OpenGL is already very clean, but more to the point, everything you've pointed out already exists. OpenGL, OpenAL and SDL can pretty much do it all right now, and except for SDL, Apple already supports everything out of the box (even in their developpement tool, Xcode).
And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Pro workstations. People don't even think about newegg when purchasing a Dell T5400, a HP XW6600 or a Mac Pro. A cheap PC assembled from off the shelf components is going to be cheaper than any of those options, but you still won't see it under the desks of real professionnals that require these workstations in the first place.
I'm pricing a Xeon Dell Precision workstation class machine on dell.ca, which is a better comparison to the Xeon based Workstation that is a Mac Pro, and I'm up to $2800 right now and guess what ? It has 2 GB DDR2 ECC ram vs the Mac's 3 GB DDR3 ECC (triple channel). It has an older, non-Nehalem Xeon processor, same ghz as the Mac but no 2 threads per core like the Mac. 1 SATA hard drive, 80 GB (WTF is this ?), same superdrive optical drive, etc...
I think Apple nailed their market just right. This isn't a cobbled together gaming PC, it's a Professional Workstation with a certain grade of hardware you're not getting in your cobbled together PC.
Quebec is French culture. Attacking Quebec is attacking French culture and it is a show of bigotry and racism.
Again, The French Language Charter is bill 101 only in name. The French Language Charter was adopted in 1977 by repealing Bill 22, which was passed in 1974 by a Liberal government of all things and which essentially made the official Language French in everything, but still maintains to this day English services for the English speaking population. Bill 22 is what put everything in place, Bill 101 was exclusively a name change and advertising clauses (French advertising must be bigger than English advertising, and all product literature must be available in French) modifications, the rest pretty much staying the same as it was in 1974 when Robert Bourassa presented it and passed it to the assembly.
Also, I don't get your gripe about English service in government, since you can get served in English at every government office or any Ministry. Even all their websites are both bilingual, which is more than what the French Language charter provides for. The Federal rules govern only Federal jurisdiction, they cannot dictate to a province what is and isn't acceptable language wise, only the language of Federal services. Since those are few and far between, their jurisdiction doesn't amount to much. Provincial language jurisdiction covers everything like health, education, business, imports etc..
I'm sorry you lost money, but that is your own fault. Maybe you should have read the rules before you started doing business in Quebec. No one is forcing French culture on you again, but if you want to come here, you have to play by our rules. We won't go to your home province and try to force French on you, nor do I expect any kind of French when I go to Toronto or Vancouver even though the Federal government provides for it.
And Quebec didn't get into the mess it is now, the English speaking population refused to include Quebec into the constition during the Lac Meech accord. Charlotte Town, which tried to fix the racist mess the English population created was too little and too late and the population of Quebec was already too pissed off to care. Since then, no attempt has been made to reintegrate Quebec into the constitution, except Harper's non consequential announcement of the "Quebec Nation", which is just essentially voting to agree with Robert Bourassa's speach to the nationnal assembly after the failure of Lac Meech.
One big problem with your argument is that language is a provincial jurisdiction. You seem to be mostly against bill 101, which is simply a bill about advertising language. The French Language Charter is what you're really denouncing though and this charter dictates that you will get billingual service in government, even though English is not an official language of the province. This simple mistake shows me you probably don't really have a clue what you're talking about and are just repeating anti-French propaganda we see coming from the English side.
Also, you should note that with Charlotte Town's failure, Quebec still hasn't ratified the Canadian constitution and as such, I don't see why we should be bound by it, especially in areas where the Federal government is trying to push itself unto provincial jurisdiction.
As such, your post is simply an attack on the French culture and not proof that the French culture is pushing itself unto people forcibly. Even, it seems to be the contrary, you seem to be trying to push your culture unto the people of Quebec. Good luck with that bit of hypocrisy.
None forces Quebec culture unto others. If you move to Quebec, you live by the provincial rules, which are set by the elected officials representing people of the province. This is no different than Ontario, Albert or any other province. If you don't like the provincial laws, you are free not to move there.
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation".
I think you missed the point that the other poster was making. There's a time and a place for everything, including advertising your sexuality. A gaming service like Xbox Live isn't that place.
Slow down there cowboy. Guess what, she wasn't banned because she IS a lesbian, she was banned because she SAID she was a lesbian. 2 completely different things. You see, Xboxlive is a gaming service, it's not a sexual orientation advertising service. Do you see people write in their profiles that they are straight ? No, you don't. This isn't a civil rights issue, it's a "we don't care about your sexual orientation, keep it to yourself please, not every forum is made to fight THE MAN" issue.
You've never used the DOS version of WordPerfect 5.0 and it shows. That thing is probably the best Word Processing software ever made. Anything after it, including Word 6.0 for Windows and later is a big downhill slide.
- Apple has not been convicted of illegaly using it's (inexistant ?) Operating System monopoly in order to push it's other products unto a dominant share of the market. Microsoft has.
- Apple software doesn't work with other hardware/software ? How come Windows share automatically show up in the Finder then ? How come they use industry standards like 802.11n draft for networking ? How come Safari displays sites not made using WebObjects ? How come all of my BASH scripts execute flawlessly on my OS X box ? How come my Linux SSH client can connect to it ? Etc... Etc..
You can't remove Safari ? Because I'm pretty sure I did. Simply drag it from the/Applications to the trash bin and click empty Trash. No one is asking to remove the rendering engine, only the browser. Right now, it is near impossible to make Windows not pop up IEXPLORE.EXE in certain cases, where it should simply use the default browser. No one is asking that MS remove MSHTML.DLL, which is different component all-together.
It is certain your iTunes application will not run in this way.
Have you tried tunneling Amarok in the way you suggest ? Unfortunatly for you, sound isn't part of the X11 specification, so unless you're using something like a sound daemon (a la esound) and have forwarded that also, the result might not be what you're expecting. I don't see why not being able to remotely display iTunes' GUI would be a problem.
The opengroup would disagree about Linux being Unix. Someone still has to have it certified and it still wouldn't pass the certification because there are still missing features. Linux is compatible to most of the Unix specification, it is not Unix.
You're entirely missing the point that this battery has over 3 times the lifetime of all those batteries you compared it to. Not to mention it also has about twice the capacity and thus can last longer between charges. All for 50$ and not 2 or 3 times the price. You're just comparing apple and oranges here.
1 year mark ? 1 cycle per day, that's 365 cycles, average for a battery. This new unremovable battery, on top of having more initial charge capacity will live well beyond the 300 cycle rating on the removable batteries. Apple is claiming 1000 cycle, which means your 1 year Macbooks will now live 3 years. Also, this non-removable battery is only in the 17" Macbook Pro. If you still need the option to swap batteries, the 15" Macbook Pro might be more up your alley.
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MacGimp automagically starts X11 when you click on its icon. Xorg now comes bundled with OS X since 10.5. There is no hassle at all.
OpenGL is already very clean, but more to the point, everything you've pointed out already exists. OpenGL, OpenAL and SDL can pretty much do it all right now, and except for SDL, Apple already supports everything out of the box (even in their developpement tool, Xcode).
Apple and KDE aren't convicted of having used their OS monopoly to dominate the Browser market. Microsoft is.
Yeah. I vote that Illinois also changes the definition of a mile and shortens it so that their residents can get more miles to the gallon!
Oh, I know, they could call it a kilometer. It could be that a mile is 1.6 kilometers.
And you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Pro workstations. People don't even think about newegg when purchasing a Dell T5400, a HP XW6600 or a Mac Pro. A cheap PC assembled from off the shelf components is going to be cheaper than any of those options, but you still won't see it under the desks of real professionnals that require these workstations in the first place.
Newegg != professionnal grade workstation.
I'm pricing a Xeon Dell Precision workstation class machine on dell.ca, which is a better comparison to the Xeon based Workstation that is a Mac Pro, and I'm up to $2800 right now and guess what ? It has 2 GB DDR2 ECC ram vs the Mac's 3 GB DDR3 ECC (triple channel). It has an older, non-Nehalem Xeon processor, same ghz as the Mac but no 2 threads per core like the Mac. 1 SATA hard drive, 80 GB (WTF is this ?), same superdrive optical drive, etc...
I think Apple nailed their market just right. This isn't a cobbled together gaming PC, it's a Professional Workstation with a certain grade of hardware you're not getting in your cobbled together PC.
The new Mac Pros use nehalem processors, essentially, I7 Xeons. So no, the i7 aren't better than the Xeons in the Mac Pro.
Quebec is French culture. Attacking Quebec is attacking French culture and it is a show of bigotry and racism.
Again, The French Language Charter is bill 101 only in name. The French Language Charter was adopted in 1977 by repealing Bill 22, which was passed in 1974 by a Liberal government of all things and which essentially made the official Language French in everything, but still maintains to this day English services for the English speaking population. Bill 22 is what put everything in place, Bill 101 was exclusively a name change and advertising clauses (French advertising must be bigger than English advertising, and all product literature must be available in French) modifications, the rest pretty much staying the same as it was in 1974 when Robert Bourassa presented it and passed it to the assembly.
Also, I don't get your gripe about English service in government, since you can get served in English at every government office or any Ministry. Even all their websites are both bilingual, which is more than what the French Language charter provides for. The Federal rules govern only Federal jurisdiction, they cannot dictate to a province what is and isn't acceptable language wise, only the language of Federal services. Since those are few and far between, their jurisdiction doesn't amount to much. Provincial language jurisdiction covers everything like health, education, business, imports etc..
I'm sorry you lost money, but that is your own fault. Maybe you should have read the rules before you started doing business in Quebec. No one is forcing French culture on you again, but if you want to come here, you have to play by our rules. We won't go to your home province and try to force French on you, nor do I expect any kind of French when I go to Toronto or Vancouver even though the Federal government provides for it.
And Quebec didn't get into the mess it is now, the English speaking population refused to include Quebec into the constition during the Lac Meech accord. Charlotte Town, which tried to fix the racist mess the English population created was too little and too late and the population of Quebec was already too pissed off to care. Since then, no attempt has been made to reintegrate Quebec into the constitution, except Harper's non consequential announcement of the "Quebec Nation", which is just essentially voting to agree with Robert Bourassa's speach to the nationnal assembly after the failure of Lac Meech.
One big problem with your argument is that language is a provincial jurisdiction. You seem to be mostly against bill 101, which is simply a bill about advertising language. The French Language Charter is what you're really denouncing though and this charter dictates that you will get billingual service in government, even though English is not an official language of the province. This simple mistake shows me you probably don't really have a clue what you're talking about and are just repeating anti-French propaganda we see coming from the English side.
Also, you should note that with Charlotte Town's failure, Quebec still hasn't ratified the Canadian constitution and as such, I don't see why we should be bound by it, especially in areas where the Federal government is trying to push itself unto provincial jurisdiction.
As such, your post is simply an attack on the French culture and not proof that the French culture is pushing itself unto people forcibly. Even, it seems to be the contrary, you seem to be trying to push your culture unto the people of Quebec. Good luck with that bit of hypocrisy.
That's exactly why you use an online handle. I doubt we'd see "commander64_love" running for president.
None forces Quebec culture unto others. If you move to Quebec, you live by the provincial rules, which are set by the elected officials representing people of the province. This is no different than Ontario, Albert or any other province. If you don't like the provincial laws, you are free not to move there.
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation".
I don't see what's gay about Subarus. I own a WRX myself.
You can probably be banned for using such slurs in the first place, making the whole sexual orientation thing irrelevant.
I think you missed the point that the other poster was making. There's a time and a place for everything, including advertising your sexuality. A gaming service like Xbox Live isn't that place.
Slow down there cowboy. Guess what, she wasn't banned because she IS a lesbian, she was banned because she SAID she was a lesbian. 2 completely different things. You see, Xboxlive is a gaming service, it's not a sexual orientation advertising service. Do you see people write in their profiles that they are straight ? No, you don't. This isn't a civil rights issue, it's a "we don't care about your sexual orientation, keep it to yourself please, not every forum is made to fight THE MAN" issue.
You've never used the DOS version of WordPerfect 5.0 and it shows. That thing is probably the best Word Processing software ever made. Anything after it, including Word 6.0 for Windows and later is a big downhill slide.
2 things :
- Apple has not been convicted of illegaly using it's (inexistant ?) Operating System monopoly in order to push it's other products unto a dominant share of the market. Microsoft has.
- Apple software doesn't work with other hardware/software ? How come Windows share automatically show up in the Finder then ? How come they use industry standards like 802.11n draft for networking ? How come Safari displays sites not made using WebObjects ? How come all of my BASH scripts execute flawlessly on my OS X box ? How come my Linux SSH client can connect to it ? Etc... Etc..
I think you get the point.
You can't remove Safari ? Because I'm pretty sure I did. Simply drag it from the /Applications to the trash bin and click empty Trash. No one is asking to remove the rendering engine, only the browser. Right now, it is near impossible to make Windows not pop up IEXPLORE.EXE in certain cases, where it should simply use the default browser. No one is asking that MS remove MSHTML.DLL, which is different component all-together.
It is certain your iTunes application will not run in this way.
Have you tried tunneling Amarok in the way you suggest ? Unfortunatly for you, sound isn't part of the X11 specification, so unless you're using something like a sound daemon (a la esound) and have forwarded that also, the result might not be what you're expecting. I don't see why not being able to remotely display iTunes' GUI would be a problem.
OS X 10.5 is Unix 03 certified as it ran the entire test suite. It is as much Unix as HP-UX or Solaris.
The opengroup would disagree about Linux being Unix. Someone still has to have it certified and it still wouldn't pass the certification because there are still missing features. Linux is compatible to most of the Unix specification, it is not Unix.
You're entirely missing the point that this battery has over 3 times the lifetime of all those batteries you compared it to. Not to mention it also has about twice the capacity and thus can last longer between charges. All for 50$ and not 2 or 3 times the price. You're just comparing apple and oranges here.
1 year mark ? 1 cycle per day, that's 365 cycles, average for a battery. This new unremovable battery, on top of having more initial charge capacity will live well beyond the 300 cycle rating on the removable batteries. Apple is claiming 1000 cycle, which means your 1 year Macbooks will now live 3 years. Also, this non-removable battery is only in the 17" Macbook Pro. If you still need the option to swap batteries, the 15" Macbook Pro might be more up your alley.