Apple's business practices are becoming and more anti-consumer lately. Sueing web sites,
Sueing web sites who illegally use Apple's trademarks. Trademarks have a unique property, you protect them or lose them. Apple has to do this.
throwing a tantrum at ATI
Are RUMOURED to have thrown a tantrum at ATI.
and now paying for beta code.
Oooo, big evil corporation bending to the will of the people (would you be happier with no public beta?) and releasing a public beta and charging for it. This will be the fifth pre-release version, I see you're ignoring that the other four non-public versions were shipped free. If Apple didn't charge for it their on-line store would be slashdotted even worse than it was by tons of people who don't even have a Mac ording a copy...
Even if OS X is a sweet OS, how is Apple behaving any less disgusting than Microsoft?
Whatever have other companies been thinking to replace defective products for FREE when they could just downplay the problem long enough for them to become all "old and worn out anyway"?:-P
Yah, like my 8 year old Ford Escort*. Ford identified a problem in the steering wheel system and issued a recall. They just fixed it, they should have replaced it with a new Explorer!!!
* I don't own a Ford Escort and I made up the steering wheel problem.
In the copying to disk example, not only should the mac empty the floppy trash automatically, but it should say "You're out of room on the floppy" and pop up a file browser to allow you to make room.
Not only will the Mac not *start* copying files unless there is room to finish and pre-allocate the space so no other task can swipe it during the copy, if there isn't enough space it will ask if you want to empty the trash (provided emptying the trash will actually make enough room avaiable).
I was involved in a product that Apple Insider leaked images of, two days before it was publically launched. As a result, we lost most trademark and patent rights outside the US.
I don't think much of your company's business acumen if you waited until two days before your product ships before filing for trademarks and patents...
Apple won't be shipping a multi-processor system until they have an OS that supports it decently, i.e. when they ship Mac OS NeXT. There is a slim chance that they will ship them when they ship the Mac OS X public Beta, i.e. Sept. 20th.
I'll lay odds that when they do it'll be cheaper to buy a single processor Mac and a third party 4 processor upgrade than to buy a dual processor version...
Yes, I'm suprised to see this story on Slashdot. It's so fluffy it seems chosen to ilicit flames from people who don't like Apple.
Apple could send a free CD with the Source Code (GPL'd) for an Intel/AMD version of Mac OS X (including Quick Time) to every person in the world and they would still get flamed on/.
Apple was instrumental in making computers accessable to the masses, there is a core group of uber-geeks who don't like what they feel should be an exclusive club being opened up to everyone and will hate Apple for the rest of their lives for it.
Once you recognise it as simply another form of the intolerance and bullying that is so previlant in our society you can deal with it in a healthy way.
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switched to an Open, Compatible, Supported movie format
What part of a DV stream do you consider closed, incompatible, and unsupported?
iMovie is designed to edit DV Video, you can convert the finished product to QuickTime but you can also convert it to MPEG, VHS or whatever you want.
Donate to the EFF for the legal defense fund of that DeCSS fellow.
I'd say donate to support Carmac in his fight for the GPL of the Quake 2 code but I don't think he needs it...
OpenSource doesn't need money to write code (the coders, etc. aren't doing this for the money), it does need money to fight legal battles against large corporations.
Another idea would be to donate it to a local school or other group teaching programming/computing with OpenSource products.
(1). I'm about to grab a bite to eat and I want something to read while I'm eating. I grab a book from my to-read pile (all previously ordered on-line) that suits my current mood, and go to lunch. 100% chance I used an online transaction.
(2) Someone tells me that I have to read this book, the next time I'm at my desk (at work or home) I pop onto amazon and order it. It "magically" shows up the next day and goes onto my to-read pile. 100% chance I'll buy it online, decreasing significantly if I happened to be in/near a bookstore before I'm near a computer.
(4) I want a Canon XL1 MiniDV camcorder, a product which, at the time I bought it, sold for about $4,400. I get it more cheaply online, knowling that the minimum-wage store employee knows less about it than I do or that the commissioned sales-droid is going to try to push me into a higher margin item -- and both will try to push their extended warranty onto me.
Further I know that if there is a problem the store won't give a damn and I'll be dealing with the manufacturer regardless.
100% chance I'll buy online; customer service is an oxymoron.
I'd order on-line a lot more if shipping to Canada wasn't such a pain...
If we process signals faster it'll either let them eventually process more signals (larger spectrum, etc) or use less computers.
Since SETI@Home can't process the amount of data being processed now, increasing it doesn't make it better.
(They refused AMD's offer of help to speed the client up, doing more work, as carefully as before, in less time.)
And AMD wanted to do this why? 1. Because the BODs, President, and CEO of AMD are all UFO buffs who wanted to help the search? or 2. AMD wanted a misleading Benchmark to quote in their advertising to make their processors look good?
Everyone who answered 1, take the tin foil off your head and experience reality...
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titanium
NASA developed an element? Wow, and all this time I thought it was naturally occuring...
With any luck they are trying to develope Scrith...
Don't forget about the dozens of subscription request cards that drop out of every magazine you pick up...
We won't change the calendar for the same reason we won't make the clocks Metric.
They can't even be bothered to produce a Mac client, let alone a Mac OS X client, so screw them!
Yes, the Mac-only iCab does.
Its InScript (JavaScript) filters allow you to control what a JavaScript can do on a global and site for site basis.
Put them both in ThunderDome! [chants] Two men enter, one man leaves. Two men enter, one man leaves. Two men enter, one man leaves. [/chants]
I don't want to fly around the sky in the future with the same people I drive around the roads with in the present...
They do, they are called PowerBooks.
Sueing web sites who illegally use Apple's trademarks. Trademarks have a unique property, you protect them or lose them. Apple has to do this.
throwing a tantrum at ATI
Are RUMOURED to have thrown a tantrum at ATI.
and now paying for beta code.
Oooo, big evil corporation bending to the will of the people (would you be happier with no public beta?) and releasing a public beta and charging for it. This will be the fifth pre-release version, I see you're ignoring that the other four non-public versions were shipped free. If Apple didn't charge for it their on-line store would be slashdotted even worse than it was by tons of people who don't even have a Mac ording a copy...
Even if OS X is a sweet OS, how is Apple behaving any less disgusting than Microsoft?
Why not pop over to Apple's web site and check out Darwin then come back and revaluate your above question.
Yah, like my 8 year old Ford Escort*. Ford identified a problem in the steering wheel system and issued a recall. They just fixed it, they should have replaced it with a new Explorer!!!
* I don't own a Ford Escort and I made up the steering wheel problem.
Why not? A computer's user interface isn't limited to physical reality.
Not only will the Mac not *start* copying files unless there is room to finish and pre-allocate the space so no other task can swipe it during the copy, if there isn't enough space it will ask if you want to empty the trash (provided emptying the trash will actually make enough room avaiable).
I always delete locked files simply by holding down the option key when emptying the trash...
If you select cut instead of copy the icon (or whatever) is on your clipboard, just go paste...
I don't think much of your company's business acumen if you waited until two days before your product ships before filing for trademarks and patents...
Apple won't be shipping a multi-processor system until they have an OS that supports it decently, i.e. when they ship Mac OS NeXT. There is a slim chance that they will ship them when they ship the Mac OS X public Beta, i.e. Sept. 20th.
I'll lay odds that when they do it'll be cheaper to buy a single processor Mac and a third party 4 processor upgrade than to buy a dual processor version...
The outside dimentions of the monitor are 21"x16.5". The displayable image is 12.8" x 10.24".
Since the Cocoa APIs are NextStep (including Objective C, ProjectBuilder, etc.), porting GNUStep would seem to be a waste of time...
Apple could send a free CD with the Source Code (GPL'd) for an Intel/AMD version of Mac OS X (including Quick Time) to every person in the world and they would still get flamed on /.
Apple was instrumental in making computers accessable to the masses, there is a core group of uber-geeks who don't like what they feel should be an exclusive club being opened up to everyone and will hate Apple for the rest of their lives for it.
Once you recognise it as simply another form of the intolerance and bullying that is so previlant in our society you can deal with it in a healthy way.
What part of a DV stream do you consider closed, incompatible, and unsupported?
iMovie is designed to edit DV Video, you can convert the finished product to QuickTime but you can also convert it to MPEG, VHS or whatever you want.
Just add a second HD and mirror it. Oops, I forgot, this isn't SCSI... never mind.
It's Flapping, not floppy. The line goes "With all their beady little eyes, their flapping heads so full of lies".
If you're going to quote something, at least get it right.
YOU CANNOT OWN TANGIBLE ITEMS either. Ownership is an intangible concept enforced by law. You can't own a thing anymore than you can own a song.
The only thing you can truly own are your own thoughts.
Note: Possession is different than ownership.
I'd say donate to support Carmac in his fight for the GPL of the Quake 2 code but I don't think he needs it...
OpenSource doesn't need money to write code (the coders, etc. aren't doing this for the money), it does need money to fight legal battles against large corporations.
Another idea would be to donate it to a local school or other group teaching programming/computing with OpenSource products.
(2) Someone tells me that I have to read this book, the next time I'm at my desk (at work or home) I pop onto amazon and order it. It "magically" shows up the next day and goes onto my to-read pile. 100% chance I'll buy it online, decreasing significantly if I happened to be in/near a bookstore before I'm near a computer.
(4) I want a Canon XL1 MiniDV camcorder, a product which, at the time I bought it, sold for about $4,400. I get it more cheaply online, knowling that the minimum-wage store employee knows less about it than I do or that the commissioned sales-droid is going to try to push me into a higher margin item -- and both will try to push their extended warranty onto me.
Further I know that if there is a problem the store won't give a damn and I'll be dealing with the manufacturer regardless.
100% chance I'll buy online; customer service is an oxymoron.
I'd order on-line a lot more if shipping to Canada wasn't such a pain...
Since SETI@Home can't process the amount of data being processed now, increasing it doesn't make it better.
(They refused AMD's offer of help to speed the client up, doing more work, as carefully as before, in less time.)
And AMD wanted to do this why?
1. Because the BODs, President, and CEO of AMD are all UFO buffs who wanted to help the search?
or
2. AMD wanted a misleading Benchmark to quote in their advertising to make their processors look good?
Everyone who answered 1, take the tin foil off your head and experience reality...