1. X11 apps use a plethora of ugly widget sets, all of which look and feel completely different from one another and from Aqua. There's no way Apple would endorse or implement such a flagrant pile of different UI's on their carefully-crafted OS. Can you name a single X11 app that comes even close to conforming to the Apple UI guidelines?
2. The availability of X11 native on OS X would discourage developers from making their applications at all Mac-like in appearance or functionality, leading to less mindshare for Apple's way of doing the GUI.
Apple is still fighting with application developers to get them to Carbonize their apps. Carbon blows, big time. It's a stopgap solution crafted solely to allow ports from OS 9. (If you are developing a brand-new program for Carbon, allow me to BITCH-SLAP you out of the 80's with the clue stick a few times. ) Apple, and anyone with a brain, knows this. Apple's ultimate plan is to ditch Carbon like a hooker bad case of genital warts. Carbon ties Apple to the Motorola PPC platform which is looking more and more like an evolutionary trichordate (good potential, slow development causes it to be overwhelmed by the competition).
Apple surely won't go out of it's way to deny X11 on OS X, but you can bet they won't include it with OS X v10.3 or or OS X v11 or whatever.
As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
1. X11 apps use a plethora of ugly widget sets, all of which look and feel completely different from one another and from Aqua. There's no way Apple would endorse or implement such a flagrant pile of different UI's on their carefully-crafted OS. Can you name a single X11 app that comes even close to conforming to the Apple UI guidelines?
2. The availability of X11 native on OS X would discourage developers from making their applications at all Mac-like in appearance or functionality, leading to less mindshare for Apple's way of doing the GUI.
Apple is still fighting with application developers to get them to Carbonize their apps. Carbon blows, big time. It's a stopgap solution crafted solely to allow ports from OS 9. (If you are developing a brand-new program for Carbon, allow me to BITCH-SLAP you out of the 80's with the clue stick a few times. ) Apple, and anyone with a brain, knows this. Apple's ultimate plan is to ditch Carbon like a hooker bad case of genital warts. Carbon ties Apple to the Motorola PPC platform which is looking more and more like an evolutionary trichordate (good potential, slow development causes it to be overwhelmed by the competition).
Thank you. Anyone who ignores the CIA's footprints all over Venezuela a few months ago is deluding themselves. I hope you coup-organizers are ASHAMED of yourselves. It's this kind of foreign policy that makes the US the most hated nation on earth.
What do you mean by 'until finally someone integrates X11 into OSX more smoothly than XDarwin'? I can't quite figure that out. Also, Quartz / Aqua are NOT incompatible with open source applications. It's differrent than X11, but also, given the platform, WAY better. As much as graphic artists have lauded X11 (ahem), the PDF imaging system is light-years beyond it in many ways.
Sigma Designs is releasing their 2nd quarter earnings report this afternoon, and I made sure that the Attorney General in Cali and the SEC both know that this company is ripping people off and -GASP!- stealing Intellectual Property!
I suggest you do the same. Let's take some money out of the CEO's pocket by letting the world know that this corporation is crooked.
Because your method takes way more time. Manually editing wav files is fun, but completely unnecessary for 98% of tracks ripped from CD. I am in the process of encoding a 1500+ CD collection right now, and it is a bitch even with iTunes. It would take all year to do if I got super fussy.
I read this book a decade or so ago, when I was 14. Good system. If you don't know how to count cards, it's easy to learn. It doesn't require a degree from MIT.
Except for the few points that you have glossed over. First,.NET has been proven to be a great place to propagate virii. Second,.NET won't stop somebody from e-mailing you a Word macro that'll fuck everything right over. Third, combine the first two points with the fact that even XP has local AND remote holes big enough to drive my Grandma's truck through, and you have a bag of hot air.
I'll take compiling my own programs any day over relying on pre-compiled binaries - Why should I trust some off-shore $3 per hour Win32 sweatshop with producing backdoor-free code any more than I would trust ANY unaudited code (because basically it is)? At least when one has the source code an audit is POSSIBLE albeit unlikely.
While the robot is capable of some incredible feats of movement, it is all basically done by remote control at this stage. Where's the AI?
I would say that the whole "Let's balance it on two legs" stage of development is far less challenging and interesting than the "Let's teach it to be able to tell when I need a beer and bring one over" stage. I frankly don't give a shit if my robots move on legs or wheels or what, as long as they're bringing me beer when I want it.
Hi. I bought my first new Mac (TiBook DVI) this spring because it positively blows the Intel shite out of the water. I paid $2599 for it.
It has more battery life, a bigger screen, better construction, more core, and is both thinner and lighter than ANY comparable PC. And... It's cheaper. Go price out top-of-the-line PC notebooks and then look at the Powerbook. It's a better machine.
Both of my senators in Oregon are extremely responsive to e-mail. I receive snail-mail replies to each of my e-mails!!! I'm not sure about the representatives.
WHOA! You are quite ill-informed. X-Windows is a SWEET network-transparent display system. It does not suck. The concept of displays tied to servers is NOT obsolete. Ask many of the major research institutions about how they deal with graphical programs running on their big iron. Do you think every multi-million dollar server has a single keyboard and monitor hooked up to it, or god forbid a room of serial terminals nowadays? No. They are all X based.
Actually, real publishing is done with troff from an xterm. Maybe XFree86 systems don't have the prettiest font handling in the world, but don't fool yourself into thinking that all DTP is done on a Mac.
I just bought a TiBook, and was pissed that there was no way to play full-screen video. I have been urged to "Go Pro!" but I am NOT paying 29.99 extra just to have full-screen!
So, I got Cellulo (available from versiontracker) which is a superb Free Quicktime player, and watch video fullscreen - without paying Apple MORE money!
P.S. To those who say that it's my duty to "Support Apple!" I urge you to look on my desk - a new Powerbook is certainly support enough in my opinion.
P.P.S. To get rid of those annoying Quicktime Pro nag screens, use this trick:
1. Before you ever launch Quicktime, set your clock to some point in the distant future (I used 2020).
2. Run Quicktime, and when you are asked if you want to "Go Pro!" hit the "Later" button.
3. Set your clock back to the correct time and date.
4. Enjoy no more nag screens until after the date you set in the control panel!
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Apple WILL NEVER include or support X11. Why not?
1. X11 apps use a plethora of ugly widget sets, all of which look and feel completely different from one another and from Aqua. There's no way Apple would endorse or implement such a flagrant pile of different UI's on their carefully-crafted OS. Can you name a single X11 app that comes even close to conforming to the Apple UI guidelines?
2. The availability of X11 native on OS X would discourage developers from making their applications at all Mac-like in appearance or functionality, leading to less mindshare for Apple's way of doing the GUI.
Apple is still fighting with application developers to get them to Carbonize their apps. Carbon blows, big time. It's a stopgap solution crafted solely to allow ports from OS 9. (If you are developing a brand-new program for Carbon, allow me to BITCH-SLAP you out of the 80's with the clue stick a few times. ) Apple, and anyone with a brain, knows this. Apple's ultimate plan is to ditch Carbon like a hooker bad case of genital warts. Carbon ties Apple to the Motorola PPC platform which is looking more and more like an evolutionary trichordate (good potential, slow development causes it to be overwhelmed by the competition).
Apple surely won't go out of it's way to deny X11 on OS X, but you can bet they won't include it with OS X v10.3 or or OS X v11 or whatever.
As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
Apple WILL NEVER include or support X11. Why not?
1. X11 apps use a plethora of ugly widget sets, all of which look and feel completely different from one another and from Aqua. There's no way Apple would endorse or implement such a flagrant pile of different UI's on their carefully-crafted OS. Can you name a single X11 app that comes even close to conforming to the Apple UI guidelines?
2. The availability of X11 native on OS X would discourage developers from making their applications at all Mac-like in appearance or functionality, leading to less mindshare for Apple's way of doing the GUI.
Apple is still fighting with application developers to get them to Carbonize their apps. Carbon blows, big time. It's a stopgap solution crafted solely to allow ports from OS 9. (If you are developing a brand-new program for Carbon, allow me to BITCH-SLAP you out of the 80's with the clue stick a few times. ) Apple, and anyone with a brain, knows this. Apple's ultimate plan is to ditch Carbon like a hooker bad case of genital warts. Carbon ties Apple to the Motorola PPC platform which is looking more and more like an evolutionary trichordate (good potential, slow development causes it to be overwhelmed by the competition).
Thank you. Anyone who ignores the CIA's footprints all over Venezuela a few months ago is deluding themselves. I hope you coup-organizers are ASHAMED of yourselves. It's this kind of foreign policy that makes the US the most hated nation on earth.
I think it stops with Applesoft Basic.
What do you mean by 'until finally someone integrates X11 into OSX more smoothly than XDarwin'? I can't quite figure that out. Also, Quartz / Aqua are NOT incompatible with open source applications. It's differrent than X11, but also, given the platform, WAY better. As much as graphic artists have lauded X11 (ahem), the PDF imaging system is light-years beyond it in many ways.
Sigma Designs is releasing their 2nd quarter earnings report this afternoon, and I made sure that the Attorney General in Cali and the SEC both know that this company is ripping people off and -GASP!- stealing Intellectual Property!
I suggest you do the same. Let's take some money out of the CEO's pocket by letting the world know that this corporation is crooked.
Pay to sit around in the square or god forbid the nearby starbucks for $30 a month? F that.
Because your method takes way more time. Manually editing wav files is fun, but completely unnecessary for 98% of tracks ripped from CD. I am in the process of encoding a 1500+ CD collection right now, and it is a bitch even with iTunes. It would take all year to do if I got super fussy.
Yeeeee- HAW!
I read this book a decade or so ago, when I was 14. Good system. If you don't know how to count cards, it's easy to learn. It doesn't require a degree from MIT.
I believe it's spelled 'phallusy'.
They're Japanese. Give 'em a break.
What? This sentence no verb!
Except for the few points that you have glossed over. First, .NET has been proven to be a great place to propagate virii. Second, .NET won't stop somebody from e-mailing you a Word macro that'll fuck everything right over. Third, combine the first two points with the fact that even XP has local AND remote holes big enough to drive my Grandma's truck through, and you have a bag of hot air.
I'll take compiling my own programs any day over relying on pre-compiled binaries - Why should I trust some off-shore $3 per hour Win32 sweatshop with producing backdoor-free code any more than I would trust ANY unaudited code (because basically it is)? At least when one has the source code an audit is POSSIBLE albeit unlikely.
This game is hot, fast, and FREE!
While the robot is capable of some incredible feats of movement, it is all basically done by remote control at this stage. Where's the AI?
I would say that the whole "Let's balance it on two legs" stage of development is far less challenging and interesting than the "Let's teach it to be able to tell when I need a beer and bring one over" stage. I frankly don't give a shit if my robots move on legs or wheels or what, as long as they're bringing me beer when I want it.
Hi. I bought my first new Mac (TiBook DVI) this spring because it positively blows the Intel shite out of the water. I paid $2599 for it.
It has more battery life, a bigger screen, better construction, more core, and is both thinner and lighter than ANY comparable PC. And... It's cheaper. Go price out top-of-the-line PC notebooks and then look at the Powerbook. It's a better machine.
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Andrewski
Both of my senators in Oregon are extremely responsive to e-mail. I receive snail-mail replies to each of my e-mails!!! I'm not sure about the representatives.
WHOA! You are quite ill-informed. X-Windows is a SWEET network-transparent display system. It does not suck. The concept of displays tied to servers is NOT obsolete. Ask many of the major research institutions about how they deal with graphical programs running on their big iron. Do you think every multi-million dollar server has a single keyboard and monitor hooked up to it, or god forbid a room of serial terminals nowadays? No. They are all X based.
This could be considered an act of terrorism.
They were actually Nashua brand. They used a picture of an elephant and the phrase 'An elephant never forgets'.
Actually, real publishing is done with troff from an xterm. Maybe XFree86 systems don't have the prettiest font handling in the world, but don't fool yourself into thinking that all DTP is done on a Mac.
Sub-pixel hinting was in XFree86 long before it was in Mac OS.
I just bought a TiBook, and was pissed that there was no way to play full-screen video. I have been urged to "Go Pro!" but I am NOT paying 29.99 extra just to have full-screen!
So, I got Cellulo (available from versiontracker) which is a superb Free Quicktime player, and watch video fullscreen - without paying Apple MORE money!
P.S. To those who say that it's my duty to "Support Apple!" I urge you to look on my desk - a new Powerbook is certainly support enough in my opinion.
P.P.S. To get rid of those annoying Quicktime Pro nag screens, use this trick:
1. Before you ever launch Quicktime, set your clock to some point in the distant future (I used 2020).
2. Run Quicktime, and when you are asked if you want to "Go Pro!" hit the "Later" button.
3. Set your clock back to the correct time and date.
4. Enjoy no more nag screens until after the date you set in the control panel!
Not quite, unless you know where to get an XBox for $30.
Come on now, don't hold out on us.