Notwithstanding the fact that only the dweebiest of dweebs gives a flying fuck about the "underlying" system internals rather than the resulting user interface, I assure you the XNU kernel and Darwin have changed quite significantly between OS X point releases. I'd link Ars, kernelthread.com, etc. here if I thought your simian intellect were capable of improvement, but I don't, and I won't bother.
Actually, I can think of a couple giantmegacorps that do use Macs, Linux and BSD in substantial numbers. But I guess this analyst is more familiar with the middling sort of low-risk, low-growth, boring, megacorps that you never really hear about and that never really grow your portfolio, by comparison.
Regarding your sig, do you think Apple gives two shits about hurting Microsoft, or is it more about besting themselves? In general, only losers care about the competition.
Well, Firefox is a lousy piece of software--something we Mac users have known for some time, but which you PC users are just now beginning to realize. Late, as always, to the party.
Oh, and if you can't immediately recognize anything wrong with the Mac port of that piece of shit PC software, Firefox, then what the fuck are you doing on the Mac to begin with? Jesus fucking Christ, where to begin? Widget behavior, preference layout, lack of integration, a turd-tastic overall philosophy of design. Obviously you're at home living in sewage, to the point that you don't even recognize beauty staring you in the face--just GTFO the Mac. Seriously.
If you don't want to "retrain" to take advantage of the unique offerings of each platform, Safari being one such offering, why are you even bothering with the multitude of OSes in the first place? Just stick to your fucking beige box PC and you'll never have to worry yourself with "retraining" yourself out of mediocrity.
Form IS function. Your comprehensive lack of understanding--you probably think hardware and software are meaningfully separable, too?--is why you will always be a PC user.
Actually, Google is traditionally associated with not sucking. Gecko sucks utterly, being rather behind WebKit in support for CSS properties and attributes; further, rather than serve to enhance the rendering engine, Firefox et al. from the Mozilla project shit all over usability. What's surprising is that you're only now beginning to realize this. Are you a PC user, by any chance?
I'm guessing you're the sort of unperceptive mouthbreather who doesn't mind using Windows, and can't understand why others so resent its interface. Or is it some tasteless Linux derivative you prefer? In any case, people like you should never be in charge of designing user interfaces.
Many admins never follow policy, or follow them only when it suits their own narrow interest. Admins who do follow policy are increasingly rare, having been discouraged by the others.
If he's guilty of all that, then they might as well drop the part of the charge relating to possession of the book, yeah? Nail him on all the other stuff--like having been to Pakistan. Pakistan! The missing link in the Axis of Evil. Visiting Pakistan should be a capital offense.
I don't know what red-state rural farm you live on, but here in New York I've seen hate-crime legislation used to prosecute minorities accused of targeting heterosexual white men for being white. As it should.
Turns out you can't describe a complex issue in "yes" or "no" terms. Or a gigantic, sprawling clusterfuck in "up" and "down" votes, for that matter. Who knew?
Who the fuck are you talking to? I am not the author of the post to which you replied. Christ, talk about strawmen.
And yes, I appreciate that our culture is rife with references to God, Christ, the Bible, Christian ritual, and believe it or not I agree that we're richer for it, too. Acceptance of these views doesn't, however, necessitate the dismissal of all other religious and spiritual icons as meaningless and therefore culturally worthless. No need to endow the symbols of Christianity with special status as shibboleths of American culture, as you seem so ready to do.
And no, you asshole—America's founding fathers, by and large, were not followers of your fucking religion, no matter how often you lie to yourself otherwise.
"I'm not saying that all non-Christians should get out, but..."
Dear Christ, save me from your followers. You know, I was born and raised here in the States, in Ohio to be specific, the son of an immigrant and, worse, as a heathen practitioner of one of those Godless Eastern religions—in other words, as a (gasp) non-Christian. In this respect my spiritual beliefs are similar to those of many of our Founding Fathers. That's right! They weren't all Bible-thumping Jesus-worshipping fundamentalists! You unbelievable jerk.
You probably don't understand, either, why all those Negroes are gittin' so uppity about O'Reilly's compliment—gee whillikers, it was a compliment! Right? Yes? Fuck you, and I hope your closed-minded values die along with your generation.
Holy shit. Your post embodies everything detestable about overpedantic geekery. The point is that nobody cares about all that shit you just mentioned; and in my opinion, the CBC did a great job focusing on the relevant, interesting aspects of all that shit without fifty thousand words of expository material (the entire contents of the GPL, say).
You're also wrong about the "GNU Public License" bit. It is in fact the General Public License (plus or minus a GNU).
That describes "NPOV" articles too. You just don't notice it because you happen to agree with this "NPOV."
Instead of pursuing balanced reporting at the expense of perspective and subjective truth, since you bring it up, I think we'd be better served by old-fashioned advocacy journalism. Unfortunately, balance and evenhandedness tends to be a liberal goal, and so the media on whom we rely to deliver us the facts either slants entirely one way (Murdoch's little group) or makes a best effort to slant in both directions (always only two!), which no matter whose perspective you share will still be half lies. And Wikipedia's slavish celebration of "NPOV" is the most noxious outgrowth of this late 20th-c. media climate.
Well, let's be fair—like all innovations in the history of innovation, ever, anywhere, the genesis of the idea doesn't come from any one person or company. Haptics has been the Next Big Thing for a while. That said, I'm glad someone's finally done something with it, if what you say is true.
I'd rather read an article by someone who makes his perspective obvious, than an article by a horde of anonymous authors who hide behind the myth of "NPOV."
I'm not using OS X but my KDE is trying to resemble it
Aren't you missing the whole point? It's look and feel. Skins won't replicate the subtle behaviors of every carefully crafted aspect of every user interface element. You, and the Firefox developers, would do well to learn that beauty is never skin deep.
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Notwithstanding the fact that only the dweebiest of dweebs gives a flying fuck about the "underlying" system internals rather than the resulting user interface, I assure you the XNU kernel and Darwin have changed quite significantly between OS X point releases. I'd link Ars, kernelthread.com, etc. here if I thought your simian intellect were capable of improvement, but I don't, and I won't bother.
Actually, I can think of a couple giant megacorps that do use Macs, Linux and BSD in substantial numbers. But I guess this analyst is more familiar with the middling sort of low-risk, low-growth, boring, megacorps that you never really hear about and that never really grow your portfolio, by comparison.
"Preppie/yuppie/hipster"? Have you even the slightest clue of what you speak?
You sound like a very lonely man.
Regarding your sig, do you think Apple gives two shits about hurting Microsoft, or is it more about besting themselves? In general, only losers care about the competition.
Well, Firefox is a lousy piece of software--something we Mac users have known for some time, but which you PC users are just now beginning to realize. Late, as always, to the party.
Still doesn't have anywhere near the level of CSS(3) support as WebKit. Check Dave Hyatt's blog for a few examples.
Oh, and if you can't immediately recognize anything wrong with the Mac port of that piece of shit PC software, Firefox, then what the fuck are you doing on the Mac to begin with? Jesus fucking Christ, where to begin? Widget behavior, preference layout, lack of integration, a turd-tastic overall philosophy of design. Obviously you're at home living in sewage, to the point that you don't even recognize beauty staring you in the face--just GTFO the Mac. Seriously.
If you don't want to "retrain" to take advantage of the unique offerings of each platform, Safari being one such offering, why are you even bothering with the multitude of OSes in the first place? Just stick to your fucking beige box PC and you'll never have to worry yourself with "retraining" yourself out of mediocrity.
Form IS function. Your comprehensive lack of understanding--you probably think hardware and software are meaningfully separable, too?--is why you will always be a PC user.
Actually, Google is traditionally associated with not sucking. Gecko sucks utterly, being rather behind WebKit in support for CSS properties and attributes; further, rather than serve to enhance the rendering engine, Firefox et al. from the Mozilla project shit all over usability. What's surprising is that you're only now beginning to realize this. Are you a PC user, by any chance?
Good grief, "only" a busy cursor?
I'm guessing you're the sort of unperceptive mouthbreather who doesn't mind using Windows, and can't understand why others so resent its interface. Or is it some tasteless Linux derivative you prefer? In any case, people like you should never be in charge of designing user interfaces.
Many admins never follow policy, or follow them only when it suits their own narrow interest. Admins who do follow policy are increasingly rare, having been discouraged by the others.
If he's guilty of all that, then they might as well drop the part of the charge relating to possession of the book, yeah? Nail him on all the other stuff--like having been to Pakistan. Pakistan! The missing link in the Axis of Evil. Visiting Pakistan should be a capital offense.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you?
I don't know what red-state rural farm you live on, but here in New York I've seen hate-crime legislation used to prosecute minorities accused of targeting heterosexual white men for being white. As it should.
Turns out you can't describe a complex issue in "yes" or "no" terms. Or a gigantic, sprawling clusterfuck in "up" and "down" votes, for that matter. Who knew?
Who the fuck are you talking to? I am not the author of the post to which you replied. Christ, talk about strawmen.
And yes, I appreciate that our culture is rife with references to God, Christ, the Bible, Christian ritual, and believe it or not I agree that we're richer for it, too. Acceptance of these views doesn't, however, necessitate the dismissal of all other religious and spiritual icons as meaningless and therefore culturally worthless. No need to endow the symbols of Christianity with special status as shibboleths of American culture, as you seem so ready to do.
And no, you asshole—America's founding fathers, by and large, were not followers of your fucking religion, no matter how often you lie to yourself otherwise.
"I'm not saying that all non-Christians should get out, but..."
Dear Christ, save me from your followers. You know, I was born and raised here in the States, in Ohio to be specific, the son of an immigrant and, worse, as a heathen practitioner of one of those Godless Eastern religions—in other words, as a (gasp) non-Christian. In this respect my spiritual beliefs are similar to those of many of our Founding Fathers. That's right! They weren't all Bible-thumping Jesus-worshipping fundamentalists! You unbelievable jerk.
You probably don't understand, either, why all those Negroes are gittin' so uppity about O'Reilly's compliment—gee whillikers, it was a compliment! Right? Yes? Fuck you, and I hope your closed-minded values die along with your generation.
Holy shit. Your post embodies everything detestable about overpedantic geekery. The point is that nobody cares about all that shit you just mentioned; and in my opinion, the CBC did a great job focusing on the relevant, interesting aspects of all that shit without fifty thousand words of expository material (the entire contents of the GPL, say).
You're also wrong about the "GNU Public License" bit. It is in fact the General Public License (plus or minus a GNU).
Do you believe everything you read on Slashdot? You don't seem too worried about using your brain.
That describes "NPOV" articles too. You just don't notice it because you happen to agree with this "NPOV."
Instead of pursuing balanced reporting at the expense of perspective and subjective truth, since you bring it up, I think we'd be better served by old-fashioned advocacy journalism. Unfortunately, balance and evenhandedness tends to be a liberal goal, and so the media on whom we rely to deliver us the facts either slants entirely one way (Murdoch's little group) or makes a best effort to slant in both directions (always only two!), which no matter whose perspective you share will still be half lies. And Wikipedia's slavish celebration of "NPOV" is the most noxious outgrowth of this late 20th-c. media climate.
Well, let's be fair—like all innovations in the history of innovation, ever, anywhere, the genesis of the idea doesn't come from any one person or company. Haptics has been the Next Big Thing for a while. That said, I'm glad someone's finally done something with it, if what you say is true.
"Browser apps" don't need to be connected. Think of Dashboard widgets, for example.
I'd rather read an article by someone who makes his perspective obvious, than an article by a horde of anonymous authors who hide behind the myth of "NPOV."