Not to be a jerk, but I doubt it looks half as good as Mac OS X. The Linux world has forgotten about the second half of the phrase 'look and feel.' IMHO, that's far more important than the color of the widgets. If it feels like a rickety bobsled, putting a big Mercedes Benz logo on the hood isn't going to make it feel any more reliable.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux for serving (and I have two Linux servers) but almost five years after I started trying to convince myself that Linux could be a reasonable desktop, I'm further away from believing it than when I started.
When I reread those, I understand them precisely the way I did in the first place. The grandparent is independent of the parent. The proposition of the parent is predicated on Microsoft fighting the torrent of spam beplaguing the hapless Hotmail users. My contention is that Microsoft is the progenitor of that plague. It has nothing do do with the hypothetical proposition.
Uh, doesn't the fact that hotmail accounts that are unused get tons of spam suggest that they're not listening to their customers as much as they are selling their customer lists to spammers?
It's been my experience that criminal records or past have nothing to do with taste. A convicted Watergate participant who spent time in jail lives near me and has a lovely, tasteful house. I'm not sure where Watergate and spammer fit on the Bad Guy Continuum, but I think my point's still valid.
Wow. What an ugly house. It's a shame people don't have taste anymore. If you're going to spend $750,000 on a house, why not buy a slightly less conspicuous place that isn't fifteen feet away from another $750,000 house? Nothing says "conspicuous new money" more than a bug ugly thing with columns and no lawn and no privacy.
IBM is fanatical about things like that. Remember, they're not a computer company, they make business machines. If they could, everything from the computers down to the manuals would be made of metal and be identified by nothing more than a five digit number.
Yes it is. It's really far away. Much further than you'd think. It's coded for Carbon, which is a subset of the old Toolbox routines which are about as far from a normal UNIX program as you can get.
I'd wager that Office v.x has almost no code that is helpful for a Linux port.
Yes. It also means that there is complete, 100% accuracy voice recognition in all Mac OS X apps. Additionally, it improves sound quality on all machines (Mac or Windows, Linux coming in Q1 2002) within ten feet of the Macintosh. None of this is mentioned in the description of what the software does because Apple figures that people will not read that anyway and will ask the appropriate questions, whereupon they will be answered.
Yea, and anyone who suggests that we were anything more than a pawn in your game of geopolitical chess with England stopped learning in elementary school. Magnanimous of you; you should be thanking us for giving you the balls to execute your king and try democracy. You'll get it right one of these Republics (what's it up to now, the fifth? sixth?)
With English spelling, like Perl, there is often more than one way to do it. But with French, as I understand it, if you misspell something (or, god forbid, mispronounce it) they throw cheese at you then surrender preemptively.
I think it's 192.168.1.54. I spent a lot of money on it and the guy who sold it to me told me that it's really prestigious and that people would know how sophisticated I was if I told them my IP address.
There's a difference between stupid and uninformed. One of the real dangers we face is falling into believing that if other people don't know the things we do that they are stupid.
You mean my computer isn't broadcasting an IP address? That really scared me. I went out and bought $3000 worth of networking hardware to create a DMZ with border gateways and traffic shapers. Every single packet has to be personally approved by me to get out of my house. Ain't no hacker gonna hack my computer!
It might be worth consideration if the text boxes worked *vaguely* like proper Mac OS X text fields. No spell checking, completely bozofied text selection (try double-clicking and dragging or triple clicking.) It's a nice try but it'll never replace OmniWeb for anything other than fancy DHTML or JavaScript sites that don't work in OW.
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The correct term for which, as all TV aficionados know, is miniseries rot. Originally, all television series were planned as miniseries, but the scourge or miniseries rot kicked in and none of them lasted for more than fifteen episodes or so. Finally, scientists from NBC and Bell Labs, working together, discovered how to prevent miniseries rot. The problem is that their discovery was both very expensive and very unpredictable: there was a 75% chance that any product treated against miniseries rot would instead turn out to be total crap. So the television producers of the last sixty years have faced a dilemma: they can produce short-lived, high quality programs or they can produce longer-lasting programs that cost a lot and have a 75% chance of being "Emeril." I, for one, am glad that I don't have to make that decision.
As everyone knows, that movie isn't about Nazis. Due to budget constraints, they used Nazis instead of terrorist aliens. We feel that the new edit is closer to Mr. Spielberg's original vision, and Mr. Spielberg is unavailable for interviews.
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Not to be a jerk, but I doubt it looks half as good as Mac OS X. The Linux world has forgotten about the second half of the phrase 'look and feel.' IMHO, that's far more important than the color of the widgets. If it feels like a rickety bobsled, putting a big Mercedes Benz logo on the hood isn't going to make it feel any more reliable.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux for serving (and I have two Linux servers) but almost five years after I started trying to convince myself that Linux could be a reasonable desktop, I'm further away from believing it than when I started.
When I reread those, I understand them precisely the way I did in the first place. The grandparent is independent of the parent. The proposition of the parent is predicated on Microsoft fighting the torrent of spam beplaguing the hapless Hotmail users. My contention is that Microsoft is the progenitor of that plague. It has nothing do do with the hypothetical proposition.
Uh, doesn't the fact that hotmail accounts that are unused get tons of spam suggest that they're not listening to their customers as much as they are selling their customer lists to spammers?
That's, to me, decidedly not a Good Thing.
That's what I mean. Lawn, garden, trees, something to make your place distinct from the other hulking ugly brick monstrosity that's next door.
It's been my experience that criminal records or past have nothing to do with taste. A convicted Watergate participant who spent time in jail lives near me and has a lovely, tasteful house. I'm not sure where Watergate and spammer fit on the Bad Guy Continuum, but I think my point's still valid.
Wow. What an ugly house. It's a shame people don't have taste anymore. If you're going to spend $750,000 on a house, why not buy a slightly less conspicuous place that isn't fifteen feet away from another $750,000 house? Nothing says "conspicuous new money" more than a bug ugly thing with columns and no lawn and no privacy.
Do you care to provide the link, or just bitch?
IBM is fanatical about things like that. Remember, they're not a computer company, they make business machines. If they could, everything from the computers down to the manuals would be made of metal and be identified by nothing more than a five digit number.
Yes it is. It's really far away. Much further than you'd think. It's coded for Carbon, which is a subset of the old Toolbox routines which are about as far from a normal UNIX program as you can get.
I'd wager that Office v.x has almost no code that is helpful for a Linux port.
Don't underestimate the "Asian girls who like to see Hello Kitty everywhere they look" market. Those people NEED this technology ASAP.
Yes. It also means that there is complete, 100% accuracy voice recognition in all Mac OS X apps. Additionally, it improves sound quality on all machines (Mac or Windows, Linux coming in Q1 2002) within ten feet of the Macintosh. None of this is mentioned in the description of what the software does because Apple figures that people will not read that anyway and will ask the appropriate questions, whereupon they will be answered.
I like how the ten useful tips are all suggestions to upgrade to XP.
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Yea, and anyone who suggests that we were anything more than a pawn in your game of geopolitical chess with England stopped learning in elementary school. Magnanimous of you; you should be thanking us for giving you the balls to execute your king and try democracy. You'll get it right one of these Republics (what's it up to now, the fifth? sixth?)
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With English spelling, like Perl, there is often more than one way to do it. But with French, as I understand it, if you misspell something (or, god forbid, mispronounce it) they throw cheese at you then surrender preemptively.
Yea, but more have it than have Gigabit enet =) (My G3 PowerBook has FireWire and using target mode is cool, but it requires a reboot.)
I'd rather have it rain than have a sidewalk land on my garden party. But that's just me.
We won't win until we learn that it's "we yanks." But once they can't throw our grammar back at us, watch out Brussels!
I think it's 192.168.1.54. I spent a lot of money on it and the guy who sold it to me told me that it's really prestigious and that people would know how sophisticated I was if I told them my IP address.
There's a difference between stupid and uninformed. One of the real dangers we face is falling into believing that if other people don't know the things we do that they are stupid.
You mean my computer isn't broadcasting an IP address? That really scared me. I went out and bought $3000 worth of networking hardware to create a DMZ with border gateways and traffic shapers. Every single packet has to be personally approved by me to get out of my house. Ain't no hacker gonna hack my computer!
It might be worth consideration if the text boxes worked *vaguely* like proper Mac OS X text fields. No spell checking, completely bozofied text selection (try double-clicking and dragging or triple clicking.) It's a nice try but it'll never replace OmniWeb for anything other than fancy DHTML or JavaScript sites that don't work in OW.
The correct term for which, as all TV aficionados know, is miniseries rot. Originally, all television series were planned as miniseries, but the scourge or miniseries rot kicked in and none of them lasted for more than fifteen episodes or so. Finally, scientists from NBC and Bell Labs, working together, discovered how to prevent miniseries rot. The problem is that their discovery was both very expensive and very unpredictable: there was a 75% chance that any product treated against miniseries rot would instead turn out to be total crap. So the television producers of the last sixty years have faced a dilemma: they can produce short-lived, high quality programs or they can produce longer-lasting programs that cost a lot and have a 75% chance of being "Emeril." I, for one, am glad that I don't have to make that decision.
As everyone knows, that movie isn't about Nazis. Due to budget constraints, they used Nazis instead of terrorist aliens. We feel that the new edit is closer to Mr. Spielberg's original vision, and Mr. Spielberg is unavailable for interviews.