And even now look at xcompmgr with transett or compiz - they just basically fashion themselves after inbuilt mac effects or 3rd party add ins that have existed for awhile under OSX.
Look at OS X's memory protection, demand-paging, preemptive multitasking, and GNU toolchain, present in other systems for decades before Apple got around to adopting them. And Apple didn't even write it themselves; they had to buy from a third party.
The point being, who cares? Basically you're saying that coming late to the party is unfashionable. I don't give a rat's ass about that, and neither do you -- or you would share the complaint I feigned above.
On top of that mac make computers end users like and OSX Just Works(tm) which for a Linux user is really handy some days when Debian sid decides it wants to blow the heads off all the toys.
Cute Toy Story reference, but sid == unstable and is meant for Debian developers only. I use testing (etch) and haven't had the sort of drama you allude to, which I can't say of OS X.
(By the way, your saying "mac make computers" instead of "Apple makes computers" makes me suspicious of your Mac experience.)
It also interconnects flawlessly with my other Linux boxes through ssh, samba, nfs, vnc and everything I need (I use Fink for random unix tools I need).
Okay, my turn to call bullshit. From Terminal, ssh to a Debian box and run nano on a file at least several screens long, and page down. It doesn't update correctly. Manually setting TERM=vt100 works around this, but that's not "interconnecting flawlessly" in my book. Where's sshfs? Where's svn?
So really outside the RM ethos of everything should be open (to which, hypocritically in context of the above, I subscribe) there isn't really much reason for a mac user to smarten up and switch, try maybe, to Linux
Bingo. Nail, meet hammer. I demand an open system, and that is why I'm switching.
blah I just hope more Apple users smarten up and switch to Linux or a real BSD system.
And I hope more users get over the whole macho thing
I'd love to get over Mach-O, which is why I'm switching to Linux.:-D
and give up using an OS where every trivial little task becomes some monumental quest where you have to prove yourself worthy by constructing scripts,.rc files and kernel configurations, and switch from BSD and Linux to MacOSX. But that's just my opinion.
Oh, you've got me all wrong. Linux still has rough edges that infuriate me. But Linux's stupidities can be fixed, unlike OS X's (or OS 9's) which can't. Or at least won't.
Mac OS X is a clear winner in looks and usability. And by looks I don't mean Aqua (which I dislike), I mean subtler things like fonts and anti-aliasing. And my personal favorite, mouse acceleration. The same physical distance covered quickly should move the mouse cursor further on-screen than the same distance covered slowly. Apple got this right from day one, and X11 still hasn't.
On the other hand, Mac OS X's performance just plain sucks compared to OS 9's. It's roughly an order of magnitude more demanding in memory, processor speed, and disk space. I loved my clamshell iBook until I installed OS X on it. A while ago the Airport software got corrupted, so the system hanged when I tried to power up the card (but it still worked booting OS 9). If this happened to OS 9 or a dpkg-managed system, I could fix it myself, but with OS X I was facing a reinstall. So I backed up the drive, reformatted, and installed dual Debian etch / OS 9. (My primary machine still runs OS X.)
Thus I begin my switch to Linux. It will probably end when Linux feels more like a Mac to me than OS X does.
...since the destruction of the World Trade Center towers took out several cell networks based within the buildings.
If this warn-every-device system is created and manages to avoid loss of life or destruction of property, then it might just get targeted first next time. But I'm not optimistic that it will be that successful.
you must remember that the Mac was never a geek machine and did great and had terrific fan following -- in fact most geeks stayed away from the classic Mac because of the lack of a command line, stdin and stdout.
But there's always one who instead of avoiding Mac OS, writes a POSIX layer for it.
Rather than realizing that it would take years to convert every powerline in Nashville from overhead to underground so they'd have excellent job security until they retired, they have decided not to convert to underground lines.
This is an example of the Broken Window Fallacy. Damaged lines cost money both to the power supplier and to its customers. Subtract from that the cost of underground lines, and the difference goes into the economy. Businesses that are no longer losing money due to unreliable power could afford to hire more employees, for example.
A friend of mine is a patent attorney; one of his jobs is to figure out how to re-patent a medication once it reaches the 9 year patent limit. This is to prevent a generic from being manufactured.
Just try to translate the unlock content element to other entertainment. You got to listen to music 3 times in without skipping to unlock stereo mode. You can only watch the directors cut of a movie AFTER you found the hidden frame.
The Matrix DVD had not one but two groups of 'hidden' (or at least obscured) video clips. There were several red pill images sprinkled throughout the menus, which if clicked played a brief featurette (e.g. "What is Bullet-Time?"). Locating all of them takes a few minutes, tops. Then there's another set of video clips attached to white rabbit images, but to see them you have to actually play the entire movie (in a special 'Follow the White Rabbit' mode), watch it, wait for the icon to appear in the corner of the screen, and then activate it. There's two or three of them, but you basically have to watch the whole movie to get at them, which then interrupts watching the movie.
Like 'hidden' tracks on a CD, it's a gimmick.
I'm not impressed with your self-imagined cleverness. It's not an arcade game. Just give me the damn content.
The genius of Creative's MP3 player is that it gives you that great column view, but it fits in your pocket, so you don't have to deal with the awkwardness of people jealously eying your NeXTstation.
So... can I have your NeXTstation once you get an MP3 player?
The column view (browser view) has been in NeXTSTEP since 1989.
Oh, sure, column view is old hat. But a column-view MP3 player? Now that's original thinking. I mean, that takes the same level of genius as wireless email.
Making new rules limiting the sale and purchase of SSNs, or restricting the display of SSNs on reports, is just closing the barn door after the hore has already left.
I wish the hores in Congress would leave already so we can close the barn door.
Yes, they have announced that. But why do you suppose they aren't releasing it for non-business use at the same time? Perhaps because it won't be ready yet and they're only shipping a 'release' to avoid breaching their business support contracts?
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Look at OS X's memory protection, demand-paging, preemptive multitasking, and GNU toolchain, present in other systems for decades before Apple got around to adopting them. And Apple didn't even write it themselves; they had to buy from a third party.
The point being, who cares? Basically you're saying that coming late to the party is unfashionable. I don't give a rat's ass about that, and neither do you -- or you would share the complaint I feigned above.
Cute Toy Story reference, but sid == unstable and is meant for Debian developers only. I use testing (etch) and haven't had the sort of drama you allude to, which I can't say of OS X.
(By the way, your saying "mac make computers" instead of "Apple makes computers" makes me suspicious of your Mac experience.)
Okay, my turn to call bullshit. From Terminal, ssh to a Debian box and run nano on a file at least several screens long, and page down. It doesn't update correctly. Manually setting TERM=vt100 works around this, but that's not "interconnecting flawlessly" in my book. Where's sshfs? Where's svn?
Bingo. Nail, meet hammer. I demand an open system, and that is why I'm switching.
I'd love to get over Mach-O, which is why I'm switching to Linux. :-D
Oh, you've got me all wrong. Linux still has rough edges that infuriate me. But Linux's stupidities can be fixed, unlike OS X's (or OS 9's) which can't. Or at least won't.
Mac OS X is a clear winner in looks and usability. And by looks I don't mean Aqua (which I dislike), I mean subtler things like fonts and anti-aliasing. And my personal favorite, mouse acceleration. The same physical distance covered quickly should move the mouse cursor further on-screen than the same distance covered slowly. Apple got this right from day one, and X11 still hasn't.
On the other hand, Mac OS X's performance just plain sucks compared to OS 9's. It's roughly an order of magnitude more demanding in memory, processor speed, and disk space. I loved my clamshell iBook until I installed OS X on it. A while ago the Airport software got corrupted, so the system hanged when I tried to power up the card (but it still worked booting OS 9). If this happened to OS 9 or a dpkg-managed system, I could fix it myself, but with OS X I was facing a reinstall. So I backed up the drive, reformatted, and installed dual Debian etch / OS 9. (My primary machine still runs OS X.)
Thus I begin my switch to Linux. It will probably end when Linux feels more like a Mac to me than OS X does.
...since the destruction of the World Trade Center towers took out several cell networks based within the buildings.
If this warn-every-device system is created and manages to avoid loss of life or destruction of property, then it might just get targeted first next time. But I'm not optimistic that it will be that successful.
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I wouldn't trust any report citing tinfoil hats as a risk, since it's probably a government ploy.
I guess this time Google WILL be handing over the search logs to the government.
So that means it's compatible with StarCraft, right? Awesome!
Like 'hidden' tracks on a CD, it's a gimmick.
I'm not impressed with your self-imagined cleverness. It's not an arcade game. Just give me the damn content.
Gates. I'd fight Bill Gates.
Yes, they have announced that. But why do you suppose they aren't releasing it for non-business use at the same time? Perhaps because it won't be ready yet and they're only shipping a 'release' to avoid breaching their business support contracts?
Yeah, and you might even get to meet Tom Cruise.