Not knowing that you are breaking the law doesn't protect you from prosecution. Otherwise all Dutch people in the US could smoke weed without punishment, saying "I didn't know it was illegal, it's perfectly legal where I come from".
As far as I remember they posted actual photos of an actual product (I think it was the Mac Mini) before it was even announced by Apple.
Information of products in developement or future product of companies prior to their announcement pretty much fall into the category trade secrets.
I dare you to post some photos of the next Mercedes prototype for their Perpetuum Mobile model which will come out late 2007... oops, just caught myself being a little talkative, sorry.
Because the GIMP runs under X and not Aqua? While this is sort of nativeish, X is definitely not the native windowing environment. However there is a completely native Windows version of the GIMP. I don't think this would be good way to compare performance.
I for my part feel that in X the windowing environment feels more sluggish than in Aqua.
As long as you say "I want this or that" even if your desires might benefit others it's all about you and what you want. It's not about sharing, it's about you WANTING to share. Selfish. Talk about what others want and how you can help them to achieve that. Then you're (maybe) not selfish.
Hmm, I have the impression that many, many sentences that start with "I want..." end up being selfish gibberish in the end. There are exceptions, though.
Why brings up an interesting thought: why doesn't Apple offer to pay for a *proprietary license* to use the source code?
I'm pretty sure, they also tried that. That's what they did with CUPS. They've got a proprietary license for it, so they can do whatever they want with it, but don't need to publish the source code.
But for whatever reasons it looks like the parent is correct. The NTFS guys just seem not to like companies and other capitalist pigs;-)
I'm sorry but RedHat and all other companies using GPLed software are doing JUST THAT. It's not that they pay anyone except their employees for the work done in the GPLed code they're using.
Yes they give the changes back, but they still make money FROM YOUR WORK WITHOUT PAYING YOU.
Because they'd have to GPL the whole fucking thing. And if they wanted to to that they wouldn't have created their own licence for darwin in the first place. got it?
Well that's why G0d in his wisdom (at least for once) enabled REAL musicians with REAL instruments to make live concerts, so they get more money in and somehow can make a living. It's not like CDs etc. are your only source of income.
It just doesn't look so cool if you're a dancefloor bunny with no voice singing to your drum computer and a keyboard. That's why Tittney and the whole bunch need so many dancing bimbos so that you overlook the fact that they can neither sing nor dance, and all the musics made by the nintendo orchestra.
Weeell, SafariBlock on the other hand will give you a context menu, where you can add block settings on the fly, and it also blocks Flash. Time to switch, eh? It also supports more modern features of CSS3 than Camino, I believe, like drop shadows on text etc.
They don't care about Cocoa vs Carbon, but in a more an more multilingual world they care about whether their non ASCII language is displayed properly or not.
Camino for its part, renders Japanese rather ugly with faked bold, and if you ever dare to change the default setting for the fonts for Japanese, it starts rendering every other character in a different font, some of them being Chinese fonts, so the characters look all wrong. This is not even a bug, this is plain broken. It is such a shame, because I really think it is a nicely done browser with a simple and well-done interface.
The major shortcoming for which I filed bug reports years ago is the still completely fucked up font rendering for Japanese. It still uses fake bold instead of using the bold fonts, and whenever you change the default display settings for the Japanese fonts it starts to trip over its own feet, rendering almost every single character in a different font, using for some Characters even Chinese fonts.
Nobody seems to bother to fix this, well can you say BROKEN? Unfortunately this makes Camino unusable for me (Firefox does a better job, but still uses fake bold...). So for most of my browsing it's Safari (or maybe in the future back to OmniWeb with an updated WebKit...)
you must wait for that page to finish loading before you can switch to another tab
WTF? This is complete bullshit, just for the sake of it I opened three tabs at the same time and I'm happly switching between them without any delay or waiting, even while the content in the tabs is loading. I don't know where you've got your info from, but it is plain wrong.
I mentioned Japan a) because I live there and b) because you just said, outside the US. You didn't specify any other location, so I went with prices in Japan, because I thought they're as good as any (especially because Japan tends to be rather on the expensive side), and because I live there. Now if you would have bothered to tell us you're talking Australian dollars which naturally inflates the numbers we wouldn't have had an argument to begin with, but I digress...
I've proven to you that with all the features you wanted I can get a Mac for US $3300 +/- a few bucks depending on whether you get the lowest prices or not. But nowhere near $5000. Case closed. I'm right, you're wrong.
Japanese has admittedly THE most complex writing system in the world. It makes use of TWO syllable "alphabets", Hiragana and Katakana (if you can call them "alphabets" at all) and at least 1945 officiall Kanji (characters from the Chinese writing system, but partly simplified) plus some more in daily use. A good font comes with about 10000 characters plus it also throws arabic numbers and the latin alphabet into the mix.
Now there is no way to input that using just a keyboard layout, so it is not a matter of switching keyboard layouts for Japanese. You need a thing called input method. Which takes either your romanized input and transforms it into hiragana which you then can further transform into Kanji ("on demand" by hitting space), or some professional writers type directly in hiragana (but you still need to transform some of the syllables into kanji). In the OSS world there are two input methods widely used one is kanna and the other is wnn if I recall properly.
Now OS X has its own input method for Japanese (kotoeri) which works fine and does the job favourably, the trouble is X11 does know nothing of kotoeris existence, so if you want to input japanese in X11 in OS X you'll have to install kanna or wnn (in X11, OS X again will not know of kanna or wnn at all either) and the problem is that this is a somewhat esoteric affair, and you definitely don't even want to try to get it running. Even under Linux where you don't have to deal with two layers like in OS X (Cocoa/Aqua and X11) it is a pain and you rather just use a distribution that comes with kanna or wnn preinstalled. To make a long story even longer...
On OS X just don't try to use Japanese in X11 it's not worth the hassle. Also partly because usually OS X is through and through Unicode whereas AFAIK X11 is not (don't stone me if I'm wrong), that's yet another thing you'd have to consider when trying to use Japanese in X11 apps that weren't written to handle it. In OS X Cocoa apps it's no problem. Regardless of the application natural language, Cocoa apps always can deal with Unicode so you don't have to worry whether your app is able to deal with Japanese or not, it will be able to handle Japanese. Always.
Bottom line for me is: before I have to fuck around doing "the geeky thing" in X11 I'd rather wait for Photoshop or get a Cocoa app instead or anything that'll do the job, because if I wanted to geek around instead of getting some work done on my computer I wouldn't have gotten a Mac, I would've started with Linux to begin with;-)
I was just listening to too much Pacific Coast Hellway*. Sorry. But I wasn't aware that all of the three people who can read in Wyoming actually are on slashdot;-))
Sorry to disappoint you, but it doesn't matter when you buy Apple care. All it does is extend your warranty from 1 year to 3 years counting from the day of initial computer purchase, so it doesn't matter when you get AppleCare, the period of coverage is always the same. Just make sure you get it while you still have a warranty.
Yo, Einstein, I happen to be a German living in Tokyo. Is that outside of the US enough for you, genius? Now bear with me, because let's just do the math just for fun.
I just checked out http://www.kakaku.com/ a site which lists the lowest prices of everything and their dog in Japan. The 1.8 GHz MacBook Pro goes for 290850 yen, (no, we don't buy from the Apple Store, duh!). Then we get kick-ass hardrive (no, not from the friggin Apple Store, ok). Any Fujitsu goes below 20000 yen, but just not having you bitch and moan that I was cheating let's make that a flat 20000 yen for the drive. Then I'm goin to buy 2x1GB RAM (PC2 5300) the lowest price is at 14980 yen per 1GB, but just so you can't say we're cheating or whatever I'll take the next higher price listed at 26040. Add it all up and we get a whopping 362930 yen, which accounts for US $ 3069, hmm doesn't at all look like 5000 bucks to me and this price here INCLUDES TAX.
Oh, you say Apple Care.... I think Apple Care is for pussies;-)), but if you insist, we end up somewhere around 3300 bucks or so. It still isn't $ 5000. Hmmm... And don't forget, Tokyo used to be the city with the highest cost of living all over the fucking globe for many years consecutively (they're number two right now). And even in the highly taxed Europe you won't get as expensive as 5000 bucks.
So please stop telling anyone the new MacBook pros fully equipped will cost about $ 5000, because you've got to admit, you just pulled that number out of your ass, knowing it was completely off-base and are now trying to cover up talking about international pricing yaddayadda, thinking I was some provincial idiot from Fuckasuckalucka county somewhere in Wyoming you could impress with such pseudo-polyglotisms..
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Not knowing that you are breaking the law doesn't protect you from prosecution. Otherwise all Dutch people in the US could smoke weed without punishment, saying "I didn't know it was illegal, it's perfectly legal where I come from".
See?
As far as I remember they posted actual photos of an actual product (I think it was the Mac Mini) before it was even announced by Apple.
Information of products in developement or future product of companies prior to their announcement pretty much fall into the category trade secrets.
I dare you to post some photos of the next Mercedes prototype for their Perpetuum Mobile model which will come out late 2007... oops, just caught myself being a little talkative, sorry.
In most cases:
[put your app name here] --> preferences --> [x] automatically check for updates.
Next time I launch the app and there's a new version it'll tell me.
For Apple's apps and the OS:
System Preferences --> Software Update --> [x] check for updates [daily/weekly, monthly]
Fair enough.
This is the best. Here you can even search specifically for Open Source apps, Cocoa apps only etc.
http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps.php
The two should have made another Top-40 hit singing together: The song is mine
I associate Apple with Adam. So I think he and Eve should sue everyone else.
I also believe Adam and Eve have a rock solid case. Why? There is no prior art!
Windows ME? That's called torturing your computer, not executing an application.
Because the GIMP runs under X and not Aqua? While this is sort of nativeish, X is definitely not the native windowing environment. However there is a completely native Windows version of the GIMP. I don't think this would be good way to compare performance.
I for my part feel that in X the windowing environment feels more sluggish than in Aqua.
As long as you say "I want this or that" even if your desires might benefit others it's all about you and what you want. It's not about sharing, it's about you WANTING to share. Selfish. Talk about what others want and how you can help them to achieve that. Then you're (maybe) not selfish.
Bush says it was Osama Bin Laden an we have to Attack Afghanistan^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, Iraq^H^H^H^H, Iran for it. Do we still have bombs left?
Concerning selfishness.
Hmm, I have the impression that many, many sentences that start with "I want..." end up being selfish gibberish in the end. There are exceptions, though.
Why brings up an interesting thought: why doesn't Apple offer to pay for a *proprietary license* to use the source code?
;-)
I'm pretty sure, they also tried that. That's what they did with CUPS. They've got a proprietary license for it, so they can do whatever they want with it, but don't need to publish the source code.
But for whatever reasons it looks like the parent is correct. The NTFS guys just seem not to like companies and other capitalist pigs
I'm sorry but RedHat and all other companies using GPLed software are doing JUST THAT. It's not that they pay anyone except their employees for the work done in the GPLed code they're using.
Yes they give the changes back, but they still make money FROM YOUR WORK WITHOUT PAYING YOU.
Because they'd have to GPL the whole fucking thing. And if they wanted to to that they wouldn't have created their own licence for darwin in the first place. got it?
Well that's why G0d in his wisdom (at least for once) enabled REAL musicians with REAL instruments to make live concerts, so they get more money in and somehow can make a living. It's not like CDs etc. are your only source of income.
It just doesn't look so cool if you're a dancefloor bunny with no voice singing to your drum computer and a keyboard. That's why Tittney and the whole bunch need so many dancing bimbos so that you overlook the fact that they can neither sing nor dance, and all the musics made by the nintendo orchestra.
Weeell, SafariBlock on the other hand will give you a context menu, where you can add block settings on the fly, and it also blocks Flash. Time to switch, eh? It also supports more modern features of CSS3 than Camino, I believe, like drop shadows on text etc.
They don't care about Cocoa vs Carbon, but in a more an more multilingual world they care about whether their non ASCII language is displayed properly or not.
Camino for its part, renders Japanese rather ugly with faked bold, and if you ever dare to change the default setting for the fonts for Japanese, it starts rendering every other character in a different font, some of them being Chinese fonts, so the characters look all wrong. This is not even a bug, this is plain broken. It is such a shame, because I really think it is a nicely done browser with a simple and well-done interface.
The major shortcoming for which I filed bug reports years ago is the still completely fucked up font rendering for Japanese. It still uses fake bold instead of using the bold fonts, and whenever you change the default display settings for the Japanese fonts it starts to trip over its own feet, rendering almost every single character in a different font, using for some Characters even Chinese fonts.
Nobody seems to bother to fix this, well can you say BROKEN? Unfortunately this makes Camino unusable for me (Firefox does a better job, but still uses fake bold...). So for most of my browsing it's Safari (or maybe in the future back to OmniWeb with an updated WebKit...)
you must wait for that page to finish loading before you can switch to another tab
WTF? This is complete bullshit, just for the sake of it I opened three tabs at the same time and I'm happly switching between them without any delay or waiting, even while the content in the tabs is loading. I don't know where you've got your info from, but it is plain wrong.
There's the free CamiOptions which includes amongst many other AdBlock which can even block Flash Movies. Now you have NO excuses ;-)
I mentioned Japan a) because I live there and b) because you just said, outside the US. You didn't specify any other location, so I went with prices in Japan, because I thought they're as good as any (especially because Japan tends to be rather on the expensive side), and because I live there. Now if you would have bothered to tell us you're talking Australian dollars which naturally inflates the numbers we wouldn't have had an argument to begin with, but I digress...
I've proven to you that with all the features you wanted I can get a Mac for US $3300 +/- a few bucks depending on whether you get the lowest prices or not. But nowhere near $5000. Case closed. I'm right, you're wrong.
Japanese has admittedly THE most complex writing system in the world. It makes use of TWO syllable "alphabets", Hiragana and Katakana (if you can call them "alphabets" at all) and at least 1945 officiall Kanji (characters from the Chinese writing system, but partly simplified) plus some more in daily use. A good font comes with about 10000 characters plus it also throws arabic numbers and the latin alphabet into the mix.
;-)
Now there is no way to input that using just a keyboard layout, so it is not a matter of switching keyboard layouts for Japanese. You need a thing called input method. Which takes either your romanized input and transforms it into hiragana which you then can further transform into Kanji ("on demand" by hitting space), or some professional writers type directly in hiragana (but you still need to transform some of the syllables into kanji). In the OSS world there are two input methods widely used one is kanna and the other is wnn if I recall properly.
Now OS X has its own input method for Japanese (kotoeri) which works fine and does the job favourably, the trouble is X11 does know nothing of kotoeris existence, so if you want to input japanese in X11 in OS X you'll have to install kanna or wnn (in X11, OS X again will not know of kanna or wnn at all either) and the problem is that this is a somewhat esoteric affair, and you definitely don't even want to try to get it running. Even under Linux where you don't have to deal with two layers like in OS X (Cocoa/Aqua and X11) it is a pain and you rather just use a distribution that comes with kanna or wnn preinstalled. To make a long story even longer...
On OS X just don't try to use Japanese in X11 it's not worth the hassle. Also partly because usually OS X is through and through Unicode whereas AFAIK X11 is not (don't stone me if I'm wrong), that's yet another thing you'd have to consider when trying to use Japanese in X11 apps that weren't written to handle it. In OS X Cocoa apps it's no problem. Regardless of the application natural language, Cocoa apps always can deal with Unicode so you don't have to worry whether your app is able to deal with Japanese or not, it will be able to handle Japanese. Always.
Bottom line for me is: before I have to fuck around doing "the geeky thing" in X11 I'd rather wait for Photoshop or get a Cocoa app instead or anything that'll do the job, because if I wanted to geek around instead of getting some work done on my computer I wouldn't have gotten a Mac, I would've started with Linux to begin with
I was just listening to too much Pacific Coast Hellway*. Sorry. But I wasn't aware that all of the three people who can read in Wyoming actually are on slashdot ;-))
*That's a podcast, In case you don't know it.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it doesn't matter when you buy Apple care. All it does is extend your warranty from 1 year to 3 years counting from the day of initial computer purchase, so it doesn't matter when you get AppleCare, the period of coverage is always the same. Just make sure you get it while you still have a warranty.
Yo, Einstein, I happen to be a German living in Tokyo. Is that outside of the US enough for you, genius? Now bear with me, because let's just do the math just for fun.
;-)), but if you insist, we end up somewhere around 3300 bucks or so. It still isn't $ 5000. Hmmm... And don't forget, Tokyo used to be the city with the highest cost of living all over the fucking globe for many years consecutively (they're number two right now). And even in the highly taxed Europe you won't get as expensive as 5000 bucks.
I just checked out http://www.kakaku.com/ a site which lists the lowest prices of everything and their dog in Japan. The 1.8 GHz MacBook Pro goes for 290850 yen, (no, we don't buy from the Apple Store, duh!). Then we get kick-ass hardrive (no, not from the friggin Apple Store, ok). Any Fujitsu goes below 20000 yen, but just not having you bitch and moan that I was cheating let's make that a flat 20000 yen for the drive. Then I'm goin to buy 2x1GB RAM (PC2 5300) the lowest price is at 14980 yen per 1GB, but just so you can't say we're cheating or whatever I'll take the next higher price listed at 26040. Add it all up and we get a whopping 362930 yen, which accounts for US $ 3069, hmm doesn't at all look like 5000 bucks to me and this price here INCLUDES TAX.
Oh, you say Apple Care.... I think Apple Care is for pussies
So please stop telling anyone the new MacBook pros fully equipped will cost about $ 5000, because you've got to admit, you just pulled that number out of your ass, knowing it was completely off-base and are now trying to cover up talking about international pricing yaddayadda, thinking I was some provincial idiot from Fuckasuckalucka county somewhere in Wyoming you could impress with such pseudo-polyglotisms..
Q.E.D.