Well, the industry certainly does have the money to spend, and they continually are making new shows, and they would love all of them to have an easily remembered URL. Given the lack of.coms still available, there's no way every show can have a.com, or at least without spending loads more money. For example, if ABC wanted to give Who Wants To Be A Millionaire something like millionaire.com (easy to remember), they'd have to buy it away from someone who already has been using the URL for a few years (see http://205.177.25.9/cgi-bin/whois??millionaire.com ) and would most likely try to get a buttload of money out of ABC (heck, I know I would). However, if they have a new naming scheme they can give numerous shows this easier to remember domain. I suppose it's a tradeoff between spending lots of money on every single URL to get a.com, giving really long, difficult URLs to shows, or trying.tv and seeing how it works. I'm sure they'd rather spend marketing cash than continually spending money buying away.coms.
That reminds me of a quotation. Hope I have it correct...
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. Clive Barnes
Mac OS (I think... don't quote me on this) 6 to run on Intel chips...
I remember having heard that when Apple and IBM got together for chips, they spun off several projects: Taligent, Pink, and one other that I can't remember for the life of me. Anyway, they did indeed get full Mac OS 7 to run on Intel x86 hardware, as part of the Taligent project. I wish I could find my source for this...
This was also around the same time that Apple's "Cognac" project was starting; this was the one that got the Macintosh to run on PowerPC hardware. I suppose one can assume that had PowerPC not turned out to Apple's liking (or been unusable) they would've gone to Intel.
So, yeah, anyway, it seems to be a case of Apple not wanting to make an Intel version rather than not being able to.
(Off topic...)
Apple's ego is back (heck, they've droped the "Computer" from their name)
Hmmm...been reading too much Mac OS Rumors?:-) This never did indeed happen. If you look at the small print at the bottom of apple.com it still says "Apple Computer, Inc." and that's still their official name.
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Well, the industry certainly does have the money to spend, and they continually are making new shows, and they would love all of them to have an easily remembered URL. Given the lack of .coms still available, there's no way every show can have a .com, or at least without spending loads more money. For example, if ABC wanted to give Who Wants To Be A Millionaire something like millionaire.com (easy to remember), they'd have to buy it away from someone who already has been using the URL for a few years (see http://205.177.25.9/cgi-bin/whois??millionaire.com ) and would most likely try to get a buttload of money out of ABC (heck, I know I would). However, if they have a new naming scheme they can give numerous shows this easier to remember domain. I suppose it's a tradeoff between spending lots of money on every single URL to get a .com, giving really long, difficult URLs to shows, or trying .tv and seeing how it works. I'm sure they'd rather spend marketing cash than continually spending money buying away .coms.
That reminds me of a quotation. Hope I have it correct...
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.Clive Barnes
Mac OS (I think... don't quote me on this) 6 to run on Intel chips...
I remember having heard that when Apple and IBM got together for chips, they spun off several projects: Taligent, Pink, and one other that I can't remember for the life of me. Anyway, they did indeed get full Mac OS 7 to run on Intel x86 hardware, as part of the Taligent project. I wish I could find my source for this...
This was also around the same time that Apple's "Cognac" project was starting; this was the one that got the Macintosh to run on PowerPC hardware. I suppose one can assume that had PowerPC not turned out to Apple's liking (or been unusable) they would've gone to Intel.
So, yeah, anyway, it seems to be a case of Apple not wanting to make an Intel version rather than not being able to.
(Off topic...)
Apple's ego is back (heck, they've droped the "Computer" from their name)
Hmmm...been reading too much Mac OS Rumors? :-) This never did indeed happen. If you look at the small print at the bottom of apple.com it still says "Apple Computer, Inc." and that's still their official name.
Regards, Chas.