What are the different colors about?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:23 pm

fluffy wrote:Yes.

Wow, cool... ken asked that in IRC...and I just made the same guess...wooohooo, not as stupid as everyone thinks... just over that bar.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:26 pm

*IRC RULE BREAKER ALERT*

Hoblit, you're under arrest.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:49 pm

c.layne wrote:*IRC RULE BREAKER ALERT*

Hoblit, you're under arrest.

totaly busted red handed too. Crap. I am doomed to a life of solitary cold cement floor confinement. I broke the number one rule. What is said in IRC chatroom, stays in IRC chatroom.

Take me away.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:37 pm

c hack wrote:
j$ wrote:So I have no problems with them per se, but my point is essentially, now, whether you accuse Bill Gates of pilfering, there is next to no difference between PC & Mac.
I'm going to take issue with this later on when it's not time for beer. But basically, I completely disagree.

Don't want to get into this holy war, other than to note that while the applications/programs available for both platforms are approaching homogeneity, the operating systems themselves are still as different as, well, Apples and Oranges, heh.

Old Apple joke, from the 6-color days...
Q: What do you call MicroSoft's R&D Department?
A: Apple Computer

and

Q: What do you call Apple's R&D Department?
A: Xerox/PARC

...and j$, a green screen Mac??? You mean an Apple II, maybe?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:53 pm

Speaking of which, <a href="http://folklore.org/">folklore.org</a> has some great stories from the old days at Apple. Including a pretty good argument as to how MacOS wasn't actually a ripoff of the Xerox system (and anyway, whatever they took from Xerox they certainly haven't simply let be).

Ooh, also there's a great story which explains why it's so standard to use <a href="http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?projec ... >multiples of 11KHz</a> for sample rates. (It's because of the video timings on the original Mac!)

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:24 am

fluffy wrote:Speaking of which, <a href="http://folklore.org/">folklore.org</a> has some great stories from the old days at Apple. Including a pretty good argument as to how MacOS wasn't actually a ripoff of the Xerox system (and anyway, whatever they took from Xerox they certainly haven't simply let be).

Ooh, also there's a great story which explains why it's so standard to use <a href="http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?projec ... >multiples of 11KHz</a> for sample rates. (It's because of the video timings on the original Mac!)

My history's a bit hazy, but wasn't it their mouse (light pen?) demo that got the wheels a-turning with the Apple people for the soon-to-be-Lisa's OS?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:41 am

Lisa and Macintosh were totally separate product teams (with a pretty bitter rivalry between them), to start with.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:05 am

Okay, so more than a bit hazy, heh. Guess I'm no longer bleeding in 6 colors

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:10 am

can i just mention that anytime i read the name "OSX" my brain's first impulse is to identify the "X" as a placeholder for a digit (such as "Windows 3.x") and therefore associate it with "OS/2"

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:04 pm

That's a good point... would any version of OSX be "OS X.x?"

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:59 pm

toddlans wrote:Do the different colors have any signifigance? Or are all the categories the same besides the song title each with a random color?

Back on topic, the colors have no real significance other than what the admin assigns them from what I've seen. No one title or color has any more value than another. Although at Halloween and Christmas I did note more seasonal color schemes. (Orange and Black / Green and Red respectively) The point is just pick a title you like (as was suggested earlier) and write a song. Good luck Toddlans.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:17 pm

I don't think Christmas' green/red was a Christmas thing, so much as a "we're not getting enough entries to justify a blue for now."

What are the different colors about?

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