Colloquy, Transmission, Delicious Library, Transmit, Coda, NetNewsWire, Unison, and on and on. If you had trouble using iLife, I don't know what to say, since those are probably the easiest apps on the system.
Even as a developer, you can see the different when looking at the APIs. There are still 16-bit leftovers in Win32.
I'd love to gleam a point from your post, but I was too distracted by your strange insertion of a slash into every "OS X" and could not overcome my anal retentiveness. I'm sorry.
Did you know you don't have to press the enter key after every line? I suggest not hyperventilating with nerd rage so you are aware of when you're doing this and can stop yourself.
Actually, there is some correlation between creativity and homosexuality; you'll find a larger percentage of gays in art school than studying any other discipline.
Linux can't even play Flash video smoothly or adopt a standard sound API that works. I don't get how you think that's okay but consider free Mac apps "an awful lot of bullshit and hassle."
Mozilla doesn't need to bundle H.264 support. Use a plugin. It's as if everybody has forgotten that Flash FLV files already support H.264, which means that Firefox already plays H.264 videos. A mini-campaign to fight a common codec will go nowhere, especially when the proposed alternative (Theora) is inferior.
Except that the Flash player already supports H.264 videos, and Firefox happily plays those. As with Flash, this will be solved by a plugin, and in a few years, nobody will even remember this exaggerated controversy.
First off, H.264 is a superior codec to Theora, so what you're wanting is for technology to regress just to match some ideal.
Second, Flash videos already play H.264, and Firefox doesn't seem to have a problem with that, so I don't understand why they wouldn't just use a plug-in as usual.
H.264 is as much of a closed standard as MP3 is, and MP3 is everywhere. Operating systems include H.264 playback by default, just as they do with MP3.
The video tag isn't any more of a "lock-in" than the img tag, which also doesn't specify a format. Besides that, at some point, you just need to accept that Theora is a technically inferior codec anyway.
Liberals are maniacally pro-government and want a hugely powerful entity capable of forcing everyone to live the way they want them to live because they believe they are enlightened intellectuals. This means disintegrating personal ownership and income and giving it to the state through redistribution, government regulation of opinion (e.g., flag@whitehouse.gov, the "Fairness Doctrine," "Net Neutrality"), the state takeover of private industries so that governments can control them, and so on.
In the battle between the left and the right, the left is more dangerous because they dutifully empower the legislative entities that make the laws and thus are above them. It's a lot harder to change governments than it is to punish a private business for wrongdoing. Liberalism fears privatization and free opinions because it doesn't have total control over them, and it needs that government control to make everyone live the "right way."
I think you're being pretty optimistic if you think Slashdot is getting any new generations of readers. In reality, new generations use Digg and Reddit.
There isn't incentive to play again, because there aren't any real choices. The dialogue trees almost always lead to the same results, leading to the criticism that it's a LARPing game--a live-action roleplaying game, where you have to play pretend in real life that it has an effect on anything. It's another heavily scripted game on rails.
RPGs are supposed to have "choices and consequences." Look at Fallout 1 and its multiple ways of solving a situation, from combat to dialogue. The dialogue isn't just there to be an interactive cinematic like in Dragon Age.
Dragon Age is another live-action roleplaying game where you have no choices, and the options you're given are all in dialogue trees that all lead to the same results to give an illusion of freedom. Why people keep buying these heavily scripted rollercoaster games, from Dragon Age to the hugely overrated BioShock, is beyond me.
If it was easy, don't you think it would have been done already? Even Blizzard can't handle the load of an entire server in one area and had to create a random queue to let people into Wintergrasp.
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Colloquy, Transmission, Delicious Library, Transmit, Coda, NetNewsWire, Unison, and on and on. If you had trouble using iLife, I don't know what to say, since those are probably the easiest apps on the system.
Even as a developer, you can see the different when looking at the APIs. There are still 16-bit leftovers in Win32.
He's obviously speaking from the consumer perspective, where OS X and the iPhone are more useful than random Ubuntu version-of-the-week.
I'd love to gleam a point from your post, but I was too distracted by your strange insertion of a slash into every "OS X" and could not overcome my anal retentiveness. I'm sorry.
Did you know you don't have to press the enter key after every line? I suggest not hyperventilating with nerd rage so you are aware of when you're doing this and can stop yourself.
This free bit of advice provided by bonch.
Prove it.
Linux can't even play Flash video smoothly or adopt a standard sound API that works. I don't get how you think that's okay but consider free Mac apps "an awful lot of bullshit and hassle."
They bought Macs.
Mozilla doesn't need to bundle H.264 support. Use a plugin. It's as if everybody has forgotten that Flash FLV files already support H.264, which means that Firefox already plays H.264 videos. A mini-campaign to fight a common codec will go nowhere, especially when the proposed alternative (Theora) is inferior.
Except that the Flash player already supports H.264 videos, and Firefox happily plays those. As with Flash, this will be solved by a plugin, and in a few years, nobody will even remember this exaggerated controversy.
First off, H.264 is a superior codec to Theora, so what you're wanting is for technology to regress just to match some ideal.
Second, Flash videos already play H.264, and Firefox doesn't seem to have a problem with that, so I don't understand why they wouldn't just use a plug-in as usual.
Why would you do that when the OS already has H.264 playback that Firefox could rely on?
YouTube chose H.264...the format war is over.
Please cite an example where someone was successfully taken to court for having a GIF on their website, because this comes off as FUD.
H.264 is as much of a closed standard as MP3 is, and MP3 is everywhere. Operating systems include H.264 playback by default, just as they do with MP3.
The video tag isn't any more of a "lock-in" than the img tag, which also doesn't specify a format. Besides that, at some point, you just need to accept that Theora is a technically inferior codec anyway.
Unused memory is wasted memory.
Liberals are maniacally pro-government and want a hugely powerful entity capable of forcing everyone to live the way they want them to live because they believe they are enlightened intellectuals. This means disintegrating personal ownership and income and giving it to the state through redistribution, government regulation of opinion (e.g., flag@whitehouse.gov, the "Fairness Doctrine," "Net Neutrality"), the state takeover of private industries so that governments can control them, and so on.
In the battle between the left and the right, the left is more dangerous because they dutifully empower the legislative entities that make the laws and thus are above them. It's a lot harder to change governments than it is to punish a private business for wrongdoing. Liberalism fears privatization and free opinions because it doesn't have total control over them, and it needs that government control to make everyone live the "right way."
I think you're being pretty optimistic if you think Slashdot is getting any new generations of readers. In reality, new generations use Digg and Reddit.
I did look closely at the game. I own it.
There isn't incentive to play again, because there aren't any real choices. The dialogue trees almost always lead to the same results, leading to the criticism that it's a LARPing game--a live-action roleplaying game, where you have to play pretend in real life that it has an effect on anything. It's another heavily scripted game on rails.
RPGs are supposed to have "choices and consequences." Look at Fallout 1 and its multiple ways of solving a situation, from combat to dialogue. The dialogue isn't just there to be an interactive cinematic like in Dragon Age.
As long as Linux continues to suck ass as a desktop operating system, the answer will be never.
Dragon Age is another live-action roleplaying game where you have no choices, and the options you're given are all in dialogue trees that all lead to the same results to give an illusion of freedom. Why people keep buying these heavily scripted rollercoaster games, from Dragon Age to the hugely overrated BioShock, is beyond me.
Now look up my username on that site. I hate having to explain jokes.
And what about the Democrats who voted for war right along with him?
There's a name for that, but I don't remember what it is.
If it was easy, don't you think it would have been done already? Even Blizzard can't handle the load of an entire server in one area and had to create a random queue to let people into Wintergrasp.
The answer to "so what" is described in the article. Might try reading it sometime.
What the hell are you talking about? Lanier doesn't work for Microsoft.