Actually the PC XT (which supported a hard drive) was the first in the PC line to support Unix. In this case in the form of Interactive's PC/IX. You can read a little about it here (and possibly even download some disk images, not sure if the links still work) here.
Could you please back these statements up with some facts? The truth is that our cities are not in general more dangerous than they were before, nor was there some kind of golden age when everyone was safer than we were now. Certainly I can point to times when things were much much worse.
While there are always hotspots of crime and danger, and you can always point at anecdotes of problems, I don't think you can support your assertions, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I am sorry by that logic MSDOS is the most reliable OS ever created, and there isn't a lot os support for that these days. More importantly, however, people aren't software; and 10 years is a very long time for a version of an operating system.
Computers, as we think of them, are less than a century old, and the hardware and software are far from stable or mature. Knives and masonry went through a very long period of primitive change before they got to anything like what was in use a few thousand years from now. So we should not be shocked that technology becomes outdated faster than other more established technologies?
Nor are your right when you claim that "Windows XP is the most reliable OS Microsoft created." Long lived sure, but both Vista and Windows 7 are better when it comes to reliability, stability, and security. And Windows 7 has a very good track record when it comes to installing it on older hardware. If you look at the minimum requirements for running iTunes, they match the minimums needed for Windows 7. So they can upgrade.
Which they should do, because Windows XP is no long available for mainstream support from Microsoft. So it is not outrageous for a software company to say they aren't going to support it either, if it doesn't affect a significant number of their customers.
I love how little credit The Register gives Apple when they say "According to the latest stats, this means that almost half of all PC users will not be able to access iCloud." Given that Apple has usage statistics of the people who use iTunes, I am willing to bet they know exactly how many of their customers with iCloud compatible devices are running on XP and made a very educated decision that dropping XP support wouldn't alienate that many users.
As others have already pointed out, XP is a decade old OS now, and two versions back. It is OK to start phasing our support. First for apps that run primarily in peoples homes, and then eventually to what runs in business environments.
Qt uses the native graphics APIs of each platform it supports, taking full advantage of system resources and ensuring that applications have native look and feel
They are saying they are using the native drawing layer, not the native controls. There is a huge difference. The last QT App I used still didn't support OSX services. Which it would if it were using native controls.
I apparently didn't phrase that last line as I intended. What I meant to says was:
None of this will affect the quality of his mouse, it will live and die by its merits. But because of who is behind it, I for one, and going to give it a miss...
Which is not a contradiction. Very few people know, or care, who Vox Day is; nor are they likely to let that affect their mouse choices. A very small minority will care, and will either buy it because it, or walk away. But it won't be what makes or breaks the sales of this mouse.
I thought the WarMouse sounded familiar. It was also known, once, as the OpenOffice Mouse. Its lead designer, Theodore Beale, is also known as Vox Day. Vox Day is a anti-evolution, anti-feminist, christian writer and blogger who believes -- amongst other things -- that all atheists are sociopaths.
He is the author of a handful of poorly reviewed games, including the tedious looking The War In Heaven.
None of this will affect the quality of his mouse, it should live and die by its merits. But because of who is behind it, I for one, and going to give it a miss...
The Beta version of Bloglines was my favorite reader, especially its mobile version. There is no other online reader I can find that will show fill posts by default in the mobile version. I was willing to put up with a lot of bugs and issues because I couldn't find a good alternative. Eventually it became too much and I moved to Fever -- which sadly doesn't support full posts in the mobile client and the developer seems singularly uninterested in supporting that feature. But I was able to force it to give the desktop version when on a mobile device, which works surprisingly well.
Still it is a shame about bloglines. I will miss it...
I think you are confusing "savvy" with "rather technical," because I can think of better things to use for a document repository than SVN. Especially if I want other people I collaborate with to want to use it as well.
If there were a remotely current version of AbiWord for OS X. Sadly that part of their development dropped by the wayside quite some time ago.
AbiWord is currently at 2.8 for Windows and Linux, but 2.4.x for OS X. That is two major versions behind, and call be crazy but I kinda want some of the things that have been added.
I used to use AbiWord a lot. It was small and fast and mimiced the way Office did it's tool pallets on the Mac. So AbiWord would be where documents tented to start with me, when formatting needed to be more elaborate, then I would move to Office.
Now I just use Office all the time. OpenOffice is finally an acceptable OS X citizen, but it isn't great. For me at least, the price of it is the only compelling reason to like OpenOffice, but that is about all. In terms of features and feel, I am sorry but all I can say is not yet...
In fact, I don't think I've ever lost data on FAT without a hardware failure
Then you sir are, I suspect, in a minority. Most people I know (empirical I know, but I think you will find this born out), have lost data on FAT filesystems, without the need for hardware to fail.
But beyond that FAT just isn't a very good filesystem. On modern drives they waste a lot of storage, are more prone to fragmentation, have insufficient structure in the filesystem to ensure integrity, etc etc
However to get at the core question that started this all; personally I would choose neither. I would buy a Drobo instead of a RAID. Much easier to maintain, supports uneven disk sizes, etc.
Yes it is probably more expensive, but if what you want is security of your data; then you should be prepared to spend a few hundred at the very least.
So the fact that GEGL took 6 years to write and useable blows me away, but it underscores the point that the GIMP team had nearly a decade to get ready and still aren't there yet.
As a photographer there is no way I could even consider GIMP until it supports >8BPP color depth. In the mean time the tools that photographers use (SC3, Aperature, Lightroom, Lightzone) have all adopted non-destructive editing. So when GIMP fully supports higher color depths, it is still going to feel like Photoshop 6 (ok maybe 7).
I would love it if there were a open alternative, but GIMP isn't even going to be in the running for at least a few more years (if ever). I think this is one of those cases where someone needs to look at this with fresh eyes, start a new project from scratch that is based on the expectations of two years from now and actually try and take some lead
8BPP is fine for viewing images, or just making a few edits. But having only 256 steps in each channel becomes a liability very quickly if you need to apply a few filters, touch up a bit, do a little dodging, etc. You quickly loose the subtly.
I am very excited that GIMP is integrating with GEGL. Of course I have been waiting 6 years for this (not kidding that is when the effort to go beyond 8BPP started), and it still isn't out yet. So I am not going to hold my breath until it comes out.
But even when it does GIMP is still going to be lacking compared to Photoshop, Aperature, LightRoom, and ZoneEdit when it comes to nondestructive editing. So even with CEGL it is still going to be a hard sell for me to consider GIMP
Which is that Sun, for example, could release a JVM bundler that lets the developer bundle their JARs to the JVM and then create a single App that could be released. The EULA restriction (as I read it) is on downloading arbitrary code off the net and then running it. So yes you can have a Ruby, Python, etc interpreter; but it is going to have to be bundled with the code you want to run into a single app, and it cannot go out and download any code to run. That will be livable for a large number of developers.
It leaves browser makers out in the cold. And that (IMHO) is wrong. I think Apple is being too restrictive, and I hope they back off a bunch in the 3-4 months before these restrictions become real. I do think we should take a moment to understand them for what they are though (and no I am not new here)
I would ask the question of what SOM/DSOM would bring to the party, when much of that technology went into making CORBA. CORBA is here now, has multiple implementations, both commercial and open (source and beer).
The only thing I can point to is GUI components, but those were either tied to a specific implementation (OS/2) or to an additional frameword (OpenDoc) and I am not sure they would be of much value.
Right, but the teacher should just drop everything to find out. She didn't know, taking a student's word for it can be dangerous, so she acted appropriately for that moment. The question is after this incident if she researched what Firefox is. But right there in the heat of the moment I don't fault her one bit.
LightZone A truly great photo editor (and based on Ansel Adams' zone system), is written primarily in Java (there is some native code for where Java can't fully meet native look and feel). It is a great example of an app that is written in Java. There are some others out there, but they don't make a big deal about being written in Java - they just are.
Nor should they. I don't buy/use software based on what it is written in. I pick it based on how it does at the job in question. Most of the software I write is in Java, not for idealogical reasons, but because I know it well, it does what I need, I have a good choice of tools, and it is reasonable cross platform.
Well as I understand it, it is for additional data services, and remember that "etc" well there is a lot the potentially a lot of other municipal services that would be able to take advantage of it. But I dunno as opposed to just taking word of some random guy on/. and then getting angry and then start wildly speculating, you could -- I dunno -- just google a little. Oh but what am I saying this is/.
Well as I understand the deal, they paid nothing (theoretically). They give Metro-Fi access to public buildings and other fixed points (like like light posts, power poles, etc), in return the city gets a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and QoS on the network for Police, Fire, etc use.
I am curious about your problems. I admit that public wi-fi is a YMMV kinda think, but I have had no real problems. It's faster than my EVDO Phone (which I can bridge to my laptop). Find a place to sit, connect, and I am in. What it doesn't do (and what 802.11 is lousy at) is seamless handoff between access points/towers. So it is useless if you are in a moving vehicle.
So when I am commuting to work, I use my phone. When I want to step out for a bit and hang out in the park next to my office, then I use Metro-Fi. All I can say is that for me it works just fine.
Well every wifi system I have used is in the YMMV category. I have had problems with T-Mobile and other paid services in static locations. In my experience MetroFi has been rock solid. As for throtteling, yes they do on the free service. However I will point out they throttle to 1Mbps, whereas the Google/Earthlink deal in SF was to be at 256Kbps.
Well that and the government gets something out of the deal. They aren't just rolling over to some corporate entity. In exchange for offering up city infastructure, they get guaranteed access to the wireless network. That is worth something.
And how was this different from the Google/Earthlink plan? In fact the throttling MetroFi does in Portland (1Mbps) is much better than what Google/Earthlink was proposing (256Kbps)
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Actually the PC XT (which supported a hard drive) was the first in the PC line to support Unix. In this case in the form of Interactive's PC/IX. You can read a little about it here (and possibly even download some disk images, not sure if the links still work) here.
Could you please back these statements up with some facts? The truth is that our cities are not in general more dangerous than they were before, nor was there some kind of golden age when everyone was safer than we were now. Certainly I can point to times when things were much much worse.
While there are always hotspots of crime and danger, and you can always point at anecdotes of problems, I don't think you can support your assertions, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
I am sorry by that logic MSDOS is the most reliable OS ever created, and there isn't a lot os support for that these days. More importantly, however, people aren't software; and 10 years is a very long time for a version of an operating system.
Computers, as we think of them, are less than a century old, and the hardware and software are far from stable or mature. Knives and masonry went through a very long period of primitive change before they got to anything like what was in use a few thousand years from now. So we should not be shocked that technology becomes outdated faster than other more established technologies?
Nor are your right when you claim that "Windows XP is the most reliable OS Microsoft created." Long lived sure, but both Vista and Windows 7 are better when it comes to reliability, stability, and security. And Windows 7 has a very good track record when it comes to installing it on older hardware. If you look at the minimum requirements for running iTunes, they match the minimums needed for Windows 7. So they can upgrade.
Which they should do, because Windows XP is no long available for mainstream support from Microsoft. So it is not outrageous for a software company to say they aren't going to support it either, if it doesn't affect a significant number of their customers.
So what was your point again?
PS: You misspelled mirror
I love how little credit The Register gives Apple when they say "According to the latest stats, this means that almost half of all PC users will not be able to access iCloud." Given that Apple has usage statistics of the people who use iTunes, I am willing to bet they know exactly how many of their customers with iCloud compatible devices are running on XP and made a very educated decision that dropping XP support wouldn't alienate that many users.
As others have already pointed out, XP is a decade old OS now, and two versions back. It is OK to start phasing our support. First for apps that run primarily in peoples homes, and then eventually to what runs in business environments.
Actually no. Take a look at what they say:
They are saying they are using the native drawing layer, not the native controls. There is a huge difference. The last QT App I used still didn't support OSX services. Which it would if it were using native controls.
That decision is entirely up to you. You now have information you did not before, AC. Now you can decide what you want to do with it.
I apparently didn't phrase that last line as I intended. What I meant to says was:
Which is not a contradiction. Very few people know, or care, who Vox Day is; nor are they likely to let that affect their mouse choices. A very small minority will care, and will either buy it because it, or walk away. But it won't be what makes or breaks the sales of this mouse.
I thought the WarMouse sounded familiar. It was also known, once, as the OpenOffice Mouse. Its lead designer, Theodore Beale, is also known as Vox Day. Vox Day is a anti-evolution, anti-feminist, christian writer and blogger who believes -- amongst other things -- that all atheists are sociopaths.
He is the author of a handful of poorly reviewed games, including the tedious looking The War In Heaven.
None of this will affect the quality of his mouse, it should live and die by its merits. But because of who is behind it, I for one, and going to give it a miss...
Lets meet for coffee, then you will...
The Beta version of Bloglines was my favorite reader, especially its mobile version. There is no other online reader I can find that will show fill posts by default in the mobile version. I was willing to put up with a lot of bugs and issues because I couldn't find a good alternative. Eventually it became too much and I moved to Fever -- which sadly doesn't support full posts in the mobile client and the developer seems singularly uninterested in supporting that feature. But I was able to force it to give the desktop version when on a mobile device, which works surprisingly well.
Still it is a shame about bloglines. I will miss it...
I think you are confusing "savvy" with "rather technical," because I can think of better things to use for a document repository than SVN. Especially if I want other people I collaborate with to want to use it as well.
If there were a remotely current version of AbiWord for OS X. Sadly that part of their development dropped by the wayside quite some time ago.
AbiWord is currently at 2.8 for Windows and Linux, but 2.4.x for OS X. That is two major versions behind, and call be crazy but I kinda want some of the things that have been added.
I used to use AbiWord a lot. It was small and fast and mimiced the way Office did it's tool pallets on the Mac. So AbiWord would be where documents tented to start with me, when formatting needed to be more elaborate, then I would move to Office.
Now I just use Office all the time. OpenOffice is finally an acceptable OS X citizen, but it isn't great. For me at least, the price of it is the only compelling reason to like OpenOffice, but that is about all. In terms of features and feel, I am sorry but all I can say is not yet...
In fact, I don't think I've ever lost data on FAT without a hardware failure
Then you sir are, I suspect, in a minority. Most people I know (empirical I know, but I think you will find this born out), have lost data on FAT filesystems, without the need for hardware to fail.
But beyond that FAT just isn't a very good filesystem. On modern drives they waste a lot of storage, are more prone to fragmentation, have insufficient structure in the filesystem to ensure integrity, etc etc
However to get at the core question that started this all; personally I would choose neither. I would buy a Drobo instead of a RAID. Much easier to maintain, supports uneven disk sizes, etc.
Yes it is probably more expensive, but if what you want is security of your data; then you should be prepared to spend a few hundred at the very least.
I would be sympthetic to that statement, except that they have had 8 years to get their house in order:
So the fact that GEGL took 6 years to write and useable blows me away, but it underscores the point that the GIMP team had nearly a decade to get ready and still aren't there yet.
As a photographer there is no way I could even consider GIMP until it supports >8BPP color depth. In the mean time the tools that photographers use (SC3, Aperature, Lightroom, Lightzone) have all adopted non-destructive editing. So when GIMP fully supports higher color depths, it is still going to feel like Photoshop 6 (ok maybe 7).
I would love it if there were a open alternative, but GIMP isn't even going to be in the running for at least a few more years (if ever). I think this is one of those cases where someone needs to look at this with fresh eyes, start a new project from scratch that is based on the expectations of two years from now and actually try and take some lead
8BPP is fine for viewing images, or just making a few edits. But having only 256 steps in each channel becomes a liability very quickly if you need to apply a few filters, touch up a bit, do a little dodging, etc. You quickly loose the subtly.
I am very excited that GIMP is integrating with GEGL. Of course I have been waiting 6 years for this (not kidding that is when the effort to go beyond 8BPP started), and it still isn't out yet. So I am not going to hold my breath until it comes out.
But even when it does GIMP is still going to be lacking compared to Photoshop, Aperature, LightRoom, and ZoneEdit when it comes to nondestructive editing. So even with CEGL it is still going to be a hard sell for me to consider GIMP
Which is that Sun, for example, could release a JVM bundler that lets the developer bundle their JARs to the JVM and then create a single App that could be released. The EULA restriction (as I read it) is on downloading arbitrary code off the net and then running it. So yes you can have a Ruby, Python, etc interpreter; but it is going to have to be bundled with the code you want to run into a single app, and it cannot go out and download any code to run. That will be livable for a large number of developers.
It leaves browser makers out in the cold. And that (IMHO) is wrong. I think Apple is being too restrictive, and I hope they back off a bunch in the 3-4 months before these restrictions become real. I do think we should take a moment to understand them for what they are though (and no I am not new here)
I would ask the question of what SOM/DSOM would bring to the party, when much of that technology went into making CORBA. CORBA is here now, has multiple implementations, both commercial and open (source and beer).
The only thing I can point to is GUI components, but those were either tied to a specific implementation (OS/2) or to an additional frameword (OpenDoc) and I am not sure they would be of much value.
> You mean Taligent? Which was an IBM & Apple co-project?
No he was referring to OpenDoc another IBM/Apple co-project which was all based on SOM/DSOM.
Right, but the teacher should just drop everything to find out. She didn't know, taking a student's word for it can be dangerous, so she acted appropriately for that moment. The question is after this incident if she researched what Firefox is. But right there in the heat of the moment I don't fault her one bit.
LightZone A truly great photo editor (and based on Ansel Adams' zone system), is written primarily in Java (there is some native code for where Java can't fully meet native look and feel). It is a great example of an app that is written in Java. There are some others out there, but they don't make a big deal about being written in Java - they just are.
Nor should they. I don't buy/use software based on what it is written in. I pick it based on how it does at the job in question. Most of the software I write is in Java, not for idealogical reasons, but because I know it well, it does what I need, I have a good choice of tools, and it is reasonable cross platform.
Well as I understand it, it is for additional data services, and remember that "etc" well there is a lot the potentially a lot of other municipal services that would be able to take advantage of it. But I dunno as opposed to just taking word of some random guy on /. and then getting angry and then start wildly speculating, you could -- I dunno -- just google a little. Oh but what am I saying this is /.
Well as I understand the deal, they paid nothing (theoretically). They give Metro-Fi access to public buildings and other fixed points (like like light posts, power poles, etc), in return the city gets a guaranteed amount of bandwidth and QoS on the network for Police, Fire, etc use.
I am curious about your problems. I admit that public wi-fi is a YMMV kinda think, but I have had no real problems. It's faster than my EVDO Phone (which I can bridge to my laptop). Find a place to sit, connect, and I am in. What it doesn't do (and what 802.11 is lousy at) is seamless handoff between access points/towers. So it is useless if you are in a moving vehicle.
So when I am commuting to work, I use my phone. When I want to step out for a bit and hang out in the park next to my office, then I use Metro-Fi. All I can say is that for me it works just fine.
Well every wifi system I have used is in the YMMV category. I have had problems with T-Mobile and other paid services in static locations. In my experience MetroFi has been rock solid. As for throtteling, yes they do on the free service. However I will point out they throttle to 1Mbps, whereas the Google/Earthlink deal in SF was to be at 256Kbps.
Well that and the government gets something out of the deal. They aren't just rolling over to some corporate entity. In exchange for offering up city infastructure, they get guaranteed access to the wireless network. That is worth something.
And how was this different from the Google/Earthlink plan? In fact the throttling MetroFi does in Portland (1Mbps) is much better than what Google/Earthlink was proposing (256Kbps)