How would the executives lord over you then? About the only things they'd have that are better than their slaves would be their car, house, paycheck, and bank account.
Bear in mind, all the work in a company is done by the executive. That's why they get paid so much more than people doing stuff that is almost like wassting time, like keeping the e-commerce system up and running.
Wow! That's brilliant advice! Start at the top! It's doubtful that you could call anyone at the 'top' of ANY large company, as those people have legions of folks under their employ whose only job is to handle the small details for the people at the top.
The problem here is that the various state and federal governments are very relaxed towards this kind of behavior, and likely the only reason this national do-not-call list is being considered is because one of them (read rich white dudes) got fed up.
What ever happened to their plan to support other platforms like PPC and others? I thought that one of the coolest plans that Transmeta had when they finally announced was to support more than just fucking Intel eventually! It's now, what, 4 years later and they still only have x86. Shame on you guys for lying to me like that!
I must concur. If your wife just views you as a large piggy-bank that must be fed, you may need to reconsider your relationship.
Why not ask her to help out with the bills for a while, and you can stay home with the child for a change. Then you might see how equal your partnership really is.
Obviously India wants to look at the Windows source to audit it for security. This is pointless, and I'll tell you why.
Windows is a HUGE program, with around fifty million lines of source code. I would assert that it is damn near impossible to audit.
Auditing attempts aside, they prove nothing unless one can go through with the final test - compiling a working Windows from all this source code. This would be impossible to do because MS would NEVER let India see all of it's code. The gaping, intentional holes would be discovered, and it would be all over for Bill.
All kidding aside (I HOPE I was kidding above) India will never see enough code to determine if they are looking at the real thing. Kind of like trying to tell a real Fabergé from a fake by looking at an electron micrograph of a few atoms of eggshell.
No. Carbon is a fun kludge, Cocoa is native. The system has a very clear pedigree - the blue box (Mac emulator) and the native API (Cocoa). There really isn't a reason to be doing anything but porting old apps over with Carbon. If you are, learn Cocoa and stop fighting the Mac. It's a about a million times easier, looks and works better both from a developer standpoint and a user perspective, and is just all around sweet.
Actually, InDesign isn't native, it's only Carbonized. You can tell when an app isn't native by watching for 'classic' wait cursors (the wristwatch, the black-and-white beach ball). Carbon is nothing more than a kludge to help companies transition to X.
8.6 won't install on any machine made in the last few years anyway. Your old programs were not engineered to explode on command, so what are you worried about? Go ahead and continue to run 8.6 for the next decade. You don't seriously expect Apple to maintain 9 AND X do you? That would only be a detriment to both systems.
9 died four years ago, the corpse just hasn't stopped moving yet. Soon it will, thank God. X is not radical or new at all, it is proven technology dating back fifteen years. It isn't like Apple just announced X, the first public beta came out a long time ago. In case you can't put 2 and 2 together, Jobs ran NeXT before he came back to Apple. He brought with him a breath of fresh air, and something that is good for the computing world. In fact, I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that OS X saved Apple more than it has doomed it.
Are you insane? Microsoft's main selling point has been that it has maintained backwards compatibility the whole time. Unlike Microsoft, however, with OS X Apple has shown that it is possible for a commercial operating system to become faster and more stable with each release. X is a whole new OS. Abandoning some applications, hardware, and practices in favor of new ones has been par for the course for years!
Seriously, though, if your entire workflow and application set is on OS 9 (or 6 for that matter) why upgrade at all? Either upgrade and bite the bullet, or stay with your older machines and OS's, but don't bitch about not having your cake and eating it too.
Apple told the Mac developers months ago that 9 was dead. They had a little ceremony where Steve put a giant-sized OS 9 box in a coffin, and then he told the developers that 9 was dead for them.
How in the crap can Apple expect to evolve without casting off the kludgy old bird known as OS 9? Are we to expect Apple to continue to coddle slow and poorly-motivated companies forever? No. In June, when Quark still hasn't coughed up the new Quark (because frankly I doubt it'll be ready by then) they'll come back whining for another extension, and I for one hope they won't get it.
Besides, GUI publishing tools are for pussies. OS X is friendly to TeX, what else do you need?
There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be.
Seriously, though, those Quark guys must have used a crapload of totally custom code that wasn't in the Mac Toolkit, or else there surely would be a OS X version of XPress by now.
Or, maybe they lost all of the source code in a freak accident and are just stalling while they code up their next Adobe killer (yeah right).
They fixed the food bug. I was used to playing without feeding my twits, and recently upgraded to 1.0. Now they just bitch and moan all the time "I must eat now!!!"
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Yep. Gnu make, bash, emacs, gdb, tar, groff, and a host of others.
I hope they landmine the crap out of p2p, and fuck everyone's XP up hard. Then I hope people sue the shit out of them.
Should now patent it. Then he should charge huge royalties for using it to make money.
Seriously, I almost preferred the internet when it WASN'T being actively fucked over by shills like Bezos.
but it had turned into a far bigger project than they had thought
Like the National ID system?
Shudder.
And yes, I know I can't speel.
How would the executives lord over you then? About the only things they'd have that are better than their slaves would be their car, house, paycheck, and bank account.
Bear in mind, all the work in a company is done by the executive. That's why they get paid so much more than people doing stuff that is almost like wassting time, like keeping the e-commerce system up and running.
Wow! That's brilliant advice! Start at the top! It's doubtful that you could call anyone at the 'top' of ANY large company, as those people have legions of folks under their employ whose only job is to handle the small details for the people at the top.
The problem here is that the various state and federal governments are very relaxed towards this kind of behavior, and likely the only reason this national do-not-call list is being considered is because one of them (read rich white dudes) got fed up.
The developer, film, lens, camera, and photographer are all variables in that equation, also.
Arguably the photographer is the most likely point of failure in the whole bunch.
What ever happened to their plan to support other platforms like PPC and others? I thought that one of the coolest plans that Transmeta had when they finally announced was to support more than just fucking Intel eventually! It's now, what, 4 years later and they still only have x86. Shame on you guys for lying to me like that!
I must concur. If your wife just views you as a large piggy-bank that must be fed, you may need to reconsider your relationship.
Why not ask her to help out with the bills for a while, and you can stay home with the child for a change. Then you might see how equal your partnership really is.
Who's job would that be?
A felon by name of Poindexter.
I listen to anything I want on my Powerbook, and nobody knows but my girlfriend.
You get what you pay for. Except if it's Windows.
Seriously, REALbasic is kludgy as all hell. I would bet that this program really IS spyware.
Obviously India wants to look at the Windows source to audit it for security. This is pointless, and I'll tell you why.
Windows is a HUGE program, with around fifty million lines of source code. I would assert that it is damn near impossible to audit.
Auditing attempts aside, they prove nothing unless one can go through with the final test - compiling a working Windows from all this source code. This would be impossible to do because MS would NEVER let India see all of it's code. The gaping, intentional holes would be discovered, and it would be all over for Bill.
All kidding aside (I HOPE I was kidding above) India will never see enough code to determine if they are looking at the real thing. Kind of like trying to tell a real Fabergé from a fake by looking at an electron micrograph of a few atoms of eggshell.
No. Carbon is a fun kludge, Cocoa is native. The system has a very clear pedigree - the blue box (Mac emulator) and the native API (Cocoa). There really isn't a reason to be doing anything but porting old apps over with Carbon. If you are, learn Cocoa and stop fighting the Mac. It's a about a million times easier, looks and works better both from a developer standpoint and a user perspective, and is just all around sweet.
It's not so much about how Next turned out, but how high quality their system was and still is. Troll.
Aww, come on. Companies care about us, and would never do something that shady. I mean, MP3's are... uhhh...
Well, GIF's are certainly great for everyone to use... wait...
How about, umm,
Okay, so companies do this sort of crap all the time. Microsoft is about as predatory as a horde of Velociraptors. Why WOULDN'T they do this?
Office X is a carbon app, which has little to do with Unix.
Actually, InDesign isn't native, it's only Carbonized. You can tell when an app isn't native by watching for 'classic' wait cursors (the wristwatch, the black-and-white beach ball). Carbon is nothing more than a kludge to help companies transition to X.
8.6 won't install on any machine made in the last few years anyway. Your old programs were not engineered to explode on command, so what are you worried about? Go ahead and continue to run 8.6 for the next decade. You don't seriously expect Apple to maintain 9 AND X do you? That would only be a detriment to both systems.
9 died four years ago, the corpse just hasn't stopped moving yet. Soon it will, thank God. X is not radical or new at all, it is proven technology dating back fifteen years. It isn't like Apple just announced X, the first public beta came out a long time ago. In case you can't put 2 and 2 together, Jobs ran NeXT before he came back to Apple. He brought with him a breath of fresh air, and something that is good for the computing world. In fact, I think it wouldn't be unreasonable to say that OS X saved Apple more than it has doomed it.
Are you insane? Microsoft's main selling point has been that it has maintained backwards compatibility the whole time. Unlike Microsoft, however, with OS X Apple has shown that it is possible for a commercial operating system to become faster and more stable with each release. X is a whole new OS. Abandoning some applications, hardware, and practices in favor of new ones has been par for the course for years!
Seriously, though, if your entire workflow and application set is on OS 9 (or 6 for that matter) why upgrade at all? Either upgrade and bite the bullet, or stay with your older machines and OS's, but don't bitch about not having your cake and eating it too.
Apple told the Mac developers months ago that 9 was dead. They had a little ceremony where Steve put a giant-sized OS 9 box in a coffin, and then he told the developers that 9 was dead for them.
How in the crap can Apple expect to evolve without casting off the kludgy old bird known as OS 9? Are we to expect Apple to continue to coddle slow and poorly-motivated companies forever? No. In June, when Quark still hasn't coughed up the new Quark (because frankly I doubt it'll be ready by then) they'll come back whining for another extension, and I for one hope they won't get it.
Besides, GUI publishing tools are for pussies. OS X is friendly to TeX, what else do you need?
There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be. There is no carbonized port of Quark XPress, and there never will be.
Seriously, though, those Quark guys must have used a crapload of totally custom code that wasn't in the Mac Toolkit, or else there surely would be a OS X version of XPress by now.
Or, maybe they lost all of the source code in a freak accident and are just stalling while they code up their next Adobe killer (yeah right).
Doubtful. OS X uses the IOKit, which is totally different than FreeBSD's driver model.
They fixed the food bug. I was used to playing without feeding my twits, and recently upgraded to 1.0. Now they just bitch and moan all the time "I must eat now!!!"