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remember Y2K?
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the release of longhorn of corseiNAP said:
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LMAO!
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I believe it has to do with the 32 bit registers. Mac OS 9 was okay in 2000, but would have a problem in 2038. I don't know know about OS X. It maybe different on the 64 bit machines.
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Well either it will never come out or it will just crash ever PC ever!
But the reason that it will crash all the PCs will be because that is the dumbest name I have ever heard for anything!It is like a military operation name!
But the reason that it will crash all the PCs will be because that is the dumbest name I have ever heard for anything!It is like a military operation name!
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No, a military operation would sound a LOT cooler...
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Hahah.....I agree. "You guys/gals wanna see my Longhorn!!!!" :spook:Ey3 D said:
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I wanna cut Bill Gates's longhorn off and make him eat it! True, military operation would have a cool name. But it is like some kind of sword or something from Lord Of The Rings.
You know guys, we all know windows sucks badly compared to MacOS X . (Still, no need to make Bill eat his Longhorn.) After all, we've all (or many) used Windows before and it has it's issues, because of it's complexity.
MacOS X is user-freindlier, I agree totally. But that's not it's main reason of being "better".
Windows' concept is totally different. While Apple tailors it's hardware to fit the software perfectly, which we may call a closed-source platform, M$ thrives to make themselves work on any platform whatsoever. I mean, MacOS X now works on Intel, would it work on AMD? I doubt it. Would OS X work if you jammed in a MSI motherboard? You couldn't, really, not in an iMac.
That's the difference, and M$ obviously pciked up the harder job. And I have a feeling Longhorn will not be a disappointment, or else they wouldn't wait so long.
I'm not really defending M$ here, but I'm trying to show why they are understandabally behind.
MacOS X is user-freindlier, I agree totally. But that's not it's main reason of being "better".
Windows' concept is totally different. While Apple tailors it's hardware to fit the software perfectly, which we may call a closed-source platform, M$ thrives to make themselves work on any platform whatsoever. I mean, MacOS X now works on Intel, would it work on AMD? I doubt it. Would OS X work if you jammed in a MSI motherboard? You couldn't, really, not in an iMac.
That's the difference, and M$ obviously pciked up the harder job. And I have a feeling Longhorn will not be a disappointment, or else they wouldn't wait so long.
I'm not really defending M$ here, but I'm trying to show why they are understandabally behind.
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Ey3 D said:
wrong on so many levels?
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Indeed. I think that Longhorn is justt gonna be a waste of time and money. Bill gates must be really desperate, to start using Animal names like that. the first thing they should start with is pig, then dog, then worm... Maybe wrom first. That is how slow some windows computers run... Compared to my iBook of course.
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I remember y2k i was 11, wow i had my own laptop back then (and it was my second one) it was a dell any way... but i turned the date back 2 days just incase.
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I think he should of gone with bug names ie tick mosquito fly ant roachamyrinth said:
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Alright, to start. If your bashing bill gates, you are just attacking a good man who is running a very successful company and believes he is doing good by providing the world with the most successfully sold software and OS. Bill Gates is giving all but a few million dollars away to various non-profit organizations. Which means his children will get like .01% of his worth.
If you must hate anything, hate microsoft. But that just shows your insecurities, your hating on a company for why? I dont care if the world uses PC, as long as I have my mac i dont mind using a PC now and then. But if you think about it, if there was no microsoft (there would be something else), macintosh would suck, it would have no competition and no reason to make itself better. You should be thanking microsoft not bashing it, i mean sure they make a shotty copy cat system, but that shotty system is what the world likes and what mac is competing against.
All you should worry about is, your using a mac, who cares if anyone else does.
-this thread has gone on long enough and has strayed away from its topic. No more posts about microsoft! this is the last one, if you want to talk about microsoft make a new thread, this is Y2k. We will close this thread if we have to.
If you must hate anything, hate microsoft. But that just shows your insecurities, your hating on a company for why? I dont care if the world uses PC, as long as I have my mac i dont mind using a PC now and then. But if you think about it, if there was no microsoft (there would be something else), macintosh would suck, it would have no competition and no reason to make itself better. You should be thanking microsoft not bashing it, i mean sure they make a shotty copy cat system, but that shotty system is what the world likes and what mac is competing against.
All you should worry about is, your using a mac, who cares if anyone else does.
-this thread has gone on long enough and has strayed away from its topic. No more posts about microsoft! this is the last one, if you want to talk about microsoft make a new thread, this is Y2k. We will close this thread if we have to.
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I can't wait till Apple run out of big cat names, I cat see it now:
Mac OS X "Tabby"
Mac OS X "Tabby"
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Back on topic:
I was working for a large European-based international bank during the whole Y2K thing. I was responsible for a large portion of the company's technical infrastructure.
When I started with the company in 1997, they already had 80% of their Y2K isues under control. They took this really seriously, especially since they have a large consumer banking business.
On December 30, 1999 there was a glitch on the systems that ran the bank's ATMs, and they all crashed. This received some press and a lot of people freaked out, thinking it was a Y2K problem. It wasn't-- it was an application problem that happened to show up on that particular day. We recovered and got ready for the Big Day.
I spent the night of December 31 driving between our office in the city and the data center in the suburbs, getting reports from my staff as to what was going on and reporting back to management. By 10:00 am we were all done.
It was a complete non-event. I wish there were stories I could tell, but other than an impromptu wine-tasting it was nothing to write home (or in the mac-forums) about.
I was working for a large European-based international bank during the whole Y2K thing. I was responsible for a large portion of the company's technical infrastructure.
When I started with the company in 1997, they already had 80% of their Y2K isues under control. They took this really seriously, especially since they have a large consumer banking business.
On December 30, 1999 there was a glitch on the systems that ran the bank's ATMs, and they all crashed. This received some press and a lot of people freaked out, thinking it was a Y2K problem. It wasn't-- it was an application problem that happened to show up on that particular day. We recovered and got ready for the Big Day.
I spent the night of December 31 driving between our office in the city and the data center in the suburbs, getting reports from my staff as to what was going on and reporting back to management. By 10:00 am we were all done.
It was a complete non-event. I wish there were stories I could tell, but other than an impromptu wine-tasting it was nothing to write home (or in the mac-forums) about.
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