Re:Limitations of autobiographies
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I, Woz
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We can probably be sure Woz will be unfairly treated by Steve after releasing this book. Woz will give out some unfavorable info on Jobs like the color of his underwear. Steve will regard this as a "trade secret" and sue the pants of Woz.
Re:Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
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If you seriously don't know, then I'm not sure I could explain it to you. It's rather like trying to explain the difference between sex and masturbation to a virgin.
GTK is a straigt GUI library, nothing more or less there. Very easy to explain what that does. It must be Cocoa which is so mysteriosly special it's impossible to explain what it does. I don't see why Cocoa is in any way better. Of course, you fail to give any arguments.
Re:Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
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And whats so wrong with GTK? It got ports to evey major languange and most platforms. Something we can't say about cocoa.
Really, it's a GUI library, most of the time you don't even have to program it directly if you use glade and libglade. I can't see why it's "inferior" to Apples current offerings. If Apple want OS X to be taken seriously as a UNIX it needs to have cross platfrom GUI libraries. A port of a major program should take a couple of weeks and not a couple of years.
Re:Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
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Apple should port GTK and part of the gnome libraries to OS X, with native looks and feel. It's so totaly 90's to have to program every software title for every imaginable platform when there are mature open source libraries that would be nice if they got some tweaking. Kind of what Apple did with carbon.
Coocoa may be nice but it is a vendor lock-in, which for many of us is important to avoid if possible.
Re:Not THAT surprising...
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Region-free PS3
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They can ship me 100 backups for all I care. If I buy something it's mine and I will still do whatever I want with it. Like installing modchips and making backups.
The day Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Ford and everybody else tells me I just rent the games, software and music, just rent the playsations computers, ipods and cars. Thats the day they can make restrictions.
But as long as they sell me stuff I'm taking for granted it's mine and I will do whatever I please with it (With possibly the exception of spreading copies of copyrighted material). If what I do is not legal they can call me a criminal. I don't care. I don't see myself as a criminal.
Problem with both sudo and Root
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Sudo vs. Root
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When your normal user has his mind set on performing a specific task (Such as installing the newest spyware-ridden p2p-downloader) you can popup a big red button and naming it "explode", the user will press it if he thinks it will get him closer to performing the task. Putting up a dialog and ask for the root password is for normal users only an obstacle to get by. They don't know what it mean, but they know how to get by it (By inserting the password).
Don't know any way of solving this except for training though. Or possibly making it IMPOSSIBLE to do certain tasks. But that no good solution.
It would be easier to get everybody to stop releasing quicktime content than to get Apple to release a quicktime player for Linux/Unix. In the meantime you can install Mplayer plugin.
So what, we have to read about it every time there is a story about OSS User interfaces. As if everybody have to point out in EVERY story about OS X how half the OS is a verbatim copy of OSS code. Great idea, why don't we do that...
OS X is in big parts a straight "code copy" from lots and lots of open source projects. It's hard to not be like OS X when OS X copied all the code in the first place. Bash on OS X feels very much like the Bash I use on Linux. So please, stop this "OSS is copying OS X" because there is way more code and ideas going in the other direction.
Altough we're getting offtopic here, you could use a cheap box called grafitti on any amiga. It basically gave the amiga "chunky pixels". it could only be used with 50hz though. As you can see you put it on the rgb port. Very nice little device. I programmed some cool stuff for it a decade years ago...
The effects are cool and all GL stuff flies with speed, but basic xlib stuff in XGL is slow. Very slow. Resizing windows seems like 10 times slower than xorg, for a good test try opening a complex webpage and resize the windows. Is this something being worked on?
Always when I bring this up it gets dismissed as a configuration error. No, I don't think so. It's the same with this LiveCD as my own compiles before. I have tried on 3Ghz+ computers with Nvidia 6600gt and 6800 cards. In all these demo vides we have seen I have never seen a window resize. If it's just my computers than please upload somewhere a video where resize flies and let me see.
Before this is fixed all this is just a showcase toy. I understand it's new and not optimized but can we at least agree on that some REAL optimization is necessary? Because before it is as fast as xorg it's just useless for real work, and I would really like to have this.
I agree, If another distro like Ubuntu should adopt this they shall only take the non-free parts of it. It would be nice to be able to pay say $40 to download and install a new game or program into/opt, of course with no DRM. I do not however wantsthis in my standard installation and it should be kept VERY separate as an addon.
I don't no why they need distro support, Linspire could just have an installable.deb at their site for people to download to get access to all these programs. I think that would be a great idea.
Don't know about subscription though. But kickbacks from software vendors seems more like it.
I tried Xgl, the effects was cool and all and very speedy. But standard stuff like resizing a window was even slower than normal XWin, which already is a fair bit slower than Windows. I hope there is some serious optimization taking place before this leaves beta. I don't mind the effects, they rock. But usability is more important. I used Nvidia closed source driver on Geforce 6800. Anybody had any more luck than me to get this flying?
Forget my comment, I don't think it's correct. Apple can't sue anybody with DMCA for protecting their own content. I don't know how Apple can sue companys who reverse enginer fairplay, I guess it can be because they need to access Apples key servers. My main point is still correct though, nobody but Apple can use fairplay legaly, according to Apple anyway.
The abuse is that Apple is using the DMCA to lock others out of the market. It is illegal to compete with iTunes on similiar terms (You can't add DRM to your songs if yo're not Apple). Whetever it is legal to use DMCA like that I don't know but it sure is profitable.
I'm sure they will. But EM64T (x86-64) is a different architecture. It's not unreasonable to think that pretty soon (Think 3-5 years) programs will NEED x86-64, and therefore won't run at all on these new but yet unreleased macbooks.
64bit isn't needed just this moment, but introducing a "new" architecture which only has a few years left of lifespan seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Pretty soon people will need more memory for Desktops. Memory is cheap, programs will take advantage of it. How many different CPU architectures will Apple have in it's lineup? How many architectures should the developers test on, how many developers can have all these boxes.
While 32bit x86 chips might be new and exciting to you the rest of the world have been using it for 20 years and are phasing it out for x86-64. Good luck with your new and improved Macintosh. It will be nice to see how many years Apple will give this platform before a complete upgrade is necesarry again. My guess is, not long.
I agree with most everything of your post except this.
And that would alienate a large number of developers who prefer the (L)GPL
As it is now outside developers need to hand over copyright to Sun, I can't in any way believe they wouldn't prefer a more liberate licence as they gain nothing from GPL in this case.
But as you say, loosening the grip is a risk for Sun. Hopefully Sun can see some opportunities in the risk too.
If Sun sets up the foundation and lays the groundwork for the licences on the codebase it's very likely they can ensure to be able to use the code in proprietary programs in the future. However, as seen with Wine some projects goes from BSD to LGPL licences to ensure not being ripped of by companies. But as this is Suns codebase to begin with a similiar scenario would be very unlikely.
OS X and windows has the same problem, cluttered Dekstops. As you say you need to hide the programs. When on UNIX I don't have overlapping windows, I use virtual desktops. It doesn't clutter and works really well. I manually position my programs the way I like to have them, that way I know where they are. On Win and OS X the windows can be all over the place where there is enough space at the moment. I don't see anything you just explained that changes that. No thanks. I don't want to search for my programs.
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We can probably be sure Woz will be unfairly treated by Steve after releasing this book. Woz will give out some unfavorable info on Jobs like the color of his underwear. Steve will regard this as a "trade secret" and sue the pants of Woz.
If you seriously don't know, then I'm not sure I could explain it to you. It's rather like trying to explain the difference between sex and masturbation to a virgin.
GTK is a straigt GUI library, nothing more or less there. Very easy to explain what that does. It must be Cocoa which is so mysteriosly special it's impossible to explain what it does. I don't see why Cocoa is in any way better. Of course, you fail to give any arguments.
And whats so wrong with GTK? It got ports to evey major languange and most platforms. Something we can't say about cocoa.
Really, it's a GUI library, most of the time you don't even have to program it directly if you use glade and libglade. I can't see why it's "inferior" to Apples current offerings. If Apple want OS X to be taken seriously as a UNIX it needs to have cross platfrom GUI libraries. A port of a major program should take a couple of weeks and not a couple of years.
Apple should port GTK and part of the gnome libraries to OS X, with native looks and feel. It's so totaly 90's to have to program every software title for every imaginable platform when there are mature open source libraries that would be nice if they got some tweaking. Kind of what Apple did with carbon.
Coocoa may be nice but it is a vendor lock-in, which for many of us is important to avoid if possible.
They can ship me 100 backups for all I care. If I buy something it's mine and I will still do whatever I want with it. Like installing modchips and making backups.
The day Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Ford and everybody else tells me I just rent the games, software and music, just rent the playsations computers, ipods and cars. Thats the day they can make restrictions.
But as long as they sell me stuff I'm taking for granted it's mine and I will do whatever I please with it (With possibly the exception of spreading copies of copyrighted material). If what I do is not legal they can call me a criminal. I don't care. I don't see myself as a criminal.
When your normal user has his mind set on performing a specific task (Such as installing the newest spyware-ridden p2p-downloader) you can popup a big red button and naming it "explode", the user will press it if he thinks it will get him closer to performing the task. Putting up a dialog and ask for the root password is for normal users only an obstacle to get by. They don't know what it mean, but they know how to get by it (By inserting the password).
Don't know any way of solving this except for training though. Or possibly making it IMPOSSIBLE to do certain tasks. But that no good solution.
Can anybody take a guess on how good cell is for video encoding, If it's fast I can buy a PS3 for video encoding alone.
It would be easier to get everybody to stop releasing quicktime content than to get Apple to release a quicktime player for Linux/Unix. In the meantime you can install Mplayer plugin.
So what, we have to read about it every time there is a story about OSS User interfaces. As if everybody have to point out in EVERY story about OS X how half the OS is a verbatim copy of OSS code. Great idea, why don't we do that...
OS X is in big parts a straight "code copy" from lots and lots of open source projects. It's hard to not be like OS X when OS X copied all the code in the first place. Bash on OS X feels very much like the Bash I use on Linux. So please, stop this "OSS is copying OS X" because there is way more code and ideas going in the other direction.
Windows runs in full 64bit mode on Itanium. I think it's safe to say Windows is portable.
Altough we're getting offtopic here, you could use a cheap box called grafitti on any amiga. It basically gave the amiga "chunky pixels". it could only be used with 50hz though. As you can see you put it on the rgb port. Very nice little device. I programmed some cool stuff for it a decade years ago...
The effects are cool and all GL stuff flies with speed, but basic xlib stuff in XGL is slow. Very slow. Resizing windows seems like 10 times slower than xorg, for a good test try opening a complex webpage and resize the windows. Is this something being worked on?
Always when I bring this up it gets dismissed as a configuration error. No, I don't think so. It's the same with this LiveCD as my own compiles before. I have tried on 3Ghz+ computers with Nvidia 6600gt and 6800 cards. In all these demo vides we have seen I have never seen a window resize. If it's just my computers than please upload somewhere a video where resize flies and let me see.
Before this is fixed all this is just a showcase toy. I understand it's new and not optimized but can we at least agree on that some REAL optimization is necessary? Because before it is as fast as xorg it's just useless for real work, and I would really like to have this.
its advantages are *all* in its non-free nature
/opt, of course with no DRM. I do not however wantsthis in my standard installation and it should be kept VERY separate as an addon.
.deb at their site for people to download to get access to all these programs. I think that would be a great idea.
I agree, If another distro like Ubuntu should adopt this they shall only take the non-free parts of it. It would be nice to be able to pay say $40 to download and install a new game or program into
I don't no why they need distro support, Linspire could just have an installable
Don't know about subscription though. But kickbacks from software vendors seems more like it.
I tried Xgl, the effects was cool and all and very speedy. But standard stuff like resizing a window was even slower than normal XWin, which already is a fair bit slower than Windows. I hope there is some serious optimization taking place before this leaves beta. I don't mind the effects, they rock. But usability is more important. I used Nvidia closed source driver on Geforce 6800. Anybody had any more luck than me to get this flying?
Forget my comment, I don't think it's correct. Apple can't sue anybody with DMCA for protecting their own content. I don't know how Apple can sue companys who reverse enginer fairplay, I guess it can be because they need to access Apples key servers. My main point is still correct though, nobody but Apple can use fairplay legaly, according to Apple anyway.
The abuse is that Apple is using the DMCA to lock others out of the market. It is illegal to compete with iTunes on similiar terms (You can't add DRM to your songs if yo're not Apple). Whetever it is legal to use DMCA like that I don't know but it sure is profitable.
This is beggining to sound like an 640Kb will always be enough argumentation, I guess only time will tell.
I'm sure they will. But EM64T (x86-64) is a different architecture. It's not unreasonable to think that pretty soon (Think 3-5 years) programs will NEED x86-64, and therefore won't run at all on these new but yet unreleased macbooks.
64bit isn't needed just this moment, but introducing a "new" architecture which only has a few years left of lifespan seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Pretty soon people will need more memory for Desktops. Memory is cheap, programs will take advantage of it. How many different CPU architectures will Apple have in it's lineup? How many architectures should the developers test on, how many developers can have all these boxes.
I agree, any CPU can run word anyway. CELL would be a good, possibly wonderfull general purpose desktop CPU.
While 32bit x86 chips might be new and exciting to you the rest of the world have been using it for 20 years and are phasing it out for x86-64. Good luck with your new and improved Macintosh. It will be nice to see how many years Apple will give this platform before a complete upgrade is necesarry again. My guess is, not long.
I agree with most everything of your post except this.
And that would alienate a large number of developers who prefer the (L)GPL
As it is now outside developers need to hand over copyright to Sun, I can't in any way believe they wouldn't prefer a more liberate licence as they gain nothing from GPL in this case.
But as you say, loosening the grip is a risk for Sun. Hopefully Sun can see some opportunities in the risk too.
If Sun sets up the foundation and lays the groundwork for the licences on the codebase it's very likely they can ensure to be able to use the code in proprietary programs in the future. However, as seen with Wine some projects goes from BSD to LGPL licences to ensure not being ripped of by companies. But as this is Suns codebase to begin with a similiar scenario would be very unlikely.
OS X and windows has the same problem, cluttered Dekstops. As you say you need to hide the programs. When on UNIX I don't have overlapping windows, I use virtual desktops. It doesn't clutter and works really well. I manually position my programs the way I like to have them, that way I know where they are. On Win and OS X the windows can be all over the place where there is enough space at the moment. I don't see anything you just explained that changes that. No thanks. I don't want to search for my programs.