Given the XP holdouts clearly don't like Microsoft's current offerings, and Mac is growing faster in percentage terms, and Linux appears to be finally getting somewhere - i don't think these XP holdouts will be migrating to another Windows box any time soon.
If the XP holdouts still prefer XP to Win7, they certainly are not going to gravitate to Mac or Linux. (Well some will, but the bulk are just too afraid of change to do anything that drastic.)
There is no salvaging Windows 8.
Nonsense; they just need to peel back the silly touch UI and restore the old desktop parts.
Yes, it's a trainwreck of a PR issue, but no, it's not un-recoverable. That's just silly FUD.
Replied to fast... "legal" in this case probably means contract law. ie they are constrained by existing contracts and other legal obligations to exercise resonable and well documented security practices.
I realize this is not the case in your basement/attic/living room/bedroom.
You sound really smart!
You don't.
For example financial institutions cannot expose themselves to the risks related to running internet-facing operating systems for which there are no security fixes.
However, no worries since Apple products aren't often found in offices that can afford a cleaning person.
The double think required to put that sentence together must have caused irreperable harm.
(I'm not taking you seriously, however do note that organizations like IBM and Adobe have apps in the Appstore, how do you think they were produced? By fairies sprinkling pixey dust over raw source code?)
Who cares, really? Normally, I should be excited by this set of announcements, but I'm not now. Why? Because Apple is complicit in the largest expansion of government surveillance power in my lifetime... that we know of, at least. (That is, unless you believe their technicality-laden denial with wording nearly identical to several other of the named companies.) Every desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, and personal music player currently in my household is an Apple product, but until we get this sorted out, I'm not buying any more of their gear. And I'm recommending that family and friends do the same.
FFS, this stuff is not new, the allies have been doing active SigInt for decades, you just noticed?
Define cylindrical. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/NeXTcube.jpg
Like that, only more cylindrical.
Apple needs a mini + with a good desktop cpu and a good (can be build video chip) may be at $800-$1200 as I see the new mac pro at $2,500-$3,000 base.
I agreed with a similar comment elsewhere. There's a clear hole between mini and pro that's orthagonal to the macbook.
Bringing iBooks to the MacOS is good.
I was a little surprised by this since I have a mac and an ipad and a bunch of free books in iBooks. I had simply never noticed before that I can't actually read those books on the mac.
This is probably because I use the Kindle bookstore instead since they're cheaper on average. (Or were when I checked last...)
Kind of amusing that the Kindle book reader has been available for years for OSX.
While I agree with about 90%, it does depend on how you define "game".
Given that you can get better framerates doing OpenGL in Java now than you could 15 years ago in C, it's really not that simple.
You just sound bitter and old..
... and right.
Didn't I warn you about the lawn already?
I'm fucked. I use tcsh on my *nix boxes and now my employer is moving to Lotus Notes and I have to move all the Exchange shit over to Domino and join it to the French company that bought us.
I am told by those who know more than me that Domino is actually pretty good, it's the client that sucks dead dingo kidneys. However, the Exchange to Domino migration has been known to trigger a wide variety of psychological and medical disorders.
My one and only open source project got forked after I stopped maintaining it.
There's just nothing more frustrating then tcsh.
You have clearly never been forced to use Lotus Notes.
I write some code but my credits are all in IMDB you insensitive clod. ( nm1487742 )
So if we just showed up at WETA could we get a tour of the render farm?
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
