If Orson Welles doesn't crawl out of his grave and strangle this arrogant, money-grubbing motherfucker with his own intestines, then at least we finally know that the dead are *truly* and *forever* gone.
Considering he knew Welles and you didn't goes a long way to him truly not giving a shit about your input.
Apple lost just about their entire claim against Nokia, when half the patents they were seeking to enforce were declared invalid by the FTC, and the rest dismissed as not being infringed.
It would be interesting to see Apple now try to enforce those patents declared invalid against Motorola et al.
This all started when Apple refused to pay consortium of GSM patent holders fees that all other GSM manufacturers subscribe to, some how feeling the were above the law.
You're delusional. Firstly, it's not the Federal Trade Commision (FTC) involved in the Nokia suing Apple and Apple counter suing case. It's the United States International Trade Commission [USITC).
Motorola knew apple were suing already, how do you think apple counter-sued so quickly, and then amended it with more complaints later in reaction to the suit motorola put forth.
Nokia tried for years to work with apple in regards to patents (the iphone uses many many of nokias patents mainly to do with 3g and other wireless business), apple went fuck you to nokia thus the patent battle.
Apple is the one playing hardball here, they are doing what any profit driven company does, tries to force the competition out, by any means possible.
What alternative reality do you live in? NOKIA didn't believe the usual licensing fees were going to be enough from Apple and demanded a percentage of each device profits. Apple told them to take a long walk off a short pier and NOKIA about two years later realized they were screwed and went on the offensive. Apple counter sued. You can't counter sue if you in fact were the originator of the suing.
What's old becomes anew when advances in science add new means to old problems. Nuclear Power with Fuel Rods is MORONIC. Pebble-bed Based Nuclear isn't but that's the first action of the Atomic Energy Commission--kill the non-weapons based solution for the SHITTY but weapons capable solution. Screw Professor Fermi! He knows not what he claims!
I'd imagine the Dutch and the rest of the world would have said, ``Screw the Steam Engine if they had MW Wind Mills, let alone global power distribution already in place.
Keep talking. The more crap you spew the deeper the defecations climb over your head.
Why wouldn't you release the iPhone, a beefed up iPod + phone service, which gives you much larger profit margins, and having everyone who bought an iPod upgrade for a significant extra outlay? I'm confused.
Again, how does the iPad, which can't connect to a printer, run multiple apps at once, connect to most peripherals easily cannibalize your laptop sales? It's like saying when Sony introduces a new netbook or ultralight laptop model they are cannibalizing their other sales. This sounds like apple worship. Give credit where it is due, don't start acting like they are doing things no one else does with their business lines.
and where do they get 65 billion from? the market value is 250 billion+.
The author of the piece is considering a company's value based upon their cash on hand. Don't let them anywhere near finances. Not to mention Apple's current Market Value: $288.95B.
???? Obj-C was created by Brad Cox in the early 80s. Next licensed the trademark from StepStone. GCC has had an objective C compiler in it (as described by Cox) since the early 90s. As it is, the compiler used by Apple is the GCC compiler with some extra features such as properties (which have been released as gpl and are available for download from apples website). With the exception of trademarks and patents on an implementation, you can't own a language. Anyone can build a compiler for the same language with a different name (with exception of patented parts of implementation which is less certain with Bilski).
NeXT bought sole rights to all the IP for Objective-C in 1995. Apple acquired this ownership with the purchase of NeXT.
How bloody hard is it to copy a file? A text one at that? How hard is it to literally grab and drag a file from "Download" to where your local.opera directory is, or to directly save the file to.opera?
So now it's got a GUI wrapper? BFD. It actually makes it *more* complicated.
I swear that every complaint that "Hurr, durr, Opera had no adblock" is an intelligence shibboleth. Those that said it are stupid, without reservation.
Two best browsers on the 'net - Chrome and Opera. Hands down. The others aren't even close. Not Webkit nor Gecko based browsers. And IE is just a special case all to itself - a reminder of a bygone era when standards didn't matter.
--
BMO
Your mentally challenged or just plain ignorant by mocking WebKit and praising Chrome. Chrome is WebKit with Google crap bolted on. Thanks to WebKit we have Chrome, Chromium, Epiphany, Safari, and other WebKit based browsers.
By the way, Opera 11 beta still blows chunks for HTML5 support. Wake me up when it's HTML5 Algorithm is complete and HTML5 Tokenizer, HTML5 Tree Building, SVG in text/html and MathML in text/html for HTML5 is supported. Their HTML5 Element support is garbage and their user interaction [Drag and drop, Undo History, Session History, Text Selection] at the rate they are going will take another 12 months to be covered.
Notice that the release notes for the 96.43.19 version, released a week ago, includes "support for X.org xserver 1.8 & 1.9". Yes, xserver 1.8 wasn't supported until a week ago. It was released in April, seven months ago. In other words, if you wanted to run a current xorg for over half of this year with a Geforce 4 and the binary blob, you were out of luck; and their official position (which they fortunately reverted) was "we still support those cards, but only on xserver1.7.999". This is not "remarkable support" at all.
Note that Debian has nothing but experimental support for 1.9 and just recently only stable support for 1.8, while being 4 versions of the kernel behind in Sid [still stuck on 2.6.32]. Yes, they just released 2.6.36 in experimental but basically view it as ``SOL if something goes wrong because we're busy getting another stable out whenever the hell we figure out the time for it to be ready to come out...'' I'm stuck waiting for even Nvidia's 260.19.21-1 [only got a build because a few of us bugged them to get it ready for CUDA 3.2 and OpenCL 1.1 (OpenCL 1.1 for myself personally)] to get out of the wait state before I can even test Xserver 1.9.
Nvidia's been very responsive with their Linux support. [nvnews.net] They've kept CUDA/OpenCL current for both Windows and Linux, as well.
"Fusion goes Apple 28 / 32nm
It all started here, when AMD’s Senior VP and Chief Sales Officer Emilio Ghilardi was brave enough to show an image of several Apple products in a Fusion presentation. After we wrote our part AMD was quick to deny it, perhaps a bit too quick, which gave us a reason to dig some more, only to find that we were on the right track.
We asked around and some sources close to Intel / Nvidia have denied the rumour saying that they know nothing about it. However, just a day later we managed to confirm that the leak is real and that Apple will indeed use Fusion, here.
Our industry sources have indicated that the deal will be announced in at some point 2011, that it will involve 28nm and 32nm Fusion parts particularly Krishna and that Apple plans to launch notebooks based on AMD chips. Apple is also not cold hearted on Trinity 32nm Fusion parts.
The announcement can be as far as a year away, as 28nm parts won't materialise until the second half of 2011 and since AMD doesn’t have a tablet chip, it won’t happen in iPad segment. At this point Apple doesn’t plan to use any AMD chips in desktop or server parts, but in case Bulldozer impresses us all, maybe Steve might change his mind.
So if you like Apple and love AMD, start saving money as roughly a year from now you should be able to buy Apple notebook with Fusion Krishna / Trinity class APU."
Invest that savings into AMD Stock and when the additions happen enjoy the ride. Apple will never use Intel or AMD in their embedded devices [iPhone, iPod, iPads] as their A# ARM based CPU/GPU combo they can control and develop with incredibly high ROI.
you -could- just compost it yourself. But you won't cause it's more work than you would like and smells bad.
Except that it's trivially easy, and doesn't smell bad (or at all) if you do it right.
And doing it right is not very difficult.
Plus you get excellent free fertilizer (organic, even!) for your garden, trees or lawn.
Exactly. If your clippings are stinking up the area you're composting it wrong.
Did you check his Java? Java is the most exploited app right now. If he doesn't need it you should just uninstall it. If he needs it for a local app then disable the browser plugin and just make sure he keeps up with the updates. By default it sets to check monthly for updates. You should change that to weekly or daily.
Yep, true dat. I remember when Adobe Reader first came out, it was the cat's ass - lightweight, did it's job, nothing else. In fact at one time PDFs were used to avoid those infamous MS-Word viruses that spread in the '90's. Now it's suffering from the same feature creep that affects every other (commercial) software vendor - add features or else you don't think you're "adding value". And those new features carry with them all manner of attack vectors and vulnerabilities.
Which is why I don't think vi will suffer the same fate. I'm not an avid follower of it's development, I just use it, but it seems to me that they're keeping it pretty much the way it was intended to be.
You lost me with the FOSS dig at Commercial software, as if KDE or GNOME aren't riddled with useless feature creep that continues to bloat it. Hell, the entire Plasma concept bloats the hell out of KDE and is why I disable as much of it as possible.
People complain about Java being verbose and old fashioned. Objective C was invented over 10 years earlier and it feels like it. Java's saving grace is the tools. The modern IDEs are amazing. The only choice for Objective C is Xcode and it feels like a Java IDE from about 2003. I write Java for a living and don't much care for it. But after a bit of Objective C it's a joy to get back to Java.
Good to see you have the balls of an Anonymous coward to brag about Java being a joy over ObjC. To each their own. Personally, there is no contest for my taste: Objective-C.
The 5770 will also cost you significantly less in electricity and cooling during the warm months =)
Yeah, I'm sure it's really competing against that 95% efficient multi-stage Gas Furnace you should have in your house, but don't for energy costs or the still electric base board running in your house, not to mention the electric range, on and on.
You're basic premise is comically flawed. The City is a Government. Your naturally absurd conclusion is for each person to manage their own Fiber network. Your assumption is based upon the absurdly laughable self-reliance principle that fails consistently in large civilizations. Your other absurdity with localized governments being capable is the presumption that people are ethically aware. No matter who runs any system there will always be gaming of the systems by those managing them, to a varying degree.
The US Libertarian Party changes it's diapers [bylaws] every year. The Party of Peter Principles keeps changing it's Peter more often than Pinocchio lies. They will forever be relegated to a niche party for their notion of the greater good centers around the Greater World of Me.
We could use, at least, a basic understanding of probability..
My every day life is Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science applying advanced mathematics to projects and more. It's part of my tool set. What's not part of my tool set is a Statistics professor wasting research time pontificating on how much the average person needs math. Hello! The dumbing down of the average keeps the elite few seen as indispensable to Society. Every one should learn as much pure and applied mathematics as they see fit. If they reach a point where their career is limited due to their lack of a certain set of mathematical skills, then they should be encouraged to learn more, not stop and accept their ceiling.
What they need is a lean, mean, webkit-based browser that is like a lite version of Safari.
Why? You can run any browser you want in windowmaker. I recently went back to using windowmaker myself, and have to say it's really nice to use a wm that doesn't keep changing all the time, plus it's got to be *the* most configurable wm there is. Stays out of my way, everything works like it should. Install wmaker, wmakerconf, gmrun, terminal emulator and web browser of your choice, mc or worker, and that's your whole desktop right there. I think the only real reason people want a full-bloat DE is so they can clutter their desktops with silly doodads and not have to learn how to use the CLI tools.
The person I assume is alluding to the notion of a Native Cocoa WebKit Browser on Linux, within GNUStep, that leverages Services and an Extensions API to just develop for both Safari and say, Quest [Safari-Lite], for the GNUstep platform on FreeBSD and Linux.
Getting a developer's license has nothing to do with this; Apple is distributing a binary of a ported VLC in contravention of VLC's license. Apple's App Store rules are the heart of the issue: Apple's App Store rules prohibit them from complying with the GNU GPL which disallows adding restrictions to its (now longstanding) terms. Apple controls which apps enter and leave their App Store; they had as much time as they wanted to review license compliance and they apparently chose copyright infringement. Part of what makes this so bad is that they chose to infringe against people who are treating users so nicely: the GPL gives everyone (even Apple) all the license they need to distribute programs, even commercially.
Apple is most certainly responsible for infringingly distributing VLC. Much as you want to call the FSF names (your hyperbole suggests this is for reasons you can't justify), the FSF almost doesn't enter into the situation here except for being the author of the license VLC programmers chose to license VLC under. VLC programmer Rémi Denis-Courmont is simply defending his chosen license against an organization that would impose new restrictions on users of that variant of VLC.
The GPL gives Apple permission to distribute this software through the App Store. All they would have to do is follow the license's conditions to help keep the software free. Instead, Apple has decided that they prefer to impose Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and proprietary legal terms on all programs in the App Store, and they'd rather kick out GPLed software than change their own rules. Their obstinance prevents you from having this great software on Apple devices--not the GPL or the people enforcing it.
To take this the way you want to read it, it's almost as if you don't believe copyright holders should be able to choose their own license and legally defend their choice. We should all just bend to Apple's will and let them proprietarize or include DRM in the distribution of anything we make. Apparently there are GPLed program hackers who don't agree with that.
Apple isn't shipping squat. They are providing a mechanism for the Developer to Upload their solution to Apple's centrally distributed repository. It's on the Developer shoulders to take responsibility for their choices.
I doubt it. Switching to AMD (especially for only part of their line) seems like it would have a lot of ancillary costs such as the R&D help I know Intel has given Apple. Apple stuck by Intel for years through their abysmal "GPUs" (I've got one, along with an nVidia, in my MacBook Pro). Intel's latest round of integrated GPUs is actually supposed to be pretty good, to the point that on lower end computers (like MacBooks) it may not be necessary to include even a low-end GPU.
Also, don't forget the right now AMD has the Phenom, which is a good chip, and Intel has their current Core line, which is an amazing line of chips. To go to AMD means sacrificing performance/watt on the CPU side.
Two years ago maybe it would have mattered. Today? Too little too late.
Being a former NeXT and Apple Engineer I can tell you unequivocally your thought is Bull Shit. Intel gave NeXT practically zero information for the NeXTStep Port to Intel. Apple designs around Intel Specs and Intel helps as another OEM. No special treatment.
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If Orson Welles doesn't crawl out of his grave and strangle this arrogant, money-grubbing motherfucker with his own intestines, then at least we finally know that the dead are *truly* and *forever* gone.
Considering he knew Welles and you didn't goes a long way to him truly not giving a shit about your input.
Apple lost just about their entire claim against Nokia, when half the patents they were seeking to enforce were declared invalid by the FTC, and the rest dismissed as not being infringed.
It would be interesting to see Apple now try to enforce those patents declared invalid against Motorola et al.
This all started when Apple refused to pay consortium of GSM patent holders fees that all other GSM manufacturers subscribe to, some how feeling the were above the law.
You're delusional. Firstly, it's not the Federal Trade Commision (FTC) involved in the Nokia suing Apple and Apple counter suing case. It's the United States International Trade Commission [USITC).
Source: USITC (pdf)
http://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_701_notice04222010sgl.pdf
READ THE DOCUMENT. The update gives the status moved between May 31, 2011 -- August 1, 2011.
Research seems to be a difficult commodity to come by these days.
Motorola knew apple were suing already, how do you think apple counter-sued so quickly, and then amended it with more complaints later in reaction to the suit motorola put forth.
Nokia tried for years to work with apple in regards to patents (the iphone uses many many of nokias patents mainly to do with 3g and other wireless business), apple went fuck you to nokia thus the patent battle.
Apple is the one playing hardball here, they are doing what any profit driven company does, tries to force the competition out, by any means possible.
What alternative reality do you live in? NOKIA didn't believe the usual licensing fees were going to be enough from Apple and demanded a percentage of each device profits. Apple told them to take a long walk off a short pier and NOKIA about two years later realized they were screwed and went on the offensive. Apple counter sued. You can't counter sue if you in fact were the originator of the suing.
Does it fix the "I can't paste into a textarea" bug?
I was using it instead of Firefox, but that one's a dealkiller for me.
Nope. It's a joke that even 9.0.597.0 dev still can't manage this simple behavior.
Just download the unstable branch. It's as close to WebKit Nightly as you get for Chrome.
What's old becomes anew when advances in science add new means to old problems. Nuclear Power with Fuel Rods is MORONIC. Pebble-bed Based Nuclear isn't but that's the first action of the Atomic Energy Commission--kill the non-weapons based solution for the SHITTY but weapons capable solution. Screw Professor Fermi! He knows not what he claims!
I'd imagine the Dutch and the rest of the world would have said, ``Screw the Steam Engine if they had MW Wind Mills, let alone global power distribution already in place.
Keep talking. The more crap you spew the deeper the defecations climb over your head.
Why wouldn't you release the iPhone, a beefed up iPod + phone service, which gives you much larger profit margins, and having everyone who bought an iPod upgrade for a significant extra outlay? I'm confused.
Again, how does the iPad, which can't connect to a printer, run multiple apps at once, connect to most peripherals easily cannibalize your laptop sales? It's like saying when Sony introduces a new netbook or ultralight laptop model they are cannibalizing their other sales. This sounds like apple worship. Give credit where it is due, don't start acting like they are doing things no one else does with their business lines.
and where do they get 65 billion from? the market value is 250 billion+.
The author of the piece is considering a company's value based upon their cash on hand. Don't let them anywhere near finances. Not to mention Apple's current Market Value: $288.95B.
Apple also owns the rights to Obj-C
???? Obj-C was created by Brad Cox in the early 80s. Next licensed the trademark from StepStone. GCC has had an objective C compiler in it (as described by Cox) since the early 90s. As it is, the compiler used by Apple is the GCC compiler with some extra features such as properties (which have been released as gpl and are available for download from apples website). With the exception of trademarks and patents on an implementation, you can't own a language. Anyone can build a compiler for the same language with a different name (with exception of patented parts of implementation which is less certain with Bilski).
NeXT bought sole rights to all the IP for Objective-C in 1995. Apple acquired this ownership with the purchase of NeXT.
of Facetime?
No it won't.
>about fucking time
Say what?
How bloody hard is it to copy a file? A text one at that? How hard is it to literally grab and drag a file from "Download" to where your local .opera directory is, or to directly save the file to .opera?
So now it's got a GUI wrapper? BFD. It actually makes it *more* complicated.
I swear that every complaint that "Hurr, durr, Opera had no adblock" is an intelligence shibboleth. Those that said it are stupid, without reservation.
Two best browsers on the 'net - Chrome and Opera. Hands down. The others aren't even close. Not Webkit nor Gecko based browsers. And IE is just a special case all to itself - a reminder of a bygone era when standards didn't matter.
-- BMO
Your mentally challenged or just plain ignorant by mocking WebKit and praising Chrome. Chrome is WebKit with Google crap bolted on. Thanks to WebKit we have Chrome, Chromium, Epiphany, Safari, and other WebKit based browsers.
By the way, Opera 11 beta still blows chunks for HTML5 support. Wake me up when it's HTML5 Algorithm is complete and HTML5 Tokenizer, HTML5 Tree Building, SVG in text/html and MathML in text/html for HTML5 is supported. Their HTML5 Element support is garbage and their user interaction [Drag and drop, Undo History, Session History, Text Selection] at the rate they are going will take another 12 months to be covered.
Notice that the release notes for the 96.43.19 version, released a week ago, includes "support for X.org xserver 1.8 & 1.9". Yes, xserver 1.8 wasn't supported until a week ago. It was released in April, seven months ago. In other words, if you wanted to run a current xorg for over half of this year with a Geforce 4 and the binary blob, you were out of luck; and their official position (which they fortunately reverted) was "we still support those cards, but only on xserver1.7.999". This is not "remarkable support" at all.
Note that Debian has nothing but experimental support for 1.9 and just recently only stable support for 1.8, while being 4 versions of the kernel behind in Sid [still stuck on 2.6.32]. Yes, they just released 2.6.36 in experimental but basically view it as ``SOL if something goes wrong because we're busy getting another stable out whenever the hell we figure out the time for it to be ready to come out...'' I'm stuck waiting for even Nvidia's 260.19.21-1 [only got a build because a few of us bugged them to get it ready for CUDA 3.2 and OpenCL 1.1 (OpenCL 1.1 for myself personally)] to get out of the wait state before I can even test Xserver 1.9.
Nvidia's been very responsive with their Linux support. [nvnews.net] They've kept CUDA/OpenCL current for both Windows and Linux, as well.
And you think Apple customers are that worried about price?
Those price points guarantees Apple a higher profit margin.
Any chance Apple could use that for the next versions of Mac mini and MacBooks? Or is a Core 2 Duo with nVidia 320M still better than Fusion?
... according to Fudzilla.com
http://www.fudzilla.com/notebooks/item/20888-amd-apple-deal-is-28nm-notebooks
"Fusion goes Apple 28 / 32nm It all started here, when AMD’s Senior VP and Chief Sales Officer Emilio Ghilardi was brave enough to show an image of several Apple products in a Fusion presentation. After we wrote our part AMD was quick to deny it, perhaps a bit too quick, which gave us a reason to dig some more, only to find that we were on the right track.
We asked around and some sources close to Intel / Nvidia have denied the rumour saying that they know nothing about it. However, just a day later we managed to confirm that the leak is real and that Apple will indeed use Fusion, here.
Our industry sources have indicated that the deal will be announced in at some point 2011, that it will involve 28nm and 32nm Fusion parts particularly Krishna and that Apple plans to launch notebooks based on AMD chips. Apple is also not cold hearted on Trinity 32nm Fusion parts.
The announcement can be as far as a year away, as 28nm parts won't materialise until the second half of 2011 and since AMD doesn’t have a tablet chip, it won’t happen in iPad segment. At this point Apple doesn’t plan to use any AMD chips in desktop or server parts, but in case Bulldozer impresses us all, maybe Steve might change his mind.
So if you like Apple and love AMD, start saving money as roughly a year from now you should be able to buy Apple notebook with Fusion Krishna / Trinity class APU."
And if you want Fusion benchmarks, check the usual suspects: http://techreport.com/articles.x/19981 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4023/the-brazos-performance-preview-amd-e350-benchmarked
Invest that savings into AMD Stock and when the additions happen enjoy the ride. Apple will never use Intel or AMD in their embedded devices [iPhone, iPod, iPads] as their A# ARM based CPU/GPU combo they can control and develop with incredibly high ROI.
you -could- just compost it yourself. But you won't cause it's more work than you would like and smells bad.
Except that it's trivially easy, and doesn't smell bad (or at all) if you do it right. And doing it right is not very difficult. Plus you get excellent free fertilizer (organic, even!) for your garden, trees or lawn.
Exactly. If your clippings are stinking up the area you're composting it wrong.
Did you check his Java? Java is the most exploited app right now. If he doesn't need it you should just uninstall it. If he needs it for a local app then disable the browser plugin and just make sure he keeps up with the updates. By default it sets to check monthly for updates. You should change that to weekly or daily.
Java is not an app.
Yep, true dat. I remember when Adobe Reader first came out, it was the cat's ass - lightweight, did it's job, nothing else. In fact at one time PDFs were used to avoid those infamous MS-Word viruses that spread in the '90's. Now it's suffering from the same feature creep that affects every other (commercial) software vendor - add features or else you don't think you're "adding value". And those new features carry with them all manner of attack vectors and vulnerabilities.
Which is why I don't think vi will suffer the same fate. I'm not an avid follower of it's development, I just use it, but it seems to me that they're keeping it pretty much the way it was intended to be.
You lost me with the FOSS dig at Commercial software, as if KDE or GNOME aren't riddled with useless feature creep that continues to bloat it. Hell, the entire Plasma concept bloats the hell out of KDE and is why I disable as much of it as possible.
People complain about Java being verbose and old fashioned. Objective C was invented over 10 years earlier and it feels like it. Java's saving grace is the tools. The modern IDEs are amazing. The only choice for Objective C is Xcode and it feels like a Java IDE from about 2003. I write Java for a living and don't much care for it. But after a bit of Objective C it's a joy to get back to Java.
Good to see you have the balls of an Anonymous coward to brag about Java being a joy over ObjC. To each their own. Personally, there is no contest for my taste: Objective-C.
The 5770 will also cost you significantly less in electricity and cooling during the warm months =)
Yeah, I'm sure it's really competing against that 95% efficient multi-stage Gas Furnace you should have in your house, but don't for energy costs or the still electric base board running in your house, not to mention the electric range, on and on.
You're basic premise is comically flawed. The City is a Government. Your naturally absurd conclusion is for each person to manage their own Fiber network. Your assumption is based upon the absurdly laughable self-reliance principle that fails consistently in large civilizations. Your other absurdity with localized governments being capable is the presumption that people are ethically aware. No matter who runs any system there will always be gaming of the systems by those managing them, to a varying degree.
The US Libertarian Party changes it's diapers [bylaws] every year. The Party of Peter Principles keeps changing it's Peter more often than Pinocchio lies. They will forever be relegated to a niche party for their notion of the greater good centers around the Greater World of Me.
We could use, at least, a basic understanding of probability..
My every day life is Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science applying advanced mathematics to projects and more. It's part of my tool set. What's not part of my tool set is a Statistics professor wasting research time pontificating on how much the average person needs math. Hello! The dumbing down of the average keeps the elite few seen as indispensable to Society. Every one should learn as much pure and applied mathematics as they see fit. If they reach a point where their career is limited due to their lack of a certain set of mathematical skills, then they should be encouraged to learn more, not stop and accept their ceiling.
Why? You can run any browser you want in windowmaker. I recently went back to using windowmaker myself, and have to say it's really nice to use a wm that doesn't keep changing all the time, plus it's got to be *the* most configurable wm there is. Stays out of my way, everything works like it should. Install wmaker, wmakerconf, gmrun, terminal emulator and web browser of your choice, mc or worker, and that's your whole desktop right there. I think the only real reason people want a full-bloat DE is so they can clutter their desktops with silly doodads and not have to learn how to use the CLI tools.
The person I assume is alluding to the notion of a Native Cocoa WebKit Browser on Linux, within GNUStep, that leverages Services and an Extensions API to just develop for both Safari and say, Quest [Safari-Lite], for the GNUstep platform on FreeBSD and Linux.
"VLC is under GPLv2. v2 is compatible with the terms of the Apple App Store"
Does Apple's App Store offer the means to download the source code of the app? If not, Apple store is incompatible with the terms of GPLv2.
"and pretty much any other app store out there."
I know an app store *can* be compatible with GPLv2 terms. "Can" and "do" are different issues, anyway.
You're not a lawyer or soon to be a financially bankrupt one. Your knowledge of the GPLv2 is wrong.
Getting a developer's license has nothing to do with this; Apple is distributing a binary of a ported VLC in contravention of VLC's license. Apple's App Store rules are the heart of the issue: Apple's App Store rules prohibit them from complying with the GNU GPL which disallows adding restrictions to its (now longstanding) terms. Apple controls which apps enter and leave their App Store; they had as much time as they wanted to review license compliance and they apparently chose copyright infringement. Part of what makes this so bad is that they chose to infringe against people who are treating users so nicely: the GPL gives everyone (even Apple) all the license they need to distribute programs, even commercially.
Apple is most certainly responsible for infringingly distributing VLC. Much as you want to call the FSF names (your hyperbole suggests this is for reasons you can't justify), the FSF almost doesn't enter into the situation here except for being the author of the license VLC programmers chose to license VLC under. VLC programmer Rémi Denis-Courmont is simply defending his chosen license against an organization that would impose new restrictions on users of that variant of VLC.
So, if Apple chooses to remove VLC from their App Store as they removed GNU Go in May under what Denis-Courmont calls "strikingly similar circumstances", Apple will be making it that much less convenient for most iOS users to get and use VLC. Perhaps you should visit the FSF article linked to in the top of this /. thread which includes:
To take this the way you want to read it, it's almost as if you don't believe copyright holders should be able to choose their own license and legally defend their choice. We should all just bend to Apple's will and let them proprietarize or include DRM in the distribution of anything we make. Apparently there are GPLed program hackers who don't agree with that.
Apple isn't shipping squat. They are providing a mechanism for the Developer to Upload their solution to Apple's centrally distributed repository. It's on the Developer shoulders to take responsibility for their choices.
I doubt it. Switching to AMD (especially for only part of their line) seems like it would have a lot of ancillary costs such as the R&D help I know Intel has given Apple. Apple stuck by Intel for years through their abysmal "GPUs" (I've got one, along with an nVidia, in my MacBook Pro). Intel's latest round of integrated GPUs is actually supposed to be pretty good, to the point that on lower end computers (like MacBooks) it may not be necessary to include even a low-end GPU.
Also, don't forget the right now AMD has the Phenom, which is a good chip, and Intel has their current Core line, which is an amazing line of chips. To go to AMD means sacrificing performance/watt on the CPU side.
Two years ago maybe it would have mattered. Today? Too little too late.
Being a former NeXT and Apple Engineer I can tell you unequivocally your thought is Bull Shit. Intel gave NeXT practically zero information for the NeXTStep Port to Intel. Apple designs around Intel Specs and Intel helps as another OEM. No special treatment.
Sorry, but the LLVM list is nothing like the GCC list.