So they want to look at competitor's source code? Like they did with Quicktime a few years back? Lets hope they don't accidentally Copy and Paste it into one of their projects like they did the last time.
The thing to do is go to the directory it sets up in tmp either rename it or move the files elsewere. Clicking on ok deletes the temporay directory empty or not. Remember the installer is set up for the NEWBIE not the guru.
That is what we call unacceptable default behavior, and is not the way you show off how well your Desktop Environment works. It would be like Windows wiping your HD after your CD burner makes a coaster.
I spent over 7 hours downloading the update over a 56K modem, only to have the installer tell me I didn't have enough room to install it all.
No problem, I thought.
Trashed some game demos and came back to install it again. Too bad it decided that I never would have enough disk space and deleted every file I downloaded.
Now I am sticking with KDE for good.
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This is the kind of attitude that keeps people (ie: software makers) away from open source. If you wonder why Aqua is not part of Darwin, don't look any further than this person's post.
There never were any "true" clones as in the x86 world. They were simply repackaged Macs.
Apple motherboards, Apple ROMs, etc. Which had to go to Apple for quality assurance testing and extensive compatibility screenings. The only custom designed parts were the cases.
They were cancled in 1997, which at the last time I checked, was not last year. Please get your facts straight before you go off on a clueless rant.
The Apple UI and Human Interface dudes found this to be the most intuitive, or so I read somewhere. It's like the traffic lights, green, yellow red, that sort of stuff.
The HI department was sacked when Steve returned in 1997. Apparently only 10 people (according to him) knew what Aqua looked like. Which maintained security , but may have had an unpleasent effect on the design quality.
Given the well known limitations of X11, esp. wrt to antialiasing, opening Quartz would be a much greater gift to the community than Aqua which is just another, albeit pretty, set of interface elements. I suspect that the real roadblock in opening Quartz is not Apple but, rather, Adobe which maintains a pretty tight leash on PostScript (for good reason).
First of all, what would Apple gain by open sourcing Quartz? Absolutely nothing. What would they stand to lose?
A lot.
Secondly, Quartz does not use PostScript. Its display system is based on PDF.
Is it even worth it to start an online business anymore? It seems to me at least, that since the recent "correction" on Wall Street coupled with other factors, it doesn't make any business sense.
You are either going to
- Run out of money
- Get sued into the ground for a blatantly obvious core feature of your business. Years after it has been implemented. (OneClick, etc)
- Run out of money - Get lost in the shuffle. For example, in a recent Newsweek, (or was it US News?) magazine. Prominent members of the internet porn industry basically said it wasn't possible for a startup to be noticed anymore.
It seems to be true in all facets of ecommerce these days. If you didn't make a big splash in the early days of the web, or you don't have a brick-and-mortar infasrtucture, there is little chance you can actually hope to succeed.
- Did I mention run out of money?
If you didn't cash in on your IPO when you had the chance, it may be too late. A vast number of sites are going to be out of business within a year. Not Dell or Apple, but the smaller, newer sites that either had their IPO and are trying to justify it ex post facto or the unfortunate ones who relied on private capitol, who are even worse off.
Up till now, there hasn't been a need to bring in revenue. This has been one of the few times in recent memory that you could run a great business without having to actually make any money. At least one site I know of doesn't do anything, and isn't planning on it but their stock has been quite healthy.
The big wave finally broke, and now it is rolling back. The question is, was it worth it, and is it worth it to even try anymore?
What if you took SimCity, removed all the humor and wit of the existing versions. Put it together at the last minute into a bloated,sterile and utterly funless game that is a insult to every other incarnation.
Mac OS X uses XML as the standard format for all its configuration files. Which is in my opinion, a wonderful development. I hope it catches on elsewhere. Using Linux, I despise having programmers use many different formats. Jumping between them is incredibly annoying, trying to recenter yourself everytime. "Why isn't this WORKING! Oh yeah, that's how it's done in the other app!"
After this series has served its time...uhhh, I mean run its course The Powers That Be will of course, want to milk the Trek Franchise again. My idea is a new show entitled:
The End Of The Federation
Where high powered leaders overextend the Federation to the point where nobody takes it seriously and the population desperately thinks back to the glory days, that are now just out of reach. A place once so real, that now exists only in the memories of dejected, disillusioned supporters, all over the galaxy.
...is a Star Trek series about the Maquis. IMHO, they are a much cooler aspect because you have that whole "fighting uphill battle against impossible odds" things working for you. (A la Star Wars, rebels versus Empire).
There was a Voyager episode on a few years back where the Doctor was transported to the Beta Quadrant after Voyager hacked into a communications net.
Anyway, he was updated on the current Dominion war and other important news. After he cam back, Chakotay had to go around to the various ex-Maquis crew members to tell them that All the Maquis were killed after the Dominion takeover of Cardassia.
Yah, I know noone will probably read this comment, but your comment about the clone makers not having any R&D is kinda hypocritical. Apple _refused_ to license the MacOS for anything besides an Apple- licensed motherboard. During the second phase of cloning, the clone companies were going to be allowed to make their own designs, but it was at that point, after they spent the money but before they got the license, that the clones were "steved."
That is true, but you are leaving out the fact one of Apple's top priorities was compatibility. It wanted to avoid all the pitfalls associated with PC clones, and provide a mesure of assurance that serious problems in this area would not occur.
Therefore, they put a hell of a lot of hardware abstraction into Copland. the OS started to shed modern features for compatibity. I believe the second part of the cloning arrangment was based on the assumption that Copland would be around. Which as we all know, it wasn't.
Apple was being killed by the competition, which up to this point, it was financing. It didn't have any way to assure compatibility and was ready to lose everything it had left.
I have a lot of respect for BeOS technically. As for Gasse, however, I've never heard anything really positive about him. While Jobs isn't exactly the greatest in the 'openness' department, Gasse was the single-handed mastermind behind the closed, proprietary Mac of the late 1980s.
You've summed up my feelings about the situation exactly.
When Scully told Jobs that there was no way he would sell the first Mac for $1299, he added that in a few years, they would be charging $10,000 per Mac!
And they did......and paid for it dearly. Guess who was backing up Scully all the way?
Our old friend Jean Louis.
The story goes he later tipped off Scully that Jobs was (naturally) planning to kick him out. Scully turned the tables on him and organized boardroom coup. Jobs left, made a machine that was everything the Mac should have been and sold it for $10,000. While Scully and his crew were putting out OK boxes for the same price and turning down clone offers from Andy Grove, back when it actually would have worked.
Later, when Jobs came back, after years of shoddy products, he directed Apple to put out a Mac that was considered by many to be a perfect homage to the first one in form and spirit. The price.....$1299.
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So they want to look at competitor's source code? Like they did with Quicktime a few years back? Lets hope they don't accidentally Copy and Paste it into one of their projects like they did the last time.
That is what we call unacceptable default behavior, and is not the way you show off how well your Desktop Environment works. It would be like Windows wiping your HD after your CD burner makes a coaster.
I spent over 7 hours downloading the update over a 56K modem, only to have the installer tell me I didn't have enough room to install it all.
No problem, I thought.
Trashed some game demos and came back to install it again. Too bad it decided that I never would have enough disk space and deleted every file I downloaded.
Now I am sticking with KDE for good.
This is the kind of attitude that keeps people (ie: software makers) away from open source. If you wonder why Aqua is not part of Darwin, don't look any further than this person's post.
There never were any "true" clones as in the x86 world. They were simply repackaged Macs.
Apple motherboards, Apple ROMs, etc. Which had to go to Apple for quality assurance testing and extensive compatibility screenings. The only custom designed parts were the cases.
They were cancled in 1997, which at the last time I checked, was not last year. Please get your facts straight before you go off on a clueless rant.
Thank You.
What's the problem? My KDE dock can take far, far less.
First of all, what would Apple gain by open sourcing Quartz? Absolutely nothing. What would they stand to lose?
A lot.
Secondly, Quartz does not use PostScript. Its display system is based on PDF.
A port to OS X wouldn't make it easier to port to a 'nix OS. The game would probably use Carbon which is a juiced-up MacOS Toolbox API.
They can't give out the codec, they do not own it. Sorenson does.
Is it even worth it to start an online business anymore? It seems to me at least, that since the recent "correction" on Wall Street coupled with other factors, it doesn't make any business sense.
You are either going to
- Run out of money
- Get sued into the ground for a blatantly obvious core feature of your business. Years after it has been implemented. (OneClick, etc)
- Run out of money
- Get lost in the shuffle. For example, in a recent Newsweek, (or was it US News?) magazine. Prominent members of the internet porn industry basically said it wasn't possible for a startup to be noticed anymore.
It seems to be true in all facets of ecommerce these days. If you didn't make a big splash in the early days of the web, or you don't have a brick-and-mortar infasrtucture, there is little chance you can actually hope to succeed.
- Did I mention run out of money?
If you didn't cash in on your IPO when you had the chance, it may be too late. A vast number of sites are going to be out of business within a year. Not Dell or Apple, but the smaller, newer sites that either had their IPO and are trying to justify it ex post facto or the unfortunate ones who relied on private capitol, who are even worse off.
Up till now, there hasn't been a need to bring in revenue. This has been one of the few times in recent memory that you could run a great business without having to actually make any money. At least one site I know of doesn't do anything, and isn't planning on it but their stock has been quite healthy.
The big wave finally broke, and now it is rolling back. The question is, was it worth it, and is it worth it to even try anymore?
I once played an old DOS drug dealer game (circa 1993).
I was only 11 but I thought it was the shit. Anybody know what it was? You could deal drugs, go to a loan shark, etc.
What if you took SimCity, removed all the humor and wit of the existing versions. Put it together at the last minute into a bloated,sterile and utterly funless game that is a insult to every other incarnation.
I think you could call it SimCity 3000
Mac OS X uses XML as the standard format for all its configuration files. Which is in my opinion, a wonderful development. I hope it catches on elsewhere. Using Linux, I despise having programmers use many different formats. Jumping between them is incredibly annoying, trying to recenter yourself everytime. "Why isn't this WORKING! Oh yeah, that's how it's done in the other app!"
I would like to send out a thank you to all who corrected my post about Australia's past. I apologize for the inaccuracies.
Wasn't Australia a penal colony before it was a country? Back when it was known as Van Diemen's Land.
I assume "all Linux distros" to mean x86 only. Or am I just pessimistic?
Apple was just awarded some prize for being incredibly nice to the enviornment. While Steve Jobs has been hosting campagn dinners for Mrs. Clinton
On the GOP side Geroge W. Bush (a.k.a shill for Microsoft) got a big chunk of change from Dell.
After this series has served its time...uhhh, I mean run its course The Powers That Be will of course, want to milk the Trek Franchise again. My idea is a new show entitled:
The End Of The Federation
Where high powered leaders overextend the Federation to the point where nobody takes it seriously and the population desperately thinks back to the glory days, that are now just out of reach. A place once so real, that now exists only in the memories of dejected, disillusioned supporters, all over the galaxy.
There was a Voyager episode on a few years back where the Doctor was transported to the Beta Quadrant after Voyager hacked into a communications net.
Anyway, he was updated on the current Dominion war and other important news. After he cam back, Chakotay had to go around to the various ex-Maquis crew members to tell them that All the Maquis were killed after the Dominion takeover of Cardassia.
G3! Guess Steve Jobs is taking all the G4s for himself.
I think it is about time they got around to writing a Mac version.
Phuleeezee?
If I recall correctly, PDF is a published spec, like IEEE 1394 for example, which can be used somewhat openly.
Therefore, they put a hell of a lot of hardware abstraction into Copland. the OS started to shed modern features for compatibity. I believe the second part of the cloning arrangment was based on the assumption that Copland would be around. Which as we all know, it wasn't.
Apple was being killed by the competition, which up to this point, it was financing. It didn't have any way to assure compatibility and was ready to lose everything it had left.
So clones were rightfully "Steved".
You've summed up my feelings about the situation exactly.
When Scully told Jobs that there was no way he would sell the first Mac for $1299, he added that in a few years, they would be charging $10,000 per Mac!
And they did......and paid for it dearly. Guess who was backing up Scully all the way?
Our old friend Jean Louis.
The story goes he later tipped off Scully that Jobs was (naturally) planning to kick him out. Scully turned the tables on him and organized boardroom coup. Jobs left, made a machine that was everything the Mac should have been and sold it for $10,000. While Scully and his crew were putting out OK boxes for the same price and turning down clone offers from Andy Grove, back when it actually would have worked.
Later, when Jobs came back, after years of shoddy products, he directed Apple to put out a Mac that was considered by many to be a perfect homage to the first one in form and spirit. The price.....$1299.