OS X is pretty and all, but I prefer 'functional' over 'shiny' and I like to really dig into the inner workings of the OS that I use. OS X doesn't entirely appeal to my demographic for that reason, which is why it appeals to people who just want to use a computer and have it work without having to mess with it any more than they need to.Really? I switched from XP to OS X for teh exact same reason. XP was shinny and colorful, but it wasn't very functional. Crap I still haven't figured out how to burn a dvd-sized iso without paying for or pirating 3rd party commercial software. (if someone wants to respond with a link, I'd be happy to learn the error of my ways). Every time I use XP I end up being frustrated with the lack of functionality. XP hides and obfuscates much more of the OS than OS X does. It's Unix man, and better than that, it's BSD based Unix so everything is where it's supposed to be and follows standards that were actually thought out and agreed on rather than how joe hacker decided to do it.
I'll be doing a release of gimp.app that does not require x11 once the quartz gtk project is stable enough that it won't crash immediately under light use.
I think as various parts of gimp are better modularized and seperated, which is the direction things are moving, you'll see more progress. This is similar to the path that mozilla took. They abstracted out the rendering engine and then other projects are able to make clean fast native ui's on top of it.
I posted this in the original thread, but http://replaylink.com/ is a service where you can buy and sell used DVDs (as well as CDs and video games). They send you a postage paid mailer just like Netflix, so the convenience is about the same. You can buy something, keep as long as you want, and then turn around and sell it. The shipping fee and seller fee together are about the same as a rental. If you only watch a few movies a month or go on vaccation or something, it's cheaper than the netflix subscription fee.
http://replaylink.com/ is a service where you can purchase and then sell used DVDs (as well as CDs and video games). They send you postage paid mailers just like Netflix, so the convenience is about the same. The shipping and seller fee cost about the same as renting. Since you own the DVDs you keep them as long as you want and only pay for what you use. If you only watch a few movies a month or go on vaccation or something, it's cheaper than the Netflix subscription fee.
eh? are you confused... if you don't want them editing your movies, why in the world would you go and pay them to do it?!? I really hate vegetarian restaraunts. We need to get a judge to shut them down for not allowing me to eat meat! How dare they!
So you feel that since you disagree with this movement that outlawing it is an appropriate response. No one was forcing you to have your dvds cleaned. What right do you or anyone else have to force them to watch offensive content in order to view a movie they own?
I started the apple discussion thread that article links to. The problem is not with the boot loader, it's repartition-your-drive-on-the-fly tool that's causing the problem. It seems to introduce random errors into the filesystem to the point that fsck doesn't even work in most cases. It causes a kernel panic on boot up. It's pretty henious. The only solution is a reformat and reinstall of the os x partition.
He's a Libertarian! Get him! How dare he imply that some people's time is more valuable that others?!? Where's your social concience? You're offending those of us that are skill-challenged and competence-imparred.
That all changed with the DMCA. The only other example prior to it that I'm aware of is plotting to assasinate the President. My friends and I would discuss ways to assasinate the president's pet instead.
I only said an argument could be made... obscene means offensive. Wealth is offensive if it's ill gotten. I was stating that Job's wealth was gotten by producing a valuable product while expending few resrouces, you know making more money than you spend, with money being a representation of value...
How could anyone call Steve Job's wealth "obscene"?!? I guess he should have a guilty concience for producing something that so many people find valuable enough to pay for? He should just close up shop now and stop making computers and ipods, is that it? At least in Gate's case an argument can be made that his fortune was amassed by manipulating the market with monopoly power instead of purely by producing the most valuable product with the lowest expenditure of resources.
That's exactly what they did... UC Berkeley with DARPA grant money went and wrote an open source version of AT&T Unix. Called it BSD. Now it's the basis for more free and comercial OS's than anything else I can think off hand.
By purchase price I was refering to the price the buyer purchased it for. Amazon charges you 15% plus $0.99 unless you have a $40/mo seller account, in which case the $0.99 is waived. With this service you pay basicaly the same amount you would without a seller account and get the added convenience. I imagine the shipping credit covers the cost of the postage and mailer.
why not sell your stuff for cash. http://replaylink.com/ you get the full purchase price minus a $1 service fee and the Amazon seller fee, and it's as easy as returning a netflix rental. They send you an addressed postage paid media mailer.
Had the same problem on a 1Ghz powerbook under 10.3. Then I loaded 10.4. If the video is completely pre-downloaded, you've got nothing else eating cpu cycles in the backgound, I got the 720p version under 10.4 to view without noticable frame dropping and skipping. All the trailers were quite watchable, even Kingdom of Heaven at the beginning where they flash a quick sequence of different secenes. Must be because of core video.
Actually, if you watch closely I think all the sound effects happened when you could clearly see atmospheric effects around the edges of the ship. There is a *lot* of sound durring re-entry.:)
I agree that the request is rediculous, but all that stuff you mentioned is why he wants to hire a company build the thing for him. It's not like he asked how to build one himself.
Most passenger jets have microwave ovens on board for food service, so I'm sure the avionics are tollerant to 2.4Ghz interference. Of course I really have no idea. They might use some special super shielded micorwave ovens...
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OS X is pretty and all, but I prefer 'functional' over 'shiny' and I like to really dig into the inner workings of the OS that I use. OS X doesn't entirely appeal to my demographic for that reason, which is why it appeals to people who just want to use a computer and have it work without having to mess with it any more than they need to.Really? I switched from XP to OS X for teh exact same reason. XP was shinny and colorful, but it wasn't very functional. Crap I still haven't figured out how to burn a dvd-sized iso without paying for or pirating 3rd party commercial software. (if someone wants to respond with a link, I'd be happy to learn the error of my ways). Every time I use XP I end up being frustrated with the lack of functionality. XP hides and obfuscates much more of the OS than OS X does. It's Unix man, and better than that, it's BSD based Unix so everything is where it's supposed to be and follows standards that were actually thought out and agreed on rather than how joe hacker decided to do it.
I'll be doing a release of gimp.app that does not require x11 once the quartz gtk project is stable enough that it won't crash immediately under light use.
I think as various parts of gimp are better modularized and seperated, which is the direction things are moving, you'll see more progress. This is similar to the path that mozilla took. They abstracted out the rendering engine and then other projects are able to make clean fast native ui's on top of it.
I posted this in the original thread, but http://replaylink.com/ is a service where you can buy and sell used DVDs (as well as CDs and video games). They send you a postage paid mailer just like Netflix, so the convenience is about the same. You can buy something, keep as long as you want, and then turn around and sell it. The shipping fee and seller fee together are about the same as a rental. If you only watch a few movies a month or go on vaccation or something, it's cheaper than the netflix subscription fee.
Or you could go for the cash: http://replaylink.com/
http://replaylink.com/ is a service where you can purchase and then sell used DVDs (as well as CDs and video games). They send you postage paid mailers just like Netflix, so the convenience is about the same. The shipping and seller fee cost about the same as renting. Since you own the DVDs you keep them as long as you want and only pay for what you use. If you only watch a few movies a month or go on vaccation or something, it's cheaper than the Netflix subscription fee.
eh? are you confused... if you don't want them editing your movies, why in the world would you go and pay them to do it?!? I really hate vegetarian restaraunts. We need to get a judge to shut them down for not allowing me to eat meat! How dare they!
So you feel that since you disagree with this movement that outlawing it is an appropriate response. No one was forcing you to have your dvds cleaned. What right do you or anyone else have to force them to watch offensive content in order to view a movie they own?
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Hey, I was able to watch it no problem on my mac. Apparently not even apple can write software that doesn't crash on windows.
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http://replaylink.com/ sell used CDs/DVDs/video games as easy as returning NetFlix rentals
I started the apple discussion thread that article links to. The problem is not with the boot loader, it's repartition-your-drive-on-the-fly tool that's causing the problem. It seems to introduce random errors into the filesystem to the point that fsck doesn't even work in most cases. It causes a kernel panic on boot up. It's pretty henious. The only solution is a reformat and reinstall of the os x partition.
He's a Libertarian! Get him! How dare he imply that some people's time is more valuable that others?!? Where's your social concience? You're offending those of us that are skill-challenged and competence-imparred.
That all changed with the DMCA. The only other example prior to it that I'm aware of is plotting to assasinate the President. My friends and I would discuss ways to assasinate the president's pet instead.
I only said an argument could be made... obscene means offensive. Wealth is offensive if it's ill gotten. I was stating that Job's wealth was gotten by producing a valuable product while expending few resrouces, you know making more money than you spend, with money being a representation of value...
How could anyone call Steve Job's wealth "obscene"?!? I guess he should have a guilty concience for producing something that so many people find valuable enough to pay for? He should just close up shop now and stop making computers and ipods, is that it? At least in Gate's case an argument can be made that his fortune was amassed by manipulating the market with monopoly power instead of purely by producing the most valuable product with the lowest expenditure of resources.
That's exactly what they did... UC Berkeley with DARPA grant money went and wrote an open source version of AT&T Unix. Called it BSD. Now it's the basis for more free and comercial OS's than anything else I can think off hand.
"Switching these services is also a pain in the ass for myself and everyone who communicates with me."
Some of us don't have any friends, you insensitive clod!
By purchase price I was refering to the price the buyer purchased it for. Amazon charges you 15% plus $0.99 unless you have a $40/mo seller account, in which case the $0.99 is waived. With this service you pay basicaly the same amount you would without a seller account and get the added convenience. I imagine the shipping credit covers the cost of the postage and mailer.
why not sell your stuff for cash. http://replaylink.com/ you get the full purchase price minus a $1 service fee and the Amazon seller fee, and it's as easy as returning a netflix rental. They send you an addressed postage paid media mailer.
Lawers don't purchase systems that reduce their billable hours. Any product aimed at improving law office efficiency is doomed to failure.
Had the same problem on a 1Ghz powerbook under 10.3. Then I loaded 10.4. If the video is completely pre-downloaded, you've got nothing else eating cpu cycles in the backgound, I got the 720p version under 10.4 to view without noticable frame dropping and skipping. All the trailers were quite watchable, even Kingdom of Heaven at the beginning where they flash a quick sequence of different secenes. Must be because of core video.
Actually, if you watch closely I think all the sound effects happened when you could clearly see atmospheric effects around the edges of the ship. There is a *lot* of sound durring re-entry. :)
I agree that the request is rediculous, but all that stuff you mentioned is why he wants to hire a company build the thing for him. It's not like he asked how to build one himself.
Well, seeing as how Acuweather is the one who came up with the idea, it does make sense that they would talk with their own senator first.
Most passenger jets have microwave ovens on board for food service, so I'm sure the avionics are tollerant to 2.4Ghz interference. Of course I really have no idea. They might use some special super shielded micorwave ovens...