talk about. Do you know how much some companies, developers pay for premium access to that system? Ask a Windows developer, you may be very surprised.
Forget everything, can you believe the lemmings download it from Pirate sites? An operating system? Give me an NSA SE Linux ISO and I can modify it (with my low knowledge) the best trojan, spying, listening, watching OS ever. You got the OS install image to modify, can it get easier?:)
Even the highest of highest end antiviruses which can still sell for money gives no guarantee if they are installed to an already trojaned/wormed/rootkit infected system. That is why they always want to do a complete low level (with their own io drivers and zero cache), long scan when they get installed.
I suspect there is something going on with the packet identification in regard to WoW updates. Large ISPs are running very advanced systems to do such "conspire torrent downloaders" tricks and they could be identifying the WoW updates. Or more basically, ISP could be shutting down "conspire P2P" switch when Blizzard does updates.
I have actually used (via VNC) an American friend's system since I had hard time believing that his connection loses its mind when he runs torrent. It was amazing thing to see and I told him to change his ISP if possible. It was the period when they did the RSET trick.
In "consumer alpha" slashdotting issue, people found the file and posted its link, directly from Akamai. Sorry for forgetting it in my post. The link worked perfectly and they downloaded it very good speed.
You know what was the issue? Their Windows server processing, the "key generation" part and the "passport sign in" part. It could be similar issue today and if you ask me, if it is the issue, people trusting their scalability issues (win 2008 downloaders) should think again.
Apple could embed libtorrent and use its functionality (just like rtorrent) in Software Update which is a dedicated GUI application. Perhaps they know all kinds of junk will happen to their customers such as throttling, letters and even "cable modem freeze" the day they use that system for such general purpose operating system updates.
It is not simplicity, we have a company which can pack Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD and Carbon, get Unix 03 certificate and sell it as "World's easiest operating system". They sure know how to make things look simple.
They could use the same (or similar) system which Apple uses for OS X updates, HD Movie Downloads, Music Distribution and recently 1 billion hit App Store. It is Akamai/Edgesuite. Apple uses their own XServe for regular, dynamic content and offloads to Akamai (EdgeSuite) for big files. Nobody questions them for that decision as it is the logical thing to do. Just imagine the load of distributing 1 billion downloads in a completely random manner. It is just "app store". Now add HD Movies, World's most popular music store offering lossless files etc.
Of course, we all know the OS such large content distributors run. Let me write straight, they don't want to be in position of using Unix based hosting from third party to distribute their all new cool Windows 7 beta and more importantly, Windows server.
I suspected the end user alpha release being "slashdotted" was a lame marketing game but if MSDN goes down, MS can't really maintain it, for real. For obvious reasons, they won't do the logical choice of running light httpd (Unix, God forbid) or similar on download server, they won't even bother calling Akamai.
Nobody can blame them for not offering a torrent though. Thanks to MPAA/RIAA and various ISPs, P2P, especially torrent is an issue for large companies. If Apple used P2P to distribute very large OS updates (e.g. combo ones, XCode), we could blame MS for not using the option. Ask Apple why they don't use.
BTW lets say you find a torrent from 3rd party, did the MS post its checksum (whatever system they use) to the download page or somewhere at site? I mean it doesn't look very right to "pirate" an operating system which has a huge industry abusing it. People torrenting it should either get MD5 from a trusted friend or MS. There are several "trojaned" Windows out there. It is the easiest way to have your own zombie army.
Especially on OS X, PPC, what is up with Python using almost 70% of CPU while adding media to library? Apple' s Python is buggy? Or more important question (as same goes for Java), why Python was used? Because it is "fashion" or classy to use it in such matter?
I was forced to iTunes "podcast" using because someone had the genius idea of using Python for media catalogue generating. Perhaps it runs good on Linux/BSD but not on OS X.
Also how come it uses too much CPU while downloading? Isn't it people's number 1 concern with iTunes? There is "curl" in every OS X machine out there, why not use it instead? Or better embed wget?
How can we pay for removing the needless fashion style lines?:)
I guess they somehow forgot a severe security issue in Silverlight 2 which their bribed partners forced users to install, when Silverlight 3 is ready, they will somehow magically find that issue and roll out "Silverlight 3" as critical security update.
Of course, somehow Silverlight 3 will be very late for OS X (which only Intel supported) and lacking a feature. Sorry Moonlight team, I won't even bother mentioning you;)
This is a company which can happily put Macromedia Flash 6! to their SP3 just to make sure the large corporations have outdated version of their rival plugin. They are capable of anything.
If people were greeted by 100% CPU using "WGACheck.exe" and "services.exe" right after they were naive to trust their OS vendor with automatic updates, can you blame them?
I hate people using outdated technology just because they can't be bothered with couple of mp3 sized updates but in Windows case, issue can be way more different.
Well, you can keep up with IE 6/7 updates (security, as long as they ship) but you can't simply ignore System's default browser for updates. Some Mac users doing the same mistake too, they pass the Safari security/performance updates because they use something else. "Safari" update means update of Webkit and several OS core frameworks (even including libxml) update. Just like even if you use VLC, you gotta keep up with Quicktime (Framework) updates.
So you better run Windows Update, pick all except "IE 8", and keep IE 7 updated. IE 6 is really beyond fixing pile of junk and a security threat just by "being there".
BTW, once again for MS apologizing people: Please don't compare IE and Safari based on what I write above. I speak about webkit.framework and mshtml.dll , they have nothing to do with each other in sense of development model, open/closed source and company being convicted monopolist.
They mean "If people doesn't pick our browser, we will lose our jobs, lets ship it as critical and poor Windows users who still didn't disable automatic updates will be forced to install it".
I supported their IE 6 to 7 move, IE 6 was really beyond fixing but IE 8 is something that having users/developers accusing MS to forget to register a critical dll, breaking a SQL server and basically not working at all.
I am one of "Not working at all" guys, I tried it under MS Virtual PC 7, PPC emulating Intel P2 MMX, IE 7 works, IE 8 can't display anything no matter what you do. I am not a regular Mac user too, I know certain Windows tricks way deeper than anyone out there. I used Windows for 5-8 years, I really know how it works.
Ask anyone who can share commercial/generic site stats, IE 8 is at 3% level at most. Now, being alerted, a certain gang in MS forces it to users using mafia methods. Worse is, people having a non working default browser in their OS will disable automatic updates. I mean the remaining bunch after the WGA scandal. More and more zombies out there soon. One of the most advanced worms to this date could be prevented with a 1.5 MB update, you see what happened.
About the standards mode? All my sites are W3C XHML _strict_ compliant and it requires significant work to keep them that way, IE 8 says "error on page". End of discussion for me.
It seems the new management has no clue how Internet works. It sounds funny while I write but it seems like the truth. The large storage companies doesn't have a clue about sponsoring things. E.g. instead of putting a gigantic SAN ad to a "Windows 7 rocks" story at CNET, hand them some quality storage right IBM?
I better start archiving my Yahoo mail which is up since 1998.
I think some Yahoo suits thinking exactly as you joked but a message for them: It is history they will be rm -rf 'ing and you show like a company which can't even afford idle webpages hosting for historical purposes, in such a bad shape with no future.
They will be deleting (or considering even) dead/passed away people's webpages while they don't have any chance to reply to their lame mails or "click here" things. They did the very same thing in Yahoo Briefcase, 10 MB of highly compressible data for God's sake. At most!
I know the PR company, Ballmer and associates
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Do you really think they need a PR Company to humanise BillG face? When you have THIS replacing you at the company, you will look good compared to him no matter what you have done.
Similar thing happened to SJobs, when he got fired from the company he founded. Ask the people who were around him in 1980s, he wasn't _that_ loved. Hugely respected, admired but not liked. Of course, BillG wasn't fired, that is one difference. IMHO, if he tried to make a NeXT like revolution at MSFT, that bald guy would really, really fire/replace him somehow.
I wondered around in XServe/OSX server sites and could download/run some of client apps and I felt sorry for the server line. It is the first "server" anyone can really manage, almost like a "toy" but a serious Unix server at core level.
Why wouldn't companies adopt it except Mac only ones? It is tied to hardware, even Mainframe users doesn't like such thing and they choose J2EE because of it.
Besides the client, it is the saddest part of OS X is the server variant. For one second, you think like "Well, let them make it run on generic hardware, it is a server". Funny is, it becomes victim of own qualities since you can happily run Mac OS X Server on a G4 Mini and can even play 3d games on it. It is not something showing "#login" on boot.
As a Nokia/Sony Ericsson user, I better say one thing. If an OS/App can be converted to ARM without missing functionality, it can run on anything. Lets also ask one question to ourselves, for the future. Does Apple have to use Mach? FreeBSD? If you look at their releases for Windows lately (not the scandal iTunes), you may start wondering what can Apple become in the future. I am not saying Mach/FreeBSD is bad or anything, I am just saying they still have options even on kernel level.
OS X itself is interesting but its roots (NeXT) is way more interesting for showing light for the future.
Funny is people missing the fact that Apple themselves choose not to support the hardware, OS X code is massively portable, the sub-system sharing the same roots does run on Windows/Linux right now as GNUStep.
Apple could release a "OS X on mysterious x86 killer CPU" as early as next month and I wouldn't be surprised at all. Sadly, for political/financial reasons, it wouldn't happen but still, they can do it.
Hopefully people will just see this fact, I mean what OS X really is. It is not just Cocoa on FreeBSD running top of Mach which can be coded with a weird C language variant. The OS itself is object.
Yes but remember, Skype does code the very same client (or a bit stripped) for Netbook. They don't need to do anything except coding a light client, it is still x86/Windows or Linux/Qt , whatever they use.
You seem like knowing the Symbian scene. There is _still_ no official Symbian S60 client for Skype. Fring and some others became de-facto standard. Skype releasing this fast for iPhone also shows the Apple's excellence in developer relations and perhaps XCode's easiness. Still using Skype as example, I will mail that very same company and say I am running an ARM powered netbook which runs Android and ask for support.
One big reason what makes ordinary people buy netbook is the promise of very same apps, just on smaller screen and less speed. I know a guy who was interested in netbooks and just 4-5 hours ago, as a PPC G5/OS X user, I told the guy "Buy the Windows variant and 1GB RAM one". Why? Because guy hasn't used anything except Windows in his life and he also owns iPhone. I know why he is considering a netbook.
I watch Apple cleaning up resources (languages), releasing single architecture OS (Snow Leopard) and there are some reports of massively shrink Mail.app etc. in OS betas. As they (and you) sure know there is ZERO performance enhancement of cleaning languages, removing architectures whatever windows switchers may think:)... I mean, Apple seems to do a huge spring cleaning lately.
I don't say they will put plain OS X to a phone, it will be still modified of course... At the core level though, Developers may see something like "really stripped down OS X but still OS X", something they can use exact same core and just have to write different GUI. You know, like "Write once run anywhere as long as its Apple". It was what I expected right at the first iPhone announcement but I was too naive and early thinking for such thing it seems.
Dear AC, if you give up flame mode and try to understand my concern, I am meaning exactly that.
Why beg to Adobe for "Android Flash" while a perfectly supported x86/Linux latest version exists? Why travel back 10 years? Because some Google execs are bored and wants to show off in expense of wasted image of whatever tech they use?
If Apple did similar thing like "Don't be afraid to install snow leopard, it will run Tiger applications perfectly, in a Virtual Tiger", I would give up Apple that very same day. It sounds funny when I read it but it is true. I am not joking.
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If I purchased a brand new OS from MS, my only reason for running a old OS virtualised would be updating firmware of my device (e.g. via USB2), using my USB2 gadgets which has no support for Windows 7 yet and so on.
Virtual PC's big issue on OS X and Windows is, it is not supporting USB 2 and doesn't give a "pure" USB 1.1 support either. So, if you have something that needs Windows and healthy USB support or USB 2 support, you are out of luck. Virtual PC 7 for OS X does emulate the x86/MMX same time but I was really surprised when I heard its x86 version (freeware btw) doesn't support either.
Having USB supported claim is one thing, having USB2 supported just like the real PC is another. Ask Intel Mac users who tried to use Blackberry software on Sun Virtual Box. It can't handle weird things Blackberry does with USB so everything goes crazy. No data loss though and it is a reported issue (hopefully fixed). Nokia Software update (for firmware updates) has problems with virtual machines too, not sure about Sony Ericsson weird stuff that can't run reliably on a real PC even :)
I suggest keep a real (and conservative, no betas, hacks) XP on D: , sparing 15 GB partition to it and use Windows 7 as main partition. You may also have advantages as you can "fix" Windows 7 disk issues, config issues, files from XP side. It is the exact thing I do on Mac, I always keep previous major version (without hacks) in a very conservative sized partition just in case.
(for sake of telling people lithium is a serious thing)
Lithium lyrics
Songwriters: Lee, Amy;
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside
Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without
Lithium, I wanna stay in love with my sorrow
Oh, but God I wanna let it go
Come to bed, don't make me sleep alone
Couldn't hide the emptiness, you let it show
Never wanted it to be so cold
Just didn't drink enough to say you love me
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me?
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside
Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without
Lithium, I wanna stay in love with my sorrow
Don't wanna let it lay me down this time
Drown my will to fly
Here in the darkness I know myself
Can't break free until I let it go, let me go
Darling, I forgive you after all
Anything is better than to be alone
And in the end I guess I had to fall
Always find my place among the ashes
I can't hold on to me
Wonder what's wrong with me?
Lithium, don't wanna lock me up inside
Lithium, don't wanna forget how it feels without
Lithium, stay in love with mmm
I'm gonna let it go
Lithium is already prescribed to people who suffer from major mania , it is a very serious pill to take with very serious side effects. If we have a real MD on slashdot reading story, he/she can give more information.
Countries with serious health system may prevent any disaster occuring because of this BBC headline as people can't go and buy it but in some countries, prescription system is not taken serious at all.
So what BBC does for sake of having interesting ''weird'' news from Japan may actually kill some people. I am almost sure they will be protested by medical doctors.
It is 2009, people read the ''headline'' from RSS, Google news etc. and that is it. Japanese scientists aren't to blame, they do such research for actual science, not for general public.
I guess your ISP is very technical and you didn't see a "brownout". I have seen one, when the idiots (at billing) decided to give me IP but did not allow any data in or out. Some system parts were seriously shaken, frozen because they weren't coded with such possibility in mind. I reported all to my OS vendor and couple of apps vendors. One application became such a zombie that kill -9 didn't help. Reason? It was checking for updates. That is all! Some apps refused to display a GUI until I hand edited their prefs to disable automatic updates.
Did people watch the CPU usage of Internet Explorer when they hit that site? :)
Or they simply lowered some of priorities in their servers? I mean, yes, Windows 7 has generated a lot of talk around but this is MSDN we talk about. Do you know how much some companies, developers pay for premium access to that system? Ask a Windows developer, you may be very surprised.
Forget everything, can you believe the lemmings download it from Pirate sites? An operating system? Give me an NSA SE Linux ISO and I can modify it (with my low knowledge) the best trojan, spying, listening, watching OS ever. You got the OS install image to modify, can it get easier? :)
Even the highest of highest end antiviruses which can still sell for money gives no guarantee if they are installed to an already trojaned/wormed/rootkit infected system. That is why they always want to do a complete low level (with their own io drivers and zero cache), long scan when they get installed.
I suspect there is something going on with the packet identification in regard to WoW updates. Large ISPs are running very advanced systems to do such "conspire torrent downloaders" tricks and they could be identifying the WoW updates. Or more basically, ISP could be shutting down "conspire P2P" switch when Blizzard does updates.
I have actually used (via VNC) an American friend's system since I had hard time believing that his connection loses its mind when he runs torrent. It was amazing thing to see and I told him to change his ISP if possible. It was the period when they did the RSET trick.
In "consumer alpha" slashdotting issue, people found the file and posted its link, directly from Akamai. Sorry for forgetting it in my post. The link worked perfectly and they downloaded it very good speed.
You know what was the issue? Their Windows server processing, the "key generation" part and the "passport sign in" part. It could be similar issue today and if you ask me, if it is the issue, people trusting their scalability issues (win 2008 downloaders) should think again.
Apple could embed libtorrent and use its functionality (just like rtorrent) in Software Update which is a dedicated GUI application. Perhaps they know all kinds of junk will happen to their customers such as throttling, letters and even "cable modem freeze" the day they use that system for such general purpose operating system updates.
It is not simplicity, we have a company which can pack Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD and Carbon, get Unix 03 certificate and sell it as "World's easiest operating system". They sure know how to make things look simple.
They could use the same (or similar) system which Apple uses for OS X updates, HD Movie Downloads, Music Distribution and recently 1 billion hit App Store. It is Akamai/Edgesuite. Apple uses their own XServe for regular, dynamic content and offloads to Akamai (EdgeSuite) for big files. Nobody questions them for that decision as it is the logical thing to do. Just imagine the load of distributing 1 billion downloads in a completely random manner. It is just "app store". Now add HD Movies, World's most popular music store offering lossless files etc.
Of course, we all know the OS such large content distributors run. Let me write straight, they don't want to be in position of using Unix based hosting from third party to distribute their all new cool Windows 7 beta and more importantly, Windows server.
We see what happens though :)
I suspected the end user alpha release being "slashdotted" was a lame marketing game but if MSDN goes down, MS can't really maintain it, for real. For obvious reasons, they won't do the logical choice of running light httpd (Unix, God forbid) or similar on download server, they won't even bother calling Akamai.
Nobody can blame them for not offering a torrent though. Thanks to MPAA/RIAA and various ISPs, P2P, especially torrent is an issue for large companies. If Apple used P2P to distribute very large OS updates (e.g. combo ones, XCode), we could blame MS for not using the option. Ask Apple why they don't use.
BTW lets say you find a torrent from 3rd party, did the MS post its checksum (whatever system they use) to the download page or somewhere at site? I mean it doesn't look very right to "pirate" an operating system which has a huge industry abusing it. People torrenting it should either get MD5 from a trusted friend or MS. There are several "trojaned" Windows out there. It is the easiest way to have your own zombie army.
Especially on OS X, PPC, what is up with Python using almost 70% of CPU while adding media to library? Apple' s Python is buggy? Or more important question (as same goes for Java), why Python was used? Because it is "fashion" or classy to use it in such matter?
I was forced to iTunes "podcast" using because someone had the genius idea of using Python for media catalogue generating. Perhaps it runs good on Linux/BSD but not on OS X.
Also how come it uses too much CPU while downloading? Isn't it people's number 1 concern with iTunes? There is "curl" in every OS X machine out there, why not use it instead? Or better embed wget?
How can we pay for removing the needless fashion style lines? :)
I guess they somehow forgot a severe security issue in Silverlight 2 which their bribed partners forced users to install, when Silverlight 3 is ready, they will somehow magically find that issue and roll out "Silverlight 3" as critical security update.
Of course, somehow Silverlight 3 will be very late for OS X (which only Intel supported) and lacking a feature. Sorry Moonlight team, I won't even bother mentioning you ;)
This is a company which can happily put Macromedia Flash 6! to their SP3 just to make sure the large corporations have outdated version of their rival plugin. They are capable of anything.
If people were greeted by 100% CPU using "WGACheck.exe" and "services.exe" right after they were naive to trust their OS vendor with automatic updates, can you blame them?
I hate people using outdated technology just because they can't be bothered with couple of mp3 sized updates but in Windows case, issue can be way more different.
Well, you can keep up with IE 6/7 updates (security, as long as they ship) but you can't simply ignore System's default browser for updates. Some Mac users doing the same mistake too, they pass the Safari security/performance updates because they use something else. "Safari" update means update of Webkit and several OS core frameworks (even including libxml) update. Just like even if you use VLC, you gotta keep up with Quicktime (Framework) updates.
So you better run Windows Update, pick all except "IE 8", and keep IE 7 updated. IE 6 is really beyond fixing pile of junk and a security threat just by "being there".
BTW, once again for MS apologizing people: Please don't compare IE and Safari based on what I write above. I speak about webkit.framework and mshtml.dll , they have nothing to do with each other in sense of development model, open/closed source and company being convicted monopolist.
They mean "If people doesn't pick our browser, we will lose our jobs, lets ship it as critical and poor Windows users who still didn't disable automatic updates will be forced to install it".
I supported their IE 6 to 7 move, IE 6 was really beyond fixing but IE 8 is something that having users/developers accusing MS to forget to register a critical dll, breaking a SQL server and basically not working at all.
I am one of "Not working at all" guys, I tried it under MS Virtual PC 7, PPC emulating Intel P2 MMX, IE 7 works, IE 8 can't display anything no matter what you do. I am not a regular Mac user too, I know certain Windows tricks way deeper than anyone out there. I used Windows for 5-8 years, I really know how it works.
Ask anyone who can share commercial/generic site stats, IE 8 is at 3% level at most. Now, being alerted, a certain gang in MS forces it to users using mafia methods. Worse is, people having a non working default browser in their OS will disable automatic updates. I mean the remaining bunch after the WGA scandal. More and more zombies out there soon. One of the most advanced worms to this date could be prevented with a 1.5 MB update, you see what happened.
About the standards mode? All my sites are W3C XHML _strict_ compliant and it requires significant work to keep them that way, IE 8 says "error on page". End of discussion for me.
It seems the new management has no clue how Internet works. It sounds funny while I write but it seems like the truth. The large storage companies doesn't have a clue about sponsoring things. E.g. instead of putting a gigantic SAN ad to a "Windows 7 rocks" story at CNET, hand them some quality storage right IBM?
I better start archiving my Yahoo mail which is up since 1998.
I think some Yahoo suits thinking exactly as you joked but a message for them: It is history they will be rm -rf 'ing and you show like a company which can't even afford idle webpages hosting for historical purposes, in such a bad shape with no future.
They will be deleting (or considering even) dead/passed away people's webpages while they don't have any chance to reply to their lame mails or "click here" things. They did the very same thing in Yahoo Briefcase, 10 MB of highly compressible data for God's sake. At most!
Do you really think they need a PR Company to humanise BillG face? When you have THIS replacing you at the company, you will look good compared to him no matter what you have done.
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/steve/
Similar thing happened to SJobs, when he got fired from the company he founded. Ask the people who were around him in 1980s, he wasn't _that_ loved. Hugely respected, admired but not liked. Of course, BillG wasn't fired, that is one difference. IMHO, if he tried to make a NeXT like revolution at MSFT, that bald guy would really, really fire/replace him somehow.
I wondered around in XServe/OSX server sites and could download/run some of client apps and I felt sorry for the server line. It is the first "server" anyone can really manage, almost like a "toy" but a serious Unix server at core level.
Why wouldn't companies adopt it except Mac only ones? It is tied to hardware, even Mainframe users doesn't like such thing and they choose J2EE because of it.
Besides the client, it is the saddest part of OS X is the server variant. For one second, you think like "Well, let them make it run on generic hardware, it is a server". Funny is, it becomes victim of own qualities since you can happily run Mac OS X Server on a G4 Mini and can even play 3d games on it. It is not something showing "#login" on boot.
As a Nokia/Sony Ericsson user, I better say one thing. If an OS/App can be converted to ARM without missing functionality, it can run on anything. Lets also ask one question to ourselves, for the future. Does Apple have to use Mach? FreeBSD? If you look at their releases for Windows lately (not the scandal iTunes), you may start wondering what can Apple become in the future. I am not saying Mach/FreeBSD is bad or anything, I am just saying they still have options even on kernel level.
OS X itself is interesting but its roots (NeXT) is way more interesting for showing light for the future.
Funny is people missing the fact that Apple themselves choose not to support the hardware, OS X code is massively portable, the sub-system sharing the same roots does run on Windows/Linux right now as GNUStep.
Apple could release a "OS X on mysterious x86 killer CPU" as early as next month and I wouldn't be surprised at all. Sadly, for political/financial reasons, it wouldn't happen but still, they can do it.
Hopefully people will just see this fact, I mean what OS X really is. It is not just Cocoa on FreeBSD running top of Mach which can be coded with a weird C language variant. The OS itself is object.
Yes but remember, Skype does code the very same client (or a bit stripped) for Netbook. They don't need to do anything except coding a light client, it is still x86/Windows or Linux/Qt , whatever they use.
You seem like knowing the Symbian scene. There is _still_ no official Symbian S60 client for Skype. Fring and some others became de-facto standard. Skype releasing this fast for iPhone also shows the Apple's excellence in developer relations and perhaps XCode's easiness. Still using Skype as example, I will mail that very same company and say I am running an ARM powered netbook which runs Android and ask for support.
One big reason what makes ordinary people buy netbook is the promise of very same apps, just on smaller screen and less speed. I know a guy who was interested in netbooks and just 4-5 hours ago, as a PPC G5/OS X user, I told the guy "Buy the Windows variant and 1GB RAM one". Why? Because guy hasn't used anything except Windows in his life and he also owns iPhone. I know why he is considering a netbook.
I watch Apple cleaning up resources (languages), releasing single architecture OS (Snow Leopard) and there are some reports of massively shrink Mail.app etc. in OS betas. As they (and you) sure know there is ZERO performance enhancement of cleaning languages, removing architectures whatever windows switchers may think :)... I mean, Apple seems to do a huge spring cleaning lately.
I don't say they will put plain OS X to a phone, it will be still modified of course... At the core level though, Developers may see something like "really stripped down OS X but still OS X", something they can use exact same core and just have to write different GUI. You know, like "Write once run anywhere as long as its Apple". It was what I expected right at the first iPhone announcement but I was too naive and early thinking for such thing it seems.
Dear AC, if you give up flame mode and try to understand my concern, I am meaning exactly that.
Why beg to Adobe for "Android Flash" while a perfectly supported x86/Linux latest version exists? Why travel back 10 years? Because some Google execs are bored and wants to show off in expense of wasted image of whatever tech they use?
If Apple did similar thing like "Don't be afraid to install snow leopard, it will run Tiger applications perfectly, in a Virtual Tiger", I would give up Apple that very same day. It sounds funny when I read it but it is true. I am not joking.