It's really becoming clear reading the article (to me, and probably to Britannica) that the writing is on the wall. Take this quote from the article:
"Other objections are simply incorrect. The company has, for example, claimed that in one case we sent a reviewer material that did not come from any Britannica publication."
That - right there is Brittanica getting desperate & flailing around attempting to attack anyone who criticizes them. Note - I don't think Wikipedia is going to 'take over' from Brittanica, its merely one of the many sources (albeit, currently the most important) you can turn to for free, online information.
The niche that Brittanica used to fill is simply closing - I suggest Brittanica concentrates on expanding its scope rather then attacking criticism if it wants to survive in future.
Punctuation is important if you want to get your point across.
However in answer to what I think you're asking - Slashdot should not be posting these trollish stories when there's so many insanely great OS X stories they can publish right now!!!!
For instance - did you know today is the 30th anniversary of Macintosh?
That said, perhaps the real insight to be gained from this study is Apple's standing on the brand trust scale. If Apple were to introduce a gaming handheld targeted at the mainstream and designed as well as the iPod, this study indicates that the company would be a strong competitor versus Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
Exactly what I've always thought - allthough I think Apple could blow away any market it chooses to enter.
Exactly! I agree with you compeltely. Microsoft could only win with this - they would get the great set of stable unix tools that Apple have developed over the years, a much better development platform then VSS/.Net and the loyalty of the huge Apple & Open Source communities.
The question is why would Apple license OS X? They stand to make MUCH more money as they become the dominant consumer platform.
I mean - it's not like Apple need to license fairplay to make money from ITMS is it?
Steve Jobs made the decision to move to a robust, open framework, using the a MACH kernel.
While it may have broken some legacy applications, they can still run under emulation - all new applications run much faster then their windows counterparts.
Its about time Bill Gates realised Vista is fundamentally broken, copy Apple (again) and port the win32 API over to *BSD.
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It's really becoming clear reading the article (to me, and probably to Britannica) that the writing is on the wall. Take this quote from the article:
"Other objections are simply incorrect. The company has, for example, claimed that in one case we sent a reviewer material that did not come from any Britannica publication."
That - right there is Brittanica getting desperate & flailing around attempting to attack anyone who criticizes them. Note - I don't think Wikipedia is going to 'take over' from Brittanica, its merely one of the many sources (albeit, currently the most important) you can turn to for free, online information.
The niche that Brittanica used to fill is simply closing - I suggest Brittanica concentrates on expanding its scope rather then attacking criticism if it wants to survive in future.
Oh wow! You're so cool - I think we're just alike - we're both mysterious and enigmatic.
I bet you want to work at Apple as well!
considering taking Yahoo Hong Kong Holdings to court either here or in the United States.
Yahoo (along with IBM, cisco, MS, google, etc) are behaving badly in China - but WTF? Why in a US court?
Makes no sense
Exactly right!
I agree with you COMPLETELY!!!!
Apple doesn't NEED to provide customer service - there QA processes are SO GOOD that theyre customers NEVER have to return an Apple product.
Win32 apps should run in a penalty box like Classic.
Hah! I knew no real OS X user would be advocating that Apple switch to win32. If you really used OS X - you would know it's called a sand box
Penalty box.... you must be canadian?
However in answer to what I think you're asking - Slashdot should not be posting these trollish stories when there's so many insanely great OS X stories they can publish right now!!!!
For instance - did you know today is the 30th anniversary of Macintosh?
Exactly what I've always thought - allthough I think Apple could blow away any market it chooses to enter.
Exactly!
I agree with you completly.
Why slashdot bothers publishing article that are not about OS X I have no idea.
Boingboing has a guide to evading cesonsorware
Should be useful to Iranians, as the US firm Secure Computing is the company censoring Iran.
"Where is any code later than OS X 10.4.2?"
Download it here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
Apple has given back to the open source community more then any other company.
From making webkit open for the KDE developers to use, to financing key BSD developers, Apple has always been an Open Source friendly company.
Exactly!
I agree with you completely!
Everyone who writes an application for OS X, from Apple, to Microsoft, to Adobe will use the default set of dynamic libraries.
The idea that any of those companies would be porting software from another platform, leading to staticly compiled bloat is ludicrous.
OMG!
Did you really work for Apple? What's steve like? Is the food good on campus? Where you working in QA (I would love to work in QA at Apple)
*basks in JCR's presence*
Exactly! I agree with you compeltely. Microsoft could only win with this - they would get the great set of stable unix tools that Apple have developed over the years, a much better development platform then VSS/.Net and the loyalty of the huge Apple & Open Source communities.
The question is why would Apple license OS X? They stand to make MUCH more money as they become the dominant consumer platform.
I mean - it's not like Apple need to license fairplay to make money from ITMS is it?
Not everyone has a 'home office'
The future of the home media center is the mac mini (perhaps with viiv chips in future)
A simple to setup, simple to use feature filled vertically integrated experience is what people want - and Apple is the company to deliver!
Steve Jobs made the decision to move to a robust, open framework, using the a MACH kernel.
While it may have broken some legacy applications, they can still run under emulation - all new applications run much faster then their windows counterparts.
Its about time Bill Gates realised Vista is fundamentally broken, copy Apple (again) and port the win32 API over to *BSD.
Exactly!!!!
Apple (PC maker) would never dishonor a deal. This is just an attempt by Apple (Music co) to extort money.
I agree with you completely.
It's not likely that open office will be a success until they have a native os x port.
Its well known that while Mac users do not have as large a market share as linux users, we set the direction of the industry.
I'm afraid that open office just doesn't cut it. I'd much prefer to give Microsoft my money, then put up with the slow & ugly oo.org.
That was exactly what I was thinking! Only Apple's DRM can save the movie industry.