I think he's talking about live servers - which run on Linux.
At the software company I work at (I won't reveal who it is, but yeah you've heard of it) we have several Linux versions of a lot of our products, but haven't been released because of support concerns. Its harder and more expensive to test (than Mac/Windows) because of all the variations and its harder to support for the same reason and people get pissed off when it doesn't work on xyz distribution.
Thats one big difference you'll see between open source apps/os and something made by a corporation - some company knows (or should know) that if people don't adopt their application or OS you'll lose money so its in their best interest to make sure their users are happy when they first plug the machine in.
Personally I think its the little things that matter. I haven't used linux on the desktop in years (every now and then I look at it sure, but I haven't taken it seriously) however I use it regularly as a server at work and at home. It doesn't have to look like Windows for it to compete - it just has to work as easily as Windows (or OSX for that matter).
For instance I was impressed to see in unbuntu that had a preference to change the screen resolution (it didn't work... but its the thought that counts). I think if a user figures that they can't setup their monitor - how hard is the rest of the OS going to be to use?
Another example - how hard is it to setup a distro so that when I hit backspace or delete it actually works as expected? Most distro's this is true - in most cases, but you'll run into an app eventually or a terminal somewhere where its not.
Printing has gotten easier for some applications - others not so much - it really depends on what toolkit the app uses.
And I know the reply is going to be well - you just have to do xyz, or change this config file, or use this distro - and while thats ok for me, probably not so much so for a product (Linux) that is supposed to compete with Windows and OSX.
I live in a geographically dense location called Seattle, but the fastest bandwidth I can get is 8 mbit DSL, and to call it 8 megabits is laughable - its rarely that quick,
Ever notice how everyone has to write articles about apple with the preface "I'm a mac fan" or "fyi - I'm typing this on a mac"? Even this article starts out "Let me preface this by saying that I consider myself an Apple fan".
I assume this is intended to ward off Mac Zealots.
Oh and FYI - I'm typing this on a Dell T5400 running XP and even though I have a Mac (3 of them no less) I like Windows better.
Oh sure there are plenty of proprietary designs, but there's also lots of public domain designs. One of the best layouts for a broadband antenna is the log periodic - also one of the more common you see on rooftops. There are plenty of blueprints, designs and formulas for making your own in the public domain.
My brother in law who works at Intel says they no longer use Solaris for CAD/Simulation - its all been moved to Linux.
Also have a friend at Cisco who says the only Solaris machines they have in their department run FrameMaker and that if Adobe ever made a Linux version they'd abandon Solaris entirely.
Ages ago back before the imac and steve jobs glorious return I used to service mac's. While I never ran into an exploding capacitor (and I've never seen one on my PC either) I did see things like broken volume controls (on the all in one's - most of the time they always forced the volume all the way down) bad crt's, various motherboard (ack - logic board) problems, leaking batteries etc.
Mac's have the same problems as PC's - get over yourself.
With the added bonus that Mac's are typically harder to work on. Mac Classes for instance - special screwdriver to open, and rubber mallet to wack the case (as I recall the service manual said to do this with a towel or blanket so you didn't scratch the front or crack the crt). Quadra 700 - if you wanted to upgrade the memory you had to pull the PSU. SE-30 - if you wanted to upgrade the ram you had to cut resistors on the PC board etc etc etc. Out of the 120 models they had - each had a crazy way of upgrading and servicing it.
Even the Mac mini I got - to upgrade the ram I had to get a putty knife and pry the case open - insane.
The only Mac I have that is easy to work on is my G5 and Mac Pro - rest of them are crazy.
One of the most expensive parts of software engineering is testing or QA. By adding gpu support you multiply your testing suite by 15-20x what it normally was - because every feature now has to be tested against all supported adapters and a lot of these tests cannot be automated.
Also another reason is under recently a lot of video cards didn't have the precision to do graphic processing (especially on photoshop). It wasn't until shader 3 that this became a true reality.
Where is the notice (like you'd see in some msdn api's and methods) that this is a deprecated feature/api?
Also you're forgetting at the previous wwdc apple said that carbon was coming with them in the move to 64 bit - it was long after that when they announced that it wasn't.
You can't blame Adobe for that - moving to cocoa it a pretty huge endeavor for a really big project like photoshop or after effects.
Oh and for the Mac zealots - I'm typing this on a G4 powerbook.
When my father was growing up in North Vancouver (BC) they used to watch TV from Seattle all the time - because for a while there were no TV stations until CBUT started airing in the early 50's.
So it was a snowy picture, but you could watch it and hear it - and that was with a relatively high gain antenna (periodic log).
I suspect that viewing digital tv pictures from Seattle in North Van would be nearly impossible today because of the very nature of digital signals (if you don't get a significant portion of them - you don't get any picture at all - not even a snowy one).
Analogue transmissions are always going to be more forgiving. If the signal multipaths and you get some sub images no big deal - its still viewable.
Oddly enough while CBUT has a ton of translators all over the place (pretty much covering every populated portion of western BC), it seems like most US tv stations rely on a single transmitter - some have one or two translators - which is probably going to have to change.
You really don't think that the ad is saying "mac users are hip - they wear turtleneck shirts, can organize and print photo's and make home movies" and PC users are "dull, ignorant idiots who wear brown suits and use an operating system written by monkey's that does nothing but crash"?
Neither is true of course - Mac's can be used to do business and PC's can be used to organize photo's and make home movies (while wearing a turtleneck shirt no less)
To me the ad says - if you want to be cool - buy a Mac. Its no worse than a soda-pop ad, beer ad or a SUV ad. I don't need any of those things, but if I want to be cool I better start buying.
Of course Saddam had chemical weapons, we (the American people) sold them to him - that should be a warcrime in itself, but the people who did this were never held accountable for their actions and can't be because the US doesn't believe in the Geneva convention, the world court or anything like that - but we love to send our enemies there anyhow.
Thing is - after years of UN inspections they found that Iraq's weapon stockpile was either non existent or obsolete and useless.
Plus the other major argument was that he had nuclear weapons which wasn't true either.
Where do you draw the line? Ironically it was Rush Limbaugh of all people during the war in Kosovo that said there were something like 240 individual conflicts going around the world (I can't remember the exact number obviously) - many of which involve warcrimes - is it our job to respond to each and every one of these?
You're gun analogy would work best if we knew a guy had a gun in his house (Iraq), we sent some competent and trusted people in to find it (the UN) 10-15 years later - while finding evidence of guns, never found the gun that caused the crime so we blew up the entire city because hell - that gun has to be in there somewhere.
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I think he's talking about live servers - which run on Linux.
At the software company I work at (I won't reveal who it is, but yeah you've heard of it) we have several Linux versions of a lot of our products, but haven't been released because of support concerns. Its harder and more expensive to test (than Mac/Windows) because of all the variations and its harder to support for the same reason and people get pissed off when it doesn't work on xyz distribution.
I would say that it is amongst the better customer service solutions in our industry, but it's not someplace where I am comfortable or "happy."
As someone who works in this business (customer support) I would honest say that if you ever are happy - you're probably missing something.
What I mean by that is there's always room for improvement in customer support because of the nature of the business.
Here's the user-unfriendly GUI for deleting them one at a time, each one requiring confirmation.
I clicked on delete all sites - it asked if I wanted to and every one of them was gone in two clicks.
Read the patch notes - paladin spells now scale with attack power.
I had a lot of fun personally and I have been to every blizzcon.
Thats one big difference you'll see between open source apps/os and something made by a corporation - some company knows (or should know) that if people don't adopt their application or OS you'll lose money so its in their best interest to make sure their users are happy when they first plug the machine in.
Personally I think its the little things that matter. I haven't used linux on the desktop in years (every now and then I look at it sure, but I haven't taken it seriously) however I use it regularly as a server at work and at home. It doesn't have to look like Windows for it to compete - it just has to work as easily as Windows (or OSX for that matter).
For instance I was impressed to see in unbuntu that had a preference to change the screen resolution (it didn't work... but its the thought that counts). I think if a user figures that they can't setup their monitor - how hard is the rest of the OS going to be to use?
Another example - how hard is it to setup a distro so that when I hit backspace or delete it actually works as expected? Most distro's this is true - in most cases, but you'll run into an app eventually or a terminal somewhere where its not.
Printing has gotten easier for some applications - others not so much - it really depends on what toolkit the app uses.
And I know the reply is going to be well - you just have to do xyz, or change this config file, or use this distro - and while thats ok for me, probably not so much so for a product (Linux) that is supposed to compete with Windows and OSX.
They did find wreckage nearby where these hikers found these artifacts:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gfmXbQn-RFLHSjd8_s23ytiM6OVAD93I5P5O0
If you cruise over to their forums - it seems like the vast majority of people who use this are gold farmers and people selling accounts.
You'd never find a bot actually playing the game (ie - doing quests, dungeons, raids and playing with the game economy).
I live in a geographically dense location called Seattle, but the fastest bandwidth I can get is 8 mbit DSL, and to call it 8 megabits is laughable - its rarely that quick,
Ever notice how everyone has to write articles about apple with the preface "I'm a mac fan" or "fyi - I'm typing this on a mac"? Even this article starts out "Let me preface this by saying that I consider myself an Apple fan".
I assume this is intended to ward off Mac Zealots.
Oh and FYI - I'm typing this on a Dell T5400 running XP and even though I have a Mac (3 of them no less) I like Windows better.
Oh sure there are plenty of proprietary designs, but there's also lots of public domain designs. One of the best layouts for a broadband antenna is the log periodic - also one of the more common you see on rooftops. There are plenty of blueprints, designs and formulas for making your own in the public domain.
My brother in law who works at Intel says they no longer use Solaris for CAD/Simulation - its all been moved to Linux.
Also have a friend at Cisco who says the only Solaris machines they have in their department run FrameMaker and that if Adobe ever made a Linux version they'd abandon Solaris entirely.
Or want to pay someone to write an app that does this. Thats really all you're paying for - some software.
I just used paypal - which forwarded to a ssl site. I guess I'll find out if I get duped.
Ages ago back before the imac and steve jobs glorious return I used to service mac's. While I never ran into an exploding capacitor (and I've never seen one on my PC either) I did see things like broken volume controls (on the all in one's - most of the time they always forced the volume all the way down) bad crt's, various motherboard (ack - logic board) problems, leaking batteries etc.
Mac's have the same problems as PC's - get over yourself.
With the added bonus that Mac's are typically harder to work on. Mac Classes for instance - special screwdriver to open, and rubber mallet to wack the case (as I recall the service manual said to do this with a towel or blanket so you didn't scratch the front or crack the crt). Quadra 700 - if you wanted to upgrade the memory you had to pull the PSU. SE-30 - if you wanted to upgrade the ram you had to cut resistors on the PC board etc etc etc. Out of the 120 models they had - each had a crazy way of upgrading and servicing it.
Even the Mac mini I got - to upgrade the ram I had to get a putty knife and pry the case open - insane.
The only Mac I have that is easy to work on is my G5 and Mac Pro - rest of them are crazy.
Don't forget Reader and Acrobat 9 http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405218
One of the most expensive parts of software engineering is testing or QA. By adding gpu support you multiply your testing suite by 15-20x what it normally was - because every feature now has to be tested against all supported adapters and a lot of these tests cannot be automated.
Also another reason is under recently a lot of video cards didn't have the precision to do graphic processing (especially on photoshop). It wasn't until shader 3 that this became a true reality.
Have you read the website for the product?
http://developer.apple.com/carbon/
Where is the notice (like you'd see in some msdn api's and methods) that this is a deprecated feature/api?
Also you're forgetting at the previous wwdc apple said that carbon was coming with them in the move to 64 bit - it was long after that when they announced that it wasn't.
You can't blame Adobe for that - moving to cocoa it a pretty huge endeavor for a really big project like photoshop or after effects.
Oh and for the Mac zealots - I'm typing this on a G4 powerbook.
I think most antenna designs fall into the category of public domain:
http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?category=Antennas%2C+Transmission+Lines+%26+Propagation
When my father was growing up in North Vancouver (BC) they used to watch TV from Seattle all the time - because for a while there were no TV stations until CBUT started airing in the early 50's.
So it was a snowy picture, but you could watch it and hear it - and that was with a relatively high gain antenna (periodic log).
I suspect that viewing digital tv pictures from Seattle in North Van would be nearly impossible today because of the very nature of digital signals (if you don't get a significant portion of them - you don't get any picture at all - not even a snowy one).
Analogue transmissions are always going to be more forgiving. If the signal multipaths and you get some sub images no big deal - its still viewable.
Oddly enough while CBUT has a ton of translators all over the place (pretty much covering every populated portion of western BC), it seems like most US tv stations rely on a single transmitter - some have one or two translators - which is probably going to have to change.
You really don't think that the ad is saying "mac users are hip - they wear turtleneck shirts, can organize and print photo's and make home movies" and PC users are "dull, ignorant idiots who wear brown suits and use an operating system written by monkey's that does nothing but crash"?
Neither is true of course - Mac's can be used to do business and PC's can be used to organize photo's and make home movies (while wearing a turtleneck shirt no less)
To me the ad says - if you want to be cool - buy a Mac. Its no worse than a soda-pop ad, beer ad or a SUV ad. I don't need any of those things, but if I want to be cool I better start buying.
So you could do this - every time you die in WoW go to the character selection screen, delete your character and start over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
Of course Saddam had chemical weapons, we (the American people) sold them to him - that should be a warcrime in itself, but the people who did this were never held accountable for their actions and can't be because the US doesn't believe in the Geneva convention, the world court or anything like that - but we love to send our enemies there anyhow.
Thing is - after years of UN inspections they found that Iraq's weapon stockpile was either non existent or obsolete and useless.
Plus the other major argument was that he had nuclear weapons which wasn't true either.
Where do you draw the line? Ironically it was Rush Limbaugh of all people during the war in Kosovo that said there were something like 240 individual conflicts going around the world (I can't remember the exact number obviously) - many of which involve warcrimes - is it our job to respond to each and every one of these?
You're gun analogy would work best if we knew a guy had a gun in his house (Iraq), we sent some competent and trusted people in to find it (the UN) 10-15 years later - while finding evidence of guns, never found the gun that caused the crime so we blew up the entire city because hell - that gun has to be in there somewhere.