Posted on 04/25/2005 8:18:50 AM PDT by r5boston
It's Steve Jobs's plan to make this the Week of the Tiger. But Bill Gates and his minions at Microsoft are crying bull—specifically, a Longhorn steer. Despite the zoological bent, this dust-up is not about animals, but operating systems; Apple and Microsoft just happen to have named each of their major system upgrades after beasts of the realm. This Monday, Bill shows off the future of Windows, a.k.a. Longhorn, at a developers' conference. The oohs and aahs may be tempered by the fact that the hundreds of millions of Windows users won't get their hands on it until holiday season, 2006. (Unless it's even later.) On Friday, Jobs proudly presents the latest Macintosh OS X upgrade, named after that big striped cat that he always seems to have by the tail. When can the 25 million Mac users get their hands on Tiger? This year. This month. That day. Growwwl.
That's a big point for Apple in the latest matchup in high tech's equivalent to the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox. Both companies seem to understand what's really necessary and really cool for the next stop in desktop computing: support for the powerful new generation of 64-bit chips that are coming online; search capabilities built in, so you can mine your own documents as smoothly as Google scans the Web; a suite of persistent, constantly updated tiny applications that keep track of stuff like weather and stock quotes. A way to take advantage of the hot RSS technology that lets you "subscribe" to Web sites instead of visiting them every day or two. And a sleek appearance that relegates the traditional file-and-folder metaphor to the antique shop. Both new systems go a long ways toward making that big step.
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I like the zombie reference, pretty good.
No kidding ... my wife looks at me like I've lost my mind when I say something to the effect of "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue"
But Rush is a big MAC user and happy about being so. He does not have a leftist bone in his bod either. Nor do I, and I can't wait for the Tiger to leap into my iMAC.
Question about the G5 and Mac OS. Does it support 64 bit integers and do 64 bit math, or is it just an expanded memory space?
64-bit integer operations have been supported on every OS X version that runs on the G5, back to 10.2.8 or so. 64-bit address spaces are new in Tiger.
True. But more so with a manual than an automatic.
Cool! Can I get it for free?
Sure, if you know where to look and don't fear Apple's lawyers. Or you can just buy a new Mac :)
But when that automatic breaks, fixing it is likely to be more expensive than fixing the manual.
I don't know quite what that means - I just wanted to see how far we could extend the analogy >:^)
Heh. Yes, car/computer analogies tend to quickly hit roadblocks.
That's interesting. Microsoft, who has one of the most invasive software protection implementation schemes, is giving away their OS for free? Why?
To the uninformed (me) I would guess it is either not ready for prime time, the pool of applications that can run on it is miniscule, it is only compatible with limited hardware, or this is their way of testing their product.
I just looked around, and it seems only AMD chips will run it? Maybe that is why, but it does look like it will run all your 32 bit apps...
Apparently, you have used it, what do you think?
About an hour and a half... It really is not important but I got curious.
Sell it yourself. I looked at the Mac threads... and 100% were invaded by Windows partisans... and usually included insults to the Mac users.
I went through seven of your Longhorn threads (latest back) and found only ONE insult from a Mac user to a Windows users... but multiple insults from Windows users to Mac users. Often the subject of Macs was brought up either in the posted article or by a Windows user... making it a legitimate subject for discussion in those threads, especially if a comparison was being made one way or the other.
Wait. Oh I get it. You're making a sly inference that Rush's comments were influenced by drug use!
Now that's clever.
No, really. Did you come up with that one, or are you sincerely flattering another wordsmith? I guess it doesn't matter, but seriously, isn't there a freeper award for such original thinking? I mean I wouldn't want to embarrass you if it were borrowed , but if you came up with that one yourself I really think you should get that recognition.
So often writers resort to the most banal cliches, but you really knocked socks off with that witticism.
I don't know about that... a friend with a stick shift car just got a quote to repair the transmission... $2700 or there-abouts.
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