The X86 OSX is going to be a blow to Linux crap? How does changing the processor for OSX make it more or less of a threat to Linux? It simply doesn't make any sense. All the advantages/disadvantages of Linux over OSX remain constant regardless of what processor Apple chooses for their systems.
Now if Apple decided to allow OSX to be run on commodity hardware, that would be threating to both windows, linux and every other OS. If Apple decided to open up the propriatary components that really define OSX, that could lead to people switching to OSX. As it stands now, the likelihood of Apple doing either is very slim.
I purchase ibm X series models specifically because they are touchpoint only. I simply hate wasting valuable real estate on a useless touchpad.
Touchpoints make so much more sense because they are embedded in the keyboard. You don't have to move your fingers a great distance to use the mouse. The other big advantage is the continuous motion of a touchpoint compared to moving your thumb multiple times on a trackpad to navigate through a long distance. A semi-experienced touchpoint user can out mouse an experienced touchpad user without expending much effort.
While touchpoints are the most efficient design, it comes with a price. It takes a bit of time to get comfortable using a touchpoint. Novice computer users can be thrown off by it and it doesn't have the "gee wiz" appearance and marketability of a touchpad.
shown in the flash on the page linked, all seem like smartphone use cases to me. Almost all of them can be summed up with "Use internet for short time periods."
Sounds like what most people use their Treos for, but why would i want to carry around this large device that can only connect to the net if I happen to be in area with open wifi? For instance the Airport use case, if I wanted to do a quick e-mail check using airport wifi it would be ~$8/hr in most Airports. With a smartphone, most users would already have an unlimited data plan.
I've noticed quite a few posts already mentioning napster and that the RIAA would shut this down, but based on what law? A search engine specializing in torrents is completely different then a centralized P2P file sharing network(Napster) or the common torrent portal.
The MPAA has maneuvered to get some torrent sites pulled offline, almost all of the sites are places where users publish content to the site manually.(PUSH) A search engine pulling content from existing locations (PULL) is a completely different type of system.
On the same note, I recently purchased a Pioneer Plasma TV and found notices for the linux kernel and openssl. Apparently the media box that comes with the display runs on Linux and uses openssl.
"Would competition regulators look to block this merger??"
Remember who is in charge? Not to say that antitrust has been properly enforced by ANY administration in the 40 years but this administration has been exceptionally merger friendly.
said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Tiger's groundbreaking new features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way people use their computers, and drive our competitors nuts trying to copy them."
Dashboard? Innovative? Its just a copy of the many other widget platforms that have been available for quite a few years now. Calling dashboard innovative is like calling Internet Explorer 1 groundbreaking. If anything it continues Apple's tradition of taking the ideas of successful mac shareware apps and including a copy of the app free in the os ala MS.
Spotlight is pretty cool and Apple is the first os to ship such a product (its ususally the first to ship a lot of cool features), but the idea has been floating around forever. Beagle was even announced a day before spotlight, and MS has been talking about something similar for longhorn for half a decade now.
The graphics and eye candy and great. The interface is testament to what good developers can do with a web based interface, but can we please get the directions right?
For a quick example, I picked my usual drive between State College, PA and Philadelphia PA. Google, wants me to drive 100 miles in the wrong direction. Instead of gong from 322 -> i83 -> turpike, its puts me on 80 east, then has me travel on 81 south, which is almost southwest, then to the turnpike. These directions add at least 100 miles to this very basic trip.
Rendell pushed a bill written by Verizon, banning public sponsered wifi access in the state of PA except for Philadelhia. You can read more about about here.
i810 driver updates
* Dualhead support (i830+)
* i915 support
* New 3D driver (i830+)
* i810 driver is now supported for AMD64
This should fix the current hackish method for using video out.
The KDE mentions a little bit of cooperation, and the XFCE guy outright stats that they don't pay a lot of attention to it.
The exact words of the Oliver:
Olivier Fourdan - We are not much involved in the freedesktop.org group. In fact, we try to stay compliant with the freedesktop.org standards as much as we can but we take no part in the standards themselves. We have very limited resources, and being involved with the freedesktop.org would probably mean less involvement with Xfce (well, at least for me).
XFCE4 is compliant with many freedesktop.org standards, but their developers are not involved in writing the standards.
Is still on the air? Before the Comcast merger, I did tivo the Screensavers. I have never seen a product or company turn to such complete and utter crap, so quickly almost instantly, after a merger.
This is just silly. It's like getting mad at Blockbuster because they don't license every other video rental place in town to use the Blockbuster retail outlets to sell their own movies.
Nope, not even close. If you want to use an analogy for Blockbuster, this would be an accurate example.
Blockbuster creates a new video format.
Blockbuster becomes the only retailer for sells this new format.
Blockbuster also makes the hardware that plays the new format.
BlockBuster refuses to open or license the new format to other hardware companyies and retailers.
Other retailers can still sell older formats, but Blockbuster has the largest market share of video players.
I love reading posts from Apple fanboys who fail to see the problem with a DRM standard that locks playback to portable devices that our produced by the same company that distributes the music. Apple's "sensible" DRM locks playback to software and hardware made by Apple computer. Sure, you can permit playback on multiple iTunes installations, but that does not free your music playback from the products of ONE company.
Now if Apple licensed Fairplay playback to device manufactures and software developers, that might change people's opinion but as it stands now, Apple computer has a monopoly of fairplay enabled music playback. I would suggest that Apple open Fairplay, but as we all know, the concept of DRM is simply PKI turned upside down. Its a game of digital hide and seek or "security by obscurity," so it is simply not possible to open source any software based DRM scheme.
Lets look at this situation from another angle, if Microsoft was the leading online music retailer and used a format that could only be played back on Microsoft hardware and software products, would people be defending them? The hypocrisy and denial of Apple fanboys on/. is so blatant, its not even amusing anymore.
I think you just envy your coworker's 17in powerbook.
Well, I was able to get any laptop I wanted last month, and I decided to go with the IBM X40 to replace my X31. I prefer portability and speed, to screen size.
I can never understand
why they'd like to include the (99%) useless
CD/DVDOM drive in a 12in notebook.
Agreed, thats why I bought an X40, I use gentoo, so all my software is installed from the network anyway.
I was planning on using Cingular's EDGE network with the upcoming Treo 650 and bluetooth DUN, but of course, cingular decided to disable the bluetooth DUN profile on the Treo 650 and rain on my parade..
Well 12 years ago, my gateway 486-66 was 10 bay tower with 5 5.25 bays. 9 years ago my 166mhz pentium had a 10 bay toower too. Pick up a computer shopper from the early ninties. While desktop models, where you can put your monitor on were popular, the ugly beige gigantic tower became standard for higher end models.
From what I tell, that charge has already taken place. Desktops now are a lot smaller that they were 10 years ago. Sure, Dell is not mass marketing a mini-itx model to consumers, but thats because of price considerations. The majority of people in the market would rather by a laptop than a small desktop.
The other consideration is psychological, consumers tend to gravitate towards big things because they think their more powerful. I've seen so many people by the 17in powerbook for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever. Yes, people doing video editing, sound editing, and graphics work can make us of a 17in, but the vast majority of buyers are normal users. I joke around with my one 17in wielding coworker, and call it the SUV laptop phenomenon. People are buying 17in powerbooks much in the manner that others buy hummer H2s.
Why would I want to? Most software I own is not updated that often (surprise surprise!) and often times I do not want the latest greatest themable UI that sucks up another 4 or 5 megs of memory.
As a rule I only download a new version when security issues appear.
You must spend a lot of time keeping track of security vulernabilities if you plan on keeping all your software up to date manually. How do you even keep track of the updates? Do you visit the web page of every software package installed on your windows system every week? Between security updates and software updates, you must spend 1/2 the week browsing websites.
This is a huge advantage of Linux packaging systems, with distributions like debian and gentoo, I can keep my whole system secure and up to date with a single command.
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Now if Apple decided to allow OSX to be run on commodity hardware, that would be threating to both windows, linux and every other OS. If Apple decided to open up the propriatary components that really define OSX, that could lead to people switching to OSX. As it stands now, the likelihood of Apple doing either is very slim.
Touchpoints make so much more sense because they are embedded in the keyboard. You don't have to move your fingers a great distance to use the mouse. The other big advantage is the continuous motion of a touchpoint compared to moving your thumb multiple times on a trackpad to navigate through a long distance. A semi-experienced touchpoint user can out mouse an experienced touchpad user without expending much effort.
While touchpoints are the most efficient design, it comes with a price. It takes a bit of time to get comfortable using a touchpoint. Novice computer users can be thrown off by it and it doesn't have the "gee wiz" appearance and marketability of a touchpad.
Sounds like what most people use their Treos for, but why would i want to carry around this large device that can only connect to the net if I happen to be in area with open wifi? For instance the Airport use case, if I wanted to do a quick e-mail check using airport wifi it would be ~$8/hr in most Airports. With a smartphone, most users would already have an unlimited data plan.
The MPAA has maneuvered to get some torrent sites pulled offline, almost all of the sites are places where users publish content to the site manually.(PUSH) A search engine pulling content from existing locations (PULL) is a completely different type of system.
On the same note, I recently purchased a Pioneer Plasma TV and found notices for the linux kernel and openssl. Apparently the media box that comes with the display runs on Linux and uses openssl.
If you want to continue to use windows and windows deployment tools, there is an msi package for firefox.
What the hell does using AOL have to do with using AIM? Most people who use AIM do not subscribe to AOL.
Remember who is in charge? Not to say that antitrust has been properly enforced by ANY administration in the 40 years but this administration has been exceptionally merger friendly.
Sorry, Dashboard is hardly a reimplementation of desk accessories. Desk accessories was just a grouping of apps.
Dashboard? Innovative? Its just a copy of the many other widget platforms that have been available for quite a few years now. Calling dashboard innovative is like calling Internet Explorer 1 groundbreaking. If anything it continues Apple's tradition of taking the ideas of successful mac shareware apps and including a copy of the app free in the os ala MS.
Spotlight is pretty cool and Apple is the first os to ship such a product (its ususally the first to ship a lot of cool features), but the idea has been floating around forever. Beagle was even announced a day before spotlight, and MS has been talking about something similar for longhorn for half a decade now.
For a quick example, I picked my usual drive between State College, PA and Philadelphia PA. Google, wants me to drive 100 miles in the wrong direction. Instead of gong from 322 -> i83 -> turpike, its puts me on 80 east, then has me travel on 81 south, which is almost southwest, then to the turnpike. These directions add at least 100 miles to this very basic trip.
Third floor hammond building..
He lost my vote.
i810 driver updates * Dualhead support (i830+) * i915 support * New 3D driver (i830+) * i810 driver is now supported for AMD64 This should fix the current hackish method for using video out.
Olivier Fourdan - We are not much involved in the freedesktop.org group. In fact, we try to stay compliant with the freedesktop.org standards as much as we can but we take no part in the standards themselves. We have very limited resources, and being involved with the freedesktop.org would probably mean less involvement with Xfce (well, at least for me).
XFCE4 is compliant with many freedesktop.org standards, but their developers are not involved in writing the standards.
Was PassFaces., unfortunatly its a propritary product, but a pretty good idea. Not without its faults though.
Is still on the air? Before the Comcast merger, I did tivo the Screensavers. I have never seen a product or company turn to such complete and utter crap, so quickly almost instantly, after a merger.
Nope, not even close. If you want to use an analogy for Blockbuster, this would be an accurate example.
Now if Apple licensed Fairplay playback to device manufactures and software developers, that might change people's opinion but as it stands now, Apple computer has a monopoly of fairplay enabled music playback. I would suggest that Apple open Fairplay, but as we all know, the concept of DRM is simply PKI turned upside down. Its a game of digital hide and seek or "security by obscurity," so it is simply not possible to open source any software based DRM scheme.
Lets look at this situation from another angle, if Microsoft was the leading online music retailer and used a format that could only be played back on Microsoft hardware and software products, would people be defending them? The hypocrisy and denial of Apple fanboys on /. is so blatant, its not even amusing anymore.
Well, I was able to get any laptop I wanted last month, and I decided to go with the IBM X40 to replace my X31. I prefer portability and speed, to screen size.
I can never understand why they'd like to include the (99%) useless CD/DVDOM drive in a 12in notebook.
Agreed, thats why I bought an X40, I use gentoo, so all my software is installed from the network anyway.
I was planning on using Cingular's EDGE network with the upcoming Treo 650 and bluetooth DUN, but of course, cingular decided to disable the bluetooth DUN profile on the Treo 650 and rain on my parade..
Well 12 years ago, my gateway 486-66 was 10 bay tower with 5 5.25 bays. 9 years ago my 166mhz pentium had a 10 bay toower too. Pick up a computer shopper from the early ninties. While desktop models, where you can put your monitor on were popular, the ugly beige gigantic tower became standard for higher end models.
The other consideration is psychological, consumers tend to gravitate towards big things because they think their more powerful. I've seen so many people by the 17in powerbook for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever. Yes, people doing video editing, sound editing, and graphics work can make us of a 17in, but the vast majority of buyers are normal users. I joke around with my one 17in wielding coworker, and call it the SUV laptop phenomenon. People are buying 17in powerbooks much in the manner that others buy hummer H2s.
As a rule I only download a new version when security issues appear.
You must spend a lot of time keeping track of security vulernabilities if you plan on keeping all your software up to date manually. How do you even keep track of the updates? Do you visit the web page of every software package installed on your windows system every week? Between security updates and software updates, you must spend 1/2 the week browsing websites.
This is a huge advantage of Linux packaging systems, with distributions like debian and gentoo, I can keep my whole system secure and up to date with a single command.
Install XFCE, and then try to tell me that GTK2 is slow.