You could do that in NEXTSTEP. In Preferences.app, there was a big list of all possible menu commands in all programs, and you could change them to suit your preferences. So "Group" was the same in all of your graphics programs, and "Left justify" was consistent in your text editors. Great OS, that NEXTSTEP.
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Not to worry--most Britons don't see the light of day, either! =)
They released the Darwin sources. They didn't encourage people to port it to x86, the community did that.
There were in-house builds of OS X confirmed up to last year. There's no reason to think that they couldn't have OS X on x86 if they wanted to (with a good bit of debugging, sure, but not with major re-implementation.)
Remember -- the OpenStep libraries are all cross-platform. The Yellow Box ran on Windows. Rhapsody had x86 versions. For a while, they were going to market it for both platforms.
Adequate column? The words barely fit together. It's amazing how they'll give anyone with a big ego and a keyboard a column somewhere these days. The rest of the column was total crap, and most of the background info was either wrong, slightly wrong, distorted, or in such jumbled language that it might as well have been wrong.
It's highly discouraging to see completely mediocre people, such as her (I'm guessing it's a her, with a name like Hiawatha,) have the gall to be expected to be taken seriously, then are!
Not quite -- IE for OS X is a Carbon app, which means that it uses updated versions of the old Mac OS toolbox routines. It's still more of a Macintosh program than a Unix one.
Now OmniWeb...that's a browser for Unix (with the Cocoa frameworks, of course.)
It's the brain-dead "news at six" types and the PC magazines with their "is this going to kill MS?" articles that cause people to go "ooh, lie-nux, that must be cool. I know the name, now I'm in touch."
They've never heard of Unix, or they know it as a shadowy force, lurking in the shadows that they'll have to deal with some day, but are glad that that day isn't today.
Try and explain that Linux is like Unix (and isn't actually Unix,) and they'll go into brain-shutdown mode.
And then they'd go plumb out of business. Remember, in the real world, businesses need to sell _something._
I'm a fan of Open Source, but I'm not a fan of most OS warriors. They strike me as the most selfish, narrow-minded people I have ever encountered. "It doesn't matter unless we can get the source and i can compile it and have it on my box right now. Your livelihood be damned." Do you honestly think that that's an effective way to have the world work?
I don't know how RMS gets money to eat, but I'm sure the thousands of Apple/Novell/etc. employees probably won't be able to follow in his footsteps.
It's one thing to be a monk, it's another thing to expect the rest of the world to eat shit for your ideals with you. And it's even worse to deride them for their lack of faith.
The QuickTime file format is completely documented. The coded does not belong to Apple. You can play QuickTime movies in xanim to your heart's content.
The boot rom is actually all Open Firmware. How else do you think Yellow Dog Linux, and all of those other PPC linuxes work? They aren't MacOS, as far as I can tell.
Do check your facts before pressing the 'flame' button.
You've missed the point -- Apple had an x86 version of OS X. It will never be released because Apple is a hardware company. They make their money off of sexy, translucent boxes, not sexy, translucent dialog boxes. That's why you'll never see an x86 OS X (with Aqua and the rest of the show.)
I think it's a case of exigent circumstances. People's lives could have been seriously impacted, the judge didn't know where the lies began or ended, so he took action that he knew would resolve the situation. Further investigation (already delayed by the DOI) would have left people at risk for further. This doesn't leave room for the errors that could harm people that were possible in any other plan.
Correct. It's the DOI's fault. They've been untruthful and obfuscatory from the beginning. The judge had no way of knowing what they said was true, and all he had to go on was the word of the DOI. Rather than let another opportunity to make things right slip through the cracks, the judge acted broadly and put an end to the problem.
The attentive reader will note that Mr. Jackson suffered one of his most serious historical black eyes following that quote. I hope in this day of 24 hour news, no president would make such a logistical blunder.
Of course, we are talking about the folks who dusted off the Star Chamber and wrapped it in our paranoia. So disregard what I wrote. Time for the aluminum beanies.
That's the fault of DOI, not the judge. How does he know how crappily the thing is put together? It would have been reasonable (though probably not legal) to fire the whole IT staff, as well. Shutting the whole shebang down isn't as rash as I'm sure he wanted to be.
Precisely! Playing a game! Few things annoy me more than the lame term "gaming." "Playing games" didn't sound important enough, so people coined the term "gaming." I don't play games, I game. It's just one step on the path toward legitimizing a big waste of time.
I dunno...it seems like a big leap. I'm sure there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I'd take most speculation with a grain of salt. Or two.
All the bitmaps -- all of the animation. It's horrible! It's a complete sensory overload.
Aqua probably uses more bitmaps and animation than does E (maybe,) but Apple has implemented it in such a way that they make the interface _less_ obvious. And that's what it's all about.
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Have you ever used it, or did the thought from which this came go whizzing out of your head as quickly as it came whizzing in?
You could do that in NEXTSTEP. In Preferences.app, there was a big list of all possible menu commands in all programs, and you could change them to suit your preferences. So "Group" was the same in all of your graphics programs, and "Left justify" was consistent in your text editors. Great OS, that NEXTSTEP.
Not to worry--most Britons don't see the light of day, either! =)
They released the Darwin sources. They didn't encourage people to port it to x86, the community did that.
There were in-house builds of OS X confirmed up to last year. There's no reason to think that they couldn't have OS X on x86 if they wanted to (with a good bit of debugging, sure, but not with major re-implementation.)
Remember -- the OpenStep libraries are all cross-platform. The Yellow Box ran on Windows. Rhapsody had x86 versions. For a while, they were going to market it for both platforms.
You're right -- the total is actually 3672. What's that?
Adequate column? The words barely fit together. It's amazing how they'll give anyone with a big ego and a keyboard a column somewhere these days. The rest of the column was total crap, and most of the background info was either wrong, slightly wrong, distorted, or in such jumbled language that it might as well have been wrong.
It's highly discouraging to see completely mediocre people, such as her (I'm guessing it's a her, with a name like Hiawatha,) have the gall to be expected to be taken seriously, then are!
Not quite -- IE for OS X is a Carbon app, which means that it uses updated versions of the old Mac OS toolbox routines. It's still more of a Macintosh program than a Unix one.
Now OmniWeb...that's a browser for Unix (with the Cocoa frameworks, of course.)
It's the brain-dead "news at six" types and the PC magazines with their "is this going to kill MS?" articles that cause people to go "ooh, lie-nux, that must be cool. I know the name, now I'm in touch."
They've never heard of Unix, or they know it as a shadowy force, lurking in the shadows that they'll have to deal with some day, but are glad that that day isn't today.
Try and explain that Linux is like Unix (and isn't actually Unix,) and they'll go into brain-shutdown mode.
And then they'd go plumb out of business. Remember, in the real world, businesses need to sell _something._
I'm a fan of Open Source, but I'm not a fan of most OS warriors. They strike me as the most selfish, narrow-minded people I have ever encountered. "It doesn't matter unless we can get the source and i can compile it and have it on my box right now. Your livelihood be damned." Do you honestly think that that's an effective way to have the world work?
I don't know how RMS gets money to eat, but I'm sure the thousands of Apple/Novell/etc. employees probably won't be able to follow in his footsteps.
It's one thing to be a monk, it's another thing to expect the rest of the world to eat shit for your ideals with you. And it's even worse to deride them for their lack of faith.
The QuickTime file format is completely documented. The coded does not belong to Apple. You can play QuickTime movies in xanim to your heart's content.
The boot rom is actually all Open Firmware. How else do you think Yellow Dog Linux, and all of those other PPC linuxes work? They aren't MacOS, as far as I can tell.
Do check your facts before pressing the 'flame' button.
You've missed the point -- Apple had an x86 version of OS X. It will never be released because Apple is a hardware company. They make their money off of sexy, translucent boxes, not sexy, translucent dialog boxes. That's why you'll never see an x86 OS X (with Aqua and the rest of the show.)
It was a joke.
You know, ha ha. Not serious, etc.
Well, I think we'll learn that lions find kangaroos very, very tasty =)
I think it's a case of exigent circumstances. People's lives could have been seriously impacted, the judge didn't know where the lies began or ended, so he took action that he knew would resolve the situation. Further investigation (already delayed by the DOI) would have left people at risk for further. This doesn't leave room for the errors that could harm people that were possible in any other plan.
Correct. It's the DOI's fault. They've been untruthful and obfuscatory from the beginning. The judge had no way of knowing what they said was true, and all he had to go on was the word of the DOI. Rather than let another opportunity to make things right slip through the cracks, the judge acted broadly and put an end to the problem.
The attentive reader will note that Mr. Jackson suffered one of his most serious historical black eyes following that quote. I hope in this day of 24 hour news, no president would make such a logistical blunder.
Of course, we are talking about the folks who dusted off the Star Chamber and wrapped it in our paranoia. So disregard what I wrote. Time for the aluminum beanies.
That's the fault of DOI, not the judge. How does he know how crappily the thing is put together? It would have been reasonable (though probably not legal) to fire the whole IT staff, as well. Shutting the whole shebang down isn't as rash as I'm sure he wanted to be.
You, sir, ar a strange cookie.
That's not funny, that's sad.
Precisely! Playing a game! Few things annoy me more than the lame term "gaming." "Playing games" didn't sound important enough, so people coined the term "gaming." I don't play games, I game. It's just one step on the path toward legitimizing a big waste of time.
I dunno...it seems like a big leap. I'm sure there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I'd take most speculation with a grain of salt. Or two.
Osama bin Laden?
What would they want to do that for? They already have a BSD-based Mac OS. They have no incentive to change, whatsoever.
Things don't have to be linux to be good.
"You see, MIcrosoft requires that Apple not make QuickTime
for Linux; otherwise they will pull Explorer and Office for
the Mac."
That's a pretty bold claim -- do you have any evidence or a citation to back that up?
All the bitmaps -- all of the animation. It's horrible! It's a complete sensory overload.
Aqua probably uses more bitmaps and animation than does E (maybe,) but Apple has implemented it in such a way that they make the interface _less_ obvious. And that's what it's all about.