I think the problem was that Adobe didn't move to the Cocoa framework which has these APIs but instead stayed on the Carbon framework which doesn't.
This is why Steve Jobs called Adobe "lazy" as Cocoa and Carbon were first released back in 2001. Adobe before CS5 of this year didn't migrate their flagship products to Cocoa. That's nine years...
Adobe is only slightly lazier than Apple themselves then, as Finder and quite a few other parts of OS X were still Carbon until Snow Leopard. That's eight years and they're the ones who developed the frameworks.
RMS is talking about the system as a whole. The Apple example you gave would be like saying we need to call it GNU/RedHat or GNU/SuSE. He's saying he wants it called GNU/Linux, that is Linux kernel + GNU software that makes up the base system. So maybe RedHat GNU/Linux...well maybe not because it also includes some non-free software. Debian GNU/Linux is a good example of (I think) how RMS would like it. Debian's base system is completely free.
The Linux kernel by itself is rightfully called Linux.
In his opinion, allowing non-Free code into a (now suspect) Free kernel puts in serious jeopardy the freedoms that he holds dear.
Which I believe is the primary motivation behind the GNU/Hurd kernel. KDE wasn't free enough (back then) so GNOME had to be developed. Linux isn't free enough so apparently we need the Hurd.
He even makes a comment about how Linus prefers things to be technically better than be absolutely free. Well apparently he does, because Linux works, while Hurd, well...
AFAIK Verizon Wireless and Verizon are somewhat seperate entities. Yah, they are very closely tied together but I doubt there's a big boss who's like, "ok take money from cellular and so this guy can have DSL."
You'd think they would be able to do this from their home office - except for the part about testing each of their competitors signal at the same point. Do they really need to do that though? What they should be doing is comparing signal strengh to usage, and concentrate on making the high usage areas have a good signal, regardless of their competitors.
I'm not really understanding what you mean by that "be able to do this from their home office." The point is to make sure people on their network, using a phone from where people use the phones from: on the ground. How would they be able to make sure the signal strength is good enough from their office.
Maybe you are referring to when the network is overloaded, the article mentioned that, but even if they could tell that from their office, I'm pretty sure the point of their testing is primarily to make sure that their signal is good enough for people to make phone calls with acceptable quality (no cutting out for a few secs) and that the calls don't get dropped for no good reason.
I'm pretty sure they are working to make sure that high usage areas have good coverage, hence all the rush hour traffic the guy says he gets stuck in. I've never seen one of those cars drive up my side street here.
I doubt many people catch that many diseases from toilets. I know it's common for people to become paranoid about using a public toilet for health reasons, but it's absurd.
The problem I have with public toilets isn't that there are all these invisible bacteria necessarily. But damn, does NO ONE (here in NJ, at least) know how to flush a toilet?? I cannot believe these people. You go into a public restroom and most of the toilets are still filled with other peoples "waste product." Like, damn, you pooped in the toilet, now flush it you moron.
Personally I'm more afraid of getting STDs from a toilet than picking up some (somewhat) common bateria from it. Not that I'm crazily afraid of diseases, but that's a decent medium to transmit it by, and, referring to my previous comment, I just don't feel reassured.
Getting back to the topic, though, some people have really nasty keyboards. You know the ones. When IT upgrades their computers and someone else gets their old system, it's the latter person who gets the new keyboard and mouse.
I second what everyone else is saying, that no other distro follows in number with the kernel version, and that the maintainers of the distro decide if the change is major/minor, etc.
However/also...
From About Debian: "Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd."
The Debian GNU/Linux which is what most people refer to when they speak of Debian, but the Linux part, the kernel, is theoretically seperable from the rest of the GNU system.
For example, work is in progress for Debian GNU/Hurd which uses the GNU Hurd microkernel. There was also some discussion a while ago about Debian GNU/Win32, which if I remember correctly ran under/through cygwin. If you look around, there are also projects to run Debian on BSD.
So while these projects aren't as mature as Debian GNU/Linux, the idea is eventually you can have an almost identical Debian system running on various systems/kernels. Therefore, they couldn't tie the release to the Linux kernel version.
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I remember hearing of this technology/idea about ten years ago on a technology show called "Beyond 2000" (anyone else remember that show?)
The suggested uses for the noise cancelling device was actually to place the device on the actual noise-making machine, not to create a device that "cleans" the area of noise, like the device mentioned in the article or like the noise cancelling headphones.
The idea was to create things like noiseless lawn mowers and noiseless vacuum cleaners. I always wondered why I never saw these devices.
This unit seems useful in that it can block out certain types of noise, but considering these people expect to charge over $1400 US for this, I can see why there never was a noiseless lawn mower...
I'm not exactly sure if the original post is correct that all of the code is back in the Wine tree (I could be wrong), but all of codeweavers changes are promised to make it back to wine at some point. (I'm thinking along the lines of SuSE having delayed ISO dl's and how alladin releases the open source ghostscript after their commercial version is out for a while)
And while all the wine code might get back into the wine tree, I would imagine that codeweavers wouldn't be submitting their install and configuration tools into the wine tree. With buying the plug-in you get some support, a better install system, and a company name behind it, which I know is important to the (business) "suits" who would need to be swayed to using oss applications over ms apps.
Anyone know if Anti-aliasing is supported with the cross-over plugin?
According to CodeWeavers plug-in change log, they added truetype anti-aliasing support in 1.1.0. I've tried the demo version so far and the fonts are not anti-aliased in my system, though maybe the demo has that disabled (doubtful) or you need to do some tweaking to enable it (probably). (And yes, my X server does support Xrender.)
Another tiny example: wallpaper. Try to display a JPG image in Windows and you need Active Desktop enabled. Huh?
Didn't you hear? Internet Explorer is an integral part of Windows! And since Active Desktop is basically Internet Explorer components, you can't remove it (uncheck the box) without losing functionality (decompressing jpegs to whatever native format it uses.)
I never understood that myself. I always resaved a jpeg I wanted for my desktop as a full (screen) size bmp just to avoid my whole desktop from freezing along with the taskbar when I hit a bad website. Luckily my new(ish) job is open-source support, so I don't need to use windows anymore.
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I think the problem was that Adobe didn't move to the Cocoa framework which has these APIs but instead stayed on the Carbon framework which doesn't.
This is why Steve Jobs called Adobe "lazy" as Cocoa and Carbon were first released back in 2001. Adobe before CS5 of this year didn't migrate their flagship products to Cocoa. That's nine years...
Adobe is only slightly lazier than Apple themselves then, as Finder and quite a few other parts of OS X were still Carbon until Snow Leopard. That's eight years and they're the ones who developed the frameworks.
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RMS is talking about the system as a whole. The Apple example you gave would be like saying we need to call it GNU/RedHat or GNU/SuSE. He's saying he wants it called GNU/Linux, that is Linux kernel + GNU software that makes up the base system. So maybe RedHat GNU/Linux...well maybe not because it also includes some non-free software. Debian GNU/Linux is a good example of (I think) how RMS would like it. Debian's base system is completely free.
The Linux kernel by itself is rightfully called Linux.
In his opinion, allowing non-Free code into a (now suspect) Free kernel puts in serious jeopardy the freedoms that he holds dear.
Which I believe is the primary motivation behind the GNU/Hurd kernel. KDE wasn't free enough (back then) so GNOME had to be developed. Linux isn't free enough so apparently we need the Hurd.
He even makes a comment about how Linus prefers things to be technically better than be absolutely free. Well apparently he does, because Linux works, while Hurd, well...
AFAIK Verizon Wireless and Verizon are somewhat seperate entities. Yah, they are very closely tied together but I doubt there's a big boss who's like, "ok take money from cellular and so this guy can have DSL."
;-)
BTW, they don't offer me DSL yet either.
You'd think they would be able to do this from their home office - except for the part about testing each of their competitors signal at the same point. Do they really need to do that though? What they should be doing is comparing signal strengh to usage, and concentrate on making the high usage areas have a good signal, regardless of their competitors.
I'm not really understanding what you mean by that "be able to do this from their home office." The point is to make sure people on their network, using a phone from where people use the phones from: on the ground. How would they be able to make sure the signal strength is good enough from their office.
Maybe you are referring to when the network is overloaded, the article mentioned that, but even if they could tell that from their office, I'm pretty sure the point of their testing is primarily to make sure that their signal is good enough for people to make phone calls with acceptable quality (no cutting out for a few secs) and that the calls don't get dropped for no good reason.
I'm pretty sure they are working to make sure that high usage areas have good coverage, hence all the rush hour traffic the guy says he gets stuck in. I've never seen one of those cars drive up my side street here.
But the real question is...
...do they have blue LEDs?
I doubt many people catch that many diseases from toilets. I know it's common for people to become paranoid about using a public toilet for health reasons, but it's absurd.
The problem I have with public toilets isn't that there are all these invisible bacteria necessarily. But damn, does NO ONE (here in NJ, at least) know how to flush a toilet?? I cannot believe these people. You go into a public restroom and most of the toilets are still filled with other peoples "waste product." Like, damn, you pooped in the toilet, now flush it you moron.
Personally I'm more afraid of getting STDs from a toilet than picking up some (somewhat) common bateria from it. Not that I'm crazily afraid of diseases, but that's a decent medium to transmit it by, and, referring to my previous comment, I just don't feel reassured.
Getting back to the topic, though, some people have really nasty keyboards. You know the ones. When IT upgrades their computers and someone else gets their old system, it's the latter person who gets the new keyboard and mouse.
I second what everyone else is saying, that no other distro follows in number with the kernel version, and that the maintainers of the distro decide if the change is major/minor, etc.
However/also...
From About Debian:
"Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. However, work is in progress to provide Debian for other kernels, primarily for the Hurd."
The Debian GNU/Linux which is what most people refer to when they speak of Debian, but the Linux part, the kernel, is theoretically seperable from the rest of the GNU system.
For example, work is in progress for Debian GNU/Hurd which uses the GNU Hurd microkernel. There was also some discussion a while ago about Debian GNU/Win32, which if I remember correctly ran under/through cygwin. If you look around, there are also projects to run Debian on BSD.
So while these projects aren't as mature as Debian GNU/Linux, the idea is eventually you can have an almost identical Debian system running on various systems/kernels. Therefore, they couldn't tie the release to the Linux kernel version.
I remember hearing of this technology/idea about ten years ago on a technology show called "Beyond 2000" (anyone else remember that show?)
The suggested uses for the noise cancelling device was actually to place the device on the actual noise-making machine, not to create a device that "cleans" the area of noise, like the device mentioned in the article or like the noise cancelling headphones.
The idea was to create things like noiseless lawn mowers and noiseless vacuum cleaners. I always wondered why I never saw these devices.
This unit seems useful in that it can block out certain types of noise, but considering these people expect to charge over $1400 US for this, I can see why there never was a noiseless lawn mower...
So what's the point of buying the plugin?
I'm not exactly sure if the original post is correct that all of the code is back in the Wine tree (I could be wrong), but all of codeweavers changes are promised to make it back to wine at some point. (I'm thinking along the lines of SuSE having delayed ISO dl's and how alladin releases the open source ghostscript after their commercial version is out for a while)
And while all the wine code might get back into the wine tree, I would imagine that codeweavers wouldn't be submitting their install and configuration tools into the wine tree. With buying the plug-in you get some support, a better install system, and a company name behind it, which I know is important to the (business) "suits" who would need to be swayed to using oss applications over ms apps.
Anyone know if Anti-aliasing is supported with the cross-over plugin?
According to CodeWeavers plug-in change log, they added truetype anti-aliasing support in 1.1.0. I've tried the demo version so far and the fonts are not anti-aliased in my system, though maybe the demo has that disabled (doubtful) or you need to do some tweaking to enable it (probably).
(And yes, my X server does support Xrender.)
Another tiny example: wallpaper. Try to display a JPG image in Windows and you need Active Desktop enabled. Huh?
Didn't you hear? Internet Explorer is an integral part of Windows! And since Active Desktop is basically Internet Explorer components, you can't remove it (uncheck the box) without losing functionality (decompressing jpegs to whatever native format it uses.)
I never understood that myself. I always resaved a jpeg I wanted for my desktop as a full (screen) size bmp just to avoid my whole desktop from freezing along with the taskbar when I hit a bad website. Luckily my new(ish) job is open-source support, so I don't need to use windows anymore.
Hmmm..... Somehow I think that might have been the reason they named the company Sharp.
I doubt there was a Mr. Sharp, though I could be wrong.
The comment was sarcastic.