[Ti] [OT] humor from slashdot

[Chris Olson]

On Oct 14, 2004, at 10:02 PM, Shawn King wrote:

> That "kid blogger" is has been a well known (if not necessarily well 
> respected) reporter for Wired.com for years.
> He's made a career out of making Mac users look silly.

Aha!  I didn't make the connection till now.  This is the same guy that 
a month or so ago reported on the "revolutionary" QuickTransit software 
from Transitive Corp.  He didn't get the facts straight on that one 
either, citing pie in the sky ideas about software applications written 
for one platform running on any other, without any modifications to the 
underlying program.  You should've seen the Mac sites jump on that one 
- VirtualPC was suddenly a thing of the past on MacObserver and several 
others.

When I checked with Transitive ( 
http://www.transitive.com/products.htm#p2 ), they're supporting only 
architecture translating, not environment translating.  It only does 
UNIX to UNIX.  This doesn't mean that Linux will instantly be able to 
run windows graphical apps or OS X graphical apps, only console or X11 
apps that are compiled for PowerPC or MIPS.  Windows machines won't be 
able
to run OS X graphical apps without a copy of Aqua and all the 
Cocoa/Carbon/whatever layers as well.  OS X systems won't be able to 
run Windows graphical applications without the help of some win32 
libraries and the Windows display technology.

I recall I emailed him about his reporting inaccuracies, or "bending" 
of the facts, on that one and got a senseless response too.
--
Chris