So you'd be proud to tell the world "my company is incapable of making a product that's as good as this, so I'll just use the competitor's product"?????
Well, first of all, to say otherwise would be to lie.
Secondly, what do you mean by "my company"? The board of directors aren't the same as executives, managers, or employees of the company. They are only loosely affiliated with the companies they serve, and they can even be executive officers of other companies. For example, a past CEO of Google once served on Apple's board. The current CEO of Disney is currently on Apple's board. And Apple's chair is currently sitting on the board of several other companies. My point is because someone serves on the board of directors doesn't mean they represent the company. Instead, they should be viewed as representing the shareholders of the company. Think about it.
That goofy grin, along with his fingers on his lips make him look like he's surfing gay porn for the first time. This is not a picture of confidence and self-assuredness you want the chairman of a billion dollar corporation to have. Double-Plus Fail.
I can't claim to know what HP's Meg Witman will do but there is a strong rumor that she wants to buy Apple for $600 a share but one of the board members is strongly opposed to it. But Meg plans to tap his phone lines to get the inside scoop on his computing life and oust him as a board member.
Plausible. NeXT had ported to Intel, and later when NeXT's hardware business folded, OPENSTEP was ported to Windows. That might be what Jobs was running. However, it was running on top of Windows. Another reason I think Jobs was using Windows was that he created presentations. And you can't create PowerPoint slides on OPENSTEP. Or can you?
Plausible? It's pretty much definitive.
Jobs used Lighthouse Design's Concurrence presentation software to make presentations. Apple Keynote is essentially modeled after Concurrence.
He was likely running NEXTSTEP 4.0 on Intel. Most certainly from 1995 to 2000. Maybe 2002. By then he was using Keynote betas on OS X.
Interesting factoid: Lighthouse Design was the premiere NEXTSTEP developer and Sun bought them out for the OPENSTEP initiative. OPENSTEP fizzled out, Lighthouse's awesome productivity suite became lost at the bowels of Sun, but Lighthouse Design CEO Jonathan Schwartz became Sun CEO years later.
You can't just use any PC graphics card in a Mac as the firmware needs to support EFI (though it is possible to flash some PC graphics cards with a Mac-compatible firmware). Also, only the Mac Pro allows you to install a custom graphics card.
Assuming those requirements are met, then Windows should be able to make use of the graphics card. When using Windows via Bootcamp on a Mac, the Mac looks and functions just like any other PC would in Windows. So the standard Windows drivers for the graphics card should work (though I don't have any experience with this myself).
Thanks for this bit. I want my next computer to be a Mac of some sort.
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$11 acquisition of Autonomy? Not terribly risky.
I would have give then twice that. But not sure what they actually do.
So you'd be proud to tell the world "my company is incapable of making a product that's as good as this, so I'll just use the competitor's product"?????
Well, first of all, to say otherwise would be to lie.
Secondly, what do you mean by "my company"? The board of directors aren't the same as executives, managers, or employees of the company. They are only loosely affiliated with the companies they serve, and they can even be executive officers of other companies. For example, a past CEO of Google once served on Apple's board. The current CEO of Disney is currently on Apple's board. And Apple's chair is currently sitting on the board of several other companies. My point is because someone serves on the board of directors doesn't mean they represent the company. Instead, they should be viewed as representing the shareholders of the company. Think about it.
it's called "marketing research"
I can't claim to know what HP's Meg Witman will do but there is a strong rumor that she wants to buy Apple for $600 a share
How can you make products better than your competitor if you don't use your competitors products?
Indeed. Only thing is you don't want to be seen looking like you're having a mini-orgasm while "researching" the competition.
Plausible. NeXT had ported to Intel, and later when NeXT's hardware business folded, OPENSTEP was ported to Windows. That might be what Jobs was running. However, it was running on top of Windows. Another reason I think Jobs was using Windows was that he created presentations. And you can't create PowerPoint slides on OPENSTEP. Or can you?
Plausible? It's pretty much definitive.
Jobs used Lighthouse Design's Concurrence presentation software to make presentations. Apple Keynote is essentially modeled after Concurrence.
He was likely running NEXTSTEP 4.0 on Intel. Most certainly from 1995 to 2000. Maybe 2002. By then he was using Keynote betas on OS X.
Interesting factoid: Lighthouse Design was the premiere NEXTSTEP developer and Sun bought them out for the OPENSTEP initiative. OPENSTEP fizzled out, Lighthouse's awesome productivity suite became lost at the bowels of Sun, but Lighthouse Design CEO Jonathan Schwartz became Sun CEO years later.
You can't just use any PC graphics card in a Mac as the firmware needs to support EFI (though it is possible to flash some PC graphics cards with a Mac-compatible firmware). Also, only the Mac Pro allows you to install a custom graphics card.
Assuming those requirements are met, then Windows should be able to make use of the graphics card. When using Windows via Bootcamp on a Mac, the Mac looks and functions just like any other PC would in Windows. So the standard Windows drivers for the graphics card should work (though I don't have any experience with this myself).
Thanks for this bit. I want my next computer to be a Mac of some sort.