Even if the current version in your distribution's repositories is not able to play YouTube videos, the cvs version at least can. I remember reading somewhere that getting and keeping YouTube movies playable was a top priority.
I think they are personally half-assing it with most notebooks. Strange as it may seem, I would prefer if there was an option to buy most laptops without a battery. The damn batteries don't last very long when you do have them anyway, many people use their laptops as portable desktops, batteries tend to make the laptop that much heavier when you change your work venue, they add a lot to the price of the base system, and having one less battery manufactured is most likely helping the environment.
Why does problems voting and Florida have to be a recurring theme? I'm losing faith in the state. Seriously. And it always happens when it is most important.
To put this argument in other terms, just because the serial port is being phased out in place of the newer, easier to use USB port doesn't mean that having a serial port as backup isn't nice too. It gives flexibility.
There is, but you need to go into the Places "Library" (Ctrl+Shift+B). It's in the context menu and also in the first of the three menu buttons in the toolbar. I managed to get a sidebar with favorites in it if that is what you mean. But I then got stuck because I didn't see a button to add a new favorite or an applicable looking option in the context menu when I right clicked inside of the favorites sidebar.
Possibly because stars scale better to small sizes. I haven't once seen a decent bookmark icon that scales down well. I don't often even seen one standardised bookmark icon 'style' used across more than two apps. I think the Moz folks did it for two major reasons. On windows, it makes IE switchers more comfortable. I do think a star was chosen for anesthetic value in the URL bar too. On the other hand, as a linux user 90% of the time, the largest thing that hits me the strongest is the lack of consistency.
I will try your tip on IE the next time I'm confronted with it! Thanks for helpful reply.
SEGA has often showed understated stats of its console, whereas most competitors used to inflate the specs I didn't know that. Nintendo had the same habit and tended to be crucified for it. Then with the Wii, they just stopped giving the specs all together which I thought was weird. Nothing reads "appliance" like lack of specs.
Actually I think it's the bookmarks that might drive me crazy. There is no damn way to bookmark a page by putting a address in manually in IE7 from what I saw. I noticed that Firefox is emulating the star thing to a degree, but when some one is mimicing something that feel horrible...blarg. I prefer the bookmarks to be stored under a menu safe from accidental clicking. Why are bookmarks now *stars* instead of bookmark icons btw?
I don't know about the Pidgin guys. I think empathy is going to be stealing the place of pidgin in many linux users desktops if they aren't careful. It already has a form of video/voice chat built in and has been proposed for inclusion in Gnome.
I suppose my point was that your post above was very slanted. It looked very much like one of those cases where someone takes the polar opposite because of a bad reaction something extremist, but still alienates everyone in between in much the same way. I don't think either helps really.
People who bring a PDA/Smartphone and wip it out all of the time at an amusement park are likely missing the whole point of the amusement park. No loss if they don't go anyway.
I think the ban is just as much for the kids as the grown ups. You are missing half of the amusement park experience if you don't pull your eyes away from the PDA every once in a while. You stop noticing things like the smells of the food etc.
Talking on a cell phone can be obnoxious, making other paying customers enjoy their experience less. It's a bit like using a cell phone in a movie theatre, though less dramatic.
If nothing else, the fireworks from this should be interesting because people love to get all pissed off over nothing. I wish them the best of luck anyway.;-)
Actually most people didn't know. The only place where they actually sold any units worth anything was Japan.
I do believe if Apple tried at a console again, there in a large chance it would be kick-ass like you said earlier. A lot has changed since the Pippin came out. I think one of the largest factors would be Steve now at the helm.
Now the bad : apple has no history of creating amplifiers, TVs , or game systems. Still, looking at the success of the iPhone and their laptops, I would not be surprised if they just came out with a Sony/Nintendo/MS Xbox killer multi function device.
My mind isn't working 100% right now from lack of caffeine, so I'm just going to give you the link for interesting reading to Apple's one and only game system, the Pippin.
Rounding back to my question, after a bit of thinking I've concluded iWorks and OpenOffice probably are advertising Microsoft OOXML compatibility and not ISO OOMXL compatibility.
You say only, but weren't the the fundamentalists and conservatives the ones who helped Bush get elected twice? I think they may be a larger group than you are giving them credit. Don't under estimate your enemy:-p
Anyway, I don't believe that people against cloning are restricted to just those two groups. The fundamentalists and conservatives are just the most verbal about it.
-For example, someone could be against cloning/gene choosing because it shows the fickleness and shallowness of society, ranking up with using plastic surgery to get the perfect bod. (No, I'm talking about cosmetic surgery for improving the body, not fixing up burn victims etc.)
-I am sure that there will be people who would make some kind of "have and have nots" argument. Only rich people can afford the technology. The gap between the rich and the poor becomes larger.
-More "racial" turmoil that our society really doesn't need. "No one and compete with the super geniuses!" Worst case senario, Jeffersons 'We Hold the Wolf by the Ears' quote finds a new use.
I do think this technology is going to be coming around whether we like it or not. But I think public acceptance will be slow. Plastic surgery is making people think of their body as something that is changable, as is donor organs. When scientists are able to grow organs such as eyes in different colors, the line will further be moved. People will start to think, "if I can change my eye color in surgery, it's no big deal to choose the genetic color of my son's eyes. He can change they later anyway."
You hit the nail on the head. Reading does a lot to improve general language skills. But the 1500 characters + their 2 or 3 readings and where to apply those readings is daunting to most people.
You apparently missed the memo. It's no longer 1337 to just know how to program with ruby on rails. You have to make sure your commments in Japanese now too. 2chan and 4chan and 8chan and 16chan and 32chan... +...ichan will just come naturally.
It would be cool if they surprised us this time, but they have far too great a credibility dept for me to think anything particularly good will come from this move. I know the feeling. I want to be happy. I really do. But the headline reads a little too much like the ending to a fairy tale to settle right in my mind.
Generally it's a good idea to look at the past to get some ideas on what might happen in the future. I haven't seen anything written in your posts that make me think you have done this. I have been trying to get you to tell me why things are different this time. Not that I think you are right or wrong.
Apple has diversified their portfolio since the 90s, and have a fair amount of cushion room from the iPod, iPhone, and Mac OS X's popularity etc. If Apple was going to open up Mac OS X to generic X86 hardware, it might actually work out well this time. The sales of Mac OS X to people with generic hardware would probably offset the losses in Apple hardware just because of the change of scale.
*If* these hackintosh sales started to take off, Apple would simply outdesign them - as they have done with MP3 players since the dawn of the iPod.
The Macintosh clones of the 90s also looked a lot less impressive than real PowerMacs. "In terms of exterior styling, Mac clones often more closely resembled generic PCs than their Macintosh counterparts, but they frequently offered better performance at a lower price than true Macs." as written on wikipedia.
Realistically why should Apple worry about these wind tunnel hacks? It's not like people have not had the ability for years now to put OS X on better PC hardware of their own construction.
Wind tunnel hacks are not the most difficult technical hurdle in the world. I could see that issue disappearing in a revision or two. You need to look more longterm.
It's not like people have not had the ability for years now to put OS X on better PC hardware of their own construction.
Yes, but Psystar is preinstalling it and officially supporting it, in essence bringing what was hobbyist only to the masses.
Actually, the real question is why isn't implementing it trivial? It shouldn't take that long. OOXML is based off of their own existing format after all. Given that time frame, Openoffice.org and iWorks will have support for OOXML way before Microsoft Office.
Actually, the real question is why isn't implementing it trivial? It shouldn't take that long. OOXML is based off of their own existing format after all.
That's because a lot of packages depend on Firefox. When you switch versions around haphazardly you run into bugs and binary incompatibility. If you look at older Ubuntu released for example, they don't usually backport firefox.
Apple supposedly makes the bulk of its money on hardware. If Apple's profits start falling like the the Macintosh Clone period, they will be force do something drastic, if only because the investors force them to. So pick your poison.
No sueing, but he definitely has the right to complain. Maybe even grumble. Hell, I have heard that Linux has complained about having ever released his code under the gpl license.
If Psystar was remotely smart, though, they should probably be trying to hire him to help with Mac OS X compatibility updates. It would put a valuable coder on their side, and their consciences wouldn't smack them as much.
You are very right. The correct answer is to migrate back to PPC!...or maybe Sparc. Mmmm Sparc.
But honestly, I could see Apple,
* Starting to use serial numbers, annoying the user.
* Selling "upgrade only" discs, annoying the user (and what do you do on a new HD?)
* Stopping all sales of OS upgrades
* Doing anything at all if their bottom line starts to really be affected. It's that simple. The question is, what is that crossing point, and how does OS sales in place of hypothetical hardware sales move this crossing point?
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Even if the current version in your distribution's repositories is not able to play YouTube videos, the cvs version at least can. I remember reading somewhere that getting and keeping YouTube movies playable was a top priority.
I think they are personally half-assing it with most notebooks. Strange as it may seem, I would prefer if there was an option to buy most laptops without a battery. The damn batteries don't last very long when you do have them anyway, many people use their laptops as portable desktops, batteries tend to make the laptop that much heavier when you change your work venue, they add a lot to the price of the base system, and having one less battery manufactured is most likely helping the environment.
Why does problems voting and Florida have to be a recurring theme? I'm losing faith in the state. Seriously. And it always happens when it is most important.
To put this argument in other terms, just because the serial port is being phased out in place of the newer, easier to use USB port doesn't mean that having a serial port as backup isn't nice too. It gives flexibility.
Actually I think it's the bookmarks that might drive me crazy. There is no damn way to bookmark a page by putting a address in manually in IE7 from what I saw. I noticed that Firefox is emulating the star thing to a degree, but when some one is mimicing something that feel horrible...blarg. I prefer the bookmarks to be stored under a menu safe from accidental clicking. Why are bookmarks now *stars* instead of bookmark icons btw?
I don't know about the Pidgin guys. I think empathy is going to be stealing the place of pidgin in many linux users desktops if they aren't careful. It already has a form of video/voice chat built in and has been proposed for inclusion in Gnome.
I suppose my point was that your post above was very slanted. It looked very much like one of those cases where someone takes the polar opposite because of a bad reaction something extremist, but still alienates everyone in between in much the same way. I don't think either helps really.
People who bring a PDA/Smartphone and wip it out all of the time at an amusement park are likely missing the whole point of the amusement park. No loss if they don't go anyway.
I think the ban is just as much for the kids as the grown ups. You are missing half of the amusement park experience if you don't pull your eyes away from the PDA every once in a while. You stop noticing things like the smells of the food etc.
Talking on a cell phone can be obnoxious, making other paying customers enjoy their experience less. It's a bit like using a cell phone in a movie theatre, though less dramatic.
If nothing else, the fireworks from this should be interesting because people love to get all pissed off over nothing. I wish them the best of luck anyway. ;-)
Actually most people didn't know. The only place where they actually sold any units worth anything was Japan.
I do believe if Apple tried at a console again, there in a large chance it would be kick-ass like you said earlier. A lot has changed since the Pippin came out. I think one of the largest factors would be Steve now at the helm.
My mind isn't working 100% right now from lack of caffeine, so I'm just going to give you the link for interesting reading to Apple's one and only game system, the Pippin.
Rounding back to my question, after a bit of thinking I've concluded iWorks and OpenOffice probably are advertising Microsoft OOXML compatibility and not ISO OOMXL compatibility.
You say only, but weren't the the fundamentalists and conservatives the ones who helped Bush get elected twice? I think they may be a larger group than you are giving them credit. Don't under estimate your enemy :-p
Anyway, I don't believe that people against cloning are restricted to just those two groups. The fundamentalists and conservatives are just the most verbal about it.
-For example, someone could be against cloning/gene choosing because it shows the fickleness and shallowness of society, ranking up with using plastic surgery to get the perfect bod. (No, I'm talking about cosmetic surgery for improving the body, not fixing up burn victims etc.)
-I am sure that there will be people who would make some kind of "have and have nots" argument. Only rich people can afford the technology. The gap between the rich and the poor becomes larger.
-More "racial" turmoil that our society really doesn't need. "No one and compete with the super geniuses!" Worst case senario, Jeffersons 'We Hold the Wolf by the Ears' quote finds a new use.
I do think this technology is going to be coming around whether we like it or not. But I think public acceptance will be slow. Plastic surgery is making people think of their body as something that is changable, as is donor organs. When scientists are able to grow organs such as eyes in different colors, the line will further be moved. People will start to think, "if I can change my eye color in surgery, it's no big deal to choose the genetic color of my son's eyes. He can change they later anyway."
You hit the nail on the head. Reading does a lot to improve general language skills. But the 1500 characters + their 2 or 3 readings and where to apply those readings is daunting to most people.
You apparently missed the memo. It's no longer 1337 to just know how to program with ruby on rails. You have to make sure your commments in Japanese now too. 2chan and 4chan and 8chan and 16chan and 32chan... + ...ichan will just come naturally.
Generally it's a good idea to look at the past to get some ideas on what might happen in the future. I haven't seen anything written in your posts that make me think you have done this. I have been trying to get you to tell me why things are different this time. Not that I think you are right or wrong.
Apple has diversified their portfolio since the 90s, and have a fair amount of cushion room from the iPod, iPhone, and Mac OS X's popularity etc. If Apple was going to open up Mac OS X to generic X86 hardware, it might actually work out well this time. The sales of Mac OS X to people with generic hardware would probably offset the losses in Apple hardware just because of the change of scale.
*If* these hackintosh sales started to take off, Apple would simply outdesign them - as they have done with MP3 players since the dawn of the iPod.The Macintosh clones of the 90s also looked a lot less impressive than real PowerMacs. "In terms of exterior styling, Mac clones often more closely resembled generic PCs than their Macintosh counterparts, but they frequently offered better performance at a lower price than true Macs." as written on wikipedia.
Realistically why should Apple worry about these wind tunnel hacks? It's not like people have not had the ability for years now to put OS X on better PC hardware of their own construction.Wind tunnel hacks are not the most difficult technical hurdle in the world. I could see that issue disappearing in a revision or two. You need to look more longterm.
It's not like people have not had the ability for years now to put OS X on better PC hardware of their own construction.Yes, but Psystar is preinstalling it and officially supporting it, in essence bringing what was hobbyist only to the masses.
Actually, the real question is why isn't implementing it trivial? It shouldn't take that long. OOXML is based off of their own existing format after all. Given that time frame, Openoffice.org and iWorks will have support for OOXML way before Microsoft Office.
Actually, the real question is why isn't implementing it trivial? It shouldn't take that long. OOXML is based off of their own existing format after all.
That's because a lot of packages depend on Firefox. When you switch versions around haphazardly you run into bugs and binary incompatibility. If you look at older Ubuntu released for example, they don't usually backport firefox.
Apple supposedly makes the bulk of its money on hardware. If Apple's profits start falling like the the Macintosh Clone period, they will be force do something drastic, if only because the investors force them to. So pick your poison.
No sueing, but he definitely has the right to complain. Maybe even grumble. Hell, I have heard that Linux has complained about having ever released his code under the gpl license.
If Psystar was remotely smart, though, they should probably be trying to hire him to help with Mac OS X compatibility updates. It would put a valuable coder on their side, and their consciences wouldn't smack them as much.
But honestly, I could see Apple, * Starting to use serial numbers, annoying the user.
* Selling "upgrade only" discs, annoying the user (and what do you do on a new HD?)
* Stopping all sales of OS upgrades
* Doing anything at all if their bottom line starts to really be affected. It's that simple. The question is, what is that crossing point, and how does OS sales in place of hypothetical hardware sales move this crossing point?