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G5 Sphere???
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Posting-madness
For all of you guys talking about who post the most, and who does not.
Well. This is my first post!!!!!!!!!! (and it does not even make sense...)
For all of you guys talking about who post the most, and who does not.
Well. This is my first post!!!!!!!!!! (and it does not even make sense...)
i hate to pull a jeff and post twice in a row, but why do you even care how many posts you have? usually post number tells everyone else how helpful you are.....but in this forum, it's more the more posts, the bigger jerk-off you are.
and i do realize that thisis my 182 post
and i do realize that thisis my 182 post
haha
Ill have to try that:
"Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!"
lol.
The manage approaches you and says: ill give you a g5 when they come out if you promise not to ever come back!
(you had been caught doing it 17 other times!)
heh, wouldnt that be nice?
Ill have to try that:
"Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!"
lol.
The manage approaches you and says: ill give you a g5 when they come out if you promise not to ever come back!
(you had been caught doing it 17 other times!)
heh, wouldnt that be nice?
re: pulling a jeff
i will pull a "jeff" and post so i can pass up spikey with this post
monkeybusiness, congrats on 200 in advance, you will be only one of half a dozen or so (that i can think of) out of nearly three thousand posters since the beginning
and btw, it's jef
i will pull a "jeff" and post so i can pass up spikey with this post
monkeybusiness, congrats on 200 in advance, you will be only one of half a dozen or so (that i can think of) out of nearly three thousand posters since the beginning
and btw, it's jef
Wow Side-tracked Arent We?
wow, never seen a thread this side-tracked. Personally i love the way you guys all congratulate eachother on your post#s. When i saw a that the thread on the G5Sphere had grown to 3 pages i was pretty shocked (that picture has been floating around for a long time).
But wondering about the whole G5 thing, im beginning to get this sinking feeling about a G5 in january. I dont work in any stores but i havent noticed the typical shortage of powermac (which seems to be happening with the imac now). And also its less than a month away and our office still doesnt have one, which seems really odd. Im hoping for an annoucement in january and shipment in march, and i think thats being kinda glassishalffullish.
wow, never seen a thread this side-tracked. Personally i love the way you guys all congratulate eachother on your post#s. When i saw a that the thread on the G5Sphere had grown to 3 pages i was pretty shocked (that picture has been floating around for a long time).But wondering about the whole G5 thing, im beginning to get this sinking feeling about a G5 in january. I dont work in any stores but i havent noticed the typical shortage of powermac (which seems to be happening with the imac now). And also its less than a month away and our office still doesnt have one, which seems really odd. Im hoping for an annoucement in january and shipment in march, and i think thats being kinda glassishalffullish.
what the?
I posted a big paragraph here on this thread (as far as i can remember) about the future of computers like the cube, and i cant find it anywhere!
arg, it took me a long time to type that!
Lost: big post
Reward: none
Please help find
I posted a big paragraph here on this thread (as far as i can remember) about the future of computers like the cube, and i cant find it anywhere!
arg, it took me a long time to type that!
Lost: big post
Reward: none
Please help find
Re: haha
It's really funny. Trust me. To tip it off, hide SimpleText, and watch the sales clerk go mad...
Well, since I don't want to be remembered as the newbie-poster with nothing to say, and since this is a G5 (well, sort of) thread...
I would guess that Steve Jobs is pushing Motorolla really hard right now to have the G5 ready for a MWSF debut. First off all, if the G5 is anyting near what the rumor want it to be, Jobs could put that mhz myth to a rest (although 1.6 GHz is a lower number than 2 GHz). Also, with a supercharged G5, Apple could attract new customers, like 3D pros, who need a powerful and robust system. We already have Maya, Lightwave and Cinema XL (and some say we'll soon have 3D Studio Max), and an advanced and modern high-end OS. What we need now is a high-end system (like the G5). Of course I can only speculate whether or not we will see a G5 in January, but Apple really needs to get far beyond 867 MHz, and fast. A G5 would make graphic/music/3D pros fry their credit cards on the spot, and I would probably have to go to that PC-store 17 times in a row...
As for that G5 sphere thing. It would be really cool to watch an Apple comercial with a G5 rolling from one side of my TV-screen to the other. Now THAT would be a supercomputer to go...
Originally posted by Obsidian
Ill have to try that:
"Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!","Windows is crap, buy a mac!"
lol.
The manage approaches you and says: ill give you a g5 when they come out if you promise not to ever come back!
(you had been caught doing it 17 other times!)
heh, wouldnt that be nice?
It's really funny. Trust me. To tip it off, hide SimpleText, and watch the sales clerk go mad...
Well, since I don't want to be remembered as the newbie-poster with nothing to say, and since this is a G5 (well, sort of) thread...
I would guess that Steve Jobs is pushing Motorolla really hard right now to have the G5 ready for a MWSF debut. First off all, if the G5 is anyting near what the rumor want it to be, Jobs could put that mhz myth to a rest (although 1.6 GHz is a lower number than 2 GHz). Also, with a supercharged G5, Apple could attract new customers, like 3D pros, who need a powerful and robust system. We already have Maya, Lightwave and Cinema XL (and some say we'll soon have 3D Studio Max), and an advanced and modern high-end OS. What we need now is a high-end system (like the G5). Of course I can only speculate whether or not we will see a G5 in January, but Apple really needs to get far beyond 867 MHz, and fast. A G5 would make graphic/music/3D pros fry their credit cards on the spot, and I would probably have to go to that PC-store 17 times in a row...
As for that G5 sphere thing. It would be really cool to watch an Apple comercial with a G5 rolling from one side of my TV-screen to the other. Now THAT would be a supercomputer to go...
True
Microsoft have copied Apple on many occasions - and they lack Apple's cool, stylish qualities. It has to be said though, that Apple has copied Microsoft a few times as well. Here are some examples:
- arrow on shortcut icon v. arrow on alias icon
taskbar v. dock
- previewing graphics in My Computer v. previewing graphics in the Finder
- showing mounted volumes in My Computer v. showing mounted volumes in the finder window, not the desktop
- browser metaphor for My Computer v. browser metaphor in Finder
- Building a NT as a next gen operating system v. Building OS X as a next gen operating system
There are plenty more, but I guess I won't make myself popular by pointing them out
Microsoft have copied Apple on many occasions - and they lack Apple's cool, stylish qualities. It has to be said though, that Apple has copied Microsoft a few times as well. Here are some examples:
- arrow on shortcut icon v. arrow on alias icon
taskbar v. dock
- previewing graphics in My Computer v. previewing graphics in the Finder
- showing mounted volumes in My Computer v. showing mounted volumes in the finder window, not the desktop
- browser metaphor for My Computer v. browser metaphor in Finder
- Building a NT as a next gen operating system v. Building OS X as a next gen operating system
There are plenty more, but I guess I won't make myself popular by pointing them out
OK, OK Foocha
Apple may have copied M$ a couple of times, but Apple do not only copy, they make the ideas better and cooler. The dock is much more handy than the taskbar (once you get used to the dock), and so on.
When M$ is copying others, they try to make things similar to the original thing. When Apple is copying others, they take the good ideas and make them better. That's a big difference.
Apple may have copied M$ a couple of times, but Apple do not only copy, they make the ideas better and cooler. The dock is much more handy than the taskbar (once you get used to the dock), and so on.
When M$ is copying others, they try to make things similar to the original thing. When Apple is copying others, they take the good ideas and make them better. That's a big difference.
No doubt about it - Microsoft are the worst for copying. The cheapest stunts they've pulled (recently) are:
- Adding an X to their product name
- Including an OS 9 style Rubber Duck in their XP login screen icons
- Calling their new GUI Lunar (hmm, sounds somehow familiar)
- Rounded corners on the tops of the Lunar windows
Looks like someone at Redmond is indulging Cupertino in the sincerest form of flattery!
- Adding an X to their product name
- Including an OS 9 style Rubber Duck in their XP login screen icons
- Calling their new GUI Lunar (hmm, sounds somehow familiar)
- Rounded corners on the tops of the Lunar windows
Looks like someone at Redmond is indulging Cupertino in the sincerest form of flattery!
Well, the idea of the windows explorer (having columns) was definatly created first by neXT. I am not so sure about the task bar though! Anyway, its about time Apple "borrowed" some good ideas from windows (it does not have many really though). Microsoft has always done it to Apple!!!
The task bar was copied by Microsoft from NeXT. So NeXT had it first...
From an ArsTechnica article:
"Like the Windows Taskbar before it (and the NeXT Dock before it), the Mac OS X Dock will undoubtedly evolve. And like the Taskbar, I suspect that the Dock's UI flaws will be largely ignored by the average personal computer user."
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-8.html
Also many people (falsely) claim that the macOS was "stolen" from xerox. Wrong!
"As I said in my history of the Mac Project (the one currently being serialized in CHAC), the Mac was by no means the work of one person, but the combined efforts of thousands in hundreds of companies large and small. It was not, as many accounts anachronistically relate, stolen from PARC by Steve Jobs after he saw the Alto running SmallTalk on a visit. For one thing the usual account (as in Levy's book, "Insanely Great" and others) denigrates the original and creative work done by all the Apple employees that put their hearts into the Mac. Most of the histories of the Mac were written without their authors interviewing the original team (Brian Howard, who contributed so much, is always missed), and the history of the Mac that Apple's own P/R department dispensed was based on Jobs's version. Many didn't speak with me: without knowing that I had worked out many of the key usability ideas when Jobs was still in grade school and before there was a Xerox PARC to learn from, it is perhaps understandable that people would find it necessary to invent a history that derives the Mac's genesis from the nearest similar work. The honest intellectual debt the Mac owes to the work at PARC was not a case of highway robbery"
This was taken from a very good article that can be found here:
http://mxmora.best.vwh.net/JefRaskin.html
Good point
Fair point about the Dock v the Task bar - I've just checked and Microsoft introduced the task bar in '95, while the dock was introduced on the Next platform in 1988, and looked way ahead of it's time:
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/next.htm
Thanks for pointing that one out - I'll take it off my list of things to feel bad about.
Fair point about the Dock v the Task bar - I've just checked and Microsoft introduced the task bar in '95, while the dock was introduced on the Next platform in 1988, and looked way ahead of it's time:
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/next.htm
Thanks for pointing that one out - I'll take it off my list of things to feel bad about.
WinXP
Has any one checked out WindowsXP? itf funny how mac like it is. I mean the icons, wiondow movement, stuff like that. It like A mac with no styal and a lack of understanding what colors should and should not go to gether.
Dont worrie Im still a loyal MacHead. I got a "dont have to register copy" of it to play with a little and to give out to my PC users friends. Then I remind them that I got it and burned it with my Mac.
Has any one checked out WindowsXP? itf funny how mac like it is. I mean the icons, wiondow movement, stuff like that. It like A mac with no styal and a lack of understanding what colors should and should not go to gether.
Dont worrie Im still a loyal MacHead. I got a "dont have to register copy" of it to play with a little and to give out to my PC users friends. Then I remind them that I got it and burned it with my Mac.