A jack of all trades is a master of none. Most "Normal" people are balanced, and thats exactly why most "Normal" people arent Einstien, or Steven Hawkings etc.
Balance of social skills and technical skills means you give up something, when you balance, you lose technical skill yet you are more balanced.
Although I agree with the sentiment that these people probably aren't party animals, I have to disagree with the statement that greater technical skills automatically means lesser social skills. Real life isn't a MMORPG; things don't just 'balance'. Becoming better at one aspect of life will not automatically make you worse at another.
Contrary to popular belief, blind people don't automatically develop better hearing to 'compensate', any more than stupid people become more attractive or dull people become wealthy. Just as it's possible for someone to be bad at everything, it's also possible for someone to be good at everything - rare and extraordinary, but still possible.
Sooner or later Apple will tire of shipping and supporting two OSes, and they'll have to write code for OSX supporting all their technologies.
Once they do, it won't be hard to wrap an emulation layer or two around it for Linux.
This statement is so short on actual facts that it's hard to tell where to begin...
First off, OS X does support QuickTime. I have no idea why anyone would think differently - every publicly available version of OSX (and most of the earlier developer previews), has had QuickTime support. I believe QuickTime was among the first of Apple technologies to be ported.
Secondly, the statement that "it won't be hard to wrap an emulation layer or two around it for Linux" is really almost funny. It could conceivably be possible for a PowerPC Linux distro to hack up some kind of support based on Mac On Linux, but saying that it wouldn't be difficult shows a pretty thorough lack of appreciation for the complexity of QuickTime. And even if you did manage to build this monster, you'd still be limited to using it on PPC machine.
Unless, of course, you're proposing building a PPC emulator with an embedded hack of QuickTime? Go right ahead, I'd love to see it.
I don't care what has been done to your people in the past. I don't care what's being done right now. I don't care how oppressed you are, or how put-upon, or how miserable.
You do not attack civilians.
I hope they nuke the frelling bastards behind this.
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Contrary to popular belief, blind people don't automatically develop better hearing to 'compensate', any more than stupid people become more attractive or dull people become wealthy. Just as it's possible for someone to be bad at everything, it's also possible for someone to be good at everything - rare and extraordinary, but still possible.
Talk about misdiagnosis...
First off, OS X does support QuickTime. I have no idea why anyone would think differently - every publicly available version of OSX (and most of the earlier developer previews), has had QuickTime support. I believe QuickTime was among the first of Apple technologies to be ported.
Secondly, the statement that "it won't be hard to wrap an emulation layer or two around it for Linux" is really almost funny. It could conceivably be possible for a PowerPC Linux distro to hack up some kind of support based on Mac On Linux, but saying that it wouldn't be difficult shows a pretty thorough lack of appreciation for the complexity of QuickTime. And even if you did manage to build this monster, you'd still be limited to using it on PPC machine.
Unless, of course, you're proposing building a PPC emulator with an embedded hack of QuickTime?
Go right ahead, I'd love to see it.
I don't care what has been done to your people in the past. I don't care what's being done right now. I don't care how oppressed you are, or how put-upon, or how miserable.
You do not attack civilians.
I hope they nuke the frelling bastards behind this.
You can get your compelling evidence at mac.divx.st. I'm running it on my Mac right now, and it works quite well.
/.ed to oblivion.
Unfortunately, it seems to be down right now. I'm betting it's hosted on the same server as 3ivx, and has been