Who really cares about "Platinum"? It's no longer a popular trademark. If MS went after copycat themes, would they go after Win 3.11 themes? I doubt it.
Let me spell this out: Apple owns the copyright on the design. Apple has the right to enforce this. Anyone who thinks they can get away with it is kidding themselves.
Aqua is not the only thing they have going for them in Mac OS X(.1), but it's a big thing; it's what differentiaates them from MS in screenshots, etc. If any system can look like theirs, they lose out. I know it's nice, I'd like it on my Linux desktop as well, but it's Apple's property and this is their right, so let's not act too surprised that they try and stop it.
Let us, however, ignore that Be never cared, QNX doesn't care, and MS really, really doesn't care (it probably even makes them laugh when a Linux WM has a Windows theme). Apple is 'special' in that they have to keep their lawyers fed or they start to go ambulance chasing when they get bored.
No optical, not this time; same old port with backwards compatability a la USB 2.0. Two plugs can be on the same channel, if that's what you mean, but it seems like you're asking for a dual-mode plug/port which there will be none (nor can there be; copper != fiber).
This has so much opportunity for on-line sexual addictions; the doors to true "cybersex" are now open.
Transcript of a cybermasturbation:
"That's a little too gentle, now. Come on, bitch, a little more rough, eh?"
[crunch]
[falsetto screaming]
"Bitch? What?"
Yep, I've used an Apple. It was ten years ago, but I've used an Apple.
I think you mean a Mac, though, since only Macs have the little bomb you describe. All I have to say concerning that is if you're having problems then your configuration is having problems because my home computer is perfectly stable these days, be I in 9 or 10.
And I've had to deal with extension conflicts, but I've also had to deal with a corrupt boot partition on Linux and a corrupt registry on Windows. All seem to be around the same level of fun.
You're right, though, it's not because they were out-marketed in the chip department. It's because they were not made the standard by IBM, which people seem to underestimate the power of, even today. IBM made the PC *as we know it* and that's what stuck. Never mind there were PCs before it, it doesn't matter. IBM made theirs and that was the official first coming and what people had to match. So here we are. The better platform still (miraculously) idling by with near 10% retail marketshare at the moment and 5-7% installed base (IIRC). Someday we'll all see the silliness that is Windows and use Something Else but, until then, we're stuck with chips that needlesly pull more power than they should just to get a marketing edge, not a performance one.
I'm just still sitting here amazed that my 450MHz G4 can beat the snot out of many modern chips. Bad, bad design on Intel's part, mainly. AltiVec helps in certain cases, though. =)
And you consider clock cycles to be the gospel truth? There is no measurement that is perfect, but there are those that come close.
For instance, in cars there is torque, horse power, 0-60, 60-0, quarter mile time. All give you an idea about the car, but what's the aggregate number that says, "this is the perfect car." There is none. We're in the same boat with integer, floating point, vector, bus speed/width, L2 speed, L3 speed, etc. We need to get away from: "this four-cylender can get to 7000 RPMs without red-lining and that V6 red-lines at 5000, so the V6 is worse" and get to "this car can get from home to work with less gas and faster than the other one, and the CD changer is cool too."
Problem is, do you really want to deal with a company that misleads customers either deliberately through shrewd unscrupulous marketting..or through stupidity?
I'm running Windows. Do you think this bothers me? If the product is better, use it. If it's what you want, use it. I hate that:
Apple is using the ADC connector.
Windows is dropping preinstallation of Java.
IE just dropped Netscape plugins to kill QuickTime.
Intel is bumping up GHz to get market share even though it's making the chips slower.
Yet, I have a G4 at home, I'm running Windows at work (I have a choice), I upgraded IE, and I have an Intel chip at work (I have a choice). The company is irrelevent as they all suck. Get what you want, make sure it works, move on.
Move back to Intel? For a marketing scheme? Move to Intel for the chip, or the support, or the availablility or price, but don't abandon a company just because their marketing scheme seems to be a little off. Really, all you ever really need to know is that model X Athlon beats nnnnMHz Intel chip, and there are many sources that will measure that for you. Once you know, get the chip.
It's known that Intel chips give the worst performance per MHz rating of all chip makers in the world and it's about time that one company does more than just ramble on about a "Megahertz Myth" while still pushing MHz as a measurement of the chip speed. AMD realized the worthlessness of this and took the first step at stopping the speed race that Apple was unwilling to do and started everyone in what really matters: the performance race. Which chip model outpaces the rest? That's what really matters. A 1.2GHz Athlon WILL win over a 1.2GHz Pentium IV, and should it ever get there [fingers crossed] a 1.2GHz G4(5?) would beat the snot out of both of them. It's a worthless measurement, and since no real measurement exists that is meaningful, they went to model numbers to shut people up about clock cycles.
The reality is that about 25% of high school graduates complete college. That's a national average. High school damn well better give kids some useful eduacation because no one will get it otherwise. That's my point.
Love the attitude. Back here in the real world you need to realize that whatever the ideal for the world, it is still in the same state as it was thirty years ago in many respects. There are an increasing number of people "crossing over" into what were gender-specific jobs, however there are a large amount of people still stuck in the sterotype. This is not a problem; if that's what they want to do then that's their right.
Though before flaming me for one sentance again, you should have read the previous comment like yours in which I stated that I would not be against being a stay-home dad. It's not sexist, it's reality, folks. Sometimes things don't work like the books say they should, and a lot of women are still in clerical jobs, so I used it as an example.
I'm also sure that had I used any reference to age or capability of a person, however accurate and demonstrated in reality, I would have been similarly attacked. Please think before you type. I never stated advocacy for the idea, only acknowledged that it exists.
The number of you people that have social disorders is, quite frankly, astounding.
Unfortunately these days young women are not socially *allowed* to be geeky at all. The idea is making more choices not less. Pull your head out of your ass and look around.
Yes, when I pull my head out of my ass and look around I see female co-workers and a female boss, who codes as well. Hmm, yeah, you're so right. Mmmm hmm. What you see is not always how it is everywhere.
Honestly, it would be so much simpler to get a Mac OS X Server (which can do Windows Domains (RSN with 10.1), YP, and Mac domains). Then get a small group of each kind of computer. Life is good. As people use more of one kind, get more of that kind; user accounts will move with the person. Then there's no debate over liscensing from the server and/or what kind of computer you use.
Is it really a sterotype if that's what she wants to do? Does everyone have to follow what you think their life should be? Isn't the point of "breaking sterotypes" just to be yourself? What if that's what she, or even he, wants?
Hell, I've love to be a stay-home dad, myself. I wouldn't mind at all. Is that not ambitious enough for you? Should I go to the top just because I could? Or should I just be happy?
Whatever makes you happy, and for some, that means a fairly mentally trivial job. That requires training, usually in MS Word and Excel. That will no longer be provided.
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Odd; I'm using 10.1 and it doesn't do squat. Oh well, I should be happy, then.
Yep, while assinine, you're right, it's a trademark, not a copyright. I was thinking of the files themselves and not the appearance.
That suit was more over the GUI concept itself than the look and feel. Today a L&F suit would probably win.
Who really cares about "Platinum"? It's no longer a popular trademark. If MS went after copycat themes, would they go after Win 3.11 themes? I doubt it.
Let me spell this out: Apple owns the copyright on the design. Apple has the right to enforce this. Anyone who thinks they can get away with it is kidding themselves.
Aqua is not the only thing they have going for them in Mac OS X(.1), but it's a big thing; it's what differentiaates them from MS in screenshots, etc. If any system can look like theirs, they lose out. I know it's nice, I'd like it on my Linux desktop as well, but it's Apple's property and this is their right, so let's not act too surprised that they try and stop it.
Let us, however, ignore that Be never cared, QNX doesn't care, and MS really, really doesn't care (it probably even makes them laugh when a Linux WM has a Windows theme). Apple is 'special' in that they have to keep their lawyers fed or they start to go ambulance chasing when they get bored.
Slashdot: Enabling useless holy wars since 199x.
No optical, not this time; same old port with backwards compatability a la USB 2.0. Two plugs can be on the same channel, if that's what you mean, but it seems like you're asking for a dual-mode plug/port which there will be none (nor can there be; copper != fiber).
Yeah, basically like that...
This has so much opportunity for on-line sexual addictions; the doors to true "cybersex" are now open.
Transcript of a cybermasturbation:
"That's a little too gentle, now. Come on, bitch, a little more rough, eh?"
[crunch]
[falsetto screaming]
"Bitch? What?"
Perhaps not just yet...
Yeah, it's only taken us twenty years to grow the balls needed to get off our asses and defend ourselves from these rats.
Nahh, there's still Gateway.
Slashdot: News for turds. Stuff that splatters.
This falls into the latter category.
[BOOM]
"We're going to need a new Timmy!"
[Guess the source?]
Yep, I've used an Apple. It was ten years ago, but I've used an Apple.
I think you mean a Mac, though, since only Macs have the little bomb you describe. All I have to say concerning that is if you're having problems then your configuration is having problems because my home computer is perfectly stable these days, be I in 9 or 10.
And I've had to deal with extension conflicts, but I've also had to deal with a corrupt boot partition on Linux and a corrupt registry on Windows. All seem to be around the same level of fun.
You're right, though, it's not because they were out-marketed in the chip department. It's because they were not made the standard by IBM, which people seem to underestimate the power of, even today. IBM made the PC *as we know it* and that's what stuck. Never mind there were PCs before it, it doesn't matter. IBM made theirs and that was the official first coming and what people had to match. So here we are. The better platform still (miraculously) idling by with near 10% retail marketshare at the moment and 5-7% installed base (IIRC). Someday we'll all see the silliness that is Windows and use Something Else but, until then, we're stuck with chips that needlesly pull more power than they should just to get a marketing edge, not a performance one.
I'm just still sitting here amazed that my 450MHz G4 can beat the snot out of many modern chips. Bad, bad design on Intel's part, mainly. AltiVec helps in certain cases, though. =)
I try. =)
And you consider clock cycles to be the gospel truth? There is no measurement that is perfect, but there are those that come close.
For instance, in cars there is torque, horse power, 0-60, 60-0, quarter mile time. All give you an idea about the car, but what's the aggregate number that says, "this is the perfect car." There is none. We're in the same boat with integer, floating point, vector, bus speed/width, L2 speed, L3 speed, etc. We need to get away from: "this four-cylender can get to 7000 RPMs without red-lining and that V6 red-lines at 5000, so the V6 is worse" and get to "this car can get from home to work with less gas and faster than the other one, and the CD changer is cool too."
This is but a first step in that direction.
I'm running Windows. Do you think this bothers me? If the product is better, use it. If it's what you want, use it. I hate that:
- Apple is using the ADC connector.
- Windows is dropping preinstallation of Java.
- IE just dropped Netscape plugins to kill QuickTime.
- Intel is bumping up GHz to get market share even though it's making the chips slower.
Yet, I have a G4 at home, I'm running Windows at work (I have a choice), I upgraded IE, and I have an Intel chip at work (I have a choice). The company is irrelevent as they all suck. Get what you want, make sure it works, move on.It's known that Intel chips give the worst performance per MHz rating of all chip makers in the world and it's about time that one company does more than just ramble on about a "Megahertz Myth" while still pushing MHz as a measurement of the chip speed. AMD realized the worthlessness of this and took the first step at stopping the speed race that Apple was unwilling to do and started everyone in what really matters: the performance race. Which chip model outpaces the rest? That's what really matters. A 1.2GHz Athlon WILL win over a 1.2GHz Pentium IV, and should it ever get there [fingers crossed] a 1.2GHz G4(5?) would beat the snot out of both of them. It's a worthless measurement, and since no real measurement exists that is meaningful, they went to model numbers to shut people up about clock cycles.
Kudos to AMD.
The reality is that about 25% of high school graduates complete college. That's a national average. High school damn well better give kids some useful eduacation because no one will get it otherwise. That's my point.
I believe someone said that about BeOS as well.
Love the attitude. Back here in the real world you need to realize that whatever the ideal for the world, it is still in the same state as it was thirty years ago in many respects. There are an increasing number of people "crossing over" into what were gender-specific jobs, however there are a large amount of people still stuck in the sterotype. This is not a problem; if that's what they want to do then that's their right.
Though before flaming me for one sentance again, you should have read the previous comment like yours in which I stated that I would not be against being a stay-home dad. It's not sexist, it's reality, folks. Sometimes things don't work like the books say they should, and a lot of women are still in clerical jobs, so I used it as an example.
I'm also sure that had I used any reference to age or capability of a person, however accurate and demonstrated in reality, I would have been similarly attacked. Please think before you type. I never stated advocacy for the idea, only acknowledged that it exists.
The number of you people that have social disorders is, quite frankly, astounding.
Yes, when I pull my head out of my ass and look around I see female co-workers and a female boss, who codes as well. Hmm, yeah, you're so right. Mmmm hmm. What you see is not always how it is everywhere.
Honestly, it would be so much simpler to get a Mac OS X Server (which can do Windows Domains (RSN with 10.1), YP, and Mac domains). Then get a small group of each kind of computer. Life is good. As people use more of one kind, get more of that kind; user accounts will move with the person. Then there's no debate over liscensing from the server and/or what kind of computer you use.
Is it really a sterotype if that's what she wants to do? Does everyone have to follow what you think their life should be? Isn't the point of "breaking sterotypes" just to be yourself? What if that's what she, or even he, wants?
Hell, I've love to be a stay-home dad, myself. I wouldn't mind at all. Is that not ambitious enough for you? Should I go to the top just because I could? Or should I just be happy?
Whatever makes you happy, and for some, that means a fairly mentally trivial job. That requires training, usually in MS Word and Excel. That will no longer be provided.
Yep, I'm sure someone said that ten years ago, too.