There are better things to worry about in this world. Check out the OS X Intel hack guys, they know exactly what's going on in that TPM chip, and it's mostly OS X copy protection.
Can I see a copy of yours? I'm not saying I agree with any of these practices, but the law currently supports them. If you disagree, I say go for it, sue them.
That's because you're only seeing Core Duo based machines, brand new. If you look at what Dell and Acer are coming out with on the same chip, the price is pretty competitive. As the variety of chips increases, and the platform starts to mature, you'll see the difference in price.
"Had a shot at commercial app dev relevance in the 90s, but the world passed it by, and is used rarely for new projects. Largely relegated to Unix system scripts, which is more of what it was designed for."
Aw, it's cute when people think they know what they're talking about.
Funny thing about homegrown projects is that things always get tacked on. My boss says that he "has already thought of everything." I've found that to never be true. You may be perfect in every way, but the rest of the world is not.
Stuff happens.
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do those fractions of a second that gentoo gives you really add up to anything at all?
Disables functionality? Unintended functionality is not necessarily functionality. Unintended functionality gave Commodore 64 developers a lot of room to create something big and further the platform in Commodore's favor.
This does not do anything in Microsoft's favor. Sell more XBoxes? Doesn't do them any good -- they lose money on the box.
It would do people good to come out of their basements and realize that in real life, things cost money.
And watch it crawl. Face it, your local machine has to do some of the work, but all of that pretty antialiasing of brushes and whatnot will/still crawl over the network/.
I have worked in medium sized data centers (500-1500 machines) with rack upon rack of Mac OS and Mac OS X machines along side their FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows based brethren, and I hate getting up from my desk as much as the next guy. You have a few options:
a) Learn niutil. It isn't awkward, it's just complete. If you know the commands, one or two will get the job done. It's easy enough to write a perl script to do the common tasks. You can hardly edit/etc/passwd on most linux boxes at this point, might as well jump on the bandwagon. b) Use NetInfo Manager remotely if niutil sucks too much. c) Use an Open Directory domain and go central for authentication.
The config files that contain objects are generally GUI related, and easily managed via the server administration tools Apple provides. The plists and XML cruft managing server level services are all ascii and all easy to read. I'm not sure how much experience you have, and I'm not putting you down here, but administering a Mac OS X Server is not easier or harder than the equivalent Linux or FreeBSD box -- just different.
He makes a jab at the iPod by talking about how larger capacity players add video capability, while ignoring fidelity by not offering lossless. While it isn't the longer-running FLAC format, the iPod does support Apple Lossless, which is just an extension of the standard MPEG4 Lossless Audio format. It works great, and my iPod Video certainly doesn't have a problem playing those as well.:P
Opera will be a pricy buy, if the CEO is any indicator. Why not get in on the open WebCore project? It's still a light codebase compared to Gecko, and they would be furthering the proliferation of more open code.
I had a 6315 for some time. Awesome little device, just needed more speed. It finally stopped crashing daily after the latest patch. I missed Symbian, though, so I switched back to my old 3650 until the Nokia E61 comes out.
Someday, someone will get it right. I recommend looking at the HP iPAQ hw6515 if you liked the 6315. You can pop the Tmo SIM into it and it works just fine.
Yeah, but if the point of Linux is to have choice and be able to make modifications, you can put all of this stuff back with a couple of configure flags and liberal use of GConf. It's trivial to make your desktop environment do want you want it to, whether you're using Gnome or KDE, or OS X or Windows. It sounds like Linux is taking the fanboy route rather than giving good reasons, but it's par for the friggin course for the Slashdot crowd.
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There are better things to worry about in this world. Check out the OS X Intel hack guys, they know exactly what's going on in that TPM chip, and it's mostly OS X copy protection.
Can I see a copy of yours? I'm not saying I agree with any of these practices, but the law currently supports them. If you disagree, I say go for it, sue them.
You own the DVD, you license the content. Check the fine print.
Keep in mind, it's not like I agree with the practice. My disagreement does not negate the fact.
It's a license when the copyright holder says it is such. You don't own your software, either, and you haven't for over 20 years.
When you license something, how is it yours? When you lease a car, it isn't yours. When you rent a tool, it isn't yours.
That's because you're only seeing Core Duo based machines, brand new. If you look at what Dell and Acer are coming out with on the same chip, the price is pretty competitive. As the variety of chips increases, and the platform starts to mature, you'll see the difference in price.
I would say that most perl users on the Windows platform are still very much using ActiveState.
"Had a shot at commercial app dev relevance in the 90s, but the world passed it by, and is used rarely for new projects. Largely relegated to Unix system scripts, which is more of what it was designed for."
Aw, it's cute when people think they know what they're talking about.
No, but I'll bash your hair if it's necessary. I asked a serious question -- does it matter?
"Gentoo is my favorite distro, I like it." is valid. I like Ubuntu. That's why we have choice.
"Gentoo is built for speed." is not valid, as I haven't seen a benchmark yet that warrants five days to get a usable system.
Funny thing about homegrown projects is that things always get tacked on. My boss says that he "has already thought of everything." I've found that to never be true. You may be perfect in every way, but the rest of the world is not.
Stuff happens.
do those fractions of a second that gentoo gives you really add up to anything at all?
Disables functionality? Unintended functionality is not necessarily functionality. Unintended functionality gave Commodore 64 developers a lot of room to create something big and further the platform in Commodore's favor.
This does not do anything in Microsoft's favor. Sell more XBoxes? Doesn't do them any good -- they lose money on the box.
It would do people good to come out of their basements and realize that in real life, things cost money.
And watch it crawl. Face it, your local machine has to do some of the work, but all of that pretty antialiasing of brushes and whatnot will /still crawl over the network/.
I have worked in medium sized data centers (500-1500 machines) with rack upon rack of Mac OS and Mac OS X machines along side their FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows based brethren, and I hate getting up from my desk as much as the next guy. You have a few options:
/etc/passwd on most linux boxes at this point, might as well jump on the bandwagon.
a) Learn niutil. It isn't awkward, it's just complete. If you know the commands, one or two will get the job done. It's easy enough to write a perl script to do the common tasks. You can hardly edit
b) Use NetInfo Manager remotely if niutil sucks too much.
c) Use an Open Directory domain and go central for authentication.
The config files that contain objects are generally GUI related, and easily managed via the server administration tools Apple provides. The plists and XML cruft managing server level services are all ascii and all easy to read. I'm not sure how much experience you have, and I'm not putting you down here, but administering a Mac OS X Server is not easier or harder than the equivalent Linux or FreeBSD box -- just different.
niutil isn't terribly hard to grok, you know. ;) There's always the nice GUI at Applications > Utilities > NetInfo Manager.
Yeah, except for most of them. :P
Unfortunately, Apple isn't a big fan of bloat. While OO 2 has come a long way over 1, it's still huge and unsightly.
Waah. Who cares? It's a name.
Fascinating, I always read that was the case. I stand corrected, after research, you're definitely right.
Nevertheless, the original point stands -- it's there, it works. There are now open source tools to deal with this format, as well.
He makes a jab at the iPod by talking about how larger capacity players add video capability, while ignoring fidelity by not offering lossless. While it isn't the longer-running FLAC format, the iPod does support Apple Lossless, which is just an extension of the standard MPEG4 Lossless Audio format. It works great, and my iPod Video certainly doesn't have a problem playing those as well. :P
How old are you?
Do you know how DNS works?
Opera will be a pricy buy, if the CEO is any indicator. Why not get in on the open WebCore project? It's still a light codebase compared to Gecko, and they would be furthering the proliferation of more open code.
I had a 6315 for some time. Awesome little device, just needed more speed. It finally stopped crashing daily after the latest patch. I missed Symbian, though, so I switched back to my old 3650 until the Nokia E61 comes out.
Someday, someone will get it right. I recommend looking at the HP iPAQ hw6515 if you liked the 6315. You can pop the Tmo SIM into it and it works just fine.
Yeah, but if the point of Linux is to have choice and be able to make modifications, you can put all of this stuff back with a couple of configure flags and liberal use of GConf. It's trivial to make your desktop environment do want you want it to, whether you're using Gnome or KDE, or OS X or Windows. It sounds like Linux is taking the fanboy route rather than giving good reasons, but it's par for the friggin course for the Slashdot crowd.
I never realized Linus could say such stupid crap, I thought that was reserved for Richard Stallman. I thought the whole point of Linux was choice?