I have mixed feelings for phone solicitors. Sure, it's an awful job to have and, I suppose, that for some people there are no alternatives. But, geez.... you would think that any rational person would know how much the general public _hates_ telemarketing. That alone would make me work double shifts at Burger King as an alternative.
Remember a few months ago when several web publishers lost their Press Credentials to MacWorld for publishing Rumors? "Nick dePlume" was one of them. Matthew Rothenburg wrote an editorial entitled "Let My People Go" (or something like that) saying that these so-called "rumor" sites should be allowed the same privileges as the "real" press. Since then he's been co-writing articles every now and then with dePlume (that's a pen name, who knows that the guy's real name). I think that it's to try and lend some credibility to Think Secret and dePlume.
Of course, this is pure speculation and all. who knows. haha
Regardless of the truth, Rothenburg's "association" with Think Secret has basically caused me to lose respect for him.
They used to make high-end unix-based workstations for CAD/GIS work. The US Army Corps of Engineers and several other government agencies, as well as civil & construction engineering companies were huge customers. Demand for those workstations started to decline as PC's got more powerful and other software, like AutoCAD and ARC/INFO started to become more popular. Now, I believe, they are basically a software company. Their software is still very popular in public works & civil engineering firms. The last time I had any dealings with them was about 6 years or so ago when I went with some engineers to the Intergraph headquarters in Huntsville to help test some utilities for interfacing Microstation and ARC/INFO.
This is pretty much off topic, but when I was about 10 years old, my Grandmother started a library in her home.... every 6 weeks or so, the Bookmobile (in this case, a green van from the Warioto Regional Library System) would come by her house and swap out some of the books she had. I don't know exactly when and where that system started, but it's primary goal was to start and support libraries in isolated rural communities, where a large public library was not available. When my Grandmother was young, some country stores would have a few shelves of books from the Bookmobile and you'd find them in other places.
She gave it up after nearly 20 years when she got married (again) and moved to another part of the county. At the peak, she had over 3,000 books available and several regular and casual readers. I think that library was the single most important part of my childhood education- I learned a lot more from those books than I did in school... I still remember how excited I was when I heard that the Bookmobile was coming. lol.
umm... Apple has been working with IBM for over 10 years now. Apple, IBM, and Motorola jointly developed the PowerPC processor. IBM manufactures most (if not all) of the G3 processors currently being used by Apple.
I almost never eat out during the week, so I don't have to deal with that too much. When I do, I try to order something small... I agree, though, it's a problem at times.
On a daily basis, I usually bring a bunch of food with me to work and eat it at my desk while I am working (there are no problems with me doing that here, but some places kind of frown on eating at your desk). A lot of the time I eat sandwiches during the day- I make a couple in the morning when I am fixing breakfast. Also, I eat a lot of protein bars and things like that when I don't have time to fix something special. I *really* like the Myoplex Delux bars from EAS- they've got about 340 calories, and about 24 grams of protein in them, with 40-something grams of carbohydrates. They can be kind of expensive if you buy them individually, but I usually buy a couple of boxes of them at a time from http://netrition.com - that's cheaper than buying stuff like that from GNC or your local health food/grocery store. The nice thing about them is that they taste good- and good-tasting protein bars are hard to find. I used to eat the ones from MetRX, but I just got to the point where I could not stand hte taste and the texture of them. The Zone Perfect protein bars are pretty good, but they are a little too sweet for my taste- I think they have about 240 calories and 14 grams of protein (off hand i can not remember the carb content) There are a number of other brands, but the ones from EAS are better than any of the others I have tried.
I stay away from meal replacement shakes though, they are too much trouble- you have to have a blender around or a shaker bottle that you have to wash, etc... and they are not as filling as the equivalent protein bar.
I've found it's better to eat 6 (or more) small meals throughout the day- each meal totalling 300 to 600 calories. I eat a little something every 2 or 3 hours throughout the day and never get hungry- of course, it annoys my cubicle neighbors, who think I eat all the time and wonder why I am not the size of a whale:)
I think that your quote from Julia Child is right on track. I remember when low fat "snack foods" became really really popular in the early 90's- snackwells, baked potato chips, etc People would think that because it was low fat, they could eat all they wanted... I remember a friend of mine holding up a bag of Baked Tostito's Tortilla chips and exclaiming gleefully that there was only "1.5 grams of fat in the whoooooole" bag... then she promptly proceeded to eat the entire bag- completely ignoring the fact that it still contained about 1,000 (or more) calories.
It's ok to include a little fat in your diet, but as long as you don't over do it, you'll be just fine.
I eat a lot of low fat meals, but the majority of the fat I consume comes from olive oil or "fatty" fish like salmon.... the so-called "good fats".
How about trying to meet some indie filmmakers and getting your music on the soundtracks for their films with a credit at the end, or maybe a bit part or cameo? Some indie films enjoy a lot of success, some don't, of course.... but it might be sort of a symbiotic relationship- indie filmmakers are trying to achieve the same goal as you.
No, they should not sit indoors all the time but if they expect to get respect from the rest of us, they should be willing to respect our rights as well... and they have absolutely no right to disturb me or anyone else who has paid money to see a movie, play or whatever else. A simple solution, as many have pointed out, is to simply use a vibrating pager or phone and carry it so that you can feel it vibrate. That's all they need to do.
I worked for a ground water research institute at a university for 3 years after getting my MS. I was involved in ground water modeling, some system administration work, some project management, and various other things. I left that job about 4.5 years ago for a job at a large corporation and do not regret it at all. I work fewer hours and enjoy my new job a lot more than the one I had at the University.
Academia, in many ways, it not a lot different than the corporate world.... if you work at a state univeristy you are always having to deal with funding issues and your raises and promotions are always at the whim of the legislature or the board of regents... when things get tight, higher education is almost always (unfortunately) one the things that gets cut. I doubt if things at private universities are much better. If you want to do research, you've got to get funding. Writing research proposals to get money from corporate sponsors and government agencies or private foundations can be extremely frustrating. I've seen it take years for people to get proposals funded and then years to get their results published in journals. The academic world is just as cut-throat as the corporate world.
That said...The work you do can be rewarding but in my experience it's no more or less rewarding than the work I do now. For me, a rewarding job/career is one that allows me to continue to learn new things and improve my skills. Though I had that opportunity at my univeristy job, I've found I've grown a lot more within my current environment.
Many people have very rewarding careers in academia, but you'll find that many of the people you will have to deal with will be just as unpleasant as the ones you deal with in the corporate world. You just have to find something that makes you happy and helps you to achieve your personal goals. For me, that's been a career in the corporate world- not academia.
Sorry, but that is the whole point of free speech, that your ideas may not be popular, but you have a right to say them. I'm not arguing that spam is free speech, but your post is a very dangerous argument.
Free speech gives you the right to express your ideas but something that a lot of people forget is that you do NOT have a right to force other people to listen to you. You do NOT have a right to intrude into someone's home or office and express your ideas. You do NOT have a right to call people at random on the telephone and force them to sit and listen to you. You do NOT have a right to send e-mail to people and force them to read it.
There are some programs that do have problems with Classic- specifically those that try and access the hardware directly- which is something that is not allowed from within the Classic environment. It's not that they did not do a good job with classic, it's a matter of applications being written correctly. Classic was only meant to be a transition to X- something to tide over users until their applications were fully carbonized or rewritten in Cocoa.
While it is certainly true that a lot of software is still being sold that is OS 9 only, that number is shrinking every day. We see more and more Carbon apps that are 9/X as well as X-only applications every day. The most recent version of MS Office _only_ runs in X.
Regardless of when you bought it, that version of qbert was probably written so that it'll run on OS 8 or 9... and was probably originally written before X was releasd to the public (or developers). There are some games that do not run in Classic or X, but that's because they try and access the hardware directly... which occasionallly leads to problems. Conversely, there are many games that are carbonized and X-native.
I almost wish that the "press' had never reported on Apple's announcement that "OS 9 is Dead"... it's dead as far as developers are concerned. As time goes on, it will be dead for consumers as well.
I am going to disagree with you here... I don't think that this should be considered "forcing" the users to change. As other posters have pointed out, it is and has been common practice for Apple to only support the most recent version of the MacOS on their hardware.... you can't boot a currently--shipping G4 with MacOS 8... typically the machine will only boot with whatever version of the MacOS that was shipping at the time.
It's also not uncommon for minor changes in OS 9 to break certain applications or drivers. I've got some older software that will not run in anything newer than System 7.6, and I've got a couple of things that worked in the first releasse of 9 but don't work well under 9.1 or 9.2.
Removing the ability of new machines to boot into OS 9 is a logical progression in the "coming out" process of MacOS X. At some point in the future, the classic ennvironment will likely disappear altogether. MacOS X is only going to get better as time goes on... look at the improvements that have been made since the Public Beta was released.
All in all, if this is true, it's a good thing for the Macintosh community. It will encourage developers to finish porting their applications to X .
I have not booted my PowerBook into OS 9 in well over a year and that was only for a few minutes. I've been running OS X since the Public Beta and have been running it fulll time since March 24, 2001 or whenever the full version came out. I've got a 2000 Series PB G3 (the one with the bronze keyboard and dual firewire ports and a 400 Mhz processor). I've experienced a few glitches here and there, but nothing to make me want to go back to OS 9.
Can anyone give me some hard facts about whether or not its true that they rely on their hardware markups to drive the development of their kick-ass software?
I can't give you any hard facts, but II can give you a bit of empirical evidence.
Apple give away nearly all of it's software. They sell a few of their more "professional" titles: AppleWorks ($79), DVD Studio Pro (somewhere around $1,000), iMovie ($50), Final Cut Pro (~$1,000), WebObjects (~$700 plus some cllient fees maybe), OS X (~$130), OS X Server ($1,000) and a couple more. It seems tha that the price of these titiles are comparable to the prices of similar products and that the price would reflect the development costs of the software plus all of the overhead associated with it. Given the quantity of "free" software they put out and the quality (iTunes, QuickTime, iMovie, iCal, iSync, etc) it seems to me that they would subsidise the development of the free stuff from the sales of their hardware. I have no idea how many developers they actually have working on these titles, nor how many people would be required to put together some of these things.
Anyway, that's a long blurb about nothing and it may not make any sense, given the fact that i am pretty tired right now, lol...... any other ideas?
One potential problem with Apple going exclusively with IBM is that IBM does not manufacture G4 processors- just the G3- and all of Apple's current machines, except for the iBook use the G4. I read that they are quietly phasing out the low-end G3 iMac in favor of the eMac.
Motorola owns the patents (or some of them) on Altivec (Apple's "Velocity Engine")... though some people have wondered if IBM could simply license the technology and run with it. I think also, that a couple of years ago IBM and Motorola hhad some philosophical differences of opinion on the future of the PPC and the AIM "allliance" sort of dissolved. Apple sells quite a few computers though, over 800,000 last quarter.... that might be attractive to some of the alternative processors.
Also, there have been rumors floating aroudn about Apple simply buying the rights to the G4 from Motorola... regardless of what's true.... Steve Jobs was correct, they have plenty of options.
IA-64 seems more likely than IA-32 to me, but some people have suggested [mosr.com] Apple could move to IBM's Power4 line, which is closely related to PPC. How about ARM Processors? MIPS? Sparc? Alpha? Transmeta? Anybody have any other ideas?
I was wondering the same thing. It seems to me that Apple would stick with a RISC chip similar to the G3/G4 that they currently use. Do you think that they would make the switch to an Intel/AMD processor after lauding the advantages of RISC for all of these years? I know next to nothing about processor design and the advantages/disadvantages of each, except for some general marketing-derived knowledge.
OpenStep was available for many different architectures, Intel, SPARC, PA-RISC and probably a couple of others. I wonder if the remanents of OpenStep and all of the other stuff that makes up the underpinnings of OS X and Aqua can easily be ported to these other architectures?
If I remember correctly, Apple customers were not "required" to pay $20 for the OSX upgrade... you only had to pay if you wanted the upgrade on CDROM. I've always updated my copy of OSX through the Software Update application for free. It's nice on broadband but a little painful on a dialup connection- but it worked and was free.
Additionallly, one of the other stereotypical characteristics of Mac users is that they are huge whiners and severely prone to knee-jerk reactions. So many of "us" simply forget that Apple is a corporation out to make money just like thousands of other corporations around the world. It's also a sad fact that so many people think that everything should be free. If the dot com crash taught us anything, it was that it's nearly impossible to build a business where you give away your services or products for free.
I don't have aproblem paying for iTools services if it helps to keep Apple in business.... just like I don't have a problem paying premium prices for Apple hardware. The quality and experience is worth the extra expense.
Oh my gosh... if only we could do that. I feel pretty much the same way.. there are only a few channels that I watch and could not care less about the remainder of them... I wish that we could pick and choose what we get rather than some marketing drone deciding that we need 6 shopping networks and 5 Bible-thumping channels.
I would gladly pay a premium to get exactly the programming I want and am interested in.
they will probably be broadcasting the keynote in MPEG4 format to show off the capabilities of QT6.... at least that's my guess as to why it was released today and not on Wednesday.
They've got a secure download site available.
From the software update inforrmation:
"Security Update 7-12-02 delivers a more secure Software Update service to verify that future updates originate from Apple. If you would prefer to download this manually from a secure Apple server you can download the package at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75304" :)
Here is a (probably stupid) thought: if this software somehow damages the iPod (OK, I don't see how that is possible, but in the off chance it screws w/ the iPod's builtin software), is it still covered by Apple's warranty? Do you think it would be a good move for Apple to not cover it? I mean, they don't cover damage of unsupported use of their computers (such as using non-CDs in the optical drive), so should they cover unsupported use of the iPod?
My guess is "No"... Apple only "supports" the use of an iPod on a Macintosh with iTunes. Of course, I guess if your iPod was somehow damaged by third party software on a Windows (or other OS) machine... you could lie about it... but that opens up a whole other can of worms.
There have been rumors that they would officially add Windows support, but so far that has not surfaced.
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I heard a guy on a talk radio show once that said he would send garbage (banana peels, coffee grounds, etc) in junk mail return envelopes, lol.
I have mixed feelings for phone solicitors. Sure, it's an awful job to have and, I suppose, that for some people there are no alternatives. But, geez.... you would think that any rational person would know how much the general public _hates_ telemarketing. That alone would make me work double shifts at Burger King as an alternative.
Remember a few months ago when several web publishers lost their Press Credentials to MacWorld for publishing Rumors? "Nick dePlume" was one of them. Matthew Rothenburg wrote an editorial entitled "Let My People Go" (or something like that) saying that these so-called "rumor" sites should be allowed the same privileges as the "real" press. Since then he's been co-writing articles every now and then with dePlume (that's a pen name, who knows that the guy's real name). I think that it's to try and lend some credibility to Think Secret and dePlume.
Of course, this is pure speculation and all. who knows. haha
Regardless of the truth, Rothenburg's "association" with Think Secret has basically caused me to lose respect for him.
They used to make high-end unix-based workstations for CAD/GIS work. The US Army Corps of Engineers and several other government agencies, as well as civil & construction engineering companies were huge customers. Demand for those workstations started to decline as PC's got more powerful and other software, like AutoCAD and ARC/INFO started to become more popular. Now, I believe, they are basically a software company. Their software is still very popular in public works & civil engineering firms. The last time I had any dealings with them was about 6 years or so ago when I went with some engineers to the Intergraph headquarters in Huntsville to help test some utilities for interfacing Microstation and ARC/INFO.
This is pretty much off topic, but when I was about 10 years old, my Grandmother started a library in her home.... every 6 weeks or so, the Bookmobile (in this case, a green van from the Warioto Regional Library System) would come by her house and swap out some of the books she had. I don't know exactly when and where that system started, but it's primary goal was to start and support libraries in isolated rural communities, where a large public library was not available. When my Grandmother was young, some country stores would have a few shelves of books from the Bookmobile and you'd find them in other places.
She gave it up after nearly 20 years when she got married (again) and moved to another part of the county. At the peak, she had over 3,000 books available and several regular and casual readers. I think that library was the single most important part of my childhood education- I learned a lot more from those books than I did in school... I still remember how excited I was when I heard that the Bookmobile was coming. lol.
Ah.... childhood memories.
umm... Apple has been working with IBM for over 10 years now. Apple, IBM, and Motorola jointly developed the PowerPC processor. IBM manufactures most (if not all) of the G3 processors currently being used by Apple.
I almost never eat out during the week, so I don't have to deal with that too much. When I do, I try to order something small... I agree, though, it's a problem at times.
On a daily basis, I usually bring a bunch of food with me to work and eat it at my desk while I am working (there are no problems with me doing that here, but some places kind of frown on eating at your desk). A lot of the time I eat sandwiches during the day- I make a couple in the morning when I am fixing breakfast. Also, I eat a lot of protein bars and things like that when I don't have time to fix something special. I *really* like the Myoplex Delux bars from EAS- they've got about 340 calories, and about 24 grams of protein in them, with 40-something grams of carbohydrates. They can be kind of expensive if you buy them individually, but I usually buy a couple of boxes of them at a time from http://netrition.com - that's cheaper than buying stuff like that from GNC or your local health food/grocery store. The nice thing about them is that they taste good- and good-tasting protein bars are hard to find. I used to eat the ones from MetRX, but I just got to the point where I could not stand hte taste and the texture of them. The Zone Perfect protein bars are pretty good, but they are a little too sweet for my taste- I think they have about 240 calories and 14 grams of protein (off hand i can not remember the carb content) There are a number of other brands, but the ones from EAS are better than any of the others I have tried.
I stay away from meal replacement shakes though, they are too much trouble- you have to have a blender around or a shaker bottle that you have to wash, etc... and they are not as filling as the equivalent protein bar.
I've found it's better to eat 6 (or more) small meals throughout the day- each meal totalling 300 to 600 calories. I eat a little something every 2 or 3 hours throughout the day and never get hungry- of course, it annoys my cubicle neighbors, who think I eat all the time and wonder why I am not the size of a whale :)
I think that your quote from Julia Child is right on track. I remember when low fat "snack foods" became really really popular in the early 90's- snackwells, baked potato chips, etc People would think that because it was low fat, they could eat all they wanted... I remember a friend of mine holding up a bag of Baked Tostito's Tortilla chips and exclaiming gleefully that there was only "1.5 grams of fat in the whoooooole" bag... then she promptly proceeded to eat the entire bag- completely ignoring the fact that it still contained about 1,000 (or more) calories.
It's ok to include a little fat in your diet, but as long as you don't over do it, you'll be just fine.
I eat a lot of low fat meals, but the majority of the fat I consume comes from olive oil or "fatty" fish like salmon.... the so-called "good fats".
How about trying to meet some indie filmmakers and getting your music on the soundtracks for their films with a credit at the end, or maybe a bit part or cameo? Some indie films enjoy a lot of success, some don't, of course.... but it might be sort of a symbiotic relationship- indie filmmakers are trying to achieve the same goal as you.
No, they should not sit indoors all the time but if they expect to get respect from the rest of us, they should be willing to respect our rights as well... and they have absolutely no right to disturb me or anyone else who has paid money to see a movie, play or whatever else. A simple solution, as many have pointed out, is to simply use a vibrating pager or phone and carry it so that you can feel it vibrate. That's all they need to do.
I worked for a ground water research institute at a university for 3 years after getting my MS. I was involved in ground water modeling, some system administration work, some project management, and various other things. I left that job about 4.5 years ago for a job at a large corporation and do not regret it at all. I work fewer hours and enjoy my new job a lot more than the one I had at the University.
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Academia, in many ways, it not a lot different than the corporate world.... if you work at a state univeristy you are always having to deal with funding issues and your raises and promotions are always at the whim of the legislature or the board of regents... when things get tight, higher education is almost always (unfortunately) one the things that gets cut. I doubt if things at private universities are much better. If you want to do research, you've got to get funding. Writing research proposals to get money from corporate sponsors and government agencies or private foundations can be extremely frustrating. I've seen it take years for people to get proposals funded and then years to get their results published in journals. The academic world is just as cut-throat as the corporate world.
That said...The work you do can be rewarding but in my experience it's no more or less rewarding than the work I do now. For me, a rewarding job/career is one that allows me to continue to learn new things and improve my skills. Though I had that opportunity at my univeristy job, I've found I've grown a lot more within my current environment.
Many people have very rewarding careers in academia, but you'll find that many of the people you will have to deal with will be just as unpleasant as the ones you deal with in the corporate world. You just have to find something that makes you happy and helps you to achieve your personal goals. For me, that's been a career in the corporate world- not academia.
(please forgive the typos... i am tired
Sorry, but that is the whole point of free speech, that your ideas may not be popular, but you have a right to say them.
I'm not arguing that spam is free speech, but your post is a very dangerous argument.
Free speech gives you the right to express your ideas but something that a lot of people forget is that you do NOT have a right to force other people to listen to you. You do NOT have a right to intrude into someone's home or office and express your ideas. You do NOT have a right to call people at random on the telephone and force them to sit and listen to you. You do NOT have a right to send e-mail to people and force them to read it.
There are some programs that do have problems with Classic- specifically those that try and access the hardware directly- which is something that is not allowed from within the Classic environment. It's not that they did not do a good job with classic, it's a matter of applications being written correctly. Classic was only meant to be a transition to X- something to tide over users until their applications were fully carbonized or rewritten in Cocoa.
While it is certainly true that a lot of software is still being sold that is OS 9 only, that number is shrinking every day. We see more and more Carbon apps that are 9/X as well as X-only applications every day. The most recent version of MS Office _only_ runs in X.
Regardless of when you bought it, that version of qbert was probably written so that it'll run on OS 8 or 9... and was probably originally written before X was releasd to the public (or developers). There are some games that do not run in Classic or X, but that's because they try and access the hardware directly... which occasionallly leads to problems. Conversely, there are many games that are carbonized and X-native.
I almost wish that the "press' had never reported on Apple's announcement that "OS 9 is Dead"... it's dead as far as developers are concerned. As time goes on, it will be dead for consumers as well.
I am going to disagree with you here... I don't think that this should be considered "forcing" the users to change. As other posters have pointed out, it is and has been common practice for Apple to only support the most recent version of the MacOS on their hardware.... you can't boot a currently--shipping G4 with MacOS 8... typically the machine will only boot with whatever version of the MacOS that was shipping at the time.
It's also not uncommon for minor changes in OS 9 to break certain applications or drivers. I've got some older software that will not run in anything newer than System 7.6, and I've got a couple of things that worked in the first releasse of 9 but don't work well under 9.1 or 9.2.
Removing the ability of new machines to boot into OS 9 is a logical progression in the "coming out" process of MacOS X. At some point in the future, the classic ennvironment will likely disappear altogether. MacOS X is only going to get better as time goes on... look at the improvements that have been made since the Public Beta was released.
All in all, if this is true, it's a good thing for the Macintosh community. It will encourage developers to finish porting their applications to X .
I have not booted my PowerBook into OS 9 in well over a year and that was only for a few minutes. I've been running OS X since the Public Beta and have been running it fulll time since March 24, 2001 or whenever the full version came out. I've got a 2000 Series PB G3 (the one with the bronze keyboard and dual firewire ports and a 400 Mhz processor). I've experienced a few glitches here and there, but nothing to make me want to go back to OS 9.
Can anyone give me some hard facts about whether or not its true that they rely on their hardware markups to drive the development of their kick-ass software?
I can't give you any hard facts, but II can give you a bit of empirical evidence.
Apple give away nearly all of it's software. They sell a few of their more "professional" titles: AppleWorks ($79), DVD Studio Pro (somewhere around $1,000), iMovie ($50), Final Cut Pro (~$1,000), WebObjects (~$700 plus some cllient fees maybe), OS X (~$130), OS X Server ($1,000) and a couple more. It seems tha that the price of these titiles are comparable to the prices of similar products and that the price would reflect the development costs of the software plus all of the overhead associated with it. Given the quantity of "free" software they put out and the quality (iTunes, QuickTime, iMovie, iCal, iSync, etc) it seems to me that they would subsidise the development of the free stuff from the sales of their hardware. I have no idea how many developers they actually have working on these titles, nor how many people would be required to put together some of these things.
Anyway, that's a long blurb about nothing and it may not make any sense, given the fact that i am pretty tired right now, lol...... any other ideas?
One potential problem with Apple going exclusively with IBM is that IBM does not manufacture G4 processors- just the G3- and all of Apple's current machines, except for the iBook use the G4. I read that they are quietly phasing out the low-end G3 iMac in favor of the eMac.
Motorola owns the patents (or some of them) on Altivec (Apple's "Velocity Engine")... though some people have wondered if IBM could simply license the technology and run with it. I think also, that a couple of years ago IBM and Motorola hhad some philosophical differences of opinion on the future of the PPC and the AIM "allliance" sort of dissolved. Apple sells quite a few computers though, over 800,000 last quarter.... that might be attractive to some of the alternative processors.
Also, there have been rumors floating aroudn about Apple simply buying the rights to the G4 from Motorola... regardless of what's true.... Steve Jobs was correct, they have plenty of options.
IA-64 seems more likely than IA-32 to me, but some people have suggested [mosr.com] Apple could move to IBM's Power4 line, which is closely related to PPC. How about ARM Processors? MIPS? Sparc? Alpha? Transmeta? Anybody have any other ideas?
I was wondering the same thing. It seems to me that Apple would stick with a RISC chip similar to the G3/G4 that they currently use. Do you think that they would make the switch to an Intel/AMD processor after lauding the advantages of RISC for all of these years? I know next to nothing about processor design and the advantages/disadvantages of each, except for some general marketing-derived knowledge.
OpenStep was available for many different architectures, Intel, SPARC, PA-RISC and probably a couple of others. I wonder if the remanents of OpenStep and all of the other stuff that makes up the underpinnings of OS X and Aqua can easily be ported to these other architectures?
oh yeah, i forgot about the 10.0 to 10.1 upgrade. I bought the full retail version when I upgraded.
If I remember correctly, Apple customers were not "required" to pay $20 for the OSX upgrade... you only had to pay if you wanted the upgrade on CDROM. I've always updated my copy of OSX through the Software Update application for free. It's nice on broadband but a little painful on a dialup connection- but it worked and was free.
Additionallly, one of the other stereotypical characteristics of Mac users is that they are huge
whiners and severely prone to knee-jerk reactions. So many of "us" simply forget that Apple is a corporation out to make money just like thousands of other corporations around the world. It's also a sad fact that so many people think that everything should be free. If the dot com crash taught us anything, it was that it's nearly impossible to build a business where you give away your services or products for free.
I don't have aproblem paying for iTools services if it helps to keep Apple in business.... just like I don't have a problem paying premium prices for Apple hardware. The quality and experience is worth the extra expense.
heehee! maybe they can start _paying_ customers to use their software.
Oh my gosh... if only we could do that. I feel pretty much the same way.. there are only a few channels that I watch and could not care less about the remainder of them... I wish that we could pick and choose what we get rather than some marketing drone deciding that we need 6 shopping networks and 5 Bible-thumping channels.
I would gladly pay a premium to get exactly the programming I want and am interested in.
they will probably be broadcasting the keynote in MPEG4 format to show off the capabilities of QT6.... at least that's my guess as to why it was released today and not on Wednesday.
They've got a secure download site available.
:)
From the software update inforrmation:
"Security Update 7-12-02 delivers a more secure Software Update service to verify that future updates originate from Apple. If you would prefer to download this manually from a secure Apple server you can download the package at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n75304"
Free speech is a privilege, not a right, and it should be used responsibly - not to hurt people.
In the United States of America Free Speech IS a RIGHT... check out the constitution.
Here is a (probably stupid) thought: if this software somehow damages the iPod (OK, I don't see how that is possible, but in the off chance it screws w/ the iPod's builtin software), is it still covered by Apple's warranty? Do you think it would be a good move for Apple to not cover it? I mean, they don't cover damage of unsupported use of their computers (such as using non-CDs in the optical drive), so should they cover unsupported use of the iPod?
My guess is "No"... Apple only "supports" the use of an iPod on a Macintosh with iTunes. Of course, I guess if your iPod was somehow damaged by third party software on a Windows (or other OS) machine... you could lie about it... but that opens up a whole other can of worms.
There have been rumors that they would officially add Windows support, but so far that has not surfaced.