Even if an app feels like a windows app while running on a mac, the fact that it does run on the mac is sufficient to prevent platform lock-in. Making the app behave like a mac native app is almost literally icing on the cake.
An ugly tool is better than a tool that won't work.
I don't know of any programmer that is unwilling to move on to a different language. I am pretty sure that is not what is holding things back.
No matter how much programmers hate COBOL, it will stick around until all mission-critical software is rewritten in a different language. That will not happen until it makes economic sense for corporations to replace their critical systems. For the forseeable future, repairing or replacing the hardware will be simpler and cheaper than rewriting the software.
This is why you don't see people burning their cars intentionally on the streets when they buy new ones.
No, it isn't. People refrain from burning their old cars because they still have value as a vehicle or for resale or scrapping. Burning your old car is the least economically sensible option, and that is why the practice is unheard of.
Environmental laws only come into the picture after the car owner has abandoned the concept of rational self-interest.
Supporting PPC would not come close to doubling the time or manpower needed for QA. Adobe would have to keep several PPC macs around, but any testing that is already automated could be done in parallel with the intel macs. The time or mapower needed for interactive testing would indeed double, but that has to already be a fairly small part of the QA budget. Apple has tried very hard to make it easy to make universal binaries, and a company the size of Adobe would not notice the extra cost of producing universal apps.
Given that the migration of pro apps to intel has been slow, Adobe can almost certainly continue to profit from supporting PPC.
Halo 2's ending was far better than Pirates 2. Getting to the end of Pirates almost made me wish I went fishing instead of watching it on the opening day. Getting to the end of Halo 2 made me glad that they had stopped dragging out the second half of the game with endless identical hallways. Halo 2 was actually more satisfying, and I felt like the sequel might have good stuff in it. I expect the only good things in Pirates 3 to be the music.
Apple is gaining market share, especially for laptops. That means that they are currently doing well, even though they have historically done a bad job at competing with windows.
This case is odd in that the price most consumers are willing to pay is well below the cost of the item. The laws of supply and demand doomed this situation to fail from the start. If you aren't willing to pay at least cost for an item, economics says you don't get one. People are only getting PS3s because Sony is not acting entirely rationally.
Anybody who buys a PS3 could also buy it for twice the price without going into poverty. Scalping is simply a matter of companies not reacting to supply and demand changes. Sony could have sold PS3s at a profit for the first week, but then too many people would have realized how ridiculous the whole console market is right now. Rather than sell the PS3 at the fair market value, Sony chose to sell it at a constant (lower) price, in the hopes that they would profit from sheer market share or something. They (Sony) are now in the process of failing to make the PS3 a success.
My local CompUSA has been selling macs for years. The apple section makes up almost a quarter of the store. CompUSA has continued to sell macs and mac software despite the presence of two apple storesin the area. Apple is obviously competing well with microsoft.
Most holes found in windows lead to an exploit that can be used to rootkit the machine using any microsoft app as the point of entry. Almost all holes in windows are gaping holes. It seems like any bug in the GUI libraries opens up the whole machine. When is the last time a jpeg rebooted or rooted your linux box?
Comparing to OpenBSD, which is still far more secure than any version of windows to date: On the list, there are only 26 applications that have been updated as a security fix. Four are webbrowsers (though really only based off of two engines). Five were common libraries, Five were reasonably common programs, and the rest were server apps. So somebody using OpenBSD 4 as a substitute for windows would have needed to update at most 14 packages because of security problems, though in reality they probably would not be using a links-style browser.
The OpenBSD system would be far more secure than a windows desktop with office, ie, adobe and macromedia crap, and the other applications that are necessary to use windows.
Microsoft did put a lot of changes into XP SP2, but not enough to release it as a new OS version. From most user's perspective, the only new stuff was another thing to get in the way of Norton/McAfee tools, and another thing to get in the way of the wifi card's connection software. Some (but not many) users may have noticed the pop-up blocker. (Those would be the users who know what a pop-up is, but were still using IE without a pop-up blocker.)
They would not have been able to sell any boxed copies of the update, and they would still have had to face the constant criticism of the security problems inherent in Windows. Even today, Vista does not offer much of anything new to those who can't use Aero.
It would be easy to make GNUStep look like aqua. It could be made to look more aquaish than Vista. But that would probably piss off the apple legal team, which so far has played nice with GNUStep.
Getting the US off foreign oil doesn't necessarily improve national security.
In the short term, no. But in the long term, lowering the amount of money flowing into islamic theocracies will lower the amount of money going to islamic terrorists. The US truly is funding both sides of the "war on terror."
When all is said an done 911 didn't really do much to the US economically.
9/11 did have a big impact on the consumer's mindset, but it is hard to say what effects were from 9/11 and what was from the dot-com bust. Except, of course, for the effect on the airline industry (although that industry always sucks).
First, the comment about "getting it" was about GNUStep/Cocoa as a development platform, not just as a desktop. InterfaceBuilder was revolutionary when it was released, and most clones are not as good because the underlying apis are ill-suited to the task. Even today, Xcode/IB allows some really neat stuff that cannot be done easily on any other platform. Case in point: creating a simple web browser without writing a single line of code. That is 100% code reuse. Once you stop trying to write windows programs in cocoa, it really is easy.
Second, the look of the GUI is just superficial. Most of what you don't like can already be changed, and plenty of people are working to make themeing simpler. Mac-style menus are possible, but the window manager doesn't quite behave with them yet. I'm not sure where specifically you think scrolling is horizontal but should be vertical. Please elaborate on that one.
Right now, the biggest barrier to GNUStep having source-level compatibility with OS X programs is the build system - there is not a good replacment for xcodebuild. GNUStep recently added support for OS X nibs, so GUIs do not have to be rebuilt. As far as the actual source, GNUStep has all most of the important stuff, but it lacks things like quartz and coreaudio.
Source level compatibility is not a pipe dream by any means. Already, porting from OS X to GNUStep is fairly straightforward, with a few caveats. Porting from GNUStep to OS X is trivial.
I think the DoD deals with a lot of email. Being able to cut the size of email traffic in half will cause a major reduction of their server loads. The bottlenecks are not always at the client!
I was refering to windows 2d games in wine. Dos gaming is another story. No commercial VM or emulator is going to be improving its dos support anymore, so solutions like dosbox and bochs are the best you will get. Bochs does not seem to support gameport joysticks, but it does have every other feature that you have complained about. Adding the gameport support should not be hard. Also, complaining about a lousy user interface is pointless when you are trying to run DOS games!
I'm all in favor of extending the ban on receiving gifts. Currently, government employees are not allowed to be paid by any royalty or foreign country. That should be extended to include corporations, or at least foreign corporations (to hurt the companies with the hq in a tax shelter country).
What you are asking for is WINE with D3D support - and it already exists. Your 2d games probably work well enough as is. Writing a windows driver to do passthrough calls to AGL and Quartz from inside an emulator is much more complex.
The only good solution is for graphics chips to get hardware virtualization/multitasking features compareable to what the newer cpu's have.
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Even if an app feels like a windows app while running on a mac, the fact that it does run on the mac is sufficient to prevent platform lock-in. Making the app behave like a mac native app is almost literally icing on the cake.
An ugly tool is better than a tool that won't work.
I don't know of any programmer that is unwilling to move on to a different language. I am pretty sure that is not what is holding things back.
No matter how much programmers hate COBOL, it will stick around until all mission-critical software is rewritten in a different language. That will not happen until it makes economic sense for corporations to replace their critical systems. For the forseeable future, repairing or replacing the hardware will be simpler and cheaper than rewriting the software.
No, it isn't. People refrain from burning their old cars because they still have value as a vehicle or for resale or scrapping. Burning your old car is the least economically sensible option, and that is why the practice is unheard of.
Environmental laws only come into the picture after the car owner has abandoned the concept of rational self-interest.
Supporting PPC would not come close to doubling the time or manpower needed for QA. Adobe would have to keep several PPC macs around, but any testing that is already automated could be done in parallel with the intel macs. The time or mapower needed for interactive testing would indeed double, but that has to already be a fairly small part of the QA budget. Apple has tried very hard to make it easy to make universal binaries, and a company the size of Adobe would not notice the extra cost of producing universal apps.
Given that the migration of pro apps to intel has been slow, Adobe can almost certainly continue to profit from supporting PPC.
Halo 2's ending was far better than Pirates 2. Getting to the end of Pirates almost made me wish I went fishing instead of watching it on the opening day. Getting to the end of Halo 2 made me glad that they had stopped dragging out the second half of the game with endless identical hallways. Halo 2 was actually more satisfying, and I felt like the sequel might have good stuff in it. I expect the only good things in Pirates 3 to be the music.
I think that what is funny is the similarity to the situation right before Apple launched the ipod. Look how well that turned out.
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If the founding fathers had been cynical enough to write an explicit bill of responsibilities, they probably would never have started the revolution.
Apple is gaining market share, especially for laptops. That means that they are currently doing well, even though they have historically done a bad job at competing with windows.
This case is odd in that the price most consumers are willing to pay is well below the cost of the item. The laws of supply and demand doomed this situation to fail from the start. If you aren't willing to pay at least cost for an item, economics says you don't get one. People are only getting PS3s because Sony is not acting entirely rationally.
The socialist revolutions are almost always triggered by the rich putting artificial limitations on the poor's ability to work their way to the top.
Anybody who buys a PS3 could also buy it for twice the price without going into poverty. Scalping is simply a matter of companies not reacting to supply and demand changes. Sony could have sold PS3s at a profit for the first week, but then too many people would have realized how ridiculous the whole console market is right now. Rather than sell the PS3 at the fair market value, Sony chose to sell it at a constant (lower) price, in the hopes that they would profit from sheer market share or something. They (Sony) are now in the process of failing to make the PS3 a success.
My local CompUSA has been selling macs for years. The apple section makes up almost a quarter of the store. CompUSA has continued to sell macs and mac software despite the presence of two apple storesin the area. Apple is obviously competing well with microsoft.
Most holes found in windows lead to an exploit that can be used to rootkit the machine using any microsoft app as the point of entry. Almost all holes in windows are gaping holes. It seems like any bug in the GUI libraries opens up the whole machine. When is the last time a jpeg rebooted or rooted your linux box?
Comparing to OpenBSD, which is still far more secure than any version of windows to date: On the list, there are only 26 applications that have been updated as a security fix. Four are webbrowsers (though really only based off of two engines). Five were common libraries, Five were reasonably common programs, and the rest were server apps. So somebody using OpenBSD 4 as a substitute for windows would have needed to update at most 14 packages because of security problems, though in reality they probably would not be using a links-style browser.
The OpenBSD system would be far more secure than a windows desktop with office, ie, adobe and macromedia crap, and the other applications that are necessary to use windows.
Microsoft did put a lot of changes into XP SP2, but not enough to release it as a new OS version. From most user's perspective, the only new stuff was another thing to get in the way of Norton/McAfee tools, and another thing to get in the way of the wifi card's connection software. Some (but not many) users may have noticed the pop-up blocker. (Those would be the users who know what a pop-up is, but were still using IE without a pop-up blocker.)
They would not have been able to sell any boxed copies of the update, and they would still have had to face the constant criticism of the security problems inherent in Windows. Even today, Vista does not offer much of anything new to those who can't use Aero.
DEFCON works in CrossOver Mac.
It would be easy to make GNUStep look like aqua. It could be made to look more aquaish than Vista. But that would probably piss off the apple legal team, which so far has played nice with GNUStep.
I've used it. It is good, but it is not ready to be advertised as the way to migrate an xcode project to GNUStep.
In the short term, no. But in the long term, lowering the amount of money flowing into islamic theocracies will lower the amount of money going to islamic terrorists. The US truly is funding both sides of the "war on terror."
9/11 did have a big impact on the consumer's mindset, but it is hard to say what effects were from 9/11 and what was from the dot-com bust. Except, of course, for the effect on the airline industry (although that industry always sucks).
First, the comment about "getting it" was about GNUStep/Cocoa as a development platform, not just as a desktop. InterfaceBuilder was revolutionary when it was released, and most clones are not as good because the underlying apis are ill-suited to the task. Even today, Xcode/IB allows some really neat stuff that cannot be done easily on any other platform. Case in point: creating a simple web browser without writing a single line of code. That is 100% code reuse. Once you stop trying to write windows programs in cocoa, it really is easy.
Second, the look of the GUI is just superficial. Most of what you don't like can already be changed, and plenty of people are working to make themeing simpler. Mac-style menus are possible, but the window manager doesn't quite behave with them yet. I'm not sure where specifically you think scrolling is horizontal but should be vertical. Please elaborate on that one.
Right now, the biggest barrier to GNUStep having source-level compatibility with OS X programs is the build system - there is not a good replacment for xcodebuild. GNUStep recently added support for OS X nibs, so GUIs do not have to be rebuilt. As far as the actual source, GNUStep has all most of the important stuff, but it lacks things like quartz and coreaudio.
Source level compatibility is not a pipe dream by any means. Already, porting from OS X to GNUStep is fairly straightforward, with a few caveats. Porting from GNUStep to OS X is trivial.
I think the DoD deals with a lot of email. Being able to cut the size of email traffic in half will cause a major reduction of their server loads. The bottlenecks are not always at the client!
I was refering to windows 2d games in wine. Dos gaming is another story. No commercial VM or emulator is going to be improving its dos support anymore, so solutions like dosbox and bochs are the best you will get. Bochs does not seem to support gameport joysticks, but it does have every other feature that you have complained about. Adding the gameport support should not be hard. Also, complaining about a lousy user interface is pointless when you are trying to run DOS games!
I'm all in favor of extending the ban on receiving gifts. Currently, government employees are not allowed to be paid by any royalty or foreign country. That should be extended to include corporations, or at least foreign corporations (to hurt the companies with the hq in a tax shelter country).
What you are asking for is WINE with D3D support - and it already exists. Your 2d games probably work well enough as is. Writing a windows driver to do passthrough calls to AGL and Quartz from inside an emulator is much more complex.
The only good solution is for graphics chips to get hardware virtualization/multitasking features compareable to what the newer cpu's have.
No. The corporate death penalty is just severely out of favor with the current US legal system.