Cheers,

-cvj

Cheers,

-cvj

“John, not a star, just a Kuiper Belt Object.”

It seems to be a very interesting project.

This may not make you a star, but it could be a good start. If I remember correctly, former Senator Fred Thompson started by playing himself in some movie, while serving in the Senate. He is now playing the district attorney in “Law and Order”, after getting tired of the partisan politics. I think he is doing a quite good job there. Maybe one day you also want to try something new in show business.

No, sorry but I don’t give autographs in case people practice the signature and use it fraudulently.

Best,
nc

Yes, true for most people! (But I had to do a course to edit with Quark on Applemacs, probably because I’m more stupid than most people, and was used to PC’s. Can’t switch to new things without a gentle introduction.)

Best,
nc

-cvj

OK, you need drivers for all the hardware that will run smoothly under the OS. But that’s all! It’s the sheer heaviness of Windows that causes most of the problems, not hardware conflicts; perhaps due to Bill Gates’ poor technical leadership (he stopped programming himself around 1983 and devoted his attention to salesmanship), Windows systems grew just like electrical theory:

‘Our electrical theory has grown like a ramshackle farmhouse which has been added to, and improved, by the additions of successive tenants to satisfy their momentary needs, and with little regard for the future.’

– H.W. Heckstall-Smith, Intermediate Electrical Theory, Dent, London, 1932, p283.

This is exactly what you see in the progression Win95 -> Win98 -> WinME (progressively more unstable and gimmicky, and all obsolete now). WinXP is built on Win2000 which was based on WinNT, a far more stable platform than the home series 95-ME. I got my first computer in 1981, but the first time I used Windows was in 1988 during GCSE Computer Studies at school in England. There was no hard disc drive, so every time you switched on, you had to put in a floppy disc with Windows and then another disc with the application.

It took ages, and the application would then run at about quarter of normal speed (or crash) on top of the Windows platform! The whole thing was such total rubbish (the mouse slipped, useless gimmick) that I knew it would never become popular, except for secretaries to type letters! (I was only wrong because of the exponential increases in hardware like processor, memory and HDD capabilities, plus the internet, and the falling cost of all technology.)

-cvj

One thing to keep in mind is that one of the reasons that Macs are so stable is that the hardware and the software come from the same people so there is more opportunity to detect issues. While operating systems running on PCs are generally expected to run on very, very diverse hardware made by many, many different manufactures.

It is weird, but somehow Applemacs got in to the art setup early, and retain control. All publishing is done on Applemacs using Quark’s Xpress, just because that was the first stable system in the 1970s or 80s when newspapers and book publishers gave up on hot metal (linotype, monotype machines) and started typesetting.

Because Windows is relatively unstable (prone to get permanently frozen and never unfreeze, requiring reboot and data loss), Applemac retained its hold on the art/publishing industry and later the professional video editing industry, despite successes in the home PC market by Microsoft and Linux. I think Applemac should produce a PC version of their operating system. Applemac could never dominate the market if it only sells its own operating system with its own computers. The hardware specs of Applemac computers have always been poorer than PCs, although because the operating system is better it feels better to use for demanding applications.

I doubt I’ll have control over the items. I’m just a player in a larger scheme of things. I sign my rights away…. more or less. If someone finds it interesting enough…. (maybe they’ll edit it to have me doing something wrong or funny, for example)… No doubt it will show up there. There might be other projects though…

Thanks for the interest!

-cvj