I can be wrong, but I don't think the Apple Lisa had protected memory, the CPU they used (Motorola 68000 same one as in the Amiga and the ST) was not capable of that...
I was an Atari fangirl back then, the 2600, the 8-bits and the ST (and even a TT) I really loved them, but if I'm honest the Amiga had better hardware and a better OS. So did the Atari 8-bit series BTW, they had better hardware than the C64 and if you look closely you really see stuff from the Atari 8-bits in the Amiga...
Ahhhh, Atari ST vs. Commodore Amiga, good old times...
Have a look at the development times they both had... I think it's rather impressive that the designer of the Commodore 64 managed to design the Atari ST so damn fast after Amiga's designers ditched the deal with Atari and go with Commodore...
I always found it funny that the same people defending the C64 also defended the Amiga while dishing on the Atari 8-bits and the ST and vice versa since the C64 and the ST were designed by the same people while the Atari 8-bits were designed by the same people as the Amiga....
I dunno, considering the importance/popularity of the IBM PC, the origins of the convention seem clear. Once the clones took over, you couldn't call it Mac vs IBM any more, and you need a name for that class of computer... Really, I can't remember the last time (if ever) I saw "PC" used to mean "personal computer" generally.
Sure, am all for still naming the class of computer a PC but why assume it's also running Windows?
As a side note it's also absurd to just say Mac when they actually mean OSX these days. If I try to install a Mac only application on my Apple Mac running Linux or Windows it doesn't really work:D
To be quite honest, I find it weird that people use 'PC' as a synonym for 'PC running Windows', why not just say 'Windows'? as in: Windows games, Kindle on Windows, Windows only, etc.
Ehh, the Kindle's AZW format is a modified Mobipocket format of which the DRM can be removed by easier methods than you describe! I even have bought Kindle ebooks without owning a Kindle and read them on my iLiad with the DRM removed ofcourse:D
Do a google search for: mobipocket decoder
So, the major geek cred must go to the person who wrote that I suppose;)
If you want Qt widely used you need to make it easy to get and install.
They (Qt Software) make it easy to use and install for their intended user-base. Namely: developers As an end-user you have no business going there.
The applications you are trying to install should be installed using apt-get which will install the needed Qt libs. If there's no.deb for the requested app, apt-get ubuntu's libqt4-dev, download the source, go to the source directory where the.pro (project) file is located. run qmake-qt4 in that directory and then run a normal make.
It's not that hard, even from sources. Sure, some problems might arise if the app is using features of a newer Qt version than the 1 bundled with your distro. Even that is easy to solve if you are a developer and if you're not, go complain to the author of the app...
Actually, the links refer to 64-bit java and not using a 32-bit java plugin in a 64-bit browser...
But, I don't come across many java applets and I might just have been lucky. Checked around, it does not always work, ah well, I thought it did (it did for as far as I know;))
Ehhh? Never heard of a hackintosh huh? My HP dv9870 runs OS X just fine, and yeah, it was cheaper than an equivalent Apple...
So if the only diff is the OS, then you can just as easily buy a cheaper non-Apple machine.
And yes, I do own Apple computers and an official license for the OS's so don't give me the 'you must be using a pirated version' bullshit...
70%? Were did you get that number if I may ask? I got mine from the CBS site (Central Buro of Statistics of the Netherlands). Anyway, you said women were not expected to have a career, but even if 70% of the working women are working parttime then they DO have a career....
Ahh yes, so it's actually in the law books, that really explains why 75% of all the shops are open in Amsterdam on sunday huh? Or the 'koopzondagen' everywhere else or the 'woonboulebards' which are open every 2nd easter day, etc., etc.
Yes, yes, according to the 'winkeltijdenwet' there are a lot of exceptions possible which allow for 12 'koopzondagen' but also exceptions for entire cities, etc. (read 'Artikel 3 t/m. 8' of the 'winkeltijdenwet'...).
Also, 7 different christian holidays? I count 5, 6 if you count both xmas days but then 'different' is not correct. New yearsday en may 4th are not religious in nature...
Also the Netherlands is indeed weird with their 2nd easter and xmas days as well... Not that I do mind, I do so hate the fact that as an office worker I wouldn't benefit from a day off when the regular christian holiday is on a sunday:D
Ohh, BTW, I can read Dutch just fine thank you very much...
I do admit there are still some differences here and there, yes, women do get paid less than men still, sigh, but I don't fall for that, if a male (or female) colleague earns more then me while we do the same job, I will really make a big fuss, ask my former employers:D
But do you honestly believe that other countries are any better? I still believe that as a whole we are better of in the Netherlands than in the US and most other countries...
But then again, the grass is always greener at the neighbours...
Wow, I must not be living in the Netherlands then according to you...
- in 2007 42.89% of the working people was female - the educational system in the Netherlands is a hell of a lot more fair to everyone, even for people with not a lot of money. - legally they are not required to close the shop, they are legally required to give the employees a day of on holidays but it's not necessarily have to be on the exact day (so it's not a religious thing per se, but a right to have the day of, same rights go to the non christian religious holidays...) - bars can close earlier too:D usually these are in the smaller towns, in a city they can stay open till 1am or till 5am, depending on the city, position of the bar and lots of places have all night cafes, etc. - since immigrants are forced to learn a little Dutch they don't have any individuality? strange, it's not like they are forced to learn some bullshit stuff about the country they live in or anything:D
I have a few questions for you: - ever been in the Netherlands? - where the hell did you get these weird ideas from about the Netherlands? - you say Dutch culture is the opposite of the US culture in the aspects that matter most, so what the hell are those aspects?
I'm not saying that the Netherlands is perfect or anything, it has it's faults like every country in the world. I do strongly believe though the Netherlands is a hell of a lot more fair to all it's people than most countries in general and the US specifically...
Pffft, I learned it on the Atari XL and the Atari ST, yeah, yeah the ST Basic sucked, the XL's didn't though. And yes, for more than just simple Basic programs one needs to get hold of something else, me personally, I bought Turbo C (later Pure C) for the ST and DevPac for assembly development...
Back then those things weren't as expensive as todays commercial development environments...
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Awesome, I wish I had mod points!
Actually, you pay €0.79 instead of $0.99 in the App Store (what this article is about). Also the development program costs €79 instead of $99....
If you remove the VAT it's actually a bit cheaper than the US price...
That iPad you talk about is actually €479, then minus the VAT and converted to dollars it's $595
I can be wrong, but I don't think the Apple Lisa had protected memory, the CPU they used (Motorola 68000 same one as in the Amiga and the ST) was not capable of that...
OS-9 was actually available from the beginning for the Atari ST as well.......
I was an Atari fangirl back then, the 2600, the 8-bits and the ST (and even a TT) I really loved them, but if I'm honest the Amiga had better hardware and a better OS. So did the Atari 8-bit series BTW, they had better hardware than the C64 and if you look closely you really see stuff from the Atari 8-bits in the Amiga...
Ahhhh, Atari ST vs. Commodore Amiga, good old times...
Have a look at the development times they both had... I think it's rather impressive that the designer of the Commodore 64 managed to design the Atari ST so damn fast after Amiga's designers ditched the deal with Atari and go with Commodore...
I always found it funny that the same people defending the C64 also defended the Amiga while dishing on the Atari 8-bits and the ST and vice versa since the C64 and the ST were designed by the same people while the Atari 8-bits were designed by the same people as the Amiga....
Actually the same picture has already been used before for a different article on December 7: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Politiek/283373/VVD-en-PVV-eisen-tegenprestatie-voor-uitkering.htm
Different author though...
The executable file extension for GUI applications on Atari's TOS had either the extension .PRG or, wait for it, .APP...
We're talking 1985 here.......
I dunno, considering the importance/popularity of the IBM PC, the origins of the convention seem clear. Once the clones took over, you couldn't call it Mac vs IBM any more, and you need a name for that class of computer... Really, I can't remember the last time (if ever) I saw "PC" used to mean "personal computer" generally.
Sure, am all for still naming the class of computer a PC but why assume it's also running Windows?
As a side note it's also absurd to just say Mac when they actually mean OSX these days. If I try to install a Mac only application on my Apple Mac running Linux or Windows it doesn't really work :D
To be quite honest, I find it weird that people use 'PC' as a synonym for 'PC running Windows', why not just say 'Windows'? as in: Windows games, Kindle on Windows, Windows only, etc.
Ehh, the Kindle's AZW format is a modified Mobipocket format of which the DRM can be removed by easier methods than you describe! I even have bought Kindle ebooks without owning a Kindle and read them on my iLiad with the DRM removed ofcourse :D
Do a google search for: mobipocket decoder
So, the major geek cred must go to the person who wrote that I suppose ;)
Nah, you must be just ignorant. The Kindle is not the only e-ink device out there: http://www.irextechnologies.com/node/186
Even their old model the iLiad, which I have, supports pdf files, but you must have missed that one.
Such a device does exist, it's called an ebook reader :D
If you want Qt widely used you need to make it easy to get and install.
They (Qt Software) make it easy to use and install for their intended user-base. Namely: developers
As an end-user you have no business going there.
The applications you are trying to install should be installed using apt-get which will install the needed Qt libs. .deb for the requested app, apt-get ubuntu's libqt4-dev, download the source, go to the source directory where the .pro (project) file is located. run qmake-qt4 in that directory and then run a normal make.
If there's no
It's not that hard, even from sources. Sure, some problems might arise if the app is using features of a newer Qt version than the 1 bundled with your distro. Even that is easy to solve if you are a developer and if you're not, go complain to the author of the app...
Okay, well, if you want to throw money at the problem rent a cheap UK based VPS and install a proxy server, works like a charm I can tell ya ;)
(And no, it was not the reason to take an UK VPS, just happen to use it for this once in a while...)
Yes, I indeed am, and when checking up on it I read that not everything works so well for every user. Must have been lucky I suppose! (finally!)
Actually, the links refer to 64-bit java and not using a 32-bit java plugin in a 64-bit browser... But, I don't come across many java applets and I might just have been lucky. Checked around, it does not always work, ah well, I thought it did (it did for as far as I know ;))
Can you explain what that problem might be? Since I'm running 64-bit firefox and 32-bit flash+java just fine...
Ehhh? Never heard of a hackintosh huh? My HP dv9870 runs OS X just fine, and yeah, it was cheaper than an equivalent Apple... So if the only diff is the OS, then you can just as easily buy a cheaper non-Apple machine. And yes, I do own Apple computers and an official license for the OS's so don't give me the 'you must be using a pirated version' bullshit...
Yep, I think you're right, the Chinese want to stay close at home... Now excuse me while I go pickup my dinner from the local Chinese restaurant :D
70%? Were did you get that number if I may ask? I got mine from the CBS site (Central Buro of Statistics of the Netherlands). Anyway, you said women were not expected to have a career, but even if 70% of the working women are working parttime then they DO have a career....
:D
:D
Ahh yes, so it's actually in the law books, that really explains why 75% of all the shops are open in Amsterdam on sunday huh? Or the 'koopzondagen' everywhere else or the 'woonboulebards' which are open every 2nd easter day, etc., etc.
Yes, yes, according to the 'winkeltijdenwet' there are a lot of exceptions possible which allow for 12 'koopzondagen' but also exceptions for entire cities, etc. (read 'Artikel 3 t/m. 8' of the 'winkeltijdenwet'...).
Also, 7 different christian holidays? I count 5, 6 if you count both xmas days but then 'different' is not correct. New yearsday en may 4th are not religious in nature...
Also the Netherlands is indeed weird with their 2nd easter and xmas days as well... Not that I do mind, I do so hate the fact that as an office worker I wouldn't benefit from a day off when the regular christian holiday is on a sunday
Ohh, BTW, I can read Dutch just fine thank you very much...
I do admit there are still some differences here and there, yes, women do get paid less than men still, sigh, but I don't fall for that, if a male (or female) colleague earns more then me while we do the same job, I will really make a big fuss, ask my former employers
But do you honestly believe that other countries are any better? I still believe that as a whole we are better of in the Netherlands than in the US and most other countries...
But then again, the grass is always greener at the neighbours...
Ok, please tell me, where the hell did you get your negativity to the Dutch people from??
Wow, I must not be living in the Netherlands then according to you...
:D usually these are in the smaller towns, in a city they can stay open till 1am or till 5am, depending on the city, position of the bar and lots of places have all night cafes, etc. :D
- in 2007 42.89% of the working people was female
- the educational system in the Netherlands is a hell of a lot more fair to everyone, even for people with not a lot of money.
- legally they are not required to close the shop, they are legally required to give the employees a day of on holidays but it's not necessarily have to be on the exact day (so it's not a religious thing per se, but a right to have the day of, same rights go to the non christian religious holidays...)
- bars can close earlier too
- since immigrants are forced to learn a little Dutch they don't have any individuality? strange, it's not like they are forced to learn some bullshit stuff about the country they live in or anything
I have a few questions for you:
- ever been in the Netherlands?
- where the hell did you get these weird ideas from about the Netherlands?
- you say Dutch culture is the opposite of the US culture in the aspects that matter most, so what the hell are those aspects?
I'm not saying that the Netherlands is perfect or anything, it has it's faults like every country in the world. I do strongly believe though the Netherlands is a hell of a lot more fair to all it's people than most countries in general and the US specifically...
Pffft, I learned it on the Atari XL and the Atari ST, yeah, yeah the ST Basic sucked, the XL's didn't though. And yes, for more than just simple Basic programs one needs to get hold of something else, me personally, I bought Turbo C (later Pure C) for the ST and DevPac for assembly development... Back then those things weren't as expensive as todays commercial development environments...