I don't have the impression that open source users hate Microsoft so much. Apple fans, though...
Now that Microsoft no longer dominates the web with IE, and Office documents are mostly interchangeable through OpenOffice.org, they really aren't that much of an annoyance. As long as I can use my computer without being hampered by closed or non-standard formats, I really couldn't care less about the other systems. The main problem in the foreseeable future is DRM-encumbered media, which usually is tied to certain closed platforms.
Actually, as benchmarks of Valve's games have shown, the OpenGL drivers in Mac OS X are seriously shit, whereas both nvidia and ATI deliver drivers with excellent OpenGL performance for Linux (ATI's drivers are often very frustrating to work with, though).
Meh. Quake 3 still works on my Linux system, despite being 10 years old and compiled for a different platform (32 bit x86). It performs well, and always has. Never been hard to install. Unreal Tournament? Works fine (needs a tweak to avoid running at 3X the speed due to PowerNow), although the installer is broken on modern systems. Quake 4? Works just fine. If they could make Linux games 10 years ago with none of the problems you mention, they still can.
Look and feel is of course entirely irrelevant for games: they always had their own UIs, and no one ever complained.
Linux is free software; you're supposed to be able to do that. The possibility for branching is inherent to both the licensing scheme and the mode of development. How can you claim that something is no longer what it was, when it's just working as designed?
Also, the Linux kernel in Android is still architecturally a Linux kernel with some patches, just like the kernels found is all other Linux distros (very few use "vanilla" Linux). It's far from the XNU kernel found in Mac OS X, which plenty of people nevertheless (and erroneously, for "this is real unix" advertising purposes) persist in claiming is "BSD".
Wake me up when the Android kernel has been radically changed. So far, it hasn't.
Sorry, but you're a delusional fanboy and a liar. The only Mac to approach high end graphics is the Mac Pro. If your laptop is a Mac, it doesn't run Crysis well, period.
Yes. Components from. Whereas the basic architecture isn't BSD at all. Evidently, you place yourself firmly in that other group named in your.sig. You're a fucking moron.
Wrong. Slashdot would never have mentioned it if he did it for any other medium. Ever looked at the Apple section? Of course you have -- you can't block it from the front page (just like Idle). It's just an endless stream of raw advertising sewage. All just to keep Apple relevant, and Slashdot irrelevant.
Is anything so simple and trivial that it can be done in basic HTML suddenly news when you can add the words "on the iPhone"? Still, after all these years? It's as if Slashdot has a spam filter that is automatically bypassed by the phrase.
After one reads a comment about the supposed wackiness of biological evolution, one has to wonder whether people are taught biology in school these days at all.
Playing catch-up can be immensely profitable if you also sell web services that aren't as well supported by the competing browsers, especially if the competition's web services depend on other browsers: MS Web service users will be forced to use IE, IE users will choose MS Web services. Apple plays the same game with media formats. It's called lock-in.
Well, I suspect that's a conscious decision by Apple's designers: have something that looks gorgeous and that demands that the user drags it out to show it to the world every time s/he interacts with it. Advertising is built into the device (and not only into the UI; just think how cleverly it depends on iTunes, which in turn only works properly with Apple products, or even the culture of hype that surrounds everything Apple these days). The iPod Touch is of course even worse in this respect, and the iPhone's celebrated pinch-to-zoom can only be used effectively with two hands: it looks good when you do it, but goddamn that's some seriously shit UI design.
The 2.5" drive based players did fit into a pocket, but did you ever try using one of them? I've got an old Creative Zen that a friend gave to me, and the user interface, overall build quality and design, were simply an insult to the user – even a non-paying one such as myself. The silly "wheel" interface of the iPod was, of course, hailed as revolutionary among the cultists, but even though it wasn't (it's just a gimmick, but a somewhat usable one), it wasn't painful to use. And sometimes, that's all it takes for success: Apple's most prominent competitors produced user interfaces so horrid that even Motorola phones of the late 1990s seemed usable in comparison.
I replaced my home screen after reading that some people experienced better battery life. Used ADW.Launcher for some time, and now Zeam. (Yes, iPhone users, you can replace the whole "desktop" without rooting or even allowing apps from outside the market.) I have no idea whether it actually helped, but at least the UI is a bit more flexible now. And yes, I get several days of light use, and at least a whole one with playing games and watching Futurama.
Even my X10 Mini can maintain battery life for 72 hours straight with limited use. Try turning off WLAN and Bluetooth when you don't use it, or change their power saving configuration, and turn down the brightness of your screen.
No, it's only a confirmation that at least one moderator has been huffing a bit too heavy on the crack pipe today. Usually, there are at least five of them.
Have you tried running mplayer (in some xterms) with the -ao alsa option on a few mp3s at the same time? And then, while the others are playing (the system should mix them just fine), adding one with -ao oss for oss emulation? On my system, that fucks up the other streams. Obviously a driver bug (I had no such problem with my previous mainboard).
Hell, for the past 5 years I haven't even needed to install drivers and its still produced beautiful sound.
Great, so Linux is so far behind the other OSes that the other OSes are only at least six years behind Linux. I've never once installed audio drivers in Linux, and have used it since 1999.
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I don't have the impression that open source users hate Microsoft so much. Apple fans, though ...
Now that Microsoft no longer dominates the web with IE, and Office documents are mostly interchangeable through OpenOffice.org, they really aren't that much of an annoyance. As long as I can use my computer without being hampered by closed or non-standard formats, I really couldn't care less about the other systems. The main problem in the foreseeable future is DRM-encumbered media, which usually is tied to certain closed platforms.
Actually, as benchmarks of Valve's games have shown, the OpenGL drivers in Mac OS X are seriously shit, whereas both nvidia and ATI deliver drivers with excellent OpenGL performance for Linux (ATI's drivers are often very frustrating to work with, though).
Meh. Quake 3 still works on my Linux system, despite being 10 years old and compiled for a different platform (32 bit x86). It performs well, and always has. Never been hard to install. Unreal Tournament? Works fine (needs a tweak to avoid running at 3X the speed due to PowerNow), although the installer is broken on modern systems. Quake 4? Works just fine. If they could make Linux games 10 years ago with none of the problems you mention, they still can.
Look and feel is of course entirely irrelevant for games: they always had their own UIs, and no one ever complained.
Linux is free software; you're supposed to be able to do that. The possibility for branching is inherent to both the licensing scheme and the mode of development. How can you claim that something is no longer what it was, when it's just working as designed?
Also, the Linux kernel in Android is still architecturally a Linux kernel with some patches, just like the kernels found is all other Linux distros (very few use "vanilla" Linux). It's far from the XNU kernel found in Mac OS X, which plenty of people nevertheless (and erroneously, for "this is real unix" advertising purposes) persist in claiming is "BSD".
Wake me up when the Android kernel has been radically changed. So far, it hasn't.
Android uses a Linux kernel, so it's Linux. It is not, however, GNU.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Sorry, but you're a delusional fanboy and a liar. The only Mac to approach high end graphics is the Mac Pro. If your laptop is a Mac, it doesn't run Crysis well, period.
Yes. Components from. Whereas the basic architecture isn't BSD at all. Evidently, you place yourself firmly in that other group named in your .sig. You're a fucking moron.
Read your own .sig. Now educate yourself about the XNU kernel. (Hint: it's not BSD! Not even "built on" BSD!) Hope you love it.
Wrong. Slashdot would never have mentioned it if he did it for any other medium. Ever looked at the Apple section? Of course you have -- you can't block it from the front page (just like Idle). It's just an endless stream of raw advertising sewage. All just to keep Apple relevant, and Slashdot irrelevant.
Is anything so simple and trivial that it can be done in basic HTML suddenly news when you can add the words "on the iPhone"? Still, after all these years? It's as if Slashdot has a spam filter that is automatically bypassed by the phrase.
After one reads a comment about the supposed wackiness of biological evolution, one has to wonder whether people are taught biology in school these days at all.
Playing catch-up can be immensely profitable if you also sell web services that aren't as well supported by the competing browsers, especially if the competition's web services depend on other browsers: MS Web service users will be forced to use IE, IE users will choose MS Web services. Apple plays the same game with media formats. It's called lock-in.
You seriously think Microsoft will embrace an LGPL browser engine? Originally from the KDE project?
Well, I suspect that's a conscious decision by Apple's designers: have something that looks gorgeous and that demands that the user drags it out to show it to the world every time s/he interacts with it. Advertising is built into the device (and not only into the UI; just think how cleverly it depends on iTunes, which in turn only works properly with Apple products, or even the culture of hype that surrounds everything Apple these days). The iPod Touch is of course even worse in this respect, and the iPhone's celebrated pinch-to-zoom can only be used effectively with two hands: it looks good when you do it, but goddamn that's some seriously shit UI design.
Nah. The problem with American labor unions is that 60 years of rampant McCartyism has turned most Americans into brainwashed zealots.
The 2.5" drive based players did fit into a pocket, but did you ever try using one of them? I've got an old Creative Zen that a friend gave to me, and the user interface, overall build quality and design, were simply an insult to the user – even a non-paying one such as myself. The silly "wheel" interface of the iPod was, of course, hailed as revolutionary among the cultists, but even though it wasn't (it's just a gimmick, but a somewhat usable one), it wasn't painful to use. And sometimes, that's all it takes for success: Apple's most prominent competitors produced user interfaces so horrid that even Motorola phones of the late 1990s seemed usable in comparison.
I replaced my home screen after reading that some people experienced better battery life. Used ADW.Launcher for some time, and now Zeam. (Yes, iPhone users, you can replace the whole "desktop" without rooting or even allowing apps from outside the market.) I have no idea whether it actually helped, but at least the UI is a bit more flexible now. And yes, I get several days of light use, and at least a whole one with playing games and watching Futurama.
Even my X10 Mini can maintain battery life for 72 hours straight with limited use. Try turning off WLAN and Bluetooth when you don't use it, or change their power saving configuration, and turn down the brightness of your screen.
No, it's only a confirmation that at least one moderator has been huffing a bit too heavy on the crack pipe today. Usually, there are at least five of them.
Have you tried running mplayer (in some xterms) with the -ao alsa option on a few mp3s at the same time? And then, while the others are playing (the system should mix them just fine), adding one with -ao oss for oss emulation? On my system, that fucks up the other streams. Obviously a driver bug (I had no such problem with my previous mainboard).
And Mac users still, at the time, bragged that it was totally superior to Windows 95. Which no MacOS was, before OS X 10.2.
Funny you should say that, since OS X 10.0 was barely beta quality as well.
If something completely screws up your system sound, it's the system sound's fault. No app should be able to do that, no matter how broken.
Hell, for the past 5 years I haven't even needed to install drivers and its still produced beautiful sound.
Great, so Linux is so far behind the other OSes that the other OSes are only at least six years behind Linux. I've never once installed audio drivers in Linux, and have used it since 1999.