Power of X Presentation now online
<a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/powerofx/"; target="_blank">The Power of X Keynote </a> can be viewed from Apple's site. This presentation was given by Avie Tevanian (Apple Software Engineering VP) and Phil Schiller (Apple Worldwide Product Marketing VP) at MWSF 2002. This is a somewhat technical presentation which gives a high level overview of OS X internals and its various programming interfaces. The second half has some demonstrations that non geeks should still find interesting. All in all, I thought is was pretty cool.
BTW, this is my first post to Apple Insider. Six months ago, I would never have thought about owning a Mac. I am a UNIX and Windows programmer, and always thought that the Mac wasn't a serious computing platform (not that Windows is either). But six months ago, I checked out OS X at my local store, and was amazed by its powerful UNIX features and attractive, intuitive interface. I eventually bought an iBook and invested a bunch of money in Apple. I am convinced that many other people will convert because Apple just "gets it".
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BTW, this is my first post to Apple Insider. Six months ago, I would never have thought about owning a Mac. I am a UNIX and Windows programmer, and always thought that the Mac wasn't a serious computing platform (not that Windows is either). But six months ago, I checked out OS X at my local store, and was amazed by its powerful UNIX features and attractive, intuitive interface. I eventually bought an iBook and invested a bunch of money in Apple. I am convinced that many other people will convert because Apple just "gets it".
[ 01-14-2002: Message edited by: Brian J. ]</p>
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We're glad you're here!
By the way, you'll meet plenty of zealots on both sides of many hot topics when it comes to Apple computers. It's like a religion to some people. Apple-heads can be very opinionated and are often affected by Steve Jobs' RDF (reality distortion field). If they come on too strong, just ignore 'em and move on.
[edit] oh, and thanks for the heads-up on the stream.
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Happy Apple put the presentation on the web... Am gonna watch it right now.
Question, has anyone lese had trouble with IE and Omni web crashing on Apple's page. I think it is a QT thing, but upon clicking the referenced link, IE just died. then both programs crashed just trying to go to home page. running under OSX of course. any suggestions?
<strong>Apple-heads can be very opinionated and are often affected by Steve Jobs' RDF (reality distortion field). If they come on too strong, just ignore 'em and move on.
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Ooooh. I was wondering what RDF stood for. Thanks for the tipping me off on the lingo. I kept thinking: What does Steve Jobs have to do with a Resource Description Framework?