These are the same users that choose iMacs for the pretty colors (as opposed to choosing them for any other reason, or choosing something else).
Actually, computer users buy Apple because they want MacOS. People who need/want MacOS computers have, do, and will continue to buy them, regardless of what color they are.
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On the version of Evolution I have, this was disabled by default. Kind of nice, because it prevents those email bug tracking images from working unless you explicitly enable them. And of course, the ability to load images off the net is there, if you desire it.
I don't know, that's a very good question. I would buy Dreamweaver for Linux, but maybe a lot of people wouldn't. Does anyone have any sales figures for closed source applications that been ported to Linux?
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I'm not trolling. I know about GnoRPM and Red Carpet. But you have to be root to run either of them, which is yet another step in the way.
They also don't come with every distribution of Linux (no standard). Mom's PC at home may or may not work the same as the one she has at work.
These are usability problems that need to be addressed. The point is that GnoRPM and Red Carpet are GREAT - if you already know how to use RPM! But neither is as easy as "click setup.exe and look for your new program in the start menu".
Please note, I'm not saying to dumb it down for everyone - but there does need to be some standard for installing and updating programs. The Red Hat network is a good start (still too hard for a newbie, in my opinion) that is moving in the right direction.
You want nice stuff like the Quicktime plugin ported to Linux? You want Flash or Dreamweaver for development? You want the latest games? Then you're going to have to give a little on usability - these companies aren't going to be interested in selling those titles to 1% of the computer market.
You may hate "Joe Sixpack" and think he's an idiot, but the fact is, the market FOLLOWS Joe Sixpack. So if you want more stuff for Linux, figure out how to make it easy enough for Joe Sixpack to understand!
Huh? What does the 'final' format have to do with the 'intermediate' format?
I work in Photoshop (.psd) files all the time. When done, I export them to either.tif or.jpeg. Since my final output is not.psd, does that make.psd 'dead'?
Of course not. There are many file formats that are useful even if they aren't the 'output' format, and Quicktime is one of them.
Um, no. Macromedia is not to blame for all the javascript driven sites. It's up to the developer. You can use it to create javascript-free, flash free, etc. sites, if you choose.
Javascript lets developers do all kinds of things which are sometimes otherwise impossible. If the developer doesn't give you an alternative, blame them, not a quality tool.
If you don't like having popup windows, maybe you should look at switching to a browser or some other tool that lets you disable them?
Yeah, but let's face it, Quicktime is for the most part dead.
Anyone working with digital video on either Mac or Windows is likely using Quicktime for some or all of the process. Is that what you would call "dead" ?
Of course, what I'd really like would be native Flash authoring...
Oh, I'd kill for a native Dreamweaver... Macromedia has not shown much interest in Linux, unfortunately. Anyone know of a petition for this?
Unlike some people, I have no problem using closed source software (I wouldn't know what to do with the source if I had it) - I'll just use whatever the best tool is, and Dreamweaver is IT.
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Apple needs Quicktime to run on Mac, because they want to sell their hardware to content developers.
Apple also needs for Quicktime to run on Windows, because that's what the content consumers use.
Apple does not care about Linux, because by comparison, very few of the content viewers use Linux.
Now, as much as you and I would love for there to be a Quicktime app/plugin for Linux, I don't see that support coming from Apple.
The only thing that will convince Apple to make Quicktime for Linux is a dramatic increase in the amount of desktop end-users running Linux. The best way you can make that happen is by increasing the usability and friendliness of Linux as a whole, by writing programs with clean GUIs and good documentation.
To put it in other terms, Apple does not care about a platform where you have to know to type "rpm -iv quicktime_plugin.i386.rpm" to install it. That needs to change first! 99% of the computing population can not, and will not understand the command line!
You're right, installation should be straightforward due to the consistency of the hardware.
The bulk of the problems are after installation, though. Newbies usually aren't experienced compiling software. If it's not included, or available as an PPC.rpm, they're out of luck.
Even if you can get the source, sometimes it doesn't work right due to PPC specific issues. It's hard enough learning to acquire, compile, and install software on x86, let alone on PPC when you might do everything "right" but something still doesn't work.
As a newbie, let me just say that if you are just getting started with Linux, PowerPPC is not the place to go. You should stick with x86.
There are just too many flaky things needed on various systems... whereas with RedHat 7.1 it was boot off the cd and you're done.
I know someone will post about how the cds are bootable on Mac, too, and they are, but it just isn't the same. On the old world macs you have to make a fake system folder on a partition... it's a big old mess.
Newbies have enough to worry about without throwing PPC specific issues into the mix - if you have experience, however, PPC is a nice platform.
It (the browser, the newsreader) runs slower than dung on my Celeron 333 / RedHat 7.1 machine with 350 megs of RAM. Is that what you consider "better"?
Complaining? And why not? They are in business supplying a service - you trade your money for that service.
I cheerfully pay my ISP every month, because they provide me with a reliable, stable, fast DSL line. If it wasn't that way, I'd be in line clamoring for a refund too.
The computer industry is way too lax on quality of service - every program, OS, or hardware device has a disclaimer that they aren't responsible if it doesn't work. What am I paying for then?!?
If you could turn off the mirroring function, the external display could get 1600x1200 at millions of colors.
That's right, but you can't. Thus, you can only get 1024x768, no matter how big a monitor you have. Let's not dance around the issue, the issue is it should work, but it doesn't.
I'm not arguing that Apple is the only one doing it, rather, simply that it's a poor decision in this case.
People with $1299 to spend on a laptop aren't going to buy a TiBook, no matter right, right?
So given that they have a budget of $1299, which do you think will sell more - iBook with functional video out, or iBook with crippled video out? Apple's cost is the same in either case. Seems like an easy decision to me!
Apple could sell more systems at the same price, with the same costs, if they hadn't made this decision.
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http://www.handspring.com. It's all there.
Actually, computer users buy Apple because they want MacOS. People who need/want MacOS computers have, do, and will continue to buy them, regardless of what color they are.
On the version of Evolution I have, this was disabled by default. Kind of nice, because it prevents those email bug tracking images from working unless you explicitly enable them. And of course, the ability to load images off the net is there, if you desire it.
I don't know, that's a very good question. I would buy Dreamweaver for Linux, but maybe a lot of people wouldn't. Does anyone have any sales figures for closed source applications that been ported to Linux?
They also don't come with every distribution of Linux (no standard). Mom's PC at home may or may not work the same as the one she has at work.
These are usability problems that need to be addressed. The point is that GnoRPM and Red Carpet are GREAT - if you already know how to use RPM! But neither is as easy as "click setup.exe and look for your new program in the start menu".
Please note, I'm not saying to dumb it down for everyone - but there does need to be some standard for installing and updating programs. The Red Hat network is a good start (still too hard for a newbie, in my opinion) that is moving in the right direction.
You want nice stuff like the Quicktime plugin ported to Linux? You want Flash or Dreamweaver for development? You want the latest games? Then you're going to have to give a little on usability - these companies aren't going to be interested in selling those titles to 1% of the computer market.
You may hate "Joe Sixpack" and think he's an idiot, but the fact is, the market FOLLOWS Joe Sixpack. So if you want more stuff for Linux, figure out how to make it easy enough for Joe Sixpack to understand!
I work in Photoshop (.psd) files all the time. When done, I export them to either .tif or .jpeg. Since my final output is not .psd, does that make .psd 'dead'?
Of course not. There are many file formats that are useful even if they aren't the 'output' format, and Quicktime is one of them.
Javascript lets developers do all kinds of things which are sometimes otherwise impossible. If the developer doesn't give you an alternative, blame them, not a quality tool.
If you don't like having popup windows, maybe you should look at switching to a browser or some other tool that lets you disable them?
Anyone working with digital video on either Mac or Windows is likely using Quicktime for some or all of the process. Is that what you would call "dead" ?
Oh, I'd kill for a native Dreamweaver... Macromedia has not shown much interest in Linux, unfortunately. Anyone know of a petition for this?
Unlike some people, I have no problem using closed source software (I wouldn't know what to do with the source if I had it) - I'll just use whatever the best tool is, and Dreamweaver is IT.
Apple also needs for Quicktime to run on Windows, because that's what the content consumers use.
Apple does not care about Linux, because by comparison, very few of the content viewers use Linux.
Now, as much as you and I would love for there to be a Quicktime app/plugin for Linux, I don't see that support coming from Apple.
The only thing that will convince Apple to make Quicktime for Linux is a dramatic increase in the amount of desktop end-users running Linux. The best way you can make that happen is by increasing the usability and friendliness of Linux as a whole, by writing programs with clean GUIs and good documentation.
To put it in other terms, Apple does not care about a platform where you have to know to type "rpm -iv quicktime_plugin.i386.rpm" to install it. That needs to change first! 99% of the computing population can not, and will not understand the command line!
The bulk of the problems are after installation, though. Newbies usually aren't experienced compiling software. If it's not included, or available as an PPC .rpm, they're out of luck.
Even if you can get the source, sometimes it doesn't work right due to PPC specific issues. It's hard enough learning to acquire, compile, and install software on x86, let alone on PPC when you might do everything "right" but something still doesn't work.
There are just too many flaky things needed on various systems... whereas with RedHat 7.1 it was boot off the cd and you're done.
I know someone will post about how the cds are bootable on Mac, too, and they are, but it just isn't the same. On the old world macs you have to make a fake system folder on a partition... it's a big old mess.
Newbies have enough to worry about without throwing PPC specific issues into the mix - if you have experience, however, PPC is a nice platform.
Just curious what kind of display bugs you are running into... I haven't been using it that long, but things have been smooth sailing for me so far.
It (the browser, the newsreader) runs slower than dung on my Celeron 333 / RedHat 7.1 machine with 350 megs of RAM. Is that what you consider "better"?
The other alternative browsers (Konqueror, Opera, etc.) are really making progress. Opera is VERY usable on both Win32 and Linux.
Fucking asshole moderators. She really is dead.
CompUSA, Fry's electronics, etc... they are all the same. Just walk right by them, what are they going to do?
It's kind of funny, actually, to hear them going "sir, SIR, excuse me..." as you just walk out the door.
I'm eagerly waiting for the day when one of them grabs me as I walk out so I can sue the shit out of them.
Look at this CNN article: she was killed in a plane crash.
I'll probably get modded down for replying to you, but I think it's crazy that you posted that and she really is dead.
Don't shop there, and tell all your friends why, too.
For anyone who hasn't seen this because it didn't make it to your town, consider renting the DVD of Memento. It's great.
The Inspiron 8000/8100 ships with FireWire built in. I don't know why they don't hype it more, it's not obvious.
Mod parent to "+5, funny".
I cheerfully pay my ISP every month, because they provide me with a reliable, stable, fast DSL line. If it wasn't that way, I'd be in line clamoring for a refund too.
The computer industry is way too lax on quality of service - every program, OS, or hardware device has a disclaimer that they aren't responsible if it doesn't work. What am I paying for then?!?
That's right, but you can't. Thus, you can only get 1024x768, no matter how big a monitor you have. Let's not dance around the issue, the issue is it should work, but it doesn't.
I'm not arguing that Apple is the only one doing it, rather, simply that it's a poor decision in this case.
People with $1299 to spend on a laptop aren't going to buy a TiBook, no matter right, right?
So given that they have a budget of $1299, which do you think will sell more - iBook with functional video out, or iBook with crippled video out? Apple's cost is the same in either case. Seems like an easy decision to me!
Apple could sell more systems at the same price, with the same costs, if they hadn't made this decision.