"Our" loss? Last I checked, we weren't the architects of this disaster in Iraq. So it would perhaps be more accurate to describe it as your loss.
Oh, you were talking about the election... the one from way back in 2004? Wow. Just wow. Looks like we're not the ones who need to get over it and move on.
You know, I used to work in a building directly across West Street from the WTC. Two people from the floor below mine were trapped in an elevator and killed as the building was consumed by fire. And contrary to what you'd apparently expect, I agree with your parent post, and what's more so do most of my friends and colleagues, and probably most people in my city.
So next time you presume to speak for those affected by terrorism, how about you shut your fucking trap? Or at least tone it down with the hysteria. Most of my city wanted Bush out of office in 2004 because we understand his policies are making us less safe; if you ask me in a less guarded moment, I'm apt to say I think flyover country, in that election, aided the terrorists by ignoring our very real security concerns and reelecting a global menace.
By the way, I hear my old office building's been turned into a high-end condo development. Lesson being that life goes on; the world hasn't turned on end; what was sensible before 9/11 is sensible still, particularly OP's suggestion of helping to ensure peace and stability at home by doing less to make people around the world feel insecure.
That's why judges are equipped with these things called "brains," which they still sometimes use, even in this Modern World, to determine innocence in blindingly obvious cases like these. Your apparent unfamiliarity with the concept of "brains" is unfortunate.
Goddamn it. I'm posting this up top in the hope that someone actually reads it.
These tags have *ALWAYS* been embedded in downloads from the iTunes Store. Even back when it was still the iTunes "Music" Store, protected downloads still contained the email address and name of the account used to purchase the songs. You can see this yourself by going to the "Get Info" window of anything you've bought. This is NOT news.
So my question is, how does this suddenly and so shockingly become a violation of privacy?
Thank you. You're the ONLY person I've seen on Slashdot who gets it. Even if the moderators don't notice, this is a point that needs hammering home to the hordes of geeks who thumb their noses at "eye candy" and yet are responsible, somehow, for designing the shit interfaces to which we're subjected, Every. Fucking. Day.
Presumably, you'd be OK with that, since you deliberately chose a license knowing that could happen. GPL fanatics always came across as spiteful and greedy to me; BSD licensors, on the other hand, have achieved a state of Zen where they're happy to know others are benefiting from their code. And really, isn't that the real spirit of sharing?
Apple has 3% of desktops. Is this a sign of failure? At some point, it was...
No, it was only ever a sign of failure to accountants and accountant types, those who judge "success" by what everyone else is doing. Who gives a crap about market share? On its own merits, the Mac was a success.
If the leap from Zune 1 to 2 is as big as XBOX to XBOX360, Apple's in for a trouble.
Sorry, but the Xbox 360 is as lousy with the Microsoft aesthetic as was the original Xbox. And that's to do with more than just its looks.
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That's a good point, but you're kidding yourself if you think the iPod's Mac-exclusivity didn't affect the patterns of its uptake in its first year on the market. I remember a lot of musicians in that time frame mentioning this cool new toy from Apple, and I don't think I know a single musician who uses a PC (though I'm sure the peanut gallery here at Slashdot will be more than happy to supply a few).
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Looking at the sales numbers now, it looks like it took the iPod two years to hit its first million. But I remember seeing a ton of iPods around even in the months immediately following its launch. Are you a PC user? Maybe it was more visible among certain subcultures at first because it was limited to Mac users back then, but still.
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Only because the color is emblematic of everything else wrong with the Zune. Skin it all you want, but the Zune is still hobbled by Microsoft's staggering failure to "get it."
So how does RealBasic help at all? It may do some amount of skinning (moving Preferences under the application menu) but, as you pointed out yourself, that's almost never enough. How, for example, does RealBasic know how to arrange preferences as endless nested dialog boxes with Apply and OK for Windows, and as Mac OS X preference windows on Macs? That takes human judgment—I see it much like translation of a written document from one language to another—and I'd honestly be interested to learn how it could possibly be done automatically.
If you never take advantage of OS-specific features, then what's the point of having different OSes at all? What you're advocating is adoption of a single platform, the Java platform, that offers the lowest common denominator of features from the OSes it claims to support.
No, the real solution is to design your application so the UI can be separated from the logic, and then code the best UI you can for each target platform. If you've kept your code modular along the right lines (think MVC), there's no reason this should be more difficult than coding tons of special-case per-platform exceptions in your supposedly universal code.
Telling people how to fix problems fosters dependency on you. Showing them how to do it, in a manner that doesn't take years of command-line dorkdom to understand, is probably far more helpful.
Though in this particular case, if your girlfriend's about to get a Mac anyway, maybe it doesn't matter so much. I'd be more worried about getting dumped once she realizes she doesn't need you to fix her computer anymore.:)
This only deals with "look," not "feel." The way your application feels is rooted in its conceptual organization, and that's not as easy to change as flicking a switch to skin the widgets.
Yeah. But how will those preferences be arranged? Will it group options by task (Windows-style) or by effect (Maclike)? Will it use the standard System Preferences-like icon tabs, or the Windows-esque text list? Will it know to use the systemwide proxy settings by default on the Mac?
A successful translation from one platform to another often requires a radical rethink of the way the entire program is designed, from top to bottom. This is not something you can accomplish with a fucking skin. See here.
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"Our" loss? Last I checked, we weren't the architects of this disaster in Iraq. So it would perhaps be more accurate to describe it as your loss.
Oh, you were talking about the election... the one from way back in 2004? Wow. Just wow. Looks like we're not the ones who need to get over it and move on.
It's a good indication VMware's developers don't really "get" the Mac. Sometimes, you really can judge a book by its cover.
On Slashdot, irony—when written for anything but the thickest of numbskulls—is considered trolling. Thanks for the tip.
You know, I used to work in a building directly across West Street from the WTC. Two people from the floor below mine were trapped in an elevator and killed as the building was consumed by fire. And contrary to what you'd apparently expect, I agree with your parent post, and what's more so do most of my friends and colleagues, and probably most people in my city.
So next time you presume to speak for those affected by terrorism, how about you shut your fucking trap? Or at least tone it down with the hysteria. Most of my city wanted Bush out of office in 2004 because we understand his policies are making us less safe; if you ask me in a less guarded moment, I'm apt to say I think flyover country, in that election, aided the terrorists by ignoring our very real security concerns and reelecting a global menace.
By the way, I hear my old office building's been turned into a high-end condo development. Lesson being that life goes on; the world hasn't turned on end; what was sensible before 9/11 is sensible still, particularly OP's suggestion of helping to ensure peace and stability at home by doing less to make people around the world feel insecure.
That's why judges are equipped with these things called "brains," which they still sometimes use, even in this Modern World, to determine innocence in blindingly obvious cases like these. Your apparent unfamiliarity with the concept of "brains" is unfortunate.
Goddamn it. I'm posting this up top in the hope that someone actually reads it.
These tags have *ALWAYS* been embedded in downloads from the iTunes Store. Even back when it was still the iTunes "Music" Store, protected downloads still contained the email address and name of the account used to purchase the songs. You can see this yourself by going to the "Get Info" window of anything you've bought. This is NOT news.
So my question is, how does this suddenly and so shockingly become a violation of privacy?
Thank you. You're the ONLY person I've seen on Slashdot who gets it. Even if the moderators don't notice, this is a point that needs hammering home to the hordes of geeks who thumb their noses at "eye candy" and yet are responsible, somehow, for designing the shit interfaces to which we're subjected, Every. Fucking. Day.
Presumably, you'd be OK with that, since you deliberately chose a license knowing that could happen. GPL fanatics always came across as spiteful and greedy to me; BSD licensors, on the other hand, have achieved a state of Zen where they're happy to know others are benefiting from their code. And really, isn't that the real spirit of sharing?
That's a good point, but you're kidding yourself if you think the iPod's Mac-exclusivity didn't affect the patterns of its uptake in its first year on the market. I remember a lot of musicians in that time frame mentioning this cool new toy from Apple, and I don't think I know a single musician who uses a PC (though I'm sure the peanut gallery here at Slashdot will be more than happy to supply a few).
Looking at the sales numbers now, it looks like it took the iPod two years to hit its first million. But I remember seeing a ton of iPods around even in the months immediately following its launch. Are you a PC user? Maybe it was more visible among certain subcultures at first because it was limited to Mac users back then, but still.
Only because the color is emblematic of everything else wrong with the Zune. Skin it all you want, but the Zune is still hobbled by Microsoft's staggering failure to "get it."
Ugh. I was interested, until you told us the set top software is being designed by Microsoft. This virtually guarantees it will suck.
So how does RealBasic help at all? It may do some amount of skinning (moving Preferences under the application menu) but, as you pointed out yourself, that's almost never enough. How, for example, does RealBasic know how to arrange preferences as endless nested dialog boxes with Apply and OK for Windows, and as Mac OS X preference windows on Macs? That takes human judgment—I see it much like translation of a written document from one language to another—and I'd honestly be interested to learn how it could possibly be done automatically.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
If you never take advantage of OS-specific features, then what's the point of having different OSes at all? What you're advocating is adoption of a single platform, the Java platform, that offers the lowest common denominator of features from the OSes it claims to support.
No, the real solution is to design your application so the UI can be separated from the logic, and then code the best UI you can for each target platform. If you've kept your code modular along the right lines (think MVC), there's no reason this should be more difficult than coding tons of special-case per-platform exceptions in your supposedly universal code.
Telling people how to fix problems fosters dependency on you. Showing them how to do it, in a manner that doesn't take years of command-line dorkdom to understand, is probably far more helpful.
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Though in this particular case, if your girlfriend's about to get a Mac anyway, maybe it doesn't matter so much. I'd be more worried about getting dumped once she realizes she doesn't need you to fix her computer anymore.
Am I the only one who was disappointed not to see a single "ONE! ALL-ONE!" punctuating the above?
I didn't realize Dr. Bronner wrote software too.
This only deals with "look," not "feel." The way your application feels is rooted in its conceptual organization, and that's not as easy to change as flicking a switch to skin the widgets.
If I wanted everything to look like a Windows application, I'd be using Windows.
Yeah. But how will those preferences be arranged? Will it group options by task (Windows-style) or by effect (Maclike)? Will it use the standard System Preferences-like icon tabs, or the Windows-esque text list? Will it know to use the systemwide proxy settings by default on the Mac?
A successful translation from one platform to another often requires a radical rethink of the way the entire program is designed, from top to bottom. This is not something you can accomplish with a fucking skin. See here.
Haha, point taken.
Microsoft's culture is devoid of passion. Which is wholly understandable—how could anyone be passionate about the sewage spewing forth from Redmond?
So the answer is no. They don't care.