They do. It is called the 'Classic' environment. You can happily use most [if not all] OS9.2 or below apps with OSX. It is very useful for applications that have yet to be ported, and allows you to reap the benifits of OSX at the same time. No need to dual boot.
A lot of the others posts hightlight one of the very important points about apple cases - the ability to open them up and have everything there easy to access. Brilliant. PC cases have cut me up and stabbed me so many times that this was ground breaking. Like most simple ideas are. But, alsa, that is not my point.
Forgive me, but this case is disgusting. I would be embarrased to show anyone this case, it looks cheap tacky and the sort of thing a wannabe design student from school designed. To coin a phrase, "close but no cigar". Yes the apple case has curves, yes it's smooth plastic, yes it has handles and yes if you copied it out right you would have a law suit on your hands. But if you can't come up with something usefull and good looking dont even goto production.
Let me ask a few questions, can you imagine a group of designers using this case? No neither can I. Can you imagine your parents using this case? Nope, not them. Can you imagine walking into work with your machines looking like this? Nope neither can I. Schools? Nope, Universitys? Nada. yet these are all places where Apples feature and look correct. Please, please, please can someone not come up with a case that is nice to look at, unobtrusive and functional. Surely I am not alone in wanting something like this.
The other day I was considering situations such as these where it is illegal to do something. Such as, copy a music cd, copy a dvd, play my dvd's to an audience [my house mates, my gf and her friends] to name but a few. Now we can't watch TV without breaking the law? If I switch channels at an ad break [I know I always do, and so my house mates] am I breaking the law? Because I am obviously watching content - but not "paying" for it by watching the adverts on that channel. If this is illegal - how many times has Mr "high-and-friggen-mighty" Jamie Kellner done the same?
It drives me fscking bat sh1t that we [the consumer] are being dictated to as to what we can and can't do by people want to shovel adverts down our throats. If I dont want to buy something, PUSHING an advert down my throat isn't going to suddenly make want to go out and buy it. Even more when it gets IN THE WAY of my program. What ever happened to delivering a QUALITY product. I can understand the need to advertise but when it gets to the stage where the need to advertise overtakes the product something is seriously wrong.
I am a capitalist by heart - always have been - but I feel that there is something inherently wrong with this situation and where it is leading us [as a group of consumers]. I dont want something for nothing, I dont expect companies to give things away for free. I am willing to pay - I understand that things cost money. What I want is something that resembles reasonble, and a certain amount of freedom, but from the looks of things, thats not going to happen any time soon, so I think I will drop my trousers and just prepare for the shafting.
Well, it's my birthday today and as a result I have
a kinda obsession with pratical jokes and such. I guessed this was a joke at the point in time I saw Rick van Riel as one of the authors. I dont know why but it stank of falseness. =) Anyways, I am off to enjoy being 21.
My major issue with this is not the license, but the lack of choice for the end user. As a consumer, I can't go a buy a new computer without getting a copy of XP. I am forced into this license. But then again, that is why this causes so much fuss. I suppose now that I have gone from playing to 'getting the job done' choice is very important [being dictated to as to what I can and can't do when I am also forced into a license].
Atleast with the GPL et al I can choose not to install it.
I have always loved coding, it's what I do and what I am good at, but recently I have been moving into doing more art and playing with 3D in the background. [Art is my second love, I would also go as far to saying that programming is an art form] Anyway, I have been playing with 3DSMax under Windows but I want to move to Blender because it works where I work - under Linux. It has been at the top of my list to try out again, I was kinda erked a while back when I wouldn't play ball accellerated using the Nvidia drivers. I go to get it and you can't anymore. I hope it's opened if only to allow part time fools, like my self, the oppotunity to play with 3D modelling and animation.
Good luck in the future to the developers at NaN.
Can anyone point me to a url with the latest for download, and does it play ball with nVidias accelerated drivers yet?
Yeah, I know, personally I am a knoqueror nut but use mozilla for the stuff that it seems to have issues with - I am very impressed with the current nightlies [very snappy]. I am pleased that there is some very good progess being made [I love the tabs].
But WRT my original post, pinch of salt, I'm british:-)
This is great, I can now go old school and play on my GBA under the covers of my bed. Just need to make sure the girlfriend doesn't get wind of it, or even better get her a GBA, and a copy of Mario Kart and Advance Wars. Only today I was in a queue for tickets and was gagging for this - the lighting was less than wonderfull, I had to relegate Tony Hawk to my bag.
But seriously, I hope that this is very successfull and Nintendo take note of the the popularity and get's it sorted in the future, as the screen is great most of the time but there are always times when it could be JustThatLittleBitBetter(TM). Even so the GBA is an awesome toy:-)
I just hope they start shipping soon, otherwise I am sure the Pocket Game Cube will be out =P
I think the point of the GUI is to allow for a self contained system in which to develop products using QNX. This is a nice idea as it allows you to compile, run, test, debug rather than compile, transfer, run, debug [remote/local]. Where the transfer stage adds yet another stepping stone in the development cycle (ok for large changes, but if you are tracking down a small bug it's a PITA).
From the article it seems like the tools and apps that are for QNX RTP are there to make the developers life less painfull (eg. the media application) and it's not for a general purpose desktop - and why can't developers have a nice GUI?
I'm sorry, you are obviously not from any civilised part of the globe, or if you are, then I apologise I tried to lower my IQ level but failed. We call it sarcasm, and you missed it completely. Get a brain cell, and then come back when you actually have a clue about what I am talking about.
Do have a pleasant day.
Oh, and for reference. You couldn't get a clue during clue-mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
I mean where do opensource develoepers get off writing a secure firewall distributiont thats easy install, has a good configuration front end and can be up and running in less than 20 minutes?
I mean seriously, come on? Where is the l33tness? How can I possibly claim to be cool when I use this product, it's just too easy to use. Damn them and damn their software ethics. Even my friends using Windows have started mocking me because I use something with a clear and concise configuration system.
I demand hard configuration, bad and broken installation, no updates for at least 6 months, I mean, with this software I have no excuse but to work. Damn them.
There is a tiny clip on camera availible for ericsson phones - about the same as a small DI-28 infra red modem - which sllows you to email and send via gsm the pictures. Pretty cool:)
What is really needed is an extra button and some sort of public announcement system - such that when you need to you can get the James Bond music going. It'd be too cool.
I wonder if moores law applies in this situation, ie. every 18 months the number of opensource licenses doubles.... ---
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Well last time i looked, e16+efm != e17:) Half the reason i know this isn;t going to happen is due to the fact i read the edevel mailing list, and also i am writing a fair bit of the menu code for e17. It was generally decided that transparent menus are a BadThing(TM) due to the fact that small menus are ok - but big menus get very evil to render (try middle clicking on/usr/include in efm and you shall understand) ---
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Now where are the frikken sharks on ebay? All I want are sharks with frikken "la-sers".
They do. It is called the 'Classic' environment. You can happily use most [if not all] OS9.2 or below apps with OSX. It is very useful for applications that have yet to be ported, and allows you to reap the benifits of OSX at the same time. No need to dual boot.
Chris
Go fetch, it is rather tasty :-) Now all I need is iSync to allow me to sync everything between my phone and my iBook.
Do note, you need Mac OSX 10.2 jaguar for it to run.
Chris
A lot of the others posts hightlight one of the very important points about apple cases - the ability to open them up and have everything there easy to access. Brilliant. PC cases have cut me up and stabbed me so many times that this was ground breaking. Like most simple ideas are. But, alsa, that is not my point.
Forgive me, but this case is disgusting. I would be embarrased to show anyone this case, it looks cheap tacky and the sort of thing a wannabe design student from school designed. To coin a phrase, "close but no cigar". Yes the apple case has curves, yes it's smooth plastic, yes it has handles and yes if you copied it out right you would have a law suit on your hands. But if you can't come up with something usefull and good looking dont even goto production.
Let me ask a few questions, can you imagine a group of designers using this case? No neither can I. Can you imagine your parents using this case? Nope, not them. Can you imagine walking into work with your machines looking like this? Nope neither can I. Schools? Nope, Universitys? Nada. yet these are all places where Apples feature and look correct. Please, please, please can someone not come up with a case that is nice to look at, unobtrusive and functional. Surely I am not alone in wanting something like this.
Looks like the DNS is screwy again, go to www.tuxscreen.net, with out the www the server doesn't put you on the correct page.
...head over to TuxScreen.net. Be quick there are only a couple of hundred left. They are $99 each. Have Fun.
The other day I was considering situations such as these where it is illegal to do something. Such as, copy a music cd, copy a dvd, play my dvd's to an audience [my house mates, my gf and her friends] to name but a few. Now we can't watch TV without breaking the law? If I switch channels at an ad break [I know I always do, and so my house mates] am I breaking the law? Because I am obviously watching content - but not "paying" for it by watching the adverts on that channel. If this is illegal - how many times has Mr "high-and-friggen-mighty" Jamie Kellner done the same?
It drives me fscking bat sh1t that we [the consumer] are being dictated to as to what we can and can't do by people want to shovel adverts down our throats. If I dont want to buy something, PUSHING an advert down my throat isn't going to suddenly make want to go out and buy it. Even more when it gets IN THE WAY of my program. What ever happened to delivering a QUALITY product. I can understand the need to advertise but when it gets to the stage where the need to advertise overtakes the product something is seriously wrong.
I am a capitalist by heart - always have been - but I feel that there is something inherently wrong with this situation and where it is leading us [as a group of consumers]. I dont want something for nothing, I dont expect companies to give things away for free.
I am willing to pay - I understand that things cost money. What I want is something that resembles reasonble, and a certain amount of freedom, but from the looks of things, thats not going to happen any time soon, so I think I will drop my trousers and just prepare for the shafting.
You unfortunatly hit the nail on the head.
and thus I think BnetD will win, assuming they can afford counsel.
Anyone know if the EFF are going to help them?
...that I will finally be able to run Windows XP at an acceptable rate?
There needs to be a warning, "Windows XP: Turns your 35.6 teraflop computer into a PC-XT"
*grin*
...if these got placed at random through out the year....
Well, it's my birthday today and as a result I have a kinda obsession with pratical jokes and such. I guessed this was a joke at the point in time I saw Rick van Riel as one of the authors. I dont know why but it stank of falseness. =) Anyways, I am off to enjoy being 21.
I believe the word that you are looking for is sarcasm. It may be the lowest form of wit, but none the less it still amuses time after time.
My major issue with this is not the license, but the lack of choice for the end user. As a consumer, I can't go a buy a new computer without getting a copy of XP. I am forced into this license. But then again, that is why this causes so much fuss. I suppose now that I have gone from playing to 'getting the job done' choice is very important [being dictated to as to what I can and can't do when I am also forced into a license].
Atleast with the GPL et al I can choose not to install it.
I have always loved coding, it's what I do and what I am good at, but recently I have been moving into doing more art and playing with 3D in the background. [Art is my second love, I would also go as far to saying that programming is an art form] Anyway, I have been playing with 3DSMax under Windows but I want to move to Blender because it works where I work - under Linux. It has been at the top of my list to try out again, I was kinda erked a while back when I wouldn't play ball accellerated using the Nvidia drivers. I go to get it and you can't anymore. I hope it's opened if only to allow part time fools, like my self, the oppotunity to play with 3D modelling and animation.
Good luck in the future to the developers at NaN.
Can anyone point me to a url with the latest for download, and does it play ball with nVidias accelerated drivers yet?
Yeah, I know, personally I am a knoqueror nut but use mozilla for the stuff that it seems to have issues with - I am very impressed with the current nightlies [very snappy]. I am pleased that there is some very good progess being made [I love the tabs].
:-)
But WRT my original post, pinch of salt, I'm british
... with the advent of this new technology and raw speed, you should actually be able to use them!
[this is actually a joke]
This is great, I can now go old school and play on my GBA under the covers of my bed. Just need to make sure the girlfriend doesn't get wind of it, or even better get her a GBA, and a copy of Mario Kart and Advance Wars. Only today I was in a queue for tickets and was gagging for this - the lighting was less than wonderfull, I had to relegate Tony Hawk to my bag.
:-)
But seriously, I hope that this is very successfull and Nintendo take note of the the popularity and get's it sorted in the future, as the screen is great most of the time but there are always times when it could be JustThatLittleBitBetter(TM). Even so the GBA is an awesome toy
I just hope they start shipping soon, otherwise I am sure the Pocket Game Cube will be out =P
I think the point of the GUI is to allow for a self contained system in which to develop products using QNX. This is a nice idea as it allows you to compile, run, test, debug rather than compile, transfer, run, debug [remote/local]. Where the transfer stage adds yet another stepping stone in the development cycle (ok for large changes, but if you are tracking down a small bug it's a PITA).
From the article it seems like the tools and apps that are for QNX RTP are there to make the developers life less painfull (eg. the media application) and it's not for a general purpose desktop - and why can't developers have a nice GUI?
Just my 2 pence.
Regards, Chris
I'm sorry, you are obviously not from any civilised part of the globe, or if you are, then I apologise I tried to lower my IQ level but failed. We call it sarcasm, and you missed it completely. Get a brain cell, and then come back when you actually have a clue about what I am talking about.
Do have a pleasant day.
Oh, and for reference. You couldn't get a clue during clue-mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
I mean where do opensource develoepers get off writing a secure firewall distributiont thats easy install, has a good configuration front end and can be up and running in less than 20 minutes?
I mean seriously, come on? Where is the l33tness? How can I possibly claim to be cool when I use this product, it's just too easy to use. Damn them and damn their software ethics. Even my friends using Windows have started mocking me because I use something with a clear and concise configuration system.
I demand hard configuration, bad and broken installation, no updates for at least 6 months, I mean, with this software I have no excuse but to work. Damn them.
There is a tiny clip on camera availible for ericsson phones - about the same as a small DI-28 infra red modem - which sllows you to email and send via gsm the pictures. Pretty cool :)
What is really needed is an extra button and some sort of public announcement system - such that when you need to you can get the James Bond music going. It'd be too cool.
For only $999 you too, can be James Bond!.
Semantics == information. Mine was accurate; it's yours that's degraded.
Semantics has been behavior for as long as I can remember....
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boris at darkrock dot co dot uk
I wonder if moores law applies in this situation, ie. every 18 months the number of opensource licenses doubles....
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boris at darkrock dot co dot uk
Well last time i looked, e16+efm != e17 :) Half the reason i know this isn;t going to happen is due to the fact i read the edevel mailing list, and also i am writing a fair bit of the menu code for e17. /usr/include in efm and you shall understand)
It was generally decided that transparent menus are a BadThing(TM) due to the fact that small menus are ok - but big menus get very evil to render (try middle clicking on
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boris at darkrock dot co dot uk