hi dere, imaging 60 gig disk = sux

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

omg i am using bluetooth for internets

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

i just read about apple recent decision to switch to using intel chips. great!! more software re-writes will be needed, great!!!!! your old power pc software won't work on these machines. fuck you apple!!!!!!!!!

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

your old power pc software won't work on these machines. fuck you apple!!!!!!!!!

mostly untrue!

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

The company plans to include technology called Rosetta in the first computers it ships with Intel's chips, Jobs said. Rosetta, named after the famous stone used to translate Egyptian and Greek in ancient Egypt, will allow binary code created for the PowerPC to run on Intel's chips at a pace Jobs termed "fast (enough)" on one slide of his presentation. Jobs loaded several PowerPC-based applications during a demonstration, such as Adobe's Photoshop, which took a fair amount of time to boot as the binary code was translated.
Developers had mixed reactions to the news. Some, such as Glen Speckert of SpeckTech, didn't foresee huge challenges with switching to the Intel-based architecture. Speckert develops video-streaming software.
Others, such as Mac hardware utility developer Alastair Houghton, disagreed. The founder and managing director of U.K.-based Coriolis Systems said that software that runs at a low level of the OS would have to be tweaked line by line.

"There are going to be quite a few people with a lot of work to do," he said.

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

translation: IT WILL WORK BUT IT WILL SUCK

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

SERIOUSLY.

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

i'm seeing it as a positive thing so far.

the big bummer is that mac os x won't be runnable on just any PC... it'll be an apple mac pc. that's so dumb. you can run windows on an apple mac pc... that could be sorta handy.

for me, "a lot of work" = "job security" = "good".
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

No, it is good that you can't run OS X on crappy commodity PC hardware. OpenFirmware > dumb ass PC BIOS

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

i agree with the cool hand of jon.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

The transition will suck suck suck suck but I will be glad when my hardware will be on an even field with Windows users. The possibility of Apple integrating WINE is interesting.

― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

not running mac os x on commodity hardware:

cons:
-keeps the prices nice and high.
-keeps innovation under the dictation of apple.
-doesn't provide a shiny $200 alternative for millions of annoyed windows users. aka keeps the ball microsoft's. aka msp gets to continue programming in microsoft land until he's too old and shuffled off to the management lounge.

pros:
-less bugs for os x

considering that i already live in alphabeta rapid prototype land full of bugs anyway, the only pro from my perspective isn't much of a pro. but i know i'm probably being simplistic.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.