Apparently you aren't aware of the Politics that goes into the decisions of porting apps within Adobe.
Adobe hasn't wanted to budge on Objective-C even though they have written Objective-C for NeXT.
It's politically driven just as it was when they and a few other key developers strong armed Apple into creating Carbon.
Now that OS X is becoming entrenched that tactic is no longer viable and thus Apple doesn't give a shit because they will have a third party pick up the slack, or do it themselves.
If you don't think Apple can't produce a Framemaker killer you're nuts. It's a matter of necessity, not a lack of ability to do so.
LyX --LaTeX for What You See is What You Mean Document Processing.
LyX 1.4 is coming along splendidly and is becoming much more intuitive, daily.
LyX 1.3.4 is excellent, flexible, extensible and quite intuitive with a buttload of Free Support from the LyX User List.
LyX for Mac is Qt compliant--Ronald Florence maintains the port.
I'm looking into what it would require to do a Cocoa port but I can't imagine it would take much to do.
Try the damn software out. It is the one I use for writing Novels, Tech Publications, etc on Linux and OS X.
When I want to do Graphic Layout I'm using Scribus for Linux--growing better daily and quite useable with CMYK Color Separations, Secure PDF Exportations, etc.
Hell get smart and try Create! (Stone Studio). My friend Andrew Stone knows Document Publishing, Graphics Design and Layout. He even works with PStill Creator (PStill PS/EPS to PDF 256Bit Encrypted Conversion), Frank Siegert and has a wonderful PStill Utility for OS X.
If you can't grasp Create's Power than you've got issues
Free Upgrades for Life! Not to mention Andrew is one of the most talented, seasoned and professional individuals you'll ever speak with or meet. Great Company and Family. Highly respected since the early NeXT Days and now Apple Days.
Somehow after looking at the SVG Print Spec I see them interfacing with PDF not replacing PDF.
PDF/PS and their already established PPDs for Printer Dumb Devices should be leveraged, not reinventing the wheel and attempting to debunk and open standard with another open standard.
I believe what the poster was trying to make a case at is the fact that QuickTime was a huge foundation for MPEG-4 and thus Apple's investment and political interests in AAC was elementary and not hard to miss.
Thankfully 24 December 1999 is long since dead, now get off your butt and write in XHTML.
Then try and validate now.
Luckily XML demands two options of well-formedness and validation. Neither of which allows sloppy coding. It sure makes the client parsing the files run more smoothly knowing it doesn't have to account for such sloppy practices and waste cycles in the process.
You've really overly simplified the design choice of system VMs'.
What is the logic of running VNC for users using GNOME/Mozilla when each system already running GNOME typically gets Moz out-of-the-box?
Are all your machines using Linux w/ GNOME/Mozilla and you connect to a VNC Server to run MS Office or some other Windows Apps?
You don't give enough information to draw upon your claim for 256MB per user account and how that pertains to VNC and Linux.
Offtopic
The biggest dilemma I've seen is poor code optimization on all platforms which takes a back seat to feature richness.
At NeXT and now Apple, Avie Tevannian was a stickler for making sure the OS runs on the slowest boxes consumers still purchased and actually run well. As the scale moved up the chipset performance specs the OS responsiveness only improved. There will always be a need for serious SQA Test Harness implementations as well as a sweet spot between system functionality and system performance.
Linux 2.6 is much more enjoyable to work with than 2.4 and it only gets snappier with each patch version.
Throwing out the device driver argument since closed drivers on any platform are solely responsible in coordinating with the OS Vendor to make sure it properly interfaces with the OS System Low Level APIs. Take OS X's I/O Kit as an example.
I see the main crux of RAM increases dealing with the meta data that Filesystems will need with either Longhorn, Linux 2.7.x or OS X, let alone FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.. There will have to be advancements in VMs because to expect everyone just to purchase 2, 4, 8 or 16 Gigs of RAM for the OS and its necessary applications is assinine. For Servers that makes sense, or Developer system working with BLOBS, etc., but not for a consumer desktop system.
Thunderbird uses Maildir and long before KMail. Let's not even go in the direction of TLS that just now is being put into KMail or filtering on IMAPd directories, and the retouching/indexing of every directory when one is only in the Inbox and has no filters on. The solution for IMAP on Thunderbird is much better, from a user perspective. Importing server/client certs is straightforward and decent documentation compared to KMail also helps.
Don't get me wrong I'm using KMail and Thunderbird and if KMail eventually becomes equivalent then I won't have to have more of my system resources utilized via Thunderbird's lack of KDE integration.
Email is not defined as a Groupware Solution. Outlook is more akin to Groupware, period.
The basis of just working with an Email message and what you do with it is what should be discussed.
Once you step outside the context of the two-way communication or the one-to-many conversation and enter into planning/scheduling, project management, etc then we might as well redefine what email is and make sure every application meets these minimum requirements, before it can be classified as an email client application.
NeXTMail.app was lightyears ahead of other respective email clients, but most wouldn't know this until they see Mail.app.
The philosophy of NeXT and now Apple is akin to UNIX where one makes many small applications but with the added elegance of Services that extends a cooperative solution to third parties who wish to not have to re-invent/duplicate functionality of third party apps just to compete.
Mail.app should not be a complete Groupware application but it should with Services utilize third party applications that extend such add-ons to make the overall experience rich and lightweight.
Here would be a fair trade: Cooperation of Web Standards and Mozilla implements Objective-C/Cocoa as one of those first class programming languages it espouses about, besides Mono.
Notice anything technically incorrect in either of these two specifications? When you read it you'll feel that wonderful sense of welling sarcasm billowing upwards uttering something antagonizing ala, "Good to see our network is developed, maintained and delivered by such technically competent people."
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Sorry but having more than 4 virtual desktops available is ductaping a scratch. Wrong solution for an obvious problem--lack of a cohesive UI strategy. (NeXTSTEP still is the only one that got it right)
Auto-raise/focus follow the mouse is annoying as hell. I want the power to be in the choice of onClick not onFocus.
GIMP is a nice free tool. If it wants to help launch Linux into DTP prominence it should offer a compelling experience, not a lesson in time spent learning how it works due to sparse documentation and examples by seasoned GIMP professionals.
Someone should port GIMP to OS X using Cocoa, following Apple's UI Guidelines and see just how much broader the appeal will be. Afterall, there are no barriers to porting GIMP Objective-C/Cocoa.
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No the color pink suggests that it is very popular with females who are physically active, either in jogging or some other cardiovascular activity, while at a gym.
And I'd like to add that Apple Engineering enhances or completely refactors bits and pieces of the NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD code, and give back accordingly per any licensing agreements.
This reminds me of when people give Adobe the credits to developing Display Postcript and NeXT just licensed it. DUH! Without NeXT it wouldn't have come about, let alone Display PDF, etc. Let's give credit for ideas and code where they are due.
That blit to screen has to do with the bitmap dumping approach Windows uses versus the Display PDF draw line by line approach Quartz inherits from Openstep.
And as far as it not being smooth on OS X I would supply hardware specifics and OS X versioning before claiming it doesn't draw seemlessly, on the fly.
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Be a bit more precise.
Categorize the shows that were cancelled by ABC, NBC, CBS, WB, etc..
Then compare their ratings.
You might get a pattern.
WB might have a slightly distorted view of its market strength against the big 3.
Let's hope Angel gets picked up by another network. Ironically, maybe one of the big 3 needs to pick it up and play it on Saturday?
Don't blame Engineering for the annoying Menu Bar. We formerly at NeXT wanted to adopt the Vertical Menu Bars that you folks know from NeXTStep and GNUStep. What we got was countless hours of whining from pre-OS X users.
Change only works in a gradual timeline, not an immediate departure.
What I wish OS X would allow is the option to configure the menu styles ala NeXTStep or MacOS.
That is what Bertrand Serlet and the rest of Software Engineering should propose to Steve, not to mention the WorkspaceManager.app type shelf of reusable files, etc. for easy access.
Dragging to the desktop and cluttering your desktop is something I didn't miss with NeXTStep/Openstep.
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Apparently you aren't aware of the Politics that goes into the decisions of porting apps within Adobe.
Adobe hasn't wanted to budge on Objective-C even though they have written Objective-C for NeXT.
It's politically driven just as it was when they and a few other key developers strong armed Apple into creating Carbon.
Now that OS X is becoming entrenched that tactic is no longer viable and thus Apple doesn't give a shit because they will have a third party pick up the slack, or do it themselves.
If you don't think Apple can't produce a Framemaker killer you're nuts. It's a matter of necessity, not a lack of ability to do so.
Until it becomes a discipline like Mechanical Engineering I'd expect it to fluctuate as it does.
Call me biased with an M.E. degree and then worked on a second bachelor's in CS I will say something that is also lacking today:
Credible Educators
The best Instructors easily make over 100k--at least they did when I worked for NeXT and Apple.
Continually re-educate or become obsolete
LyX --LaTeX for What You See is What You Mean Document Processing.
LyX 1.4 is coming along splendidly and is becoming much more intuitive, daily.
LyX 1.3.4 is excellent, flexible, extensible and quite intuitive with a buttload of Free Support from the LyX User List.
LyX for Mac is Qt compliant--Ronald Florence maintains the port. I'm looking into what it would require to do a Cocoa port but I can't imagine it would take much to do.
Try the damn software out. It is the one I use for writing Novels, Tech Publications, etc on Linux and OS X.
When I want to do Graphic Layout I'm using Scribus for Linux--growing better daily and quite useable with CMYK Color Separations, Secure PDF Exportations, etc.
Hell get smart and try Create! (Stone Studio). My friend Andrew Stone knows Document Publishing, Graphics Design and Layout. He even works with PStill Creator (PStill PS/EPS to PDF 256Bit Encrypted Conversion), Frank Siegert and has a wonderful PStill Utility for OS X.
If you can't grasp Create's Power than you've got issues
Free Upgrades for Life! Not to mention Andrew is one of the most talented, seasoned and professional individuals you'll ever speak with or meet. Great Company and Family. Highly respected since the early NeXT Days and now Apple Days.
Sincerely, Marc J. DriftmeyerSomehow after looking at the SVG Print Spec I see them interfacing with PDF not replacing PDF.
PDF/PS and their already established PPDs for Printer Dumb Devices should be leveraged, not reinventing the wheel and attempting to debunk and open standard with another open standard.
I believe what the poster was trying to make a case at is the fact that QuickTime was a huge foundation for MPEG-4 and thus Apple's investment and political interests in AAC was elementary and not hard to miss.
Thankfully 24 December 1999 is long since dead, now get off your butt and write in XHTML.
Then try and validate now.
Luckily XML demands two options of well-formedness and validation. Neither of which allows sloppy coding. It sure makes the client parsing the files run more smoothly knowing it doesn't have to account for such sloppy practices and waste cycles in the process.
Only an idiot is gullible enough to disclose his/her Entrepreneurship Ideas to the World before they are ready to do so themselves.
This one feature needs to be added before the much anticipated HTML Mode.
You've really overly simplified the design choice of system VMs'.
What is the logic of running VNC for users using GNOME/Mozilla when each system already running GNOME typically gets Moz out-of-the-box?
Are all your machines using Linux w/ GNOME/Mozilla and you connect to a VNC Server to run MS Office or some other Windows Apps?
You don't give enough information to draw upon your claim for 256MB per user account and how that pertains to VNC and Linux.
Offtopic
The biggest dilemma I've seen is poor code optimization on all platforms which takes a back seat to feature richness.
At NeXT and now Apple, Avie Tevannian was a stickler for making sure the OS runs on the slowest boxes consumers still purchased and actually run well. As the scale moved up the chipset performance specs the OS responsiveness only improved. There will always be a need for serious SQA Test Harness implementations as well as a sweet spot between system functionality and system performance.
Linux 2.6 is much more enjoyable to work with than 2.4 and it only gets snappier with each patch version.
Throwing out the device driver argument since closed drivers on any platform are solely responsible in coordinating with the OS Vendor to make sure it properly interfaces with the OS System Low Level APIs. Take OS X's I/O Kit as an example.
I see the main crux of RAM increases dealing with the meta data that Filesystems will need with either Longhorn, Linux 2.7.x or OS X, let alone FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.. There will have to be advancements in VMs because to expect everyone just to purchase 2, 4, 8 or 16 Gigs of RAM for the OS and its necessary applications is assinine. For Servers that makes sense, or Developer system working with BLOBS, etc., but not for a consumer desktop system.
Sorry but alot of time has been wasted spent on taking Carbon and making it a first-class citizen with Cocoa instead of focusing on Cocoa.
That is changing with each revision as more Cocoa is implemented and the OS becomes more seemless.
Politics played the most important part of the direction OS X has taken.
Thunderbird uses Maildir and long before KMail. Let's not even go in the direction of TLS that just now is being put into KMail or filtering on IMAPd directories, and the retouching/indexing of every directory when one is only in the Inbox and has no filters on. The solution for IMAP on Thunderbird is much better, from a user perspective. Importing server/client certs is straightforward and decent documentation compared to KMail also helps.
Don't get me wrong I'm using KMail and Thunderbird and if KMail eventually becomes equivalent then I won't have to have more of my system resources utilized via Thunderbird's lack of KDE integration.
Email is not defined as a Groupware Solution. Outlook is more akin to Groupware, period.
The basis of just working with an Email message and what you do with it is what should be discussed.
Once you step outside the context of the two-way communication or the one-to-many conversation and enter into planning/scheduling, project management, etc then we might as well redefine what email is and make sure every application meets these minimum requirements, before it can be classified as an email client application.
NeXTMail.app was lightyears ahead of other respective email clients, but most wouldn't know this until they see Mail.app.
The philosophy of NeXT and now Apple is akin to UNIX where one makes many small applications but with the added elegance of Services that extends a cooperative solution to third parties who wish to not have to re-invent/duplicate functionality of third party apps just to compete.
Mail.app should not be a complete Groupware application but it should with Services utilize third party applications that extend such add-ons to make the overall experience rich and lightweight.
Here would be a fair trade: Cooperation of Web Standards and Mozilla implements Objective-C/Cocoa as one of those first class programming languages it espouses about, besides Mono.
How about SUN say okay but only if you open up DB2 and Informix.
I'm hinting at the Mac specs
Reference Documentation from QwestPlease just out of curiosity. What are your physical dimensions? How much do you weigh?
How often do you think an ergonomic chair should be adjusted for you? Answer: Once.
I can see it now the Planes, Trains & Automobile rental car scene where you play the role of John Candy constantly fiddling with the damn settings.
Sorry but having more than 4 virtual desktops available is ductaping a scratch. Wrong solution for an obvious problem--lack of a cohesive UI strategy. (NeXTSTEP still is the only one that got it right)
Auto-raise/focus follow the mouse is annoying as hell. I want the power to be in the choice of onClick not onFocus.
GIMP is a nice free tool. If it wants to help launch Linux into DTP prominence it should offer a compelling experience, not a lesson in time spent learning how it works due to sparse documentation and examples by seasoned GIMP professionals.
Someone should port GIMP to OS X using Cocoa, following Apple's UI Guidelines and see just how much broader the appeal will be. Afterall, there are no barriers to porting GIMP Objective-C/Cocoa.
Excerpt...Qwest Media Press
No the color pink suggests that it is very popular with females who are physically active, either in jogging or some other cardiovascular activity, while at a gym.
Let's presume you don't have a family to feed.
Someone with a bent for Truth. Thank you.
And I'd like to add that Apple Engineering enhances or completely refactors bits and pieces of the NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD code, and give back accordingly per any licensing agreements.
This reminds me of when people give Adobe the credits to developing Display Postcript and NeXT just licensed it. DUH! Without NeXT it wouldn't have come about, let alone Display PDF, etc. Let's give credit for ideas and code where they are due.
Get serious. It's cash reserves, collecting Bank interest.
Daily operations of $4.8 Billion would make zero sense due to the fact it takes them 6 months to generate that much in gross sales alone.
It would be quite difficult to claim zero debt now wouldn't it?That blit to screen has to do with the bitmap dumping approach Windows uses versus the Display PDF draw line by line approach Quartz inherits from Openstep.
And as far as it not being smooth on OS X I would supply hardware specifics and OS X versioning before claiming it doesn't draw seemlessly, on the fly.
Be a bit more precise.
Categorize the shows that were cancelled by ABC, NBC, CBS, WB, etc..
Then compare their ratings.
You might get a pattern.
WB might have a slightly distorted view of its market strength against the big 3.
Let's hope Angel gets picked up by another network. Ironically, maybe one of the big 3 needs to pick it up and play it on Saturday?
Don't blame Engineering for the annoying Menu Bar. We formerly at NeXT wanted to adopt the Vertical Menu Bars that you folks know from NeXTStep and GNUStep. What we got was countless hours of whining from pre-OS X users.
Change only works in a gradual timeline, not an immediate departure.
What I wish OS X would allow is the option to configure the menu styles ala NeXTStep or MacOS.
That is what Bertrand Serlet and the rest of Software Engineering should propose to Steve, not to mention the WorkspaceManager.app type shelf of reusable files, etc. for easy access.
Dragging to the desktop and cluttering your desktop is something I didn't miss with NeXTStep/Openstep.