The zoom button is actually controlled by the application and not the Window Manager. This is why you have different behavior depending on the application your running.
This was particularly true for true-Carbon applications. MetroWerks' PowerPlant Carbon framework, used by many applications (still today) kinda standardize the actual behavior and Cocoa under OS X also makes this somewhat more predictable.
But applications can still control the size they can zoom to.
This is why you wont find a system-wide switch to control this behavior.
Apple couldn't begin even approaching the level of functionality of Office. The current iWork package is a rip-off.
Pages is a home layout package. It will never stack up to big canons Adobe Creative Suite or QuarkXPress. It's not a professional tool. Keynote is actually good, but presentations alone aren't enough to hold a business together.
If anything, Apple would need to pick up the work on NeoOffice, the "less bad" OpenOffice derivative as far as UI is concerned, and do a lot of work on it to bring it on par with Office. That is, if it actually cared to make NeoOffice look and behave like Office Mac.
I'm not a mathetician, but as, in general, any number divided by itself is one (eg 1/1=1, 1234/1234=1, 0.5/0.5=1, etc) it would seem far more sensible if zero divided by zero was also 1.
If what you say is right then I can prove you that 1 = 2. And that black is white and... Oh! Zebras!
I'm simply saying that there's no 1 to 1, conversion-free or syntax-change-free way for a big company to move from one DB system to another. Then pile up all the business applications on top of these DBs and you end up with a monster system that requires a LOT of arguments to move from.
Believe me, it's as difficult for Oracle to move IBM DB2 customers to their offering, and for the same reasons.
It's also one reason why there's been a lot of DB/apps acquisitions lately. Oracle's way to gradually move customers to it's offering is to buy competing products, integrate their functionality, cut on overlap. JP-Morgan was on oracle's radar for a while and ultimately, it's PeopleSoft who acquired them. Shortly after, Oracle ate PeopleSoft.
Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, though not in any DB department (but rather native Mac applications).
One issue with comparing Oracle with Open Source solutions is the lack of feature parity. And By that, I'm not saying OSS isn't good. PostGres and MySQL are pretty good but they currently lack load-balancing and data replication across multiple data centers. Oracle also has PL/SQLwhich is currently (AFAIK) has no (or short) equivalents in OSS DBs. (PostGRE hasPL/pgSQL but apparently is not feature parity.
When a big corporation already relied on these features, it's hard for them to justify making a move to another DB system. Even another that might have similar features.
Point granted but I was merely quoting the timeframe given by original post. I think we all understood he probably meant ~5.5 years ago (more like 5 actually).
6.5 years ago, the entire world was telling the US there was no cause of warring on Iraq. There was no plausible link w/ 9/11, no WMDs to be found, no threat whatsoever.
When US did invade and then finally conceded there were no WMDs, the entire world went "told you so" while the US poked their ear drums going "Lalalalalala".
The obvious answer today was as obvious for the rest of the world back then.
But every time an outsider brings it up, it's "you're not with us you're against us" kinda crap. The US citizens were BS-ed out of reason into accepting this early on and now comes the time for the Bush family and their friends to account for what they did.
It's going to be a tough time for Gates to fix the situation. Let's hope his Iran/Contra dealings gave him enough experience...
Just because he called your bitorrent addcition a rathole doesnt mean he's wrong. I'm sure he's so sorry he hurt your feelings.
I wish I coud say I'm the norm but I know I'm not.
Yet, from some people, getting bootlegged movies/TV shows is the only possible way to get to see them. And sometimes, that leads to additional revenues.
Take BSG for example. The miniseries aired on US channels wich I could get on Canada. I absolutely loved it, but season a and 2 only aired on Sci-Fi Network, wich I dont get, even on cable. So, I resorted to the net and torrent sites to watch episodes. I'm 100% guilty. but seeing someone's RIP of a TV show with the station watermark at the bottom still makes the experience somewhat crappy.
Then I bought the mini series DVD and was amazed at the actual visual quality wich didn't transpire on the network's airing of the mini series.
Then season 1 came out on DVD and eventually season 2 wich I got on DVD, in full widescreen glory. not high-res but still better than the RIPs I had originally seen.
So, movie distribution from the net might be a "rat hole" for many people, but either way, that's money BSG people would have never gotten from me. Plus I actually did get the DVDs (season 2.5 is on it's way from an online retailer... damn BSG folks for their confusing season naming scheme and having me buying the same mini series episodes twice! But that's another subject...)
But the idea of giving in is because, in the end, your lawyers may actually cost more than what the plaintiffs asks and the negative publicity this usually generates eventually gets to the ears of the high shareholders and they dont like it.
Just like the "exploding Dell laptop" thing. And more recently, the same "Bad Apples" news that keep cropping up.
It's really Sony's fault. You and I both know that. But Joe Schmoe reading Wall Street Journal might not.
I was in Temple Sur Lot, somewhere between Bordeau and Toulouse, just 3 weeks ago and I had a couple of occasions during the day where I didn't have a signal at all. And when I did, it seemed like 3 networks were fighting over my roaming line.
Excuse me for calling BS on all of this but the very same morning (saturday) that CNN was still boasting 5 hour wait lines (extending all the way out through the door of SFO airport building) and talking about 250 additional police officers/national guards (still at SFO), on my way back from WWDC I have waited exactly 20 minutes to get through the ticket counter and 20 minutes to go through the first security gate (complete with air sniffer).
Pretty fast for an average day.
Throughout this, I saw exactly ONE police officer.
And there wasn't a hint of a second security gate, less even checks before boarding the plane, for any of the banned liquid/gels.
Albeit with crappy mem capacity for storing music (128m in mine).
Going to WWDC next week, I hope to find the Stik N Store mem expansion for MicroSD/T-Flash devices (such as the ROKR). MicroSD memory is downright impossible to find in Canada. Even the web (and eBay), it's impossible to find anything decent.
Back on the phone topic, the ROKR might not be an Apple product, but despite it's less-than--warm welcome, it's a rather decent phone. it synchronises well with a Mac too.
Yeah. Half the comments and stories on/. about Macs or Mac users are trolls anyhow.
Most Mac users are immune to that. Mac N00bs voice their discontent. But they tend to be happy at the next PC virus wave anyhow.
I still here because the other half of stories and comments are worth a read. And it helps me understand what makes a Linux Joe a Linux Joe and keep current on THEIR fight against MS. Like we have our own, but we like to see what's going on on other fronts.
A lot of big company IT departments make major OS/hardware/infrastructure updates/changes during that period to minimize downtime. They benefit from most employees being on vacation/leave during the same period.
Also, lots of machines with pre-installed OSes are sold during that period, as gifts. Same goes for box upgrades.
Watch carefully. There's a trend, too, in HOW Apple products are used in comparaison to other manufacturers.
When Apple products are used, it's typically by "the good guys". The baddies in the same movie would be using some cheapo white box manufacturer running Windows.
I always find that hilarious.
This link is amusing for checking out all product placements in movies.
On this site alone, 309 (three hundred and nine) Linux distributions are listed and I'm sure it's missing some.
Filter down to the Desktop category and it still lists 144 distros. Filter down to x86 Desktop and you still get 136 distros.
So, who's making it difficult?
I would have rather they simplify things like Apple does (Desktop & Server) but hey. With the size of market they deal with, 6 distros isn't half baked.
Disclaimer: I still hate MS' under-grade products. I still like Linux for the sheer fact that they try to open the eyes of the blind majority. I still only use Macs because in my view, it's still the best HW/SW combo, IMHO, for someone who doesn't want to tinker on his box (but rather tinker on their work).
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Jobs made a net profit of 3.5b USD on the sale of Pixar.
He didn't own the entirety of pixar after he had sold a bunch of shares in order to keep it afloat. Jobs invested lots of (his own) money in Pixar before it started to make a profit (with Toy Story). before that, it was spiralling down quite fast, just like NeXT was.
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The zoom button is actually controlled by the application and not the Window Manager. This is why you have different behavior depending on the application your running.
This was particularly true for true-Carbon applications. MetroWerks' PowerPlant Carbon framework, used by many applications (still today) kinda standardize the actual behavior and Cocoa under OS X also makes this somewhat more predictable.
But applications can still control the size they can zoom to.
This is why you wont find a system-wide switch to control this behavior.
Apple couldn't begin even approaching the level of functionality of Office. The current iWork package is a rip-off.
Pages is a home layout package. It will never stack up to big canons Adobe Creative Suite or QuarkXPress. It's not a professional tool.
Keynote is actually good, but presentations alone aren't enough to hold a business together.
If anything, Apple would need to pick up the work on NeoOffice, the "less bad" OpenOffice derivative as far as UI is concerned, and do a lot of work on it to bring it on par with Office. That is, if it actually cared to make NeoOffice look and behave like Office Mac.
Now, that is not impossible.
But iWork being a competitor to Office, is.
I'm simply saying that there's no 1 to 1, conversion-free or syntax-change-free way for a big company to move from one DB system to another. Then pile up all the business applications on top of these DBs and you end up with a monster system that requires a LOT of arguments to move from.
Believe me, it's as difficult for Oracle to move IBM DB2 customers to their offering, and for the same reasons.
It's also one reason why there's been a lot of DB/apps acquisitions lately. Oracle's way to gradually move customers to it's offering is to buy competing products, integrate their functionality, cut on overlap. JP-Morgan was on oracle's radar for a while and ultimately, it's PeopleSoft who acquired them. Shortly after, Oracle ate PeopleSoft.
Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, though not in any DB department (but rather native Mac applications).
One issue with comparing Oracle with Open Source solutions is the lack of feature parity. And By that, I'm not saying OSS isn't good. PostGres and MySQL are pretty good but they currently lack load-balancing and data replication across multiple data centers. Oracle also has PL/SQLwhich is currently (AFAIK) has no (or short) equivalents in OSS DBs. (PostGRE hasPL/pgSQL but apparently is not feature parity.
When a big corporation already relied on these features, it's hard for them to justify making a move to another DB system. Even another that might have similar features.
I'm sure it would have been cheaper to buy it here rather than go to Japan for it.
Point granted but I was merely quoting the timeframe given by original post. I think we all understood he probably meant ~5.5 years ago (more like 5 actually).
6.5 years ago, the entire world was telling the US there was no cause of warring on Iraq. There was no plausible link w/ 9/11, no WMDs to be found, no threat whatsoever.
When US did invade and then finally conceded there were no WMDs, the entire world went "told you so" while the US poked their ear drums going "Lalalalalala".
The obvious answer today was as obvious for the rest of the world back then.
But every time an outsider brings it up, it's "you're not with us you're against us" kinda crap. The US citizens were BS-ed out of reason into accepting this early on and now comes the time for the Bush family and their friends to account for what they did.
It's going to be a tough time for Gates to fix the situation. Let's hope his Iran/Contra dealings gave him enough experience...
Enough said.
Just because he called your bitorrent addcition a rathole doesnt mean he's wrong. I'm sure he's so sorry he hurt your feelings.
I wish I coud say I'm the norm but I know I'm not.
Yet, from some people, getting bootlegged movies/TV shows is the only possible way to get to see them. And sometimes, that leads to additional revenues.
Take BSG for example. The miniseries aired on US channels wich I could get on Canada. I absolutely loved it, but season a and 2 only aired on Sci-Fi Network, wich I dont get, even on cable. So, I resorted to the net and torrent sites to watch episodes. I'm 100% guilty. but seeing someone's RIP of a TV show with the station watermark at the bottom still makes the experience somewhat crappy.
Then I bought the mini series DVD and was amazed at the actual visual quality wich didn't transpire on the network's airing of the mini series.
Then season 1 came out on DVD and eventually season 2 wich I got on DVD, in full widescreen glory. not high-res but still better than the RIPs I had originally seen.
So, movie distribution from the net might be a "rat hole" for many people, but either way, that's money BSG people would have never gotten from me. Plus I actually did get the DVDs (season 2.5 is on it's way from an online retailer... damn BSG folks for their confusing season naming scheme and having me buying the same mini series episodes twice! But that's another subject...)
He just financed the movie. It's not like he played a role in any part of it.
Though I suspect the duck costume is one of the rejected Ewoks' appearance costume.
So be glad he chose the Trebbles looks rather than the quacky character.
Why are commercial ports of OSS software so expensive [...] ?
well, it's takes a lot of beer to get customers to buy free stuff.
That's the stupid reality of software patent.
But the idea of giving in is because, in the end, your lawyers may actually cost more than what the plaintiffs asks and the negative publicity this usually generates eventually gets to the ears of the high shareholders and they dont like it.
Just like the "exploding Dell laptop" thing. And more recently, the same "Bad Apples" news that keep cropping up.
It's really Sony's fault. You and I both know that. But Joe Schmoe reading Wall Street Journal might not.
I was in Temple Sur Lot, somewhere between Bordeau and Toulouse, just 3 weeks ago and I had a couple of occasions during the day where I didn't have a signal at all. And when I did, it seemed like 3 networks were fighting over my roaming line.
Excuse me for calling BS on all of this but the very same morning (saturday) that CNN was still boasting 5 hour wait lines (extending all the way out through the door of SFO airport building) and talking about 250 additional police officers/national guards (still at SFO), on my way back from WWDC I have waited exactly 20 minutes to get through the ticket counter and 20 minutes to go through the first security gate (complete with air sniffer).
Pretty fast for an average day.
Throughout this, I saw exactly ONE police officer.
And there wasn't a hint of a second security gate, less even checks before boarding the plane, for any of the banned liquid/gels.
That's pretty much what my ROKR E1 does.
Albeit with crappy mem capacity for storing music (128m in mine).
Going to WWDC next week, I hope to find the Stik N Store mem expansion for MicroSD/T-Flash devices (such as the ROKR). MicroSD memory is downright impossible to find in Canada. Even the web (and eBay), it's impossible to find anything decent.
Back on the phone topic, the ROKR might not be an Apple product, but despite it's less-than--warm welcome, it's a rather decent phone. it synchronises well with a Mac too.
I was reading that article before I found it linked from /.
I tried so hard finding an email address to tell these half-informed n00bs about their grossly under-documented errors.
Any online article that dont have reply adresses or feedback section screams incompetence.
Yeah. Half the comments and stories on /. about Macs or Mac users are trolls anyhow.
Most Mac users are immune to that. Mac N00bs voice their discontent. But they tend to be happy at the next PC virus wave anyhow.
I still here because the other half of stories and comments are worth a read. And it helps me understand what makes a Linux Joe a Linux Joe and keep current on THEIR fight against MS. Like we have our own, but we like to see what's going on on other fronts.
A lot of big company IT departments make major OS/hardware/infrastructure updates/changes during that period to minimize downtime. They benefit from most employees being on vacation/leave during the same period.
Also, lots of machines with pre-installed OSes are sold during that period, as gifts. Same goes for box upgrades.
My 2003 636 Ninja can do 115km/h (roughly 63mph) in first gear alone so technically on dont ever have to change gear.
The clown shoes are still an option for me.
But the red nose in the full face helmet might be a problem.
Watch carefully. There's a trend, too, in HOW Apple products are used in comparaison to other manufacturers.
When Apple products are used, it's typically by "the good guys". The baddies in the same movie would be using some cheapo white box manufacturer running Windows.
I always find that hilarious.
This link is amusing for checking out all product placements in movies.
They're gonna sell a ton.
Oh shush up already.
Windoze being available in 6 flavors is nothing.
On this site alone, 309 (three hundred and nine) Linux distributions are listed and I'm sure it's missing some.
Filter down to the Desktop category and it still lists 144 distros. Filter down to x86 Desktop and you still get 136 distros.
So, who's making it difficult?
I would have rather they simplify things like Apple does (Desktop & Server) but hey. With the size of market they deal with, 6 distros isn't half baked.
Disclaimer:
I still hate MS' under-grade products.
I still like Linux for the sheer fact that they try to open the eyes of the blind majority.
I still only use Macs because in my view, it's still the best HW/SW combo, IMHO, for someone who doesn't want to tinker on his box (but rather tinker on their work).
Yeah, you just made two!
Jobs made a net profit of 3.5b USD on the sale of Pixar.
He didn't own the entirety of pixar after he had sold a bunch of shares in order to keep it afloat. Jobs invested lots of (his own) money in Pixar before it started to make a profit (with Toy Story). before that, it was spiralling down quite fast, just like NeXT was.
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