This feature is in place to save the hardware, by using it the way this app wants us to it will end up costing hardware. Harddrives, drops and what not. I don't think Apple or any other Company had this in mind when they designed the thing.
They could just as well take it away again and see a drop in failed hardware.
Except that "buying" from itms isn't like buying something from the store. You can't resell it, it goes in your grave when you die. You can't play it as you like. With the terms offerd buy itms today you might as well rent because the music you buy digitally certanly isn't in anyway yours.
From some resarch it seems iBrowse on amiga was tabbed at april 1999, A year ahead of Opera. Don't really now about NetCaptor. From what I could find I think NetCaptor was released at january 3 1998 with tabs from the beginning.
As long as you keep giving Apple money for updates, yes. Remember, OS X from 2001 is not updated even for security issues but windows 98 still is.
Enough deployment of a non secured OS and it will lead to problems even if it's a Mac. Apple does get away with not securing their old OSes only because they are not widely deployed.
If I buy a Mac today, who knows if I get updates 3 years from now?
Why use Linux instead of OS X you say? I don't have time to learn another *nix which will probably be dead and burried in 10 years. The only healthy *nixes today are the free ones.
I tried it in Linux and I don't know what you mean, I cranked everything up and to me it's as smooth as it should be. Don't know how to benchmark but from the looks it's constant over 70fps (Can't see any higer:).
Why do Europeans allow a non-elected commission to determine economic policy?
The Euuropean union is a young and a very fastmoving project. I believe very few europeans know what the parlament actully do and what the commission do. I'm a swede and very seldom we get to vote, there is close to zero follow-up on the people we vote on in the media and frankly we don't know what they do. I don't think democracy is one of the strengths of the EU right now. Maybe in the future.
and is a better GUI than any of those. Kind of makes you wonder how important crap like themes really are.
It also makes us wonder what kind of taste you have. Mac OS X looks like shit. There are themes like Aqua for both Gnome and KDE and very few uses them. If OS X where skinable 90% of the users would go for something less vulgar.
For viewing I use gpdf and for creating I just use ps2pdf. Openoffice can savi in postscript and then just convert to pdfwith ps2pdf. From my somewhat limited experience I have not yet encounterd a single problem.
I'm sure your current doctor has never given away a copyrighted computer program to someone. I'm sure nobody else you know have done that either. Are you living in a deep forest or something.
OS X and quartz is no standard, it runs on one architecture and one OS only. This is meant for all the other OS:es who needs good visuals. Apple puts their mony on qartz, all other unix companies on this. Lets se who wins, whall we.
I don't think you are correct at all. What we do not want however is incompatible file formats and nasty DRM schemes. Something thats is close to synonymous to closed source software but don't exist at all in open source sofware.
Sure, Apple could bring iTunes to linux but few would use it, not because it's closed source but because it's proprietary and full of DRM.
Yes you are correct, except there are no (or only a few) drivers for OpenGL. The best driver today for Linux, possibly the only really good driver are nvidias and thats only x86 and it's not OSS. OSS is not about vendor/architecture lockin so that driver doesn't count except for some short time pleasure like doom 3.
If there where no open drivers for things like video TIVO may never have happened (or they would have used windows) because they couldn't get a licencing deal with nvidia. Even if they could licence the software they probably would have to go x86 which may not be the best route for all appliances that need good video. The more closed source requirements we put on developers and vendors the harder it is to enter a market using Linux or other OSS as base.
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The underlying libraries on OS X is still closed source so no matter how you flip the coin everything you run is part closed source.
This feature is in place to save the hardware, by using it the way this app wants us to it will end up costing hardware. Harddrives, drops and what not. I don't think Apple or any other Company had this in mind when they designed the thing.
They could just as well take it away again and see a drop in failed hardware.
Except that "buying" from itms isn't like buying something from the store. You can't resell it, it goes in your grave when you die. You can't play it as you like. With the terms offerd buy itms today you might as well rent because the music you buy digitally certanly isn't in anyway yours.
From some resarch it seems iBrowse on amiga was tabbed at april 1999, A year ahead of Opera. Don't really now about NetCaptor. From what I could find I think NetCaptor was released at january 3 1998 with tabs from the beginning.
In other words if you bought a Mac more than 2.5 years ago you don't get security updates. Thats not exactly a great security policy.
This article says otherwise... Guess I read to much news?
Microsoft Extends Win 98 Support
As long as you keep giving Apple money for updates, yes. Remember, OS X from 2001 is not updated even for security issues but windows 98 still is.
Enough deployment of a non secured OS and it will lead to problems even if it's a Mac. Apple does get away with not securing their old OSes only because they are not widely deployed.
If I buy a Mac today, who knows if I get updates 3 years from now?
network communications,
I think it's safe to asume a packet didn't got lost 1970 to suddenly appear 2038.
Possibly because wxWidets aren't stable on gtk2?
Why use Linux instead of OS X you say? I don't have time to learn another *nix which will probably be dead and burried in 10 years. The only healthy *nixes today are the free ones.
I tried it in Linux and I don't know what you mean, I cranked everything up and to me it's as smooth as it should be. Don't know how to benchmark but from the looks it's constant over 70fps (Can't see any higer :).
Do you use accelerated 3d drivers?
Why do Europeans allow a non-elected commission to determine economic policy?
The Euuropean union is a young and a very fastmoving project. I believe very few europeans know what the parlament actully do and what the commission do. I'm a swede and very seldom we get to vote, there is close to zero follow-up on the people we vote on in the media and frankly we don't know what they do. I don't think democracy is one of the strengths of the EU right now. Maybe in the future.
and is a better GUI than any of those. Kind of makes you wonder how important crap like themes really are.
It also makes us wonder what kind of taste you have. Mac OS X looks like shit. There are themes like Aqua for both Gnome and KDE and very few uses them. If OS X where skinable 90% of the users would go for something less vulgar.
For viewing I use gpdf and for creating I just use ps2pdf. Openoffice can savi in postscript and then just convert to pdfwith ps2pdf. From my somewhat limited experience I have not yet encounterd a single problem.
extremely experimental kernel patches.
You pretty much answered your own question. I don't think anybody want extremely experimental kernel patches in the main kernel.
Or you can just download the mp3beamer software for $70 and stick it on whatever PC based computer you may have.
What do you want next? An open source CPU to go with your open source Motherboard and open source Video Card.
No that would be as ridiculous as open source pizza.
If they end up at Guantanamo Bay without a trial we know for sure you are correct.
I'm sure your current doctor has never given away a copyrighted computer program to someone. I'm sure nobody else you know have done that either. Are you living in a deep forest or something.
OS X and quartz is no standard, it runs on one architecture and one OS only. This is meant for all the other OS:es who needs good visuals. Apple puts their mony on qartz, all other unix companies on this. Lets se who wins, whall we.
I don't think you are correct at all. What we do not want however is incompatible file formats and nasty DRM schemes. Something thats is close to synonymous to closed source software but don't exist at all in open source sofware.
Sure, Apple could bring iTunes to linux but few would use it, not because it's closed source but because it's proprietary and full of DRM.
but for me, I'm not thinking about idealism when I need to get work done on a UNIX system
No offense, but you are probably a pretty lonely Mac user.
thx..
Any particuar ebuilds I can test this on?
Yes you are correct, except there are no (or only a few) drivers for OpenGL. The best driver today for Linux, possibly the only really good driver are nvidias and thats only x86 and it's not OSS. OSS is not about vendor/architecture lockin so that driver doesn't count except for some short time pleasure like doom 3.
If there where no open drivers for things like video TIVO may never have happened (or they would have used windows) because they couldn't get a licencing deal with nvidia. Even if they could licence the software they probably would have to go x86 which may not be the best route for all appliances that need good video. The more closed source requirements we put on developers and vendors the harder it is to enter a market using Linux or other OSS as base.