Applications are important, and your solution for running Photoshop on Linux doesn't apply to the PPC platform. Simple as that.
Where have I said your setup is less value to you? I haven't.
But I will concur with the original poster, that bloated theme kits which add no functionality and just serve to move things around usually on some horrid colours or backdrops are just sheer time wasters. Come on, admit it, you know thats true too. When was the last time you saw a theme on an application which made it a *better* application? Vaguely prettier in maybe 1% of cases, unusable by mortals in 20% of the cases, and inducing a mind numbing "Hang on what's different" in the other 79% of the cases. From your comments, I suspect that themes are just not something you use if you want speed and efficency, and will be working with stripped down window managers and aren't a member of the "T433m1ng l337". So maybe you should wonder why you are so defensive.:)
Build it from the source and you'll get the autolaunched xterm... but then it's years since I was doing builds and distros of MIT X11.... thank goodness.:)
You run Photoshop on *Intel*... which is irrelevant to PowerPC based systems which is what this topic is about.
And who wants to gain 14 hours of work? That sounds like a sucky deal.
You can of course consider wether an operation you have to do 10,000 times in a work week which ate up 5 seconds is actually a good thing or wether there's simply a better way of achieving the goal. Going faster doesn't mean you are more efficient.
And if you'd ever bothered to lift the lid on MacOSX, you'd find oodles of things to fiddle with (or that are fiddled with by apps) to let folks customise the system. I pointed you at some.
So why not drop your attitude that people who like MacOSX just can't handle a l33t s3tu9 like yours.
X11 gives you nothing "out of the box"; that's the point of X11. X11 "out of the box" gives you xterm in the upper left and no window manager.
And yes, I run X11 apps all the time on OSX. Maybe you are confusing the start up time of the server with the startup time of the application. Once the server is up, the applications start up as fast as any other X implementation.
Now, come back to me when Linux on PPC has Final Cut Pro, iSync, Omnigraffle, iTunes, Photoshop, Office or anything that *matches* their functionality....
You have the attitude of the OS hotrodder... "Hey I can make it go quicker if I strip all this stuff off", so there you are hammering along in an open frame dune buggy. Me, I like having air conditioning and an automatic transmission and the general comfort.
I've spent too many years in the past sitting on the wicker work seats of the X11 dune buggy with people popping up saying "Hey it'll be great when we clamp this new shiny shell over it", while I'm looking at the sorry state of the gearstick and steering wheel.
What's beneficial for Apple is to keep ploughing their own path, to keep innovating, not slavishly metooing other peoples creations, and to stick to the usercentric philosophy that has served them well.
Now, do you want to get a clue, because you've obviously not installed one.
I'm a old Unix hand, I'm a coder, I know what I'm doing, but I use MacOSX because it's a Unix system which has a great native desktop and doesn't lock out X11 support.
Stop deluding yourself that making things easier is just for people stupider than you. Making things easier *when you do it right* is making things easier for *everyone*. Throwing a bag of tools in front of someone and saying "Hey you can work it out if you are l33t like me" isn't going to sell anyone on your way of doing things.
The simple fact here is you *could* move to MacOSX and *carry on doing things exactly the way you are doing them now* and *still* benefit from the user oriented nature of MacOSX's desktop.
HFJ is a great idea, but this edition is laden with errors in examples which are a minefield for a person who's trying to learn the language.
I tested this book by handing it to my other half; she figured out at least 3 serious errors and put in errata for them; you'll find the errata at O'Reilly.
It'll be a much better book, and recommedable for beginners in the second printing/edition when these are fixed.
Are You a Sharecropper? If you're developing software for the Windows platform, yes. Or for the Apple platform, or the Oracle platform, or the SAP platform, or, well, any platform that is owned and operated by a company.
So Apple are the bad guys... and the good guys....
How Not to be a Sharecropper If you develop server-side software that runs on Unix (by which I mean any platform that runs bash and creates processes with fork(), which includes GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX, and many others), you're not a sharecropper.
Hey, you mean like, oh, MacOSX. This deliberate misdirection is of course because Apple made something that worked in the same market space as another application. They didn't lock out the third party application. The third party application could just have easily been nailed by the appearence of a open source application. It's not like the OSS community haven't cloned vendors applications or released applications which operate in the same space as commercial applications.
The disqualification of Apple by Tim Bray from the 'commons' suggests that his argument for open platforms (which he unfortunately defines purely as Unix) has been erroneously conflated with an argument to force OS vendors to only write operating systems (which, the law of unintended consequences would suggest lead to more functionality bundled into the OS, not less).
If the company had code under the NDA, leaked it, it's called a violation of the NDA. That they weren't *caught* doing it does not mean the NDA has not been *enforced*, just that they haven't been *caught doing it*. An NDA is an *agreement* not to disclose, not a automated source code security system which sets off flashing lights when someone mails kernel.c to their l33t m8s.:)
Well, it works fine in the UK.... Sorry you chaps in the US seem to have the usual NIH issues and a touch of RIAA problems.
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I have a PCI DAB radio card, DABBAR and EPGExplorer. I pick off the stations I want to record from the 7 day EPG, and come back to a directory of MP3 files ready to play or move to my iPod, and there's no nasty FM noise, just nice clean digital audio.
Easy reason for having the camera. It works with the address book. When you make a note of someone's address, you can take a snap of them and attach it to their addressbook entry. Handy if you meet a lot of people and just can't remember their names.
Crow T. Robot - "Shatner, Shatner, Shatner, no, he's not in this one, we're safe" - MST3K the Movie.
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You don't need to pick it up... on the desk it is a a wireless optical mouse. One that you can pick up and use in the air too. *That* is the neat bit.
And because the gyro motion is only transmitted with the trigger button in, you can position onto something on the screen exactly, release the button and the mouse point stops dead where you released the button.
For those of you who haven't tried one...
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The Gyromouse is gyro based in the air, but put it on the desk and it reverts to being an optical mouse. It needs no external sensors to detect position and it also has, in the pro version, a 30M range... It is actually a very slick pointing device , and it feels really solid in your hand.
You mean the already deployed and available HomeChoice system in the UK? Which doesn't use teletext, is already installed in homes in the UK and is also providing an internet access side channel.
VOD is here and now in the UK, not a pilot scheme. It's up and running and has been for a year or more.
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Applications are important, and your solution for running Photoshop on Linux doesn't apply to the PPC platform. Simple as that.
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Where have I said your setup is less value to you? I haven't.
But I will concur with the original poster, that bloated theme kits which add no functionality and just serve to move things around usually on some horrid colours or backdrops are just sheer time wasters. Come on, admit it, you know thats true too. When was the last time you saw a theme on an application which made it a *better* application? Vaguely prettier in maybe 1% of cases, unusable by mortals in 20% of the cases, and inducing a mind numbing "Hang on what's different" in the other 79% of the cases. From your comments, I suspect that themes are just not something you use if you want speed and efficency, and will be working with stripped down window managers and aren't a member of the "T433m1ng l337". So maybe you should wonder why you are so defensive.
Build it from the source and you'll get the autolaunched xterm... but then it's years since I was doing builds and distros of MIT X11.... thank goodness. :)
You run Photoshop on *Intel*... which is irrelevant to PowerPC based systems which is what this topic is about.
And who wants to gain 14 hours of work? That sounds like a sucky deal.
You can of course consider wether an operation you have to do 10,000 times in a work week which ate up 5 seconds is actually a good thing or wether there's simply a better way of achieving the goal. Going faster doesn't mean you are more efficient.
And if you'd ever bothered to lift the lid on MacOSX, you'd find oodles of things to fiddle with (or that are fiddled with by apps) to let folks customise the system. I pointed you at some.
So why not drop your attitude that people who like MacOSX just can't handle a l33t s3tu9 like yours.
X11 gives you nothing "out of the box"; that's the point of X11. X11 "out of the box" gives you xterm in the upper left and no window manager.
And yes, I run X11 apps all the time on OSX. Maybe you are confusing the start up time of the server with the startup time of the application. Once the server is up, the applications start up as fast as any other X implementation.
Now, come back to me when Linux on PPC has Final Cut Pro, iSync, Omnigraffle, iTunes, Photoshop, Office or anything that *matches* their functionality....
You have the attitude of the OS hotrodder... "Hey I can make it go quicker if I strip all this stuff off", so there you are hammering along in an open frame dune buggy. Me, I like having air conditioning and an automatic transmission and the general comfort.
I've spent too many years in the past sitting on the wicker work seats of the X11 dune buggy with people popping up saying "Hey it'll be great when we clamp this new shiny shell over it", while I'm looking at the sorry state of the gearstick and steering wheel.
What's beneficial for Apple is to keep ploughing their own path, to keep innovating, not slavishly metooing other peoples creations, and to stick to the usercentric philosophy that has served them well.
Wow, so you really haven't used MacOSX at all have you?
Click Terminal - Look it's a Unix shell.
Want ImageMagick? Just install it. It's in Fink.
Want Focus-follows-mouse? Install Codetek's Virtual Desktop.
Want X11? Just install it.
Now, do you want to get a clue, because you've obviously not installed one.
I'm a old Unix hand, I'm a coder, I know what I'm doing, but I use MacOSX because it's a Unix system which has a great native desktop and doesn't lock out X11 support.
Stop deluding yourself that making things easier is just for people stupider than you. Making things easier *when you do it right* is making things easier for *everyone*. Throwing a bag of tools in front of someone and saying "Hey you can work it out if you are l33t like me" isn't going to sell anyone on your way of doing things.
The simple fact here is you *could* move to MacOSX and *carry on doing things exactly the way you are doing them now* and *still* benefit from the user oriented nature of MacOSX's desktop.
I tested this book by handing it to my other half; she figured out at least 3 serious errors and put in errata for them; you'll find the errata at O'Reilly.
It'll be a much better book, and recommedable for beginners in the second printing/edition when these are fixed.
The disqualification of Apple by Tim Bray from the 'commons' suggests that his argument for open platforms (which he unfortunately defines purely as Unix) has been erroneously conflated with an argument to force OS vendors to only write operating systems (which, the law of unintended consequences would suggest lead to more functionality bundled into the OS, not less).
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If the company had code under the NDA, leaked it, it's called a violation of the NDA. That they weren't *caught* doing it does not mean the NDA has not been *enforced*, just that they haven't been *caught doing it*. An NDA is an *agreement* not to disclose, not a automated source code security system which sets off flashing lights when someone mails kernel.c to their l33t m8s. :)
RTFA yourself.
"or whatever non-disclosure agreement you had was not enforced."
There is only one circumstance when that applies, and that is when the covered material has been disclosed.
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Well, it works fine in the UK.... Sorry you chaps in the US seem to have the usual NIH issues and a touch of RIAA problems.
I have a PCI DAB radio card, DABBAR and EPGExplorer. I pick off the stations I want to record from the 7 day EPG, and come back to a directory of MP3 files ready to play or move to my iPod, and there's no nasty FM noise, just nice clean digital audio.
Well, I have two IDEs on my desktop; IDEA and Omnicore's Codeguide and it's CodeGuide I keep coming back to.
No, they don't. Most people respond with "That's a good idea, where can I get one of those."
Easy reason for having the camera. It works with the address book. When you make a note of someone's address, you can take a snap of them and attach it to their addressbook entry. Handy if you meet a lot of people and just can't remember their names.
"But Brain, why would you want to be on Pop Stars: The Rivals?"
Mr Shatner, have you no shame?
Crow T. Robot - "Shatner, Shatner, Shatner, no, he's not in this one, we're safe" - MST3K the Movie.
You don't need to pick it up... on the desk it is a a wireless optical mouse. One that you can pick up and use in the air too. *That* is the neat bit.
And because the gyro motion is only transmitted with the trigger button in, you can position onto something on the screen exactly, release the button and the mouse point stops dead where you released the button.
The Gyromouse is gyro based in the air, but put it on the desk and it reverts to being an optical mouse. It needs no external sensors to detect position and it also has, in the pro version, a 30M range... It is actually a very slick pointing device , and it feels really solid in your hand.
It's eleven sixteenths of an inch thick. If you think thats an inch, then you may be overestimating many things in your life.
It's no thicker than the current Clie NR70V and that's a sleek pocketable beastie
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Now Back To Kroupware's Synchronised Bytes...
The difference is that they bought the rights sufficent to allow them to make those changes.
What's the effect or CGI animation that makes you cringe the most when you see it used, or overused?
VOD is here and now in the UK, not a pilot scheme. It's up and running and has been for a year or more.
The 5500 isn't. The 5000D is. I have one on my desk here.