We’re looking for nice imagery of a “Tiger” gnawing, chewing, swallowing, mauling, or otherwise disemboweling a “Longhorn” steer (for obvious reasons). Photos, illustrations, whatever – hey, you Mac guys and gals are supposed to be “creative” and “artistic,” so how ’bout sending us something we can use to illustrate future Mac OS X vs. Windows Longhorn articles?*
It’ll take awhile before such articles will appear – it seems Microsoft isn’t quite ready 
, so we have plenty of time. Longhorn is due “sometime in 2006, maybe,” while Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is due in “the first half of 2005.” With the image illustrating this article, we have a pretty weak starting point – someone’s got to have better.
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The way features are being lopped off in order to insure that Longhorn meets its shipping date, it will probably be repulsively scrawny to our Tiger. In the movie ICE AGE, Sid the sloth was “borrowing” sabretooth tiger Diego to fool some other predators into thinking he was already dead — then it looked as if Diego wasn’t going to let him go. Wooly mammoth Manfred resolved the situation by telling Diego, “you don’t know where that’s been.”
Does anyone know the next cat? We’ll probably see that one before longhorn as well.
“…….Does anyone know the next cat. We’ll probably see that one before longhorn as well……..”
hmmmmm good question….
My vote would be for “Cheetah”….
Supposedily, the fastest cat on the planet !
I believe apple has stated that they are done with the yearly updates after tiger 🙁
I believe Cheetah was 10.1 and Puma was 10.0. Then Jaguar, Panther and Tiger, So It would be more like Lion, king of the Jungle. After that, you need a new theme.
Even if Apple waits 18 months to release “lion” or whatever, it will still probably beat Loooooooooonghorn^_^
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I was thinking the same thing about Tiger being on its way out before we see Longhorn, to be replaced by… Ocelot, maybe? Clouded Leopard? Kodkod?
A Tiger is more powerful and bigger than a lion so I doubt they will go with mac os lion. It sounds crap. Maybe Leopard or Cougar, not as tough as a tiger but sound cool.
I don’t think that Apple will publicize the next cat until they are ready to preview it. Doing so now will imply that the current/upcoming OS is incomplete. But, according to…
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1205653,00.asp
“According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Apple registered four new trademarks in early July: Cougar, Lynx, Leopard and Tiger. All four were filed under the “computer operating system software” category.”
What you should have is a collage of images. Longhorn as first described (big, healthy), and then Longhorn pictures as features are removed (looking less and less healthy), and then a final picture of Longhorn and Tiger with a caption of the Tiger saying “Eh, it would cause me indigestion” or something.
Ha! “King of the Jungle.” I wonder who actually coined that appellation because lions don’t live in jungles. Also, they wouldn’t stand a chance against those living bulldozers, elephants.
Leopards and Panthers are very similar, Cougars and Lynx are way too small after Tiger
They will probably change to new naming startegies
I suppose Kitten,Puss Puss and Kitty are off the list for sure
oh but wait, what about extinct cats like Saber Tooth?
Buffy, Cheetah was 10.0 and Puma was 10.1.
They should drop the cat names and name the new OS’ after great actors of our times…like Chuck Norris and Jeff Fahey
Sent my entry…
“Longhorn is due ‘sometime in 2006, maybe,’ “
Actually Balmer is on the record stating that Longhorn will ship by 31 December 2006 NO MATTER WHAT. Thus they started cutting and/or unbundling “features” (such as the new file structure that many said was a critical new feature of Longhorn) in order to get it out the door by 31 December 2006. I expect Microsoft will make that date with public betas starting in late 2005 or early 2006.
Will Apple ship a version after Tiger that arrives before Longhorn? I would like to think so, but I doubt it. I expect Tiger to ship in late June. this puts the cycle for 10.4 Tiger at about 19-20 months. Another 19 months would put it at MacWorld SF in 2007. I would expect the 10.5 version of OS X to be announced then as shipping “within days” making it another 19-20 month cycle. Thus I would expect OS X 10.5 (whatever it is called) to ship in January 2007.
I think that by the time Longhorn gets here it will surely be suffering from “mad cow disease” and should therefore be banned from consumption.
More appropriate if 10.4 was named “Coyote”, after all, Longhorn will be dead meat.
By the time longhorn ships, Apple will have computers that plug straight into the brain and we will see the screen via head mounted glasses…
On another note, imagine if they remade Back To The Future 2 and as Marty Mcfly Jr walked past a computer store, they had computers running Early Betas of Longhorn.
That image will be nice for us Java 5.0 developers and users (5.0 was codenamed Tiger)
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i’m casting my vote for liger as the next codename. i just saw napoleon dynamite. sweet flick.
I think that the next operating system should be a Liger! It’s pretty much my favorite animal. (Thanks Napolean)
How about a cartoon of a Tiger smelling sweet, and a Longhorn smelling like it always does . . . like *&#$ !
Proud Apple User since 1978
OS X Public Beta = Kodiak
10.0 = Cheetah
10.1 = Puma
10.2 = Jaguar
10.3 = Panther
10.4 = Tiger
10.5 = Rum Tum Tugger
=:~)
Tigger?
here’s a good image: a longhorn over a spit bbq, sauce dripping off, with mashed potatoes and a side of cole slaw. mmmmm, yumm!!!
As a couple posters mentioned, by the time Longhorn ships, Microsoft will have stripped so many features just to get it out the door that we might as well start calling it Shoehorn. That being said, why not just have a picture of a tiger holding two hamburger buns with a puzzled expression: “Where’s the beef?”
jneal, what’s for desert?
You want the most appropriate cat-themed name for the next iteration of OS X? Are you kidding me? It’s got to be “Macavity” (“The Mystery Cat”). Sorry, I had to say it.
I spent a few hours doodling. This is NOT a submission, just a thought. Download image at…
http://homepage.mac.com/gmadigan/FileSharing19.html
…besides, the detail and lack of contrast would not make for a good icon. In addition, if Steve wants it, I can’t have it legally locked up with MDN.
Aryugaetu,
As always, I’m thrilled by the beautiful images in your gallery. Were they created with Bryce?
Puddy Tat
Undoubtedly, Microsoft hopes that Longhonr will be a cash cow. It pribably will, given that most consumers are sheep.
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Lucky Tiger! We’d all like to sink a fang or two into Microsoft.
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RePlay, I’m from Texas, and in Texas a bbq like that we’d have bannana pudding for desert. By the way, in Texas, the only Longhorns we like go to UT.
pretty crappy tasting i guess
sorry
Viridian, thank you!
Yes I use Bryce as the central tool, but my art often starts and ends elsewhere. Bryce is very quick and fast in terms of producing lights and reflections, as well as a general “atmosphere” feel giving some of the art a real look.
The “Tiger-Longhorn” pic was pure 2D utilizing mostly Photoshop CS’s basic functions. I have tried getting a position as a graphic artist but I found my true love of computer graphics late in life and I do not have the resumé nor the right letters after my name for my applications to be taken seriously, regardless of the quality of my portfolio, and the speed with which I can produce those results. C’est la vie!
Moooooo…
Bar-B-Q at One Guy form Finland’s house.
In reference to the earlier statement about Ice Age, the movie, Diego also said “I don’t eat junk food”!!!
So to think that Tiger would even stoop to such a diet would almost imply desperation or starvation!
I vote to have a cartoon of a Tiger approaching an emaciated Longhorn that has been starved (featureless and unnurtured) and turning it’s nose up at it in disgust. Having more respect for itself, and just letting nature take it’s course with the doomed animal, it moves on to find better prey.
Look a the keynote where they announced Tiger. When Phil was demo-ing the capabilities of core video he had a shot of a tiger opening up into a shot of a Lion. That would seem to be a big hint that the next thing after Tiger will be a Lion.
how about a photo of the tiger chewing on Sigfried or was it Roy? Oh, been there, done that.
Water buffalo is their natural prey, will that do? It’s like a longhorn on steroids.
The only possible name after Tiger would be Sabre-Tooth, or Sabre for short – which could introduce a whole new naming paradigm:
Sabre
Cutlass
Rapier
Sword
I think using ‘Lion’ would be a mistake. Lions are golden, and a golden age always precedes a collapse. It’s not ‘hungry’ enough.
“My vote would be for “Cheetah”….”
OS X 10.5 SaberTooth
There is something about the image of a Smilodon sinking those huge razor sharp canines into a cow….hehe.
*shrugs* I think its a forgone conclusion that MS isn’t going to stick with Longhorn for the name. I mean Whistler was the name for NT5 before they called it Windows XP. They will probably think up some marketing gimmick for it like Windows AT for Advanced Technology or some such crap.
Phil Schiller, previewing Tiger in Steve Jobs keynote (WWDC), hinted that Tiger will be followed by LION: He demonstrated the capabilities of Core Graphics by “morphing” a tiger into a lion.
How about the Mac OS “X” crossing out a longhorn skull (one that’s always in a western desert scene)? Better yet, how about the above as an Easter Egg?? Have the skull be a subtle watermark behind the X in the “About this Mac” info box.
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Anyway, isn’t it ironic that the one who REALLY gnawed, chewed, swallowed, mauled, and otherwise disemboweled Longhorn was… Microsoft?!?! Longhorn lost its own way and collapsed under its own weight; MS did it all to itself.
Should have a BSE (mad cow) reference… unsteady on feet and sickly… dunno how to do that short of an animated GIF…
Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What’s a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic
not to be confused with a tigon…
Also nice might be for MDN staff to select perhaps 6 finalists and allow users to vote on them… if some way to avoid ballot-box stuffing can be found. One vote per IP address maybe…. but that’s far from perfect. Vote by email, one per address? flawed too; I have effectively an infinite number of email addresses under a domain I admin.
Just a thought; probably not feasible. But it’d be interesting if MDN posted several finalists, if only to let us see some of the other great entries.
u mac F%$ks or so HATE-FULL of microsoft it’s funny…Instead of supporing Apple you all should swich to LINUX.
I hate to break it to you but Linux will never be a commercially viable operating consumer end operating system. It’s quite possibly the only operating system more frustrating than Windows, which is saying something. If Linux could be understood by the average user, it’d be viable. That’s pretty much what it boils down to. OS X can be as geeky as you need it to be, but it has a beautiful, easy-to-use interface which just works. I’m sorry but Linux just doesn’t deliver.
Penguins 4 Life.
OS X can be as geeky as you need it to be, but it has a beautiful, easy-to-use interface which just works.
I think amyhre was ment to emphasise the word “just”
Windows – sometimes works
crApple – just works
linux – it works
“I hate to break it to you but Linux will never be a commercially viable operating consumer end operating system. It’s quite possibly the only operating system more frustrating than Windows……..”
Its evident you have only used or know of 3 OS’s. Linux has done a good job by being frustrating to users like yourself, redirecting the foolish users from the open source community to the commercial customer support which you waste good money on.
To me it is sometimes justified how companies such as MS and Apple seem so rich and greedy. They have to put up with headless users like yourself. You need to sit back and stuff something into that big mouth of yours.
What about Mac OS X 10.5 “Elgato”
(El Gato is Spanish for “The Cat)
I had always thought up Lion as the obvious successor to Tiger. Especially after that morphing of the Tiger into the Lion.
So…
OS X 10.5=Tigon
OS X 10.6=Liger
OS X 10.7=Lion
OS X 10.8=Sabretooth
After .8 I would’ve just started using Sabretooth Aleph, Beth. If OS X1 (11) isn’t ready yet at that time, then go with Gimel.
I felt that Tiger would be the end of this style of OS X, Lion would be a whole different direction going to the next-gen stuff. The Tigon and Liger steps in the middle would be on the way to Lion. Tigon being a small cat would be modest in its applications from the Lion systems. Liger being the largest cat in the world would be even more robust than Lion in features, Lion would be finalized and streamlined. Sabretooth would be building on the transitions that Tigon through Lion made, with all the things promised from the proposals before, getting to OS X1.
By the time OS X1 is out Mac will have a 30-60% market share (big variables I know), and we’ll be using G9s. I’m also a little nutty
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I would much rather see “artistry” of a Longhorn steer mauling a tiger with his horns