applematters.com— "Those who think Apple Computer is on its last gasp might want to look at the latest news. It appears that Apple is poised for a market explosion."
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Are you kidding? Microsoft is pumped! They're gonna blow up too! Boot camp and parallels are the best thing to happen to them for a while. It's like apple lifted the gates to the forbidden city. That's why Gates is retiring, he's like "Yep - my job is done here!"
They have been saying this for 22 years, and their share is currently 1.8% of the total global installed computer base.Why is any Mac story news worthy? With 1.8% of the global market share 98.2% of the market has rejected the Mac. Why then is the Mac a news story? Anything rejected by 98.2% of the market is not a news worthy. A brand of dishwashing liquid with 1.8% of the market share is not newsworthy, and neither is the Apple Macintosh.Please remove the Apple Mac category from the technology news bar. It is unworthy of being there. If you leave it in place, please add a news category for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Atari 800.
"I've said it before, if game devs stopped using Direct3D and used something cross-platform like OpenGL and the rest of the OpenXX APIs, porting would be easy."The problem with that is that OpenGL is/was (I think it's been or is being sorted) lagging behind in features somewhat, so those wanting the "latest and greatest" either had to use DX or pour time into engine design (note that the major cross-platform engines, Unreal and Doom, are both designed to be licenced as well as used in their own games).I honestly don't know the full specifics, but I'm fairly sure that modern home/gaming graphics hardware design usually takes DIrectX as a design concern over OpenGL, as well. There is a reason that Windows games developers choose DX over OGL, in many cases, as annoying as that choice can be.
""NO Visual Basic for Unix."That's right. You have to learn PHP to write s***** Unix software"OK, let me get this straight; All windows applications are written in Visual Basic, and all *NIX apps are coded in PHP... Right.
that's what I've been using... but selecting multiple lines and hitting tab erases the lines and leaves me with a blank tab. I can't find the setting anywhere to change this....
Apple Mac does not push Microsoft Windows. Apple Mac is not competition for Windows. Apple Mac constitutes 1.8% of the global market share. 98.2% of the total market has rejected Apple Mac. Apple Mac *_HAS LOST_* (past tense) it's bid to become any kind of global market compeditor for Microsoft Windows. It already happened years ago. Further, Mac has done so repeatedly over the course of its 22 year career. It is a tiny niche market, held to by religious extremists. That is all. Only this, and nothing more.It is important to note that Apple is very quietly exiting the hardware business. 100% of research and development is now in the hands of Intel. All Macs will be 100% generic Intel PCs on the inside. Everything will be manufactured in Taiwan and mainland China. The Mac is dead. Long live the PC. All that remains is software battle between two flies and a Rhino. It don't look like much of a fight to me.To be honest, Windows doesn't really have any competition in the desktop market. What little competition there is exists in the back office space and it comes hard from the Open Source GNU/Linux sector.
devindotcomJul 12, 2006
Are you kidding? Microsoft is pumped! They're gonna blow up too! Boot camp and parallels are the best thing to happen to them for a while. It's like apple lifted the gates to the forbidden city. That's why Gates is retiring, he's like "Yep - my job is done here!"
pantukyJul 12, 2006
They have been saying this for 22 years, and their share is currently 1.8% of the total global installed computer base.Why is any Mac story news worthy? With 1.8% of the global market share 98.2% of the market has rejected the Mac. Why then is the Mac a news story? Anything rejected by 98.2% of the market is not a news worthy. A brand of dishwashing liquid with 1.8% of the market share is not newsworthy, and neither is the Apple Macintosh.Please remove the Apple Mac category from the technology news bar. It is unworthy of being there. If you leave it in place, please add a news category for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Atari 800.
zootmJul 12, 2006
"I've said it before, if game devs stopped using Direct3D and used something cross-platform like OpenGL and the rest of the OpenXX APIs, porting would be easy."The problem with that is that OpenGL is/was (I think it's been or is being sorted) lagging behind in features somewhat, so those wanting the "latest and greatest" either had to use DX or pour time into engine design (note that the major cross-platform engines, Unreal and Doom, are both designed to be licenced as well as used in their own games).I honestly don't know the full specifics, but I'm fairly sure that modern home/gaming graphics hardware design usually takes DIrectX as a design concern over OpenGL, as well. There is a reason that Windows games developers choose DX over OGL, in many cases, as annoying as that choice can be.
hurfydurfurJul 12, 2006
Anyone remember the plunk sound from usenet? Where you drop someone into your blocklist? *PLUNK!*
srg13Jul 13, 2006
""NO Visual Basic for Unix."That's right. You have to learn PHP to write s***** Unix software"OK, let me get this straight; All windows applications are written in Visual Basic, and all *NIX apps are coded in PHP... Right.
jasonpriniJul 13, 2006
that's what I've been using... but selecting multiple lines and hitting tab erases the lines and leaves me with a blank tab. I can't find the setting anywhere to change this....
pantukyJul 15, 2006
Apple Mac does not push Microsoft Windows. Apple Mac is not competition for Windows. Apple Mac constitutes 1.8% of the global market share. 98.2% of the total market has rejected Apple Mac. Apple Mac *_HAS LOST_* (past tense) it's bid to become any kind of global market compeditor for Microsoft Windows. It already happened years ago. Further, Mac has done so repeatedly over the course of its 22 year career. It is a tiny niche market, held to by religious extremists. That is all. Only this, and nothing more.It is important to note that Apple is very quietly exiting the hardware business. 100% of research and development is now in the hands of Intel. All Macs will be 100% generic Intel PCs on the inside. Everything will be manufactured in Taiwan and mainland China. The Mac is dead. Long live the PC. All that remains is software battle between two flies and a Rhino. It don't look like much of a fight to me.To be honest, Windows doesn't really have any competition in the desktop market. What little competition there is exists in the back office space and it comes hard from the Open Source GNU/Linux sector.
tomcherryNov 16, 2006
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