And this isn't even counting the hiddend taxes-- property taxes, car sales taxes, drivers license fees, car license fees, electricity taxes, the %20 of your phone bill that goes to taxes, the %50 taxes on flying if you fly, the water taxes, the excessive electricity taxes, banking fees that go to tax, etc. etc. etc.
That's cause youre not counting all the taxes. Remember gas taxes alone are about %50.
The average person pays about %30 in total income tax-- state and federal. On top of that they pay %16 in social security tax (though they only print %8 on your paycheck- don't be fooled by this accounting trickery-- you EARNED the %8 your employer "pays")... add medicare on top of that (which is what? %5) and you're at %51.
If your average sales tax costs (remember gas is %50 or higher when you count the multiple levels of taxation of this commodity-- distribution, refining, sales, etc.) is %8 (I'm assuming a low %6 state and city tax plus %2 boost for having to buy gas-- as poor people have less efficient cars) and spend the rest of your monet (the other %49), then %8 times 0.49 is roughly %4 of your total income.
This brings your tax burden to %55!
Pretty consistent with tax freedom day being July 11th-- which is over %50 of the year going to taxes! So their numbers match mine roughly.
Yes, the poor people are giving up half their income to taxes. Those who invest give up less, of course, and some people manage to keep their taxes low... but on average, my statement is true.
If you have a mortgage and a car payment, you're already financially irresponsible.
Houses never make financial sense-- you do not "Save" in taxes what you spend on them.. its just a waste of money.
IF you have a house and a car payment, you may not be living beyond your means, but you're still wasting a lot of money.... and you're certainly living beyond prudent means.
IF your mortgage is more than %15 of your net-- after taxes-- income, you shouldn't have bought the house.
Oh there are lots of ways-- you can buy a good mobile home for about $6,000 and then your rent is only $200 a month. Another $200 for food and $100 for gas and you'd have $300 for everything else.
Or if you pay $500 for rent, you ride the bus and just barely make the $800/month budget.
Seattle's cost of living is less than the Bay Area, but higher than most of the rest of the country-- so if you can do it here, you can certainly do it in places that are cheaper.
Frankly, the idea that you have to spend all that money living comes from the fact that you "have" to have a nice apartment and you "have" to have a nice car, etc. etc.
Buy a early 80s Toyota for $1k (or less!) put aside $1K for an extra engine and $500 for miscelaneous and you've got a car-- plus the cost of replacing the engine and doing any serious work you might need for the next 5 years JUST for the cost your typical slashdot poster pays in INTEREST ALONE in two years on their used $10,000 or whatever car that they "Have" to have. (though car interest rates have gone down lately...)
And Henry Ford paid his workers the highest wages in the country, also without unions.
Fact of the matter is, a worker who didn't like Henries no-talking rule could go work somewhere else for less money.
It was a trade off the worker was free to make.
With unions-- you don't get to make that choice. You get what the union "negotiates" for you, and you don't get to work out a better deal with the employer.
IF unions really provided a good service, they wouldnt' force people to join the union in order to work there. That they do is all the proof that's necessary that they are fundamentally corrupt.
Your innocent belief that the union isn't paid off by the company to fuck over its members is sweet, but foolish.
I'm not unionized, and I don't get fucked over by my employers. I wonder why that is.... according to you, I'm incompetant to negotate my own salary and so I must be getting fucked over and yet I make lots of money-- not $0.65 an hour.
The reality is, unions are a parasite-- industries that are not unionized pay their employees better.
Ah, gotta love that government "Service"! Creating poverty wherever it touches. Minimum wage creates unemployment. Lets tax the poor people %50 of their income so we can under fund programs that might give them %5 of their taxes back when they can no longer make ends meet!
How bright do you have to be to realize that letting them keep the money in the first place would leave them better off? Or that letting the wealtheir people keep the money would also leave the poor people better off? (more jobs, bigger economy, higher standard of living). Taxes can only CAUSE more poverty than they could hope to fix, and half of them are diverted to defense and other boondoggles like social security (Which gives people about %20 of their money back in retirement.)
Government is a disease masquarading as its own cure!
Anyone can negotiated a work contract, and who says it has to be tedious?
I've negotiated every single one of mine.
Unions are organized crime- they exist only to form close shops and force employees to pay a cut of their salary to them for this "service" which they never perform- because they union learns quickly if they lety the company pay them off, they get more money! So the union gets paid off by the company, and the workers pay them as well, and they spend their time talking to mafia bosses.
Only a sucker voluntarily joins a union. (At least as the unions are in the USA).
I live on $200 a week, though I budgetted $300 in my savings, just in case.
In this market, anyone who's employed should be living on $200 and putting the rest into savings or retirement.
I don't understand the people who just watch the dot bomb (And all the local Amazon.com employees who bought million dollar houses on stock optiosn declaring bankruptcy) who are continuing to live paycheck to paycheck at a big salary.
It was prudent in boom times to save your money, and if you're not doing it now, you're just being irresponsible.
Oh, unless of course you are truely financially independant (That is, without counting any stock options). Then nevermind.
If your boss is "Trying" to get this fixed, and its been more than three months with no solution, your boss is not doing anything.
Either he doesnt' think you're worth the new money, or your company is too dysfunctional.
Start looking elsewhere. If you really aren't being paid what you're worth, and the company has had three months to rectify it and hasn't,then you should leave.
IF they are hiring new people at %30 more but say that they don't ahve room in the budget, they are lying.
They have room in the budget for the new people.
I think either your boss doesn't value you as much as those new people (it happens, even with people who are actually good employees) or he figure's your'e a sap who he can string along.
Get your resume in shape and get out of there.
Don't be a sap.
Oh, and screw this "they owe it to me" crap-- they don't owe you anything, and that's what you're getting, so end the relationship. Let your boss know you know this is absurd, or kills his ass until you leave- its your call. But its time for you to tak responsibility for the situation. Find someone who will pay you what you're worth.
Not because they "owe" it to you-- because they value you.
That's funny, I have a big pile of capital in my wallet and it hasnt' chosen to incorporate!
You complain about companies being "anti-social"... how can capital be anti-social ? Its not human, it can't have social interaction.... only humans can be anti-social.
Furthermore, how can a company-- which by definition is a collection of people who are working together-- be anti social? After all the purpose of a company is to employ people and to make products or offer services that people want.
IF the company doesnt'y exist, the custoemrs go without the product and the employees go without jobs. That's more anti-social.
Frankly, you've just got a bigotry against what you see as "rich people" and want to force the m to give their money to you. This is the enslavement you advocate, this is your problem with human rights.
You can't stand the fact that some people save their money and invest it wisely and start companies-- so you'd rather have them working for you.
You'd rather their employees be unemployed...and the evil "collections of capital" you speak of --which are really people who just saved their moeny-- working for you to a "Social good"
This is slavery. IF you didn't mind what people did, as long as they werent'; hurting others, you wouldn't care about companies... you wouldn't say they have no concious. (People have conciouses, and the vast majority of people are honest-- the vast majority of companies are honest as well.)
I think you've got no experience of the real world, and you really should look around you, and look at what happened when your ideology was put into action. Socialists have killed 100 million people in the last 100 years, and I find your assertion that anything less is "anti-social" to be absurd.
Companied do have the same rights as individuals, for companies are nothing more than a collection of individuals.
Attempting to deny human rights to people just because they work for, or run, a company is still denying human rights. Trying to pretend that companies are some sort of other entity not made up of humans (with human rights) is just the socia, er, liberal attempt to justify opposition to human rights.
Thus there is no "balance" that needs to be reached between the "Wishes of [individuals]" and the "rights of individuals".
Your rights to not extend to forcing me to act the way you approve--- and when it is all boiled down, ultimately, tht is what you want-- to make other people do your bidding.
Couching it in terms to try and make it seem like you're pro-human rights, when endorsing slavery is what you're really doing, will only fool the nieve.
But it does ellicit cheering from your non-thinking compatriots.
Especially since the people MS sends to these things tend to be early to mid 20s women.
I'm sure sending these women "pussy" will have quite a huge effect.
Funy thing is, Microsoft doesn't care what you guys think, and certainly the reps they send to put on these deals don't either... its just PR outreach to the windows programmers who are showing up at the convention. They don't really care about the linux geeks.
Try talking to them at one of these things sometime.
I read somewhere that there are about 5 billion rounds of ammunition expended in the US every year.
Given that total deaths (including suicides) by guns in the same time period is usually around 11,000, this means for fare more thant %99 of the time when a gun is fired its purpose is not to kill someone.
Either that or nobody ever hits what they are aiming at.
Frankly, Target Practice is the primary purpose of guns, a purpose employed lest one be deficient if the secondary purpose (self defense) becomes necessary.
Uh, false. you are spreading fabricated fantasies, and pretending they are facts.
Apple didn't block implementation of features of Gnome due to patents.
The idea that Apple would be worse than Microsoft is laughable-- and can only come from someone who hates Success (microsoft) but hates innovation (Apple) even more.
Both are forms of success, and given your penchant for anti-human rights, anti-capitalism ranting on slashdot, your motivations are obvious.
Your fabrication, however, isn't going to stand unchallenged.
IF you were talking about re-encodind DVDs, you could capture them to DV using the Formac DV bridge (But not conopuses) and then use iMovie or Quicktime Pro to re-encode them to MPEG4 or whatever.
You're repeating incorrect information. This always seems to be the case with apple -- people tell lies and innocent people repeat these lies as if they were truth.
Apple was denied a patent on their GUI, but they did get copyright. The Microsoft case was a copyright case.
That you think Apple is profiting from Linux with OSX then you are delusional. They open sourced THEIR product (A BSD derivitive.)
To claim they are exploiting the linux market is just silly. After all, linux people never pay for anything, so what is there to exploit? And they'd never buy quality hardware, so apple has no chance to sell them hardware.
Come on. the insults are not necessary and this constant desperate need to deominize apple reeks of insecurity.
But on the patent thing, you're just wrong. Please don't repeat that misinformation.
In fact, as someone who's read virtually every UI book I can get my hands on, I'd like to point out that it works as a metaphor. And that's what UIs are supposed to do.
I don't know why people hate brushed metal so much, it doesn't make sense to me.
And you don't hear people going on and on about he garish clash of colors in Windows, or Linux... ugh, the best things in the Linux and Windows LaF (which are pretty similar to begin with) are still worse than the worst things in Apple's LaF.
As far as good consistent UI goes, Apple rules the roost.
Disk Copy has supported encrypted partitions (eg: files that mount as drives when you open them) since 10.1, which is what I've been using.
I have not noticed performance issues with using them, except for when I occasionally copy a 20-50 megabyte movie onto them. Then I go "oh yeah, that's encrypted"... but its not painful, just a little noticable.
I'd prefer more than AES 128, and hopefully the keychain will be removable (Eg: you can put it on a flash USB device so that absent of it, the computer has no keys) in Panther.
Security in OS X is pretty good yet still conveneint, even in Jaguar.
You get to complain about apples support of open source the day you create the second most popular operating system in the world, and then choose to open source it!
There are more computers out there running OS X than Linux, and if Apple hadn't decided to pay more than lipservice to open source, that wouldn't be the case.
Microsoft pays lip service to open source. Apple has earned, and deserves, your respect.
After their technology was stolen from them for 20 years, they decided to start protecting it. Good for them.
Open source isn't about pirating technology- it is about the creators of innovations freely sharing that technology.
Hell, if Apple had been awarded the patent they'd applie for way back when, we wouldn't have the Microsoft goliath making our lives miserable today. (And if you think Apple is just as bad, or worse than Microsoft, your living in your own reality distortion field.)
I think you're mistaken. Since Jaguar (10.2) the brushed metal appearance has been there for any programmer to use in their app, or to not use.
Once an app is built with it, though, it cannot be changed by the user (except with third party tools.)
OTOH, I don't see why people don't like brushed metal-- it makes sense for a certain class of apps, and Apple has been using it consistently for them. I think finder is one of those apps.
You could think of it as "Single window apps get metal, others don't".
Yet antoher slashdot poster who thinks they know what they are talking about, but is totally clueless.
MPEG4 is astandard. IT has a standard video codec called MPEG4 Video.
This is not MJPEG, you idiot.
I have yet to see any x86 encode MPEG4 in real time, and isnce you didn't even know MPEG4 had a video standard, I doubt you have as well.
ITs possible some of the latest ones can, as my sig is about a year old.
Ignoring the fact that Divx is not MPEG4, and that you're only encoding half a frame (320x240) instead of a full frame, you're still only getting 45fps-- you need 60fps.
Oh, and saying MPEG4 is a framewke like Quicktime is laughable! MPEG4's framework-- its format-- IS QUICKTIME!
So, lets be specific-- my iMac can encode full frame 720x480 video from a DV source into MPEG4-Video in real time.
You don't apparently know squat about computer architecutre... you just know the names of some of them.
64 bit registers do not make a 64 bit CPU. Unless they are going to change the way its measured for marketing (Eg: To LIE, like they do with PC processor MHz) the bitness of the CPU measures the addresslines.
Frankly, you have repeatedly made the false statements that hte Xeon is the Penitum (but they have different names? and one supports SMP?) and that just shows you don't know what you're talking about.
Hopefully, before you graduate from college, you will.
But you should stop being an asshole-- there are actually real engineers who post to slashdot (such as myself.)
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And this isn't even counting the hiddend taxes-- property taxes, car sales taxes, drivers license fees, car license fees, electricity taxes, the %20 of your phone bill that goes to taxes, the %50 taxes on flying if you fly, the water taxes, the excessive electricity taxes, banking fees that go to tax, etc. etc. etc.
That's cause youre not counting all the taxes. Remember gas taxes alone are about %50.
The average person pays about %30 in total income tax-- state and federal. On top of that they pay %16 in social security tax (though they only print %8 on your paycheck- don't be fooled by this accounting trickery-- you EARNED the %8 your employer "pays")... add medicare on top of that (which is what? %5) and you're at %51.
If your average sales tax costs (remember gas is %50 or higher when you count the multiple levels of taxation of this commodity-- distribution, refining, sales, etc.) is %8 (I'm assuming a low %6 state and city tax plus %2 boost for having to buy gas-- as poor people have less efficient cars) and spend the rest of your monet (the other %49), then %8 times 0.49 is roughly %4 of your total income.
This brings your tax burden to %55!
Pretty consistent with tax freedom day being July 11th-- which is over %50 of the year going to taxes! So their numbers match mine roughly.
Yes, the poor people are giving up half their income to taxes. Those who invest give up less, of course, and some people manage to keep their taxes low... but on average, my statement is true.
If you have a mortgage and a car payment, you're already financially irresponsible.
Houses never make financial sense-- you do not "Save" in taxes what you spend on them.. its just a waste of money.
IF you have a house and a car payment, you may not be living beyond your means, but you're still wasting a lot of money.... and you're certainly living beyond prudent means.
IF your mortgage is more than %15 of your net-- after taxes-- income, you shouldn't have bought the house.
Oh there are lots of ways-- you can buy a good mobile home for about $6,000 and then your rent is only $200 a month. Another $200 for food and $100 for gas and you'd have $300 for everything else.
Or if you pay $500 for rent, you ride the bus and just barely make the $800/month budget.
Seattle's cost of living is less than the Bay Area, but higher than most of the rest of the country-- so if you can do it here, you can certainly do it in places that are cheaper.
Frankly, the idea that you have to spend all that money living comes from the fact that you "have" to have a nice apartment and you "have" to have a nice car, etc. etc.
Buy a early 80s Toyota for $1k (or less!) put aside $1K for an extra engine and $500 for miscelaneous and you've got a car-- plus the cost of replacing the engine and doing any serious work you might need for the next 5 years JUST for the cost your typical slashdot poster pays in INTEREST ALONE in two years on their used $10,000 or whatever car that they "Have" to have. (though car interest rates have gone down lately...)
And Henry Ford paid his workers the highest wages in the country, also without unions.
Fact of the matter is, a worker who didn't like Henries no-talking rule could go work somewhere else for less money.
It was a trade off the worker was free to make.
With unions-- you don't get to make that choice. You get what the union "negotiates" for you, and you don't get to work out a better deal with the employer.
IF unions really provided a good service, they wouldnt' force people to join the union in order to work there. That they do is all the proof that's necessary that they are fundamentally corrupt.
Your innocent belief that the union isn't paid off by the company to fuck over its members is sweet, but foolish.
I'm not unionized, and I don't get fucked over by my employers. I wonder why that is.... according to you, I'm incompetant to negotate my own salary and so I must be getting fucked over and yet I make lots of money-- not $0.65 an hour.
The reality is, unions are a parasite-- industries that are not unionized pay their employees better.
Ah, gotta love that government "Service"! Creating poverty wherever it touches. Minimum wage creates unemployment. Lets tax the poor people %50 of their income so we can under fund programs that might give them %5 of their taxes back when they can no longer make ends meet!
How bright do you have to be to realize that letting them keep the money in the first place would leave them better off? Or that letting the wealtheir people keep the money would also leave the poor people better off? (more jobs, bigger economy, higher standard of living). Taxes can only CAUSE more poverty than they could hope to fix, and half of them are diverted to defense and other boondoggles like social security (Which gives people about %20 of their money back in retirement.)
Government is a disease masquarading as its own cure!
That's a load of crap.
Anyone can negotiated a work contract, and who says it has to be tedious?
I've negotiated every single one of mine.
Unions are organized crime- they exist only to form close shops and force employees to pay a cut of their salary to them for this "service" which they never perform- because they union learns quickly if they lety the company pay them off, they get more money! So the union gets paid off by the company, and the workers pay them as well, and they spend their time talking to mafia bosses.
Only a sucker voluntarily joins a union. (At least as the unions are in the USA).
I live on $200 a week, though I budgetted $300 in my savings, just in case.
In this market, anyone who's employed should be living on $200 and putting the rest into savings or retirement.
I don't understand the people who just watch the dot bomb (And all the local Amazon.com employees who bought million dollar houses on stock optiosn declaring bankruptcy) who are continuing to live paycheck to paycheck at a big salary.
It was prudent in boom times to save your money, and if you're not doing it now, you're just being irresponsible.
Oh, unless of course you are truely financially independant (That is, without counting any stock options). Then nevermind.
If your boss is "Trying" to get this fixed, and its been more than three months with no solution, your boss is not doing anything.
Either he doesnt' think you're worth the new money, or your company is too dysfunctional.
Start looking elsewhere. If you really aren't being paid what you're worth, and the company has had three months to rectify it and hasn't
IF they are hiring new people at %30 more but say that they don't ahve room in the budget, they are lying.
They have room in the budget for the new people.
I think either your boss doesn't value you as much as those new people (it happens, even with people who are actually good employees) or he figure's your'e a sap who he can string along.
Get your resume in shape and get out of there.
Don't be a sap.
Oh, and screw this "they owe it to me" crap-- they don't owe you anything, and that's what you're getting, so end the relationship. Let your boss know you know this is absurd, or kills his ass until you leave- its your call. But its time for you to tak responsibility for the situation. Find someone who will pay you what you're worth.
Not because they "owe" it to you-- because they value you.
That's funny, I have a big pile of capital in my wallet and it hasnt' chosen to incorporate!
You complain about companies being "anti-social"... how can capital be anti-social ? Its not human, it can't have social interaction.... only humans can be anti-social.
Furthermore, how can a company-- which by definition is a collection of people who are working together-- be anti social? After all the purpose of a company is to employ people and to make products or offer services that people want.
IF the company doesnt'y exist, the custoemrs go without the product and the employees go without jobs. That's more anti-social.
Frankly, you've just got a bigotry against what you see as "rich people" and want to force the m to give their money to you. This is the enslavement you advocate, this is your problem with human rights.
You can't stand the fact that some people save their money and invest it wisely and start companies-- so you'd rather have them working for you.
You'd rather their employees be unemployed...and the evil "collections of capital" you speak of --which are really people who just saved their moeny-- working for you to a "Social good"
This is slavery. IF you didn't mind what people did, as long as they werent'; hurting others, you wouldn't care about companies... you wouldn't say they have no concious. (People have conciouses, and the vast majority of people are honest-- the vast majority of companies are honest as well.)
I think you've got no experience of the real world, and you really should look around you, and look at what happened when your ideology was put into action. Socialists have killed 100 million people in the last 100 years, and I find your assertion that anything less is "anti-social" to be absurd.
Companied do have the same rights as individuals, for companies are nothing more than a collection of individuals.
Attempting to deny human rights to people just because they work for, or run, a company is still denying human rights. Trying to pretend that companies are some sort of other entity not made up of humans (with human rights) is just the socia, er, liberal attempt to justify opposition to human rights.
Thus there is no "balance" that needs to be reached between the "Wishes of [individuals]" and the "rights of individuals".
Your rights to not extend to forcing me to act the way you approve--- and when it is all boiled down, ultimately, tht is what you want-- to make other people do your bidding.
Couching it in terms to try and make it seem like you're pro-human rights, when endorsing slavery is what you're really doing, will only fool the nieve.
But it does ellicit cheering from your non-thinking compatriots.
Especially since the people MS sends to these things tend to be early to mid 20s women.
I'm sure sending these women "pussy" will have quite a huge effect.
Funy thing is, Microsoft doesn't care what you guys think, and certainly the reps they send to put on these deals don't either... its just PR outreach to the windows programmers who are showing up at the convention. They don't really care about the linux geeks.
Try talking to them at one of these things sometime.
I read somewhere that there are about 5 billion rounds of ammunition expended in the US every year.
Given that total deaths (including suicides) by guns in the same time period is usually around 11,000, this means for fare more thant %99 of the time when a gun is fired its purpose is not to kill someone.
Either that or nobody ever hits what they are aiming at.
Frankly, Target Practice is the primary purpose of guns, a purpose employed lest one be deficient if the secondary purpose (self defense) becomes necessary.
Uh, false. you are spreading fabricated fantasies, and pretending they are facts.
Apple didn't block implementation of features of Gnome due to patents.
The idea that Apple would be worse than Microsoft is laughable-- and can only come from someone who hates Success (microsoft) but hates innovation (Apple) even more.
Both are forms of success, and given your penchant for anti-human rights, anti-capitalism ranting on slashdot, your motivations are obvious.
Your fabrication, however, isn't going to stand unchallenged.
I've forgotten what it was you asked, someone was asking about using iSight for movies, if that was you, here's a URL that may help.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/0
IF you were talking about re-encodind DVDs, you could capture them to DV using the Formac DV bridge (But not conopuses) and then use iMovie or Quicktime Pro to re-encode them to MPEG4 or whatever.
IF you ever actually READ the Apple HIG, you'd know you were wrong.
But then, as a anonymous Linux troll, you already knew you were wrong.
Surak--
You're repeating incorrect information. This always seems to be the case with apple -- people tell lies and innocent people repeat these lies as if they were truth.
Apple was denied a patent on their GUI, but they did get copyright. The Microsoft case was a copyright case.
That you think Apple is profiting from Linux with OSX then you are delusional. They open sourced THEIR product (A BSD derivitive.)
To claim they are exploiting the linux market is just silly. After all, linux people never pay for anything, so what is there to exploit? And they'd never buy quality hardware, so apple has no chance to sell them hardware.
Come on. the insults are not necessary and this constant desperate need to deominize apple reeks of insecurity.
But on the patent thing, you're just wrong. Please don't repeat that misinformation.
No, it wasnt' a disaster. Not everyone agrees.
In fact, as someone who's read virtually every UI book I can get my hands on, I'd like to point out that it works as a metaphor. And that's what UIs are supposed to do.
I don't know why people hate brushed metal so much, it doesn't make sense to me.
And you don't hear people going on and on about he garish clash of colors in Windows, or Linux... ugh, the best things in the Linux and Windows LaF (which are pretty similar to begin with) are still worse than the worst things in Apple's LaF.
As far as good consistent UI goes, Apple rules the roost.
Plastic is so... 1998.
Now that every $0.20 chotke from a china plastics factory has the "iMac look", Apple has wisely moved on.
Disk Copy has supported encrypted partitions (eg: files that mount as drives when you open them) since 10.1, which is what I've been using.
I have not noticed performance issues with using them, except for when I occasionally copy a 20-50 megabyte movie onto them. Then I go "oh yeah, that's encrypted"
I'd prefer more than AES 128, and hopefully the keychain will be removable (Eg: you can put it on a flash USB device so that absent of it, the computer has no keys) in Panther.
Security in OS X is pretty good yet still conveneint, even in Jaguar.
You get to complain about apples support of open source the day you create the second most popular operating system in the world, and then choose to open source it!
There are more computers out there running OS X than Linux, and if Apple hadn't decided to pay more than lipservice to open source, that wouldn't be the case.
Microsoft pays lip service to open source. Apple has earned, and deserves, your respect.
After their technology was stolen from them for 20 years, they decided to start protecting it. Good for them.
Open source isn't about pirating technology- it is about the creators of innovations freely sharing that technology.
Hell, if Apple had been awarded the patent they'd applie for way back when, we wouldn't have the Microsoft goliath making our lives miserable today. (And if you think Apple is just as bad, or worse than Microsoft, your living in your own reality distortion field.)
I think you're mistaken. Since Jaguar (10.2) the brushed metal appearance has been there for any programmer to use in their app, or to not use.
Once an app is built with it, though, it cannot be changed by the user (except with third party tools.)
OTOH, I don't see why people don't like brushed metal-- it makes sense for a certain class of apps, and Apple has been using it consistently for them. I think finder is one of those apps.
You could think of it as "Single window apps get metal, others don't".
I confused your post with another on the same topic-- didn't mean to be such an asshole. You're not an idiot, you're just confused.
Sorry about that.
Yet antoher slashdot poster who thinks they know what they are talking about, but is totally clueless.
MPEG4 is astandard. IT has a standard video codec called MPEG4 Video.
This is not MJPEG, you idiot.
I have yet to see any x86 encode MPEG4 in real time, and isnce you didn't even know MPEG4 had a video standard, I doubt you have as well.
ITs possible some of the latest ones can, as my sig is about a year old.
Ignoring the fact that Divx is not MPEG4, and that you're only encoding half a frame (320x240) instead of a full frame, you're still only getting 45fps-- you need 60fps.
Oh, and saying MPEG4 is a framewke like Quicktime is laughable! MPEG4's framework-- its format-- IS QUICKTIME!
So, lets be specific-- my iMac can encode full frame 720x480 video from a DV source into MPEG4-Video in real time.
You don't apparently know squat about computer architecutre... you just know the names of some of them.
64 bit registers do not make a 64 bit CPU. Unless they are going to change the way its measured for marketing (Eg: To LIE, like they do with PC processor MHz) the bitness of the CPU measures the addresslines.
Frankly, you have repeatedly made the false statements that hte Xeon is the Penitum (but they have different names? and one supports SMP?) and that just shows you don't know what you're talking about.
Hopefully, before you graduate from college, you will.
But you should stop being an asshole-- there are actually real engineers who post to slashdot (such as myself.)