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Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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More 30 like years of personal computing...just dub "Mac" for "PC" and it's wouldn't be inaccurate except for the smiley faces. Just because these artists and engineers are talking about a Mac does not make their functions exclusive to the platform. Also, going back 30 years you have to endure some turd-Macs along the way (some brilliant ones too). Many jokes were had at the expense of our Mac brothers in the late mi…

I was 10 at the time and my father was a typewriter repairman. He purchased a Mac the first day it came out. To that point, the IBM PC had not affected the typewriter repair business because of the archaic document preparation programs then in use (similar to latex). When I hooked up the Mac and started typing a document, my father said "oh shit" and knew that his business was done. I then went to print the document, and the printer didn't work because the first batch of printer cables were defective. Nonetheless, 30 years ago today the office was transformed -- dedicated typists were no longer needed because people could prepare final copies of their own documents.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Do you have any specific examples of how its "incredibly hampered"?

The most extreme I can think of was one reported by Raymond Chen on his "The Old New Thing" blog which I can't find the specific link for, but is discussed in an article by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html To quote: "I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freei…

You picked a particularly poor example. The application compatibility layer does not incredibly hamper the OS whatsoever. First of all the ACL is only active when known executables that have problems with the newer versions are running. As an educated guess it would not take more than a millisecond to ID the .exe. Secondly what the ACL does is fairly benign - what it amounts to in simple terms is that it simply uses a different code path for a very narrow set of functions. The cost associated with loading an 'extra library' is so marginal that you would find it hard to measure.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Here's the list of people and things featured: - 1984, original Macintosh - 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer - 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement - 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research - 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography - 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop…

25 men. 3 women. 2 machines.

What are you suggesting?

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Linux: I think because it's less of a 'concrete' thing (e.g. so many distros, very steady 'word of mouth' growth rather than a big launch) Windows: People just don't have the same affection for Windows: it tends to be something that's used, grudgingly, often for work, rather than something that people are genuinely pleased by. I'm sure people will disagree, of course, that's just a big generalisation. Also, since Win…

Mac users are annoyingly vocal.

I must admit sweeping generalisations like that might just make me so.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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25 men. 3 women. 2 machines.

What are you suggesting?

Not sure. It just came to mind when scrolling and seeing all those men faces. Can't believe that the Mac could be SO correlated with men's achievements.

It just says: Look, in the past 30 years, the Mac was where men did great things. OR, we selected 30 great things that happened in the past 30 years. And men did them. And Apple was there.

Really?

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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post #137

Beautiful site, nice memories and all, but I find this a bit worrisome. The Mac's 25th anniversary went by rather unremarkably under Steve's management, if I remember correctly. He famously gave the Apple's museum to Stanford as soon as he returned. A company as old (for this industry) and successful as Apple must always look relentlessly to the future in order not to fall too much in love with its own accomplishment…

It's just marketing fluff. Don't worry about it.

I'm not alone it seems:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/24/apple-mac-30

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you suggesting?

Not sure. It just came to mind when scrolling and seeing all those men faces. Can't believe that the Mac could be SO correlated with men's achievements. It just says: Look, in the past 30 years, the Mac was where men did great things. OR, we selected 30 great things that happened in the past 30 years. And men did them. And Apple was there. Really?

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Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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Here's the list of people and things featured: - 1984, original Macintosh - 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer - 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement - 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research - 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography - 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop…

http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-take-portrait-pictures-like-A...

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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post #38

Art, art, art... Why can't they show programmers in an ad for once? Apple you can come film me at any time.

INT. VOID_'S ROOM - DAY CLOSEUP OF FINGERS TYPING VOID_0 I love Macs because they have the unix core, so you can compile anything written for linux servers natively without using a virtual machine. CLOSEUP OF CODE BEING TYPED CLOSEUP OF TERMINAL COMPILING CODE VOID_0 So yeah, that's pretty neat I guess. I mean it's not that flashy or anything, I'm really just using it as a fancy text editor. The build quality of thes…

Bonus points if they use the shell theme from Tron: Legacy.

Re: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

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post #94

More 30 like years of personal computing...just dub "Mac" for "PC" and it's wouldn't be inaccurate except for the smiley faces. Just because these artists and engineers are talking about a Mac does not make their functions exclusive to the platform. Also, going back 30 years you have to endure some turd-Macs along the way (some brilliant ones too). Many jokes were had at the expense of our Mac brothers in the late mi…

I think you missed the point. 30 years from today (January 24th, 1984) is celebrating the release of the original Macintosh, which was the first modern personal computer. Of course there have been "bad Apples" along the way — the Apple computer line sucked during much of the 90's, as you pointed out. But the simple fact is that Apple's original Macintosh was the definitive introduction of modern personal computing to…

The Amiga might have something to say to you about modern personal computing.

Well, I should clarify. The Amiga was -demo'ed- in 1983 but not released until 1985.

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