Grats to the Bears and the Colts.
As forme, I will be MIA today. I felt fine all day yesterday, but sometime around 11pm last night, I got sick to my stomache and now have some sort of flu. I am kinda pissed, as it has only been about 6 weeks since I last had the flu.
And no, it wasn’t Bill Belichik’s whiny, nauseating, childish post-game interview that made me wsick. That made me feel good, and confirmed what an asshole he is.
And my AOL IM still is not working. Dunno why.
rachel
It might be food poisoning.
rachel
I mean your problem, not your AOL IM’s.
Teak111 (Angry Charger fan)
Belicicks is an a-hole. Did you see him on the sideline, looked like he could eat bullets when the colts won. Now he has to return to that damned messy private life he has created. Be nice to see some stories about what a jerk the guy is now that he’s done winning. (Angry charger fan.)
Jake
Was it the scrod?
Jonathan
The 50 most loathesome people in America.
Greg Greene
Re: IM: try Meebo, which works sort of like a web-based Trillian. I tried it when I temporarily worked in an location where AIM was firewalled, and it worked like a charm. [Saves chat archives, too, if you prefer/need that.]
Rome Again
Sorry you’re under the weather again John. You seem to get sick an awful lot, do you take vitamins? Just trying to help.
Take it easy, hope you feel better soon.
Bill Belichick
Here’s a tip for anyone laying cash down for the Big Pro Ball Game: Bet big on the AFC. Sure the team is top-heavy with Charger, but keep in mind that this game doesn’t mean a damn thing and it’s being played near a beach. Those soft wussies should be all cleaned up, noses wiped, tears dried, and ready to wow us all with their dance routines.
Krista
I don’t use AOL, so I can’t help you there.
What did you eat yesterday evening?
Krista
Anybody watch Galactica last night?
ThymeZone
Oops, you picked the one guy who might be a bigger prick than Gates. Just not as rich. Okay, you have to put Larry Ellison in there, too. So Jobs might be second.
All those years of keeping the Mac wrapped up in a proprietary tech bubble, with inflated prices and lack of interoperability with the rest of the tech world ….
What’s Apple’s PC market share? After twenty years, isn’t that called “losing?” Why does a guy who loses for twenty years act like he’s winning?
There’s a reason why the world beat a path away from Apple’s door all that time, and still does.
Zifnab
Damn. Just… damn.
JWeidner
Heh. Made me think of the following exchange:
Boy: “It might be a tumor…”
Det. Kimbal: “It’s NOT a TUmah!”
The Other Steve
Insurgents have rediscovered the Trojan Horse
We lost 27 soldiers this weekend.
srv
I get that way whenever I realize that we’re still 3 Super Bowls until we have a new president.
The Other Steve
No no! Haven’t you heard. Consumers didn’t leave Apple. They were forced to by Bill Gates!
That’s why Gates is so evil, he forces consumers to buy and standardize on his product lines.
The Other Steve
I’m at home today sick too… I got some sort of head cold.
I blame it on the fact that I stopped drinking Mountain Dew on the 13th of January. Not just the Dew… I decided to cut out all caffeine, as it was the reason why i craved the Dew.
Now I drink water… that’s why i got sick.
SeesThroughIt
I actually missed the post-Colts/Pats game activities (the siren song of In-n-Out was far too powerful to resist). What did Belichick say/do?
Paul L.
Quote of the Day
The Other Steve
Paul L: can you be any less relevant to America?
Jake
It didn’t do President Bush any harm, what are you crying about?
On this topic (I think) today is the day many parents show their concern for children by plonking their own in strollers and pushing them around The Mall while the mercury skulks in the bottom of the thermometer. Snowflake babies, indeed.
Krista
Fixed for accuracy.
Dave
Proprietary? What the USB ports, oh wait no, that’s standard…um FireWire! No that’s standard too. Um S-Video..no my DVD player has that. How about that pesky DVI port! No, PCs have that too.
Oh wait! Maybe it’s all the Unix internals. Well Open Source isn’t really proprietary is it? Hmmm…
So I’m trying to see what is so proprietary about my Mac. Must be that it doesn’t run Windows! Oh wait but my Core2Duo MacBook Pro does. In fact I can run windows apps side by side using Parallels Desktop.
With all due respect TZ, your criticism was relevant about 10 years ago but not now; time to update your complaints. There are things I can bitch about the Mac, but being proprietary ain’t one of them. I have yet to go by a generic device, such as a USB hard drive and not have it work when I plugged it in. No drivers, no nothing. Just works. Oh and get ready for Vista: the feature set is pretty much a mirror of, you guessed, it that proprietary Mac OS.
As far as market share? Who cares as long as Apple stays in business. My Mac does everything I need it to do, and with a low market share, I don’t worry about viruses and hackers and spyware, etc, etc, But to refute the notion that Apple is still loosing market share…here ya go.
The Other Steve
Show me a machine that is not sold by Apple on which I can run Mac-OSX.
Doubtful. Mac OSX doesn’t even have the featureset of XP.
ThymeZone
Sorry. When you get beaten 20-1 for twenty five years in a row, it’s time to admit you lost. Or at least stop strutting around and acting superior.
It’s a little like rooting for the Arizona Cardinals. It’s cute, but let’s face it, until they win something, it’s pretty delusional.
Dave
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html
Of course owning the box and the OS has numerous advantages like everything generally works without needing to configure it. Plus unlink Microsoft, Apple makes money off it’s hardware. Ip until recently you couldn’t run the OS on an Intel based box since it was PowerPC based.
Oh geez, like what? Anything important?
Dave
Gee wasn’t aware that using a Mac means I lost. It’s a computer not a contest (or since this is a political blog, a war).
demimondian
C’mon, Dave? Unix internals? The kernal of MacOSX isn’t Unix-based, it’s based on a closed form of Mach. *Some* of the userland utilities are based on FreeBSD (all bow before the great daemon in tennis shoes!), but that’s really all.
Hell, Apple hasn’t even been as good about giving back to BSD as Google has been to Ubuntu.
John D.
Not to get into an OS-war, but if you don’t worry about that — even on a Mac — you’re a fool.
Macintosh computers are not inherently immune to attacks; it’s merely that there are 20 times as many Wintel boxen to attack, so the idiots concentrate their griefing there. Stay safe: use protection. We have enough zombies already.
Dave
Source including the kernel is here
It’s official name is xnu.
And yes it’s technically not Unix. It’s “Unix-Like” OS. It’s posix compliant. I don’t know how much more Unix you can get without licensing the name, and with 10.5 will support the Single Unix Specification as well.
In fact other than the fact that you can’t run the Mac OS easily on a generic PC, I’d submit that the Mac OS is more open than Windows.
As far as contributing back, I do know for a fact that at least for the complier chain (gcc, et al) and it’s debugger gdb, they so submit patches upstream. I can’t comment on Google vs. Apple in contributing upstream, I honestly don’t know much about Google’s efforts. If I had to guess, yeah Google’s bound to be better.
They’ve also opened Bonjour and others. I know Bonjour is the backbone of Tivo’s networking.
In the end it’s pretty silly trying to compare Microsoft and Apple, as they are two different businesses with two different business models. Microsoft is a software developer (in the PC realm, so we’re not talking xBox, etc here). Apple is a hardware and software maker.
For the record, here’s what I don’t like about the Mac OS.
1) NetInfo
2) Mach
3) Spotlight (Vista’s search is better), and they didn’t leave the old search in place.
4) That after 20 years they changed how Cmd-N works in the Finder.
Off the top of my head there ya go.
Lastly a computer is a tool. I enjoy Mac OS and am extremely efficient with it. Windows, not so much…at the end of the day that’s what really matters.
Dave
Yes I know “security through obscurity” is not a sound policy. Yet there are no viruses in the wild, no trojans, nothing. When there are, I’ll install the appropriate software. Until then protecting myself against a threat that doesn’t exist seems silly to me, and kinda reminds me of the Bush foreign policy. :)
Glenn
“I actually missed the post-Colts/Pats game activities (the siren song of In-n-Out was far too powerful to resist). What did Belichick say/do?”
Yeah, is there a transcript out there (I couldn’t find one) or column about Belichick’s post-game conference?