I am a Wikipedia contributor, with around 5800 edits. I started editing in 2005. Most of my edits are minor ones, cleanup, etc. Although I have contributed a lot of text to many articles, I also enjoy contributing free-use images and providing references for articles in order to improve the reliability of an article; too many articles on Wikipedia do not cite their sources. Jimmy Wales should not state that only several hundred users are the most important editors on Wikipedia, because in reality everyone on Wikipedia who is contributing, whether by adding text or by cleaning up articles or doing maintenance, they're all helping out in one way or another. Most people all work on different stuff, so nobody can be called the "most important", its too broad a term.
OK, so he cites that he himself had a problem with his adapter, and someone else. If this has not even happened to more than 5 people, I can't see how its dangerous by design. These seem like one-off individual problems, nothing wide-scale that would require a recall. I've had a PowerBook G4 since 2003, and the same adapter for 3 years, 0 problems.
Not 30 years, more like 23. Windows was originally announced in 1983, not 1976. Why can't Slashdot editors actually *read* the articles before posting them?
all true, but the Finder should not be Carbon, pretty much everything else has been rewritten, its been left out and seriously needs a re-write anyway.
No. The masses want an OS that they can actually use and get stuff done on, so they will want speed and efficiency. Most people don't give a damn what it looks like, they just use whatever their computer came with, and thats why Windows is dominant, because every manufacturer bundles it except for...Apple. People hardly ever switch from what came with their computer, also with Internet Explorer is the dominant browser even though its crap.
Once again, the Slashdot editors did a great job, not. This news was released by Apple last month, and the writing quality of this news segment is terrible.
Leopard's expected features are built-in virtualization, related with Boot Camp, a new file system (possibly, unsure on this one myself), new finder (hopefully finally not carbon anymore), improved spotlight, dashboard widget editor, improved mail.app, ichat 4.0 with tabbed chatting, safari 3.0, and of course a ton of security fixes, bug fixes, etc. I dont know what exactly will be "new" of course.
Will it be cool and fast? We'll have to wait and see...It will obviously crawl around on older Macs (G3s) if they are even supported, but speed along on the new Intel Macs.
Market share... With Apple's new Intel Macs, market share is already increasing, but not by much - probably in the range of 0.50 - 1.50% this year. However, through 2007 I expect Apple to gain a few more percent market share, and they might compete more aggressively against Dell and others. Apple will never gain more market share with their software, only with their hardware (unless of course, they license OS X to the PC cloners).
Just my take on all this, and my attempt to sort of complete this news post as it should have been done.
I would buy a Sony Walkman if they were actually any good. The current models are more expensive than the iPod and have less features, and very ugly designs. Sony need to lower their prices to even be considered as a serious player in the MP3 market. I saw a stupid little Sony Walkman player, the screen was about half the size of the iPod nano screen, and it was only 256MB and it was over $200!
Everyone has known this for years, and that's because everyone who travels on planes is told by the cabin crew that cell phones must be turned off during flight, take-off and landing. Why do we need a study to prove this to us? It's god damn obvious when the airline tells us it for our own safety!
I like speculation when it makes some sense but this is pure crap. Apple has nothing to gain from buying Disney - Just because Steve Jobs joins the board at Disney doesn't mean he wants to buy them out with Apple. Since when does a computer/electronics company buy a company that produces films?
Apple can already get Disney content on iTunes without having to buy them.
A more sensible thing would be for Disney to become a subsidiary of Apple but it still wouldn't make much sense for Apple.
Calculator.app did not open for me when I tried the test - this is because I do not keep my apps all unsorted in/Applications/, I have them organized in subfolders such as/Applications/General - this exploit isn't clever enough to know if I've moved Calculator.app, its tied to a specific file path. It's not as serious as everyone is making out, make sure to turn off the automatic opening of "safe" files after downloading in whichever browser you use.
What is up with Slashdot these days? This news is a few days old, most of the Mac news sites have already posted information about this - heck, even the newspapers picked this story up! Every-time I come to Slashdot I'm reading stuff that's either boring, irrelevant or out of date...
I already have all this in Mac OS X, I have no reason to use or buy Vista over OS X. Microsoft are clearly playing catchup with things like security, an improved browser (everyone has Tabbed browsing and Google search bars already, IE7 is already yesterday's news), and search - Microsoft are acting like Mac OS X 10.4 never happened, because they're so arrogant. Oh well, everyone will still buy Vista anyway unless Apple do some huge Mac advertising campaign that'll kick Microsoft's ass!
The story is missing quite a bit of substantial information, which I'll post here:
Hewlett Packard at 14.2 percent, Acer at 9.5 percent, Fujitsu at 7.8 percent, and the remaining PC vendors taking 38.6 percent. Dell is still outcompeting Apple in the US, where Apple reportedly garners 22-23 percent of the education market share. Macworld UK reports that Apple's biggest European success is in Switzerland, where Apple holds 54.4 percent of the market-- Apple also ranks number one in France with 19.5 percent, Sweden with 15.2 percent, and takes second in Germany with 15.6 percent.
Although it is not production quality, could this bring a future to the Newton platform?
No, as everyone else has been saying. Just because an old OS is being emulated on new hardware doesn't mean it will bring a future to it. Other dead OSes, such as System 7, have been emulated on the PSP,Macs and PCs but I don't see that having any 'future'. Isn't it a but of a stupid question?
The Newton OS is great - I have two Newtons and an eMate which all run the Newton OS, but its been dead ever since Apple discontinued the Newton products in 1997 and it won't ever be alive again, sadly.
I think the story is wrong in stating that Ive's first design for Apple was the iMac, because before that he designed the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) in 1997 , the eMate 300 (1997) and the Newton back in 1993.
Of course I have used Open Office, under Mac OS X it was a LOT better than MS Office for Mac OS X in terms of stability. It's no good if students are losing their work all the time because of stability issues. You haven't said you think MS Office is better, backup your comment with reasons...
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All AOL seem to do is screw-up again and again these days. They must like bad publicity.
I am a Wikipedia contributor, with around 5800 edits. I started editing in 2005. Most of my edits are minor ones, cleanup, etc. Although I have contributed a lot of text to many articles, I also enjoy contributing free-use images and providing references for articles in order to improve the reliability of an article; too many articles on Wikipedia do not cite their sources. Jimmy Wales should not state that only several hundred users are the most important editors on Wikipedia, because in reality everyone on Wikipedia who is contributing, whether by adding text or by cleaning up articles or doing maintenance, they're all helping out in one way or another. Most people all work on different stuff, so nobody can be called the "most important", its too broad a term.
OK, so he cites that he himself had a problem with his adapter, and someone else. If this has not even happened to more than 5 people, I can't see how its dangerous by design. These seem like one-off individual problems, nothing wide-scale that would require a recall. I've had a PowerBook G4 since 2003, and the same adapter for 3 years, 0 problems.
Not 30 years, more like 23. Windows was originally announced in 1983, not 1976. Why can't Slashdot editors actually *read* the articles before posting them?
...Ballmer just threw a chair across Microsoft's boardroom and started jumping around like a monkey in his office...
all true, but the Finder should not be Carbon, pretty much everything else has been rewritten, its been left out and seriously needs a re-write anyway.
No. The masses want an OS that they can actually use and get stuff done on, so they will want speed and efficiency. Most people don't give a damn what it looks like, they just use whatever their computer came with, and thats why Windows is dominant, because every manufacturer bundles it except for...Apple. People hardly ever switch from what came with their computer, also with Internet Explorer is the dominant browser even though its crap.
Once again, the Slashdot editors did a great job, not. This news was released by Apple last month, and the writing quality of this news segment is terrible. Leopard's expected features are built-in virtualization, related with Boot Camp, a new file system (possibly, unsure on this one myself), new finder (hopefully finally not carbon anymore), improved spotlight, dashboard widget editor, improved mail.app, ichat 4.0 with tabbed chatting, safari 3.0, and of course a ton of security fixes, bug fixes, etc. I dont know what exactly will be "new" of course. Will it be cool and fast? We'll have to wait and see...It will obviously crawl around on older Macs (G3s) if they are even supported, but speed along on the new Intel Macs. Market share... With Apple's new Intel Macs, market share is already increasing, but not by much - probably in the range of 0.50 - 1.50% this year. However, through 2007 I expect Apple to gain a few more percent market share, and they might compete more aggressively against Dell and others. Apple will never gain more market share with their software, only with their hardware (unless of course, they license OS X to the PC cloners). Just my take on all this, and my attempt to sort of complete this news post as it should have been done.
Duh, everyone's been saying this for over a year now. It's pretty obvious Apple wants the $1 billion iPod...I mean wouldn't you? ;)
Since when did Marge get a haircut? *gasp*
I would buy a Sony Walkman if they were actually any good. The current models are more expensive than the iPod and have less features, and very ugly designs. Sony need to lower their prices to even be considered as a serious player in the MP3 market. I saw a stupid little Sony Walkman player, the screen was about half the size of the iPod nano screen, and it was only 256MB and it was over $200!
Everyone has known this for years, and that's because everyone who travels on planes is told by the cabin crew that cell phones must be turned off during flight, take-off and landing. Why do we need a study to prove this to us? It's god damn obvious when the airline tells us it for our own safety!
The Da Vinci Code should be moderated down, Overrated! :P
I like speculation when it makes some sense but this is pure crap. Apple has nothing to gain from buying Disney - Just because Steve Jobs joins the board at Disney doesn't mean he wants to buy them out with Apple. Since when does a computer/electronics company buy a company that produces films? Apple can already get Disney content on iTunes without having to buy them. A more sensible thing would be for Disney to become a subsidiary of Apple but it still wouldn't make much sense for Apple.
Cool! Now we get an Origami Sim! Just the perfect thing to add to my collection of Sim games.
Damn! I thought the MacBook Pro was going to be slower than the PowerBook G4...
Calculator.app did not open for me when I tried the test - this is because I do not keep my apps all unsorted in /Applications/, I have them organized in subfolders such as /Applications/General - this exploit isn't clever enough to know if I've moved Calculator.app, its tied to a specific file path. It's not as serious as everyone is making out, make sure to turn off the automatic opening of "safe" files after downloading in whichever browser you use.
What is up with Slashdot these days? This news is a few days old, most of the Mac news sites have already posted information about this - heck, even the newspapers picked this story up! Every-time I come to Slashdot I'm reading stuff that's either boring, irrelevant or out of date...
I already have all this in Mac OS X, I have no reason to use or buy Vista over OS X. Microsoft are clearly playing catchup with things like security, an improved browser (everyone has Tabbed browsing and Google search bars already, IE7 is already yesterday's news), and search - Microsoft are acting like Mac OS X 10.4 never happened, because they're so arrogant. Oh well, everyone will still buy Vista anyway unless Apple do some huge Mac advertising campaign that'll kick Microsoft's ass!
Since when did letters have anniversaries?
The story is missing quite a bit of substantial information, which I'll post here:
Hewlett Packard at 14.2 percent, Acer at 9.5 percent, Fujitsu at 7.8 percent, and the remaining PC vendors taking 38.6 percent. Dell is still outcompeting Apple in the US, where Apple reportedly garners 22-23 percent of the education market share. Macworld UK reports that Apple's biggest European success is in Switzerland, where Apple holds 54.4 percent of the market-- Apple also ranks number one in France with 19.5 percent, Sweden with 15.2 percent, and takes second in Germany with 15.6 percent.
Although it is not production quality, could this bring a future to the Newton platform? No, as everyone else has been saying. Just because an old OS is being emulated on new hardware doesn't mean it will bring a future to it. Other dead OSes, such as System 7, have been emulated on the PSP,Macs and PCs but I don't see that having any 'future'. Isn't it a but of a stupid question? The Newton OS is great - I have two Newtons and an eMate which all run the Newton OS, but its been dead ever since Apple discontinued the Newton products in 1997 and it won't ever be alive again, sadly.
I think the story is wrong in stating that Ive's first design for Apple was the iMac, because before that he designed the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) in 1997 , the eMate 300 (1997) and the Newton back in 1993.
At first I thought it said ",eat an iPod" :P
Of course I have used Open Office, under Mac OS X it was a LOT better than MS Office for Mac OS X in terms of stability. It's no good if students are losing their work all the time because of stability issues. You haven't said you think MS Office is better, backup your comment with reasons...