Being technically able to produce one of these things is all well and good, but the real question is how long it will be before they cost less than $100,000.
Give me a break. All that means is that someone ran the same (or similar) analysis against the code, and deleted everything it complained about.
At best, I suppose it suggests that the programmer may be thorough and methodical, and I'll grant that those are good attributes for a programmer to have. But it says nothing about security, efficiency, expandability, reusability, and so forth. Certainly, not enough to proclaim "Great code quality".
I think you are missing what's wonderful about Mac OS X.
You get to use an intuitive, easy (and yes, aesthetically pleasing) interface for simple tasks. It saves you time and aggravation. It makes working on simple things simple, like they should be. I'm talking about stuff like printing, mounting an SMB share, synchronizing over Bluetooth with a cellphone, and so forth.
This leaves you more time to spend on complicated, challenging things. And when you need to, you can just start a terminal window and (if needed) an X11 server, both of which come with the OS, and run essentially every application you can under Linux. I use LaTeX regularly on my PowerBook, and emacs is installed by default as well (though I personally avoid it).
For years I thought I wanted Linux on the desktop. That wasn't it. I wanted Unix on the desktop. And that's what Mac OS X brings me. It is the only operating system that doesn't trade power for user-friendliness (or vice-versa). Almost everything you can do in Linux, you can do in Mac OS X. The exceptions are few and far between, only due to proprietary applications or Linux-specific kernel features.
Your complaints are valid for Mac OS 9 and below. But OS X is a completely different animal. I abhorred Macs until it was released, but I switched two years ago and have never looked back. And I'm not some luddite technophobe - I'm an EECS major at MIT.
Quartz 2D Extreme is a developers-only feature that could be enabled for testing in previous versions of Tiger. It was never enabled by default, you had to run a special application to enable it. And it was always buggy.
This is not the same thing as Quartz or Quartz 2D - those are still enabled. There is a post a few above yours that explains the difference more fully.
We here at MIT find it quite humorous when someone suggests that this reflects badly on the Institute, given that the person in question was educated at Harvard and Caltech.
What the hell are you talking about? You can't [b]pay[/b] to bankrupt someone.
Bankruptcy is what a person / company declares for itself when it no longer has enough money to pay what it owes to other people.
Unless you're saying that other companies with more money bankrupted Cyrusoft by producing better products and taking away their customers, in which case...that's the way it should be.
You imply that that's somehow a negative. But by that logic, every program is worthless, because they're all just more user-friendly alternatives to typing in machine code by hand.
And yet Apple is ahead in usability, build quality, design, style, and most other aspects of the user's experience.
No one cares about different playable formats. MP3 works fine for me, and there are AAC and Apple Lossless if you want alternatives. And just what are you going to do with more than eighteen hours of battery life? I'm not even awake that long on most days.
Capacity? I'll grant you that, I suppose. Other manufacturers are cheaper on a $/gig basis. But their players are just that: cheap. Flimsy little pieces of low-grade plastic crap.
I don't know if you can use the previous/next track buttons to move within a song, I've never tried.
What you can do on the iPods with screens is push the center button while a song is playing, and then use the scroll wheel to move within the song. Quite handy and well-implemented.
If you don't push the center button, the wheel adjusts the volume. And of course, it lets you scroll through menus.
Your knee-jerk needs to be reprogrammed. It's still in bitch-about-companies mode.
The government is not a corporation. The government takes your money by force and spends it. Any time they're spending less money, you should be happy, because it's your money they're saving.
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Being technically able to produce one of these things is all well and good, but the real question is how long it will be before they cost less than $100,000.
You've got it to admit it, the man has charisma.
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It sounds like you need a new job. Or a new field.
Maybe I just haven't burnt out yet, but I find most [i]coding[/i] problems interesting.
Editing an XML configuration file isn't that interesting, I'll grant you that, but no one calls that "coding".
Give me a break. All that means is that someone ran the same (or similar) analysis against the code, and deleted everything it complained about.
At best, I suppose it suggests that the programmer may be thorough and methodical, and I'll grant that those are good attributes for a programmer to have. But it says nothing about security, efficiency, expandability, reusability, and so forth. Certainly, not enough to proclaim "Great code quality".
Perhaps Winamp sucks?
I use iTunes in Windows (on a relatively slow machine, too) and it is extremely fast in all aspects of operation, from startup to shutdown.
I think you are missing what's wonderful about Mac OS X.
You get to use an intuitive, easy (and yes, aesthetically pleasing) interface for simple tasks. It saves you time and aggravation. It makes working on simple things simple, like they should be. I'm talking about stuff like printing, mounting an SMB share, synchronizing over Bluetooth with a cellphone, and so forth.
This leaves you more time to spend on complicated, challenging things. And when you need to, you can just start a terminal window and (if needed) an X11 server, both of which come with the OS, and run essentially every application you can under Linux. I use LaTeX regularly on my PowerBook, and emacs is installed by default as well (though I personally avoid it).
For years I thought I wanted Linux on the desktop. That wasn't it. I wanted Unix on the desktop. And that's what Mac OS X brings me. It is the only operating system that doesn't trade power for user-friendliness (or vice-versa). Almost everything you can do in Linux, you can do in Mac OS X. The exceptions are few and far between, only due to proprietary applications or Linux-specific kernel features.
Your complaints are valid for Mac OS 9 and below. But OS X is a completely different animal. I abhorred Macs until it was released, but I switched two years ago and have never looked back. And I'm not some luddite technophobe - I'm an EECS major at MIT.
What's to speed up? It's an audio player. I can't remember ever having speed problems with my audio players.
By the same token, I can't remember ever feeling the need to script an audio player. But maybe you have more time to waste than I.
Quartz 2D Extreme is a developers-only feature that could be enabled for testing in previous versions of Tiger. It was never enabled by default, you had to run a special application to enable it. And it was always buggy.
This is not the same thing as Quartz or Quartz 2D - those are still enabled. There is a post a few above yours that explains the difference more fully.
We here at MIT find it quite humorous when someone suggests that this reflects badly on the Institute, given that the person in question was educated at Harvard and Caltech.
What the hell are you talking about? You can't [b]pay[/b] to bankrupt someone.
Bankruptcy is what a person / company declares for itself when it no longer has enough money to pay what it owes to other people.
Unless you're saying that other companies with more money bankrupted Cyrusoft by producing better products and taking away their customers, in which case...that's the way it should be.
Sun is pretty much a relic itself these days.
You imply that that's somehow a negative. But by that logic, every program is worthless, because they're all just more user-friendly alternatives to typing in machine code by hand.
And yet Apple is ahead in usability, build quality, design, style, and most other aspects of the user's experience.
No one cares about different playable formats. MP3 works fine for me, and there are AAC and Apple Lossless if you want alternatives. And just what are you going to do with more than eighteen hours of battery life? I'm not even awake that long on most days.
Capacity? I'll grant you that, I suppose. Other manufacturers are cheaper on a $/gig basis. But their players are just that: cheap. Flimsy little pieces of low-grade plastic crap.
I don't know if you can use the previous/next track buttons to move within a song, I've never tried.
What you can do on the iPods with screens is push the center button while a song is playing, and then use the scroll wheel to move within the song. Quite handy and well-implemented.
If you don't push the center button, the wheel adjusts the volume. And of course, it lets you scroll through menus.
Penny Arcade, as always, has something funny to say about this.
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There is one. It's called the ODBII port. All cars manufactured since 1997 (and sold in the US) have on.
You can buy an ODBII reader/logger from carchip.com. You plug it in under your dashboard, and can download the data to your computer.
And where do you think your government's money goes? In this case, it was going to Microsoft.
In many cases, government work is subcontracted out.
Okay, let me rephrase. Any time they waste less money, you should be happy, because they will hopefully spend it on something more worthwhile.
Your knee-jerk needs to be reprogrammed. It's still in bitch-about-companies mode.
The government is not a corporation. The government takes your money by force and spends it. Any time they're spending less money, you should be happy, because it's your money they're saving.
Yeah, but this is a pro-Microsoft site doing the comparison, so I'm sure they'll figure out a way to balance it out.
locks only keep honest men out
An honest man keeps himself out.
Ditto. Truecrypt is great, and free.
They are also coming out with a Linux version in the future, but I don't know of the timeframe.
Unfortunately, an OS X port is not planned.
Hello, PGP.
DreamHost doesn't make you register with them. I did exactly what you are describing while I was switching hosting companies.