2007 11 01
The latest version of Mac OS X, Leopard, has a network browser that uses stylized icons of the various computers in the LAN. Here is the icon of a generic PC running Windows:
So funny!
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November 2nd, 2007 at 00:17
steve jobbs is arrogant.
To make fun on some website is ok, but to make fun of your competitor in a professional product… that’s highly immature!
As if the rich kid’s toy never crashes.
:p Linux and BSD is much more mature then :p..besides, linux and BSD are made by people all around the world, so you can’t blame them if they were to make fun of windoors or of a pomme gaté, to be wild and fun is in the blood of BSD and linux.
But that proprietary pomme gaté’s stuff is supposed to show some professionalism… and fairplay.
*note by maturity i didn’t meant code maturity.
+$3|v3n
November 2nd, 2007 at 00:22
LOL
So true…
November 2nd, 2007 at 00:55
it be a wee bit large for an icon, nay?
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:08
I just don’t get it.
If Windows (read ‘Microsoft’ also) is so crap, why all this obsessive fuss and cheap mockery of the so-called BSOD.
Linux crashes too and so does the Mac. The latter’s purported stability is not an excuse to make fun of Windows. Note well that Steve Jobs learns a lot from what happens in Redmond too!
November 2nd, 2007 at 16:07
I have to agree with you.
This is (a little bit) over the top. I would be very unhappy if the Microsoft team changes the network browser of Windows to show, say, rotten apples, when they detect a Mac
I guess this Leopard “feature” will disappear in one of the next updates…
November 2nd, 2007 at 16:12
Incidentally, Yaasir, the size of the “icon” is 512×512 for a very good reason: resolution independence.
November 2nd, 2007 at 20:47
and blinking too
November 4th, 2007 at 00:41
I, too, think it’s a bit too much. I’ve installed Leopard, and I can say it has its flaws. Mail is slower than on Tiger. Time Machine failed twice on me.
On the good side, Leopard is much faster when it comes to launching applications. Safari renders web pages faster. Putting my Mac to sleep with while is connecter to a shared drive on the network, and bringing it back from sleep does not result into the “beach ball.”
September 16th, 2008 at 16:22
Just immature, makes no sense.
I agree with the rotten Apple thing, imma download it. =D
September 16th, 2008 at 17:04
Immature and fun
But, as a matter of fact, the BSOD makes identifying Windows computers easy in the network browser because, well, of the blue color…
November 20th, 2008 at 17:50
I think you guys are taking this way too seriously. Apple’s entire marketing campaign right now is trashing Windows, and you guys are getting upset over an icon? They had to do something to differentiate themselves from Microsoft, so they appealed to the anti-Microsoft user, and it’s working.
December 12th, 2008 at 05:34
Did you know that mac os x is made from BSD?
December 12th, 2008 at 15:40
@ruby
osx is based on the mach kernel which is somewhat from BSD … from where freebsd has its roots also.
it also uses freebsd’s implementation of tcp/ip stack [which is better]
apple uses a lot of freebsd’s stuff but it has a few more additions [ofcourse.. else we'd simply call it MoBSD i believe :p]
you would wanna see this ruby….
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/images/arch.jpg
:p
[i always wanted avinash to go deeper into that in our OS classes [which till now after his parallel class, was the best module in univ] (no ass kissing intended)
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December 12th, 2008 at 15:59
Selven, you are definitely ass kissing
December 12th, 2008 at 18:23
f*ck you!
December 13th, 2008 at 07:17
Becoming familiar?
December 13th, 2008 at 23:15
pfft
August 27th, 2009 at 13:56
Appealing to the anti-Microsoft crowd isn’t going to help Apple expand its userbase at all… they’re pretty cocky considering after ALLLLL these years the market share hasn’t even crossed 10%. I’m sure the Mac fanboys are high-fiving each other about this, but it seems kinda ****ed, especially considering that Apple wouldn’t exist today if they weren’t saved by Microsoft’s enormous bailout.
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:05
You’re surely right.
Microsoft Windows is THE catalyst which make people do things like Mac OS X and Linux
January 5th, 2010 at 22:37
The “off the shelf” components comprising the IBM XT, Microsofts dumb luck, and a government and its society where just about everything is fueled by greedy commerce is why we continue to experience crappy IT systems. Yes, they are all crappy. It’s 2010 and we still have the same machine we had in 1981. A CPU, a couple of drives, an SVGA monitor, a communications port, some RAM, and a mouse and keyboard. Aren’t we supposed to be living George Jetson style by now? No, not while there is a tangible loot to be taken by the powers that be. Ever since the PC monopoly phenomena thingy occured there have been no real groundbreaking advances in U.S. technology. Just prior to 1981 we were being flooded with new human toys everyday: lasers, digital media, nuclear power, microwave ovens, plastics, organ transplants, and the list goes on. Since 1981 there has basically been….nothing. Except for some rewritten monopoly laws and a government who burned their own economic flag that they had just waved so proudly in their last two wars. Progress has been sacrificed in the name of cash. An entire species has become like crack addicts dependent on a little piece of shit box that is little more than a typewriter with schitzophrenia. Let’s hope our forced marriage to the ugly bride does not last forever, or forever may come sooner than we think.
Piss on you too.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:35
How can I not agree?