Because if Joe Blow goes round to his cousin John Doe's house to watch a game, and is looking to buy a new computer, is Joe going to be more or less interested in Apple if John tells him OS X has been nothing but trouble on his white-box x86.
And then John Doe goes and, like, totally pwns Brad Pitts wife!
It sucks, but they shouldn't fix it? Most of the developers will now have to conform to proper W3C standards to get their sites working properly, which just seems like common sense to me.
See, I thought that. I did a clean install of Ubuntu on my parents laptop because they thought it would be easier (their choice). I did tech support for months before I forced them to reinstall windows. It took them two weeks before they realised that Synaptic was the way to go to install stuff. For some unknown reason, X broke and I had to fix the/etc/X11/xorg.conf manually. Even after they found synaptic and successfully installed their first piece of software, they continued to download everything they "thought they needed". It broke, twice. No idea how. The power management was so bad they could hardly use it without plugging it in to a power source. My dad needed to do a presentation on an external projector, and for the life of my I could not get it to work for them (heaven knows what they would have done by themselves).
I love Ubuntu, I love tinkering about with it and use it daily. However, my fairly typical parents hated it.
Freud also thought that everyone wanted to kill their fathers and sleep with their mothers. Or, kill their mothers and sleep with their fathers, I can never remember...
The UI is less a layer of paint, more where you put the furniture. You put the furniture in easy to get places, with everything making sense, then people are happy. Glue the furniture to the ceiling with the TV facing the wall and people get annoyed.
At least give it a chance. All products are terrible in first beta, and if they were working on the back end then the GUI has taken a hit, big deal. When the betas progress, I think everything will get sorted out. May not be a good product, but you can't judge the final release on that screenshot alone. FYI: I believe IE has W3C perfect PNG compliance. The thing it misses out is alpha transparency, which isn't required.
In other news: That they got 75 millions downloads is great, but it doesn't tell you much. For example, it doesn't tell you how many people are using it as their main browser. I personally have Safari, Camino, Firefox, IE and Opera. I only use Safari regularly. I don't read too much into that figure.
I don't see the point, other than "this can be done". It's going to less functional, clumsy to use and slower than on a computer. It won't be able to play games and requires modding. Are there any advantages?
I hope it will be good, the competition will come in handy for once. However, one bit of the article that struck me was this:
Microsoft's Allchin has said that getting Vista out on time is more of a priority than including every last feature.
Surely that's the wrong way to go about it? I don't want an unsecured system released on time, I want a completely secure system that I may have to wait for. Targets are great, security is much much better.
Really? That wasn't completley obvious. Most new macs, not most macs. It's going to be a while before most macs in use are Intel based. And whoop-dee-doo, I read wrong. $499, for a computer which you can use for (in my opinion) 8 years. The G3 which our family got 8 years is used by everyone but me.
Not for me. It's going to be at least 5 years before the intels get any kind of a foothold, and at least 8 before they get anywhere near the market share of the PPCs. 8 years for a $399 computer is a great buy.
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Wow, I never knew you could eat condoms. Learn something new everyday, I guess.
Because if Joe Blow goes round to his cousin John Doe's house to watch a game, and is looking to buy a new computer, is Joe going to be more or less interested in Apple if John tells him OS X has been nothing but trouble on his white-box x86. And then John Doe goes and, like, totally pwns Brad Pitts wife!
The profit comes from Novell Enterprise Edition, much like RHEL4.
...how well Duke Nukem Forever plays on it.
It sucks, but they shouldn't fix it? Most of the developers will now have to conform to proper W3C standards to get their sites working properly, which just seems like common sense to me.
I love Ubuntu, I love tinkering about with it and use it daily. However, my fairly typical parents hated it.
I'm guessing that includes all Office Products, Entourage and Internet Explorer. That is just about the most anyone in a normal office uses.
Freud also thought that everyone wanted to kill their fathers and sleep with their mothers. Or, kill their mothers and sleep with their fathers, I can never remember...
...bit behind the times?
The UI is less a layer of paint, more where you put the furniture. You put the furniture in easy to get places, with everything making sense, then people are happy. Glue the furniture to the ceiling with the TV facing the wall and people get annoyed.
In other news: That they got 75 millions downloads is great, but it doesn't tell you much. For example, it doesn't tell you how many people are using it as their main browser. I personally have Safari, Camino, Firefox, IE and Opera. I only use Safari regularly. I don't read too much into that figure.
To stop Gentoo using them? To get some of the best Linux coders to improve their OS?
I don't see the point, other than "this can be done". It's going to less functional, clumsy to use and slower than on a computer. It won't be able to play games and requires modding. Are there any advantages?
Microsoft's Allchin has said that getting Vista out on time is more of a priority than including every last feature.
Surely that's the wrong way to go about it? I don't want an unsecured system released on time, I want a completely secure system that I may have to wait for. Targets are great, security is much much better.
*most* new Macs
Really? That wasn't completley obvious. Most new macs, not most macs. It's going to be a while before most macs in use are Intel based. And whoop-dee-doo, I read wrong. $499, for a computer which you can use for (in my opinion) 8 years. The G3 which our family got 8 years is used by everyone but me.
I call dupe of this joke! Damn.
Not for me. It's going to be at least 5 years before the intels get any kind of a foothold, and at least 8 before they get anywhere near the market share of the PPCs. 8 years for a $399 computer is a great buy.