Who would build a business on a file browser? And a damn ordinary one at that. You know, for all their "expertise" and designing the first mac and its interface everyone forgot one thing. Steve Jobs is the one that pushed and prodded and kept driving them until they got it right.
What a bunch of idiots.
Dvorak is a mron/I love my Tivo
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Tivo is the best thing to come out for the TV in a great while. And the funny thing is that the less TV you watch, the more valuable the Tivo is worth. And yes, I paid my $200 up front to Tivo.
Dvorak is an idiot. Don't you people realize what he is doing? I remember reading an article by Andy Inthanko (sp?) in MacWorld about the response that Dvorak's columns would get and how he hoped his columns would get the same.
Dvorak simply does it for flame bait. He makes stupid statements, meant to enflame mac users, or early adopters JUST SO YOU WILL VISIT THE PAGE AND SEND HIM/PUBLISHER EMAIL. ALL HE CARES ABOUT ARE PAGE COUNTERS PEOPLE! And when everyone reads the story and sends tens of thousands of emails to him and the publishre, Dvorak can tell the publisher "Look how many people I bring to the site with each article. This is why you pay me"
We need to learn how to ignore the MS/Intel/Mainstream mouthpiece.
Maybe if we ignore him a bit.......
Linus trashing Mach? This is the same guy that is proud of a kernel that last year had to be recompiled to use a zip drive? Who is this guy fooling? This is the guy that could barely get a butt-ugly GUI working (with the world helping) while Avie and NeXT had a multimedia email application that ran on a fast, elegant, and superior OS. He may have his reasons but it sounds to me like a bit of sour grapes. Linux folks no longer can speak ill of the newest Mac OS. In a matter of a few years Apple has created a mix of industrial strength UNIX and consumerized it. Something Linux WILL NEVER DO! This is off topic, but too many Linux programmers and users take great pride that Linux is difficult to administer. That is why Linux will never be user-friendly. Nobody wants to make it easier to use or admin. As I said, Linus Torvalds or Avie Tevanian? I take Avie any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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Sure, it costs a little more money up front. But study after study had shown that Mac users are more productive than Wintel users. Also studies have shown that there is MUCH less upkeep and maintence required for a MAc than a PC (and Lord knows much less than linux needs). The bottom line is that a MAc costs a little more upfront but MUCH less over the life of a linux/Wintel box.
Your time is worth something. Right?
Add shipping and you have $500 POS computer
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And the shipping and you have well over $500.
And the absolute cheapest (in price AND quality) computer
Geez people.
It DIED! Get over it.
You people are WAY worse than us Mac zealots.
The Amiga OS might have rocked 20 years ago but so did my girlfriend's body. She has gained 150 pounds since then. Time for you freaking Amiga freaks to to let the OS go also.
Be dies because it had no application support. Do you really think this will be any different?
Although I take no pleasure in Be's demise, ( I was an original beta I & II tester, and I still own several shirts I bought when the Be store first opened) I think this shows exactly what OS developers are against. Everyone has bashed the Mac saying that it is poorly advertised and too expensive. Why don't they just do this or do that.
People also proclaimed that Be was 'THE' OS. It was a multimedia OS and could do things that no other OS could do. When OS X was released they bragged about how Apple was finally able to pre-emtively multitask and used protected memory.
Well, guess what folks. Be failed for exactly the reason why I said a long time ago. I don't give a damn how good the OS is, what features it has, or how pretty it is. If it doesn't have mainstream apps, it will fail. If anyone has to duallboot it to run Office it will fail. That simple.
So folks, the bottom line is that unless you have mainstram apps (with appropriate file translators. And of course I am speaking about desktop machines, not servers) the OS will fail.
And yes, this means that Linux's chance to succeed on the desktop is in direct relationship to how well StarOffice works on translating Office documents.
Do I.Q.s drop sharply whenever people comment on Apple?
Apple is not stupid. It would be stupid for Apple to make icons 128x128. It would be stupid for Apple to make the icons tiff images that use a 512k of RAM for each image. It would be stupid for Apple to write an OS that only their most powerful machine with 256 megs of RAM can barely run.
It is a good thing that Apple is not doing any of those things.
How can people look at an OS and comment it on it without ever looking at anything past the superficial UI.
The icons are RESIZEABLE! Jesus CHRIST! If I read another moron commenting how stupid it is to have huge icons I will have to shoot a windows user.
The UI does not take a 'snapshot' of the window before it is minimized. When anything is minimized it will either show the icon of it or will show the live app in a small winodw.
The entire UI is built on PDF. Everything. From translucency to drop shadows to the genie effect. This UI is not bitmapped based like everything else. This UI is VECTOR BASED! So all of those resource intensive tricks that windows, x-windows, and the macintosh have to do are built into PDF. And are now trivial.
The bitmap UI is now obsolete.
//off subject UNIX people amaze me. They think running 6 terminal windows on X windows is progress from running one text based terminal.
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Who would build a business on a file browser? And a damn ordinary one at that. You know, for all their "expertise" and designing the first mac and its interface everyone forgot one thing. Steve Jobs is the one that pushed and prodded and kept driving them until they got it right. What a bunch of idiots.
Tivo is the best thing to come out for the TV in a great while. And the funny thing is that the less TV you watch, the more valuable the Tivo is worth. And yes, I paid my $200 up front to Tivo. Dvorak is an idiot. Don't you people realize what he is doing? I remember reading an article by Andy Inthanko (sp?) in MacWorld about the response that Dvorak's columns would get and how he hoped his columns would get the same. Dvorak simply does it for flame bait. He makes stupid statements, meant to enflame mac users, or early adopters JUST SO YOU WILL VISIT THE PAGE AND SEND HIM/PUBLISHER EMAIL. ALL HE CARES ABOUT ARE PAGE COUNTERS PEOPLE! And when everyone reads the story and sends tens of thousands of emails to him and the publishre, Dvorak can tell the publisher "Look how many people I bring to the site with each article. This is why you pay me" We need to learn how to ignore the MS/Intel/Mainstream mouthpiece. Maybe if we ignore him a bit.......
Linus trashing Mach? This is the same guy that is proud of a kernel that last year had to be recompiled to use a zip drive? Who is this guy fooling? This is the guy that could barely get a butt-ugly GUI working (with the world helping) while Avie and NeXT had a multimedia email application that ran on a fast, elegant, and superior OS. He may have his reasons but it sounds to me like a bit of sour grapes. Linux folks no longer can speak ill of the newest Mac OS. In a matter of a few years Apple has created a mix of industrial strength UNIX and consumerized it. Something Linux WILL NEVER DO! This is off topic, but too many Linux programmers and users take great pride that Linux is difficult to administer. That is why Linux will never be user-friendly. Nobody wants to make it easier to use or admin. As I said, Linus Torvalds or Avie Tevanian? I take Avie any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Sure, it costs a little more money up front. But study after study had shown that Mac users are more productive than Wintel users. Also studies have shown that there is MUCH less upkeep and maintence required for a MAc than a PC (and Lord knows much less than linux needs). The bottom line is that a MAc costs a little more upfront but MUCH less over the life of a linux/Wintel box. Your time is worth something. Right?
And the shipping and you have well over $500. And the absolute cheapest (in price AND quality) computer
Geez people. It DIED! Get over it. You people are WAY worse than us Mac zealots. The Amiga OS might have rocked 20 years ago but so did my girlfriend's body. She has gained 150 pounds since then. Time for you freaking Amiga freaks to to let the OS go also. Be dies because it had no application support. Do you really think this will be any different?
Although I take no pleasure in Be's demise, ( I was an original beta I & II tester, and I still own several shirts I bought when the Be store first opened) I think this shows exactly what OS developers are against. Everyone has bashed the Mac saying that it is poorly advertised and too expensive. Why don't they just do this or do that. People also proclaimed that Be was 'THE' OS. It was a multimedia OS and could do things that no other OS could do. When OS X was released they bragged about how Apple was finally able to pre-emtively multitask and used protected memory. Well, guess what folks. Be failed for exactly the reason why I said a long time ago. I don't give a damn how good the OS is, what features it has, or how pretty it is. If it doesn't have mainstream apps, it will fail. If anyone has to duallboot it to run Office it will fail. That simple. So folks, the bottom line is that unless you have mainstram apps (with appropriate file translators. And of course I am speaking about desktop machines, not servers) the OS will fail. And yes, this means that Linux's chance to succeed on the desktop is in direct relationship to how well StarOffice works on translating Office documents.
Do I.Q.s drop sharply whenever people comment on Apple?
Apple is not stupid. It would be stupid for Apple to make icons 128x128. It would be stupid for Apple to make the icons tiff images that use a 512k of RAM for each image. It would be stupid for Apple to write an OS that only their most powerful machine with 256 megs of RAM can barely run.
It is a good thing that Apple is not doing any of those things.
How can people look at an OS and comment it on it without ever looking at anything past the superficial UI.
The icons are RESIZEABLE! Jesus CHRIST! If I read another moron commenting how stupid it is to have huge icons I will have to shoot a windows user.
The UI does not take a 'snapshot' of the window before it is minimized. When anything is minimized it will either show the icon of it or will show the live app in a small winodw.
The entire UI is built on PDF. Everything. From translucency to drop shadows to the genie effect. This UI is not bitmapped based like everything else. This UI is VECTOR BASED! So all of those resource intensive tricks that windows, x-windows, and the macintosh have to do are built into PDF. And are now trivial.
The bitmap UI is now obsolete.
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UNIX people amaze me. They think running 6 terminal windows on X windows is progress from running one text based terminal.