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Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes
JoFo writes: "Eric Yang, creator of several Aqua-like themes and skins for GTK+, KDE, Mozilla, gkrellm, and others, was forced by Apple to take down all Aqua-related projects on his web site. It appears they went to his employer as a way to strong-arm him. He writes on his web site 'I went to Apple to test cocoa for Mac OS X 10.1, and found a drag and drop problem with NSPopUpButtonCell. They didn't even pay me for my effort, yet they try to shut down my project. Isn't that ironic?'" Apple seems at least to be consistent in objecting to nearly any non-Apple project that reminds the company of Aqua, so maybe this was just a matter of time.
but at least I'm first, that's gotta be worth something
Trolling in Latin.
In all honesty that's a pretty sad link. I can't say I'm gealous.
I'm gay, will you be my friend?
-- AC Avenger
Maybe you Trekkies/Trekkers can explain something to me. Granted, I have only seen a handful of Star Trek episodes, but are Vulcans supposed to be annoying?
Just about everything out of their mouths are prefaced with a statement of planetary origin. "Vulcans do not lie". "Vulcans do not..." Why do they feel the need to 1) preface everything with "Vulcan" 2) Feel the need to speak for the whole planet. I'm sure that there is some variance on that planet.
Also, why the need to preface everything with "Logically..."? Granted there are a lot of stupid people on this planet, but I'll but a lot of decisions that get made are do to some form of logic. I don't preface everything I say with "logic dictates...".
Vulcans can spot losers like you a mile away.
Metallica - The Shortest Straw
Suspicion Is Your Name
Your Honesty to Blame
Put Dignity to Shame
Dishonor
Witchhunt Modern Day
Determining Decay
The Blattand Disarray
Disfigure
The Public Eyes' Disgrace
Defying Common Place
Unending Paper Chase
Unending
Deafening
Painstaking
Reckoning
This Vertigo it Doth Bring
Shortest Straw
Challenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You
Pulled for You
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Pulled for You
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Pulled for You
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Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You
The Accusations Fly
Discrimination, Why?
Your Inner Self to Die
Intruding
Doubt Sunk Itself in You
It's Teeth and Talons Through
Your Living Catch 22
Deluding
A Mass Hysteria
A Megalomania
Reveal Dementia
Reveal
Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In Vertigo You Will Be
Shortest Straw
Chalenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You
Pulled for You
Shortest Straw
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Pulled for You
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Behind You, Hands Are Tied
Your Being, Ostracized
Your Hell Is Multiplied
Upending
The Fallaout Has Begun
Oppresive Damage Done
Your Many Turned to None
To Nothing
You're Reaching Your Nadir
Your Will Has Disappeared
The Lie Is Crystal Clear
Defending
Channels Red
One Word Said
Blaclisted
With Vertigo Make You Dead
Shortest Straw
Chalenge Liberty
Downed by Law
Live in Infamy
Rub You Raw
Witchhunt Riding Through
Shortest Straw
This Shortest Straw Has Been Pulled for You
Pulled for You
I've grown up using pc's all the way back to 8088 and playing empire on it. so I am aware that is likely my bias towards apple's (I used the apple ][ (I think "e") and played the old school wolfenstein back in the day. that was different.
I used my roommate's computer the first few months of freshman year in '95 and hated it. I've always hated macs. I hate the keyboards, I hate the mice, I hated the way the system worked, and I hated the speed. I hated the price, I hated the way everything cost more for them.
then they came out with the shiny titanium laptop with a screen the size of a football field. I want it. I hate the aqua desktop, but I've used my friend's when he had it at work (new iBook) and I like the unix side of it (have run linux on at least one of my boxes since early '96 close to OG, not quite). I have a very hard time getting over the lack of buttons on the laptop, and I hate the keyboard. I'm told that I can add a ms natural keyboard to it and a trackball or a laser mouse like I want... that helps, but then I have extra crap, something that defeats the purpose of the laptop.
then I bought an airport from them for my girlfriend's mac laptop (which I hate - one of the first G3 laptops when they cost like 50 grand). it of course didn't work - in all the pictures they showed, it looked like a pcmcia card. it isn't. they say it works with most new ones... not defining what a "new" one is and since I'm not a mac person, didn't know her's wasn't new enough. so I had to return it - they wanted to charge me a 10% resotocking fee (for opening the box that I couldn't see through so that I could see the card wouldn't work), and I had to pay for shipping back (I yelled and whined and they waived the 10%).
so now I'm torn. I've hated macs for so long, and nothing they could do would work. but the combination of the unix, and the shiny laptop... drool. but I hate them. and they suck, their service sucks, and I hate them (but I must admit, the airport card did get to me fast).
what's a boy to do?
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon
would be Pig Latin
I'm not afraid of falling, it's the sudden stop at the end that frightens me.
We informed them of the tight replacement adapters they were sending out under the PowerBook AC adapter recall program. First they heard of it said some jackass in Steve Jobs office. We'll send you something special they said as a token of our thanks. Two T-Shirts with The Holy Jobs signature on them he said. Two of the tiniest shirts ever show up with nary a mark on them. Wow we saved Apple a few million bucks and all we got were lousy shirts that wouldn't fit a worm.
Postus primus
Posta prima
Postum primum
take your pick depending on gender. In your case the third is probably appropriate.
I hear they have already wasted $25K in brainstorming fees on how to call the upcoming MacOS X v11. Or should I say MacOS XI. Or should I say MacOS-ex 11".
That ducky is a stock photo nimrod
apple sucks
make it $15
Just fuck them... keep your sites up!
Tell them to go to hell!!
i'm so pissed!!!
fuck apple!!
fuck steve jobs!!
fuck cmdrtaco!! (eh?)
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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
You, David Hume, sound like an asshole.