you don't know what you're talking about... easier to use? Oh well... if you follow the wizard click throughs custom built by your peecee vendors yes... it's easier... alas! Try to sidestep the railroad and you're alone... in a rattlesnake den called "The Registry"... easier programming? Hmph... you must refer to excel math functions like: average, sum, vector product... oh wait. The walmart printer example? Oh, you must have read ESR's rant... nice try... troll. Endless software? Hmph... how much of it is useless? I have an OSX unix machine and quite a lot of "software" is just crap cocoa sw wrappers around good 'ol bash (I'm not talking about regexp for dummies... no... plain tar -xz(j)vf tarball) listen kid, I'm out of windows for good, dig my mac for it's conveniences but still miss linux's power... Easy drivers? Weelll... as long as MS threatens to revoke privileged access to their devel cycle (simply not an option for whoever wants to deliver a product without that "cheap latecomer" feeling) it's a moot point. I bought a PB because I couldn't have an IBM ThinkPad with the same "out of the box" experience on unix; thus I went the OS X way. Tomorrow IBM makes a ppc Think? I'm in line for it... go on, run you sandra benchmarks for as long as you like... heh! legacy compatibility on windows... what a fool...
Ok, Mr. Thurrot... we got the message (it's a prank!);-) very funny, I appreciate... tnx... love it! Really... soo funny... btw, d'ya know some website I can dl some MS LH iso?
... not some kind of HDTV standard for industry gorillas to fight endless dominion wars (and kill the platform in the process). Oh, you say it could have become a platform for a new product market like mp3? Nah, don't be childish... it's just a playground for corporate exec super egos. Does it mean that 3g and all that umts is and will remain a dead cow? yes. Does it mean that consumers will carry useless silicon in their pocket like they did with wap cellphones only to use them for what they were designed originally? yes... like, phones you know?
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... try ZOE. The interface is sometimes clumsy, but the idea and the feeling are king.
Do you realize that your first bullet doesn't depend on anyone else but Microsoft? Does it give you the extent of your businesses' addiction to Microsoft's products? You concede that it's a difficult task only to reinforce it's sine qua non. Would it sound more obvious if you asked for the formula to turn lead into gold? It's a difficult task but nobody can't negate it's value... Backend support for Office? OMG! Do you realize that the whole Office.NET (or XP whatever) XML integration is a strategy to tightly embed Office workflow to departmental Windows servers? Simple cifs servers (or auth controllers) are replaceable but Microsoft leared the lesson: Exchange is the business server that keeps them on the rackmont cpus. Nobody has yet managed to crack the lock-in and everybody refuses to give up on it in spite of worms and lousy performance. Here comes Active Directory... incompatible and secret. Here comes MS's xml patented (and undocumented) formats to keep everyone out of the infrastructure (better, the golden cage) they want to build around your business. Wise up... many are, and not all are stinky nerds... some are even suits!
Firmware? Like openfirmaware? Mods... you've been trolled... and let me feed it too... it's ATI/nVIDIA that don't make enough OF video cards... (and these you pay through your nose... ask any Apple customer)...
... like this? Nope, it's not a joke... shame it's only an obscure little project, because there are things to improve in the UI design... but... it IS really cool.
hey, what kind of moblie phones do you exactly use in the US, rotary dial? My very first, gritty Mitsubishi from 5 years ago had a hierarchical menu (and clumsy too); only, it didn't have a sweeping animation on transitions;-) Last week I played with an SE P800 and it does much more that place calls:-) The SE T610 is another one I've seen (nasty slow interface... shame, shame), don't you have these in the US (ugh, must be savages!) My current gritty (and dog old) cell is a Siemens M30... it's a complete prior art: hierarchical, up/down/click to enter subsection thing... the only "design" attribute I give to the iPod is having a wheel adding a sexy circular motion to a very rigid UI. It's a kind of Zen thing I really like. So, although typing on a TiBook I must laugh at Apple's claims. Ciao
I don't know how important this application is and what kind of market does it aim to. A glancing look suggests it's some kind of templating environment for bureucratic ePaper-shifting; should that be the case it's understandable that Adobe would focus on MS platform given that the totality of corp desktops is Windows. Now, if IBM/Novell's strategy to deploy Linux on those desks works out we'll have a metric of Adobe's MS-shill-ness (wait for the new Office to include these capabilities and bite Adobe in the ass... have a smile, relax). Sadly, I've seen profs writing books in FrameMaker so this decision could hurt Apple academic sales (but after the Big Apple cluster stunt that'd be difficult:-) Finally, what is the product to fill this void on OS X platform?
fwbuilder? I think it's a smart product but still, I've never played with "enterprise" stuff. Anyway, I do get the feeling that the program is geared towards managing large arrays of machines inside a single interface.
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The status quo wouldn't suppurt the "breakthrough" codec anyway because today we have algorithmically tuned ASICs and it takes time to switch 10^6s households to your new platform (cds took a decade, dvds something less and vhs isn't gone yet). Tomorrow, GPUs will be the standard because sooner or later nVIDIA, ATI and the other will find a way to stick a clocked down version of their stock stuff into our 50$, special offer, best price thingies sitting in our living rooms (which I wouln'd buy anyway because everything is cool and fine until the datastream hits the codec chip... there census sets in: cheap box? out with the composite stream. middle tier? ok we'll give you the dts data. spent a shitload? ok, go with the dts and get the rgb signal too!). Shame it was mentioned in public because this could be patentable (by today's standard);-) An old xFX nVIDIA has more than enough power to project an mpeg film, what does such a chip cost, 5$? The power budget is irrelevant for home appliances and these things wouldn't be pushed to their max anyway so yes, I beleive the native parent's idea is valid & marketable.
because it's simple. The logo looks like some incredibly gifted code geek tried to liven up his/her backend logic with some photoshopping but... failed; it looks cheapish but it gives that "we're not in marketing" feeling. Also, it's very blank, like Structure, where Morpheus lectures Neo before running the training programs... cool. Loading google produces s a feeling of loss, a blank page, one measly textarea and a button (no 'submit' caption!)... the web staring blankly at you, wondering what the hell you want... The linked stuff is just gfx artists masturbation; looks cool, but they're just exacerbating the business they're trained in.
Apple scores +5: Good netizen... all I worry for is their quality control on hardware; I'll keep an eye on it but my next PowerBook upgrade will be an Apple, thare's no question about it;-)
some time ago a TV commercial portrayed some kind of bicyclist (mind you... over here in it-IT these are despised because 1. they slow drivers down like anything that doesn't do 0...100Km/h in 6s 2. they usually stand in the way and do so ostensively just to get on your damn nerves 3. often they cycle in herds that are difficult to overtake and make for a dangerous quarrel at the next stoplight... you guessed it... I'm a rabid roman driver... but back on topic...) so in this commercial this idiot in a pink stretch cycling outfit with all the bells 'n whistles rests his arm or hand on some other dude's car engine hood whenever the two stop at crossroars, stop signs or lights. In the last scene the driver backs off in reverse at the last second and the other moron falls off his bike... I loved it but it stirred quite an emotion across the cycle aficionados... they pulled it... what a shame;-)
Fiero means proud while Fuego isn't italian at all; they do sound pretty lame though. I've never heard of a car with such names nor do they sound particularly emarassing. Some other words that migh raise a couple eyebrows over here would be: Figa or Fica, two varians for cunt. Perhaps that's what you or the author of the book was referring to?
Except that these private armies brought misey upon the rural populations that populated the warfare areas; the quarreling lords often didn't have enough money to pay for the soldiers so these would redeem their take on loot and spoil. Your description makes it look like some kind of World Football Championship peasants followed on TV. Nah, they had their villages put ot flames, the wives raped and the livestock eaten... and epidemics and summary excecution... war is war... close to home... across the world... an aseptic radar image or a rotting trench... I'd like to live without it.
Watch out! Someone must have patented it...... a method for preemptively filtering malicious content on a computer system based on server side computer system... computer system... HEY IT'S COMPUTER... gimme money!...
Are you smearing EU because it's not hard against De Beers just because it's an european based corp? Well, let me put this straight: perhaps De Beers is such a filthy rich beast infiltrating every western world lobby enough to keep rolling the evil business as they've always had. Perhaps there are other monopolies that stranglehold the world economy, provoke wars, make life a misery for millions of innocents (OPEC)... is EU the only hypocrite? Perhaps there are other monopolies that aren't as high profile but yet move loads of money and mercilessly hurt developing nations' people; and when their interests are challenged they lobby their Homeland governments to defend the status quo (Dole)... Who's the hypocrite? Aren't we grown enough to know that nowhere in business is purity, virginity and morals? (in the US as much as in the EU, Russia, Far East... can I say global?) Aren't we just quarreling with nationalistic chauvinism like Renzo's chicken (a famous metaphor in Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi") while the fat cats are making arrangements to screw us over again? Can we all rejoice for once that M$ is getting a little decent slap on the face? Consider that Monti, the EU antitrust official, is getting some heat for having pissed over some EU monopilies' interests so guess what will M$ do next... blow on these internal affairs fires to get rid of the idiot? Enjoy the show while it lasts instead of makin a fool of yourself playing the part of the texan redneck...
Oh, shite (I'm struggling not to swear trollish gibberish!)... how can the fools even think of using flash in a space mission? What's most rad sensitive that a bunch of trapped electrons hovering on a thin isolation layer tweaking a threshold voltage?
happened because it plugged BSD onto it's system and made extensive use of quality FOSS software on it's client/server OS X. With Safari it even gave back to the community earning a huge karma bonus. Before the osx days I wouldn't touch an Apple with a 10 metre pole but now I own one and I root for it (with the effect of two private iBooks an XServe and other eMacs office stations bought). This Microsoft shit makes me even more anxious and determined to spread the apple word, liberate the clients from M$dom and Applify what can't be Linuxified. So many times has Microsoft crossed the threshold of decency, it has to be stopped. I want to live my IT life freely; Microsoft's attitude perpetually challenges this freedom; Microsoft has to be reduced to compliancy. This 'patent scandal' is just another good argument for us to talk people out.
and I can't help but weeping in desperation for the weeks spent shoehorning configs, outdated schemas, shoddy howtos, help calls to usenet groups go get the same stuff up on various MDKs, FreeBSDs, RHs etc... Well, we needed a unix office server... we could have gone IBM... the XServe is shipping this week...:-) Linux is cool, but all the mentioned distributors didn't manage or care to do what Apple did. I'm starting to think that the corporate desktop is quite ready for Macs...
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you don't know what you're talking about... ... plain tar -xz(j)vf tarball)
easier to use? Oh well... if you follow the wizard click throughs custom built by your peecee vendors yes... it's easier... alas! Try to sidestep the railroad and you're alone... in a rattlesnake den called "The Registry"...
easier programming? Hmph... you must refer to excel math functions like: average, sum, vector product... oh wait. The walmart printer example? Oh, you must have read ESR's rant... nice try... troll. Endless software? Hmph... how much of it is useless? I have an OSX unix machine and quite a lot of "software" is just crap cocoa sw wrappers around good 'ol bash (I'm not talking about regexp for dummies... no
listen kid, I'm out of windows for good, dig my mac for it's conveniences but still miss linux's power...
Easy drivers? Weelll... as long as MS threatens to revoke privileged access to their devel cycle (simply not an option for whoever wants to deliver a product without that "cheap latecomer" feeling) it's a moot point.
I bought a PB because I couldn't have an IBM ThinkPad with the same "out of the box" experience on unix; thus I went the OS X way. Tomorrow IBM makes a ppc Think? I'm in line for it...
go on, run you sandra benchmarks for as long as you like... heh! legacy compatibility on windows... what a fool...
Ok, Mr. Thurrot... we got the message (it's a prank!) ;-) very funny, I appreciate... tnx... love it! Really... soo funny... btw, d'ya know some website I can dl some MS LH iso?
... not some kind of HDTV standard for industry gorillas to fight endless dominion wars (and kill the platform in the process). Oh, you say it could have become a platform for a new product market like mp3? Nah, don't be childish... it's just a playground for corporate exec super egos.
Does it mean that 3g and all that umts is and will remain a dead cow? yes. Does it mean that consumers will carry useless silicon in their pocket like they did with wap cellphones only to use them for what they were designed originally? yes... like, phones you know?
... try ZOE. The interface is sometimes clumsy, but the idea and the feeling are king.
Do you realize that your first bullet doesn't depend on anyone else but Microsoft? Does it give you the extent of your businesses' addiction to Microsoft's products? You concede that it's a difficult task only to reinforce it's sine qua non. Would it sound more obvious if you asked for the formula to turn lead into gold? It's a difficult task but nobody can't negate it's value... .NET (or XP whatever) XML integration is a strategy to tightly embed Office workflow to departmental Windows servers? Simple cifs servers (or auth controllers) are replaceable but Microsoft leared the lesson: Exchange is the business server that keeps them on the rackmont cpus. Nobody has yet managed to crack the lock-in and everybody refuses to give up on it in spite of worms and lousy performance. Here comes Active Directory... incompatible and secret. Here comes MS's xml patented (and undocumented) formats to keep everyone out of the infrastructure (better, the golden cage) they want to build around your business.
Backend support for Office? OMG! Do you realize that the whole Office
Wise up... many are, and not all are stinky nerds... some are even suits!
Yours Sir was a callous comment...
Firmware? Like openfirmaware? Mods... you've been trolled... and let me feed it too... it's ATI/nVIDIA that don't make enough OF video cards... (and these you pay through your nose... ask any Apple customer)...
... like this? Nope, it's not a joke... shame it's only an obscure little project, because there are things to improve in the UI design... but... it IS really cool.
hey, what kind of moblie phones do you exactly use in the US, rotary dial? My very first, gritty Mitsubishi from 5 years ago had a hierarchical menu (and clumsy too); only, it didn't have a sweeping animation on transitions ;-) Last week I played with an SE P800 and it does much more that place calls :-) The SE T610 is another one I've seen (nasty slow interface... shame, shame), don't you have these in the US (ugh, must be savages!)
My current gritty (and dog old) cell is a Siemens M30... it's a complete prior art: hierarchical, up/down/click to enter subsection thing... the only "design" attribute I give to the iPod is having a wheel adding a sexy circular motion to a very rigid UI. It's a kind of Zen thing I really like.
So, although typing on a TiBook I must laugh at Apple's claims.
Ciao
I don't know how important this application is and what kind of market does it aim to. A glancing look suggests it's some kind of templating environment for bureucratic ePaper-shifting; should that be the case it's understandable that Adobe would focus on MS platform given that the totality of corp desktops is Windows. Now, if IBM/Novell's strategy to deploy Linux on those desks works out we'll have a metric of Adobe's MS-shill-ness (wait for the new Office to include these capabilities and bite Adobe in the ass... have a smile, relax). :-)
Sadly, I've seen profs writing books in FrameMaker so this decision could hurt Apple academic sales (but after the Big Apple cluster stunt that'd be difficult
Finally, what is the product to fill this void on OS X platform?
fwbuilder? I think it's a smart product but still, I've never played with "enterprise" stuff. Anyway, I do get the feeling that the program is geared towards managing large arrays of machines inside a single interface.
The status quo wouldn't suppurt the "breakthrough" codec anyway because today we have algorithmically tuned ASICs and it takes time to switch 10^6s households to your new platform (cds took a decade, dvds something less and vhs isn't gone yet). Tomorrow, GPUs will be the standard because sooner or later nVIDIA, ATI and the other will find a way to stick a clocked down version of their stock stuff into our 50$, special offer, best price thingies sitting in our living rooms (which I wouln'd buy anyway because everything is cool and fine until the datastream hits the codec chip... there census sets in: cheap box? out with the composite stream. middle tier? ok we'll give you the dts data. spent a shitload? ok, go with the dts and get the rgb signal too!). Shame it was mentioned in public because this could be patentable (by today's standard) ;-) An old xFX nVIDIA has more than enough power to project an mpeg film, what does such a chip cost, 5$? The power budget is irrelevant for home appliances and these things wouldn't be pushed to their max anyway so yes, I beleive the native parent's idea is valid & marketable.
because it's simple. The logo looks like some incredibly gifted code geek tried to liven up his/her backend logic with some photoshopping but... failed; it looks cheapish but it gives that "we're not in marketing" feeling. Also, it's very blank, like Structure, where Morpheus lectures Neo before running the training programs... cool. Loading google produces s a feeling of loss, a blank page, one measly textarea and a button (no 'submit' caption!)... the web staring blankly at you, wondering what the hell you want...
The linked stuff is just gfx artists masturbation; looks cool, but they're just exacerbating the business they're trained in.
... for download resuming courtesy of the latest Safari update... (ok I know, it's as much as a feature as >256 color maps but still ,-) )
Apple scores +5: Good netizen... ;-)
all I worry for is their quality control on hardware; I'll keep an eye on it but my next PowerBook upgrade will be an Apple, thare's no question about it
Ok, ACK... sorry for ranting.
some time ago a TV commercial portrayed some kind of bicyclist (mind you... over here in it-IT these are despised because 1. they slow drivers down like anything that doesn't do 0...100Km/h in 6s 2. they usually stand in the way and do so ostensively just to get on your damn nerves 3. often they cycle in herds that are difficult to overtake and make for a dangerous quarrel at the next stoplight... you guessed it... I'm a rabid roman driver... but back on topic...) so in this commercial this idiot in a pink stretch cycling outfit with all the bells 'n whistles rests his arm or hand on some other dude's car engine hood whenever the two stop at crossroars, stop signs or lights. In the last scene the driver backs off in reverse at the last second and the other moron falls off his bike... ;-)
I loved it but it stirred quite an emotion across the cycle aficionados... they pulled it... what a shame
Fiero means proud while Fuego isn't italian at all; they do sound pretty lame though. I've never heard of a car with such names nor do they sound particularly emarassing. Some other words that migh raise a couple eyebrows over here would be: Figa or Fica, two varians for cunt. Perhaps that's what you or the author of the book was referring to?
Except that these private armies brought misey upon the rural populations that populated the warfare areas; the quarreling lords often didn't have enough money to pay for the soldiers so these would redeem their take on loot and spoil. Your description makes it look like some kind of World Football Championship peasants followed on TV. Nah, they had their villages put ot flames, the wives raped and the livestock eaten... and epidemics and summary excecution... war is war... close to home... across the world... an aseptic radar image or a rotting trench... I'd like to live without it.
Watch out! Someone must have patented it... ... a method for preemptively filtering malicious content on a computer system based on server side computer system... computer system... HEY IT'S COMPUTER... gimme money!...
bah... sorry
Are you smearing EU because it's not hard against De Beers just because it's an european based corp? Well, let me put this straight: perhaps De Beers is such a filthy rich beast infiltrating every western world lobby enough to keep rolling the evil business as they've always had. Perhaps there are other monopolies that stranglehold the world economy, provoke wars, make life a misery for millions of innocents (OPEC)... is EU the only hypocrite? Perhaps there are other monopolies that aren't as high profile but yet move loads of money and mercilessly hurt developing nations' people; and when their interests are challenged they lobby their Homeland governments to defend the status quo (Dole)...
Who's the hypocrite? Aren't we grown enough to know that nowhere in business is purity, virginity and morals? (in the US as much as in the EU, Russia, Far East... can I say global?)
Aren't we just quarreling with nationalistic chauvinism like Renzo's chicken (a famous metaphor in Manzoni's "I Promessi Sposi") while the fat cats are making arrangements to screw us over again?
Can we all rejoice for once that M$ is getting a little decent slap on the face? Consider that Monti, the EU antitrust official, is getting some heat for having pissed over some EU monopilies' interests so guess what will M$ do next... blow on these internal affairs fires to get rid of the idiot? Enjoy the show while it lasts instead of makin a fool of yourself playing the part of the texan redneck...
Oh, shite (I'm struggling not to swear trollish gibberish!)... how can the fools even think of using flash in a space mission? What's most rad sensitive that a bunch of trapped electrons hovering on a thin isolation layer tweaking a threshold voltage?
happened because it plugged BSD onto it's system and made extensive use of quality FOSS software on it's client/server OS X. With Safari it even gave back to the community earning a huge karma bonus. Before the osx days I wouldn't touch an Apple with a 10 metre pole but now I own one and I root for it (with the effect of two private iBooks an XServe and other eMacs office stations bought). This Microsoft shit makes me even more anxious and determined to spread the apple word, liberate the clients from M$dom and Applify what can't be Linuxified. So many times has Microsoft crossed the threshold of decency, it has to be stopped. I want to live my IT life freely; Microsoft's attitude perpetually challenges this freedom; Microsoft has to be reduced to compliancy. This 'patent scandal' is just another good argument for us to talk people out.
and I can't help but weeping in desperation for the weeks spent shoehorning configs, outdated schemas, shoddy howtos, help calls to usenet groups go get the same stuff up on various MDKs, FreeBSDs, RHs etc... Well, we needed a unix office server... we could have gone IBM... the XServe is shipping this week... :-) Linux is cool, but all the mentioned distributors didn't manage or care to do what Apple did. I'm starting to think that the corporate desktop is quite ready for Macs...