Considering that TerraSoft have to take Apple's machine, install Linux for you, and then repackage everything, well I guess having them charge 129 bucks for that might not be so overpriced.
I have to disagree. Alone the fact that their mice are right handed speaks of bad design. All logitech mice and even the lowly Apple (n)one-button mouse are suitable for right- and lefthanded people.
My boss is EXACTLY like the pointy haired boss. Most of our conversations are EXACTLY like the ones in Dilbert (no joke) and I tell you, people are quitting the company left and right. I am at the point where I can't really laugh about Dilbert comics anymore because they are too true to be good.
He's also to great parts too stupid to use a Mac. And that's Mac OS X. And he always lets his PowerBook's battery run completely emtpy until the machine switches off (well, the power gets cut-off that is), and then is surprised that some of the data on his harddisk is fubar-ed (might also be connected to the dropping).
PHB are the pestilence of earth and they drive nothing and no one (except me nuts). PHB are too stupid to use any computer. Take my boss. He's really managed to break 4 laptops all of them by dropping them on a concrete floor (repeatedly). Still he wouldn't start handling his laptop with more care.
PHBs are simply unworthy and shouldn't touch computers at all. They'll never get it.
And of course Aunt Sally and her dog know that pointing your browser to localhost:631 will bring you to the web-based admin tool to setup your printer, because that's the first thing to learn in school.
It's not his mistake to use the only "obvious" tool that's available on his box to setup the printer.
I didn't know it was a war crime or illegal to "try to kill American soldiers" when you happen to be at war with the US, especially when being attacked by the US illegaly.
But the thing is if the new OS breaks a major piece of software then the question is, why? Most likely the major piece of software might have been using some undocumented API and they knew it was going to break some day.
I mean Apple warns about that all the time. If you use undocumented APIs, those might change and break the app. So if there's a change in those APIs, usually developers will find out with beta releases and early seeds of the OS and they can provide patches in time. Why would you patch the OS for that?
E.g. OS X 10.1 broke a helluvalot apps and they all got patched to be able to run on the new OS. Same with 10.2
I bet it is far better than DVD, otherwise it wouldn't be a studio-grade codec for filmmakers. DVD quality is inacceptable for professional editing work.
How about these little things - drag and drop works throughout the system between all applications (you can even drag and drop an item to the terminal window to get it's path pasted in there) - Most applications can handle multibyte fonts/languages out of the box and switching input methods on the fly is one keystroke away - there's a proper font management system and OS X handles TrueType Mac, TrueType Windows, Type 1 (PostScript fonts) and OTF fonts just fine (again installing them is as easy as drag and drop or doubleclicking and clicking the install button) - when installing an application RPM won't tell you that it actually needs the "whateverthefuck.lib.so.8" before it can install the package, but won't tell you where in the world to get that library - There are interface guidelines and most developers stick to them (!), so you can enjoy the same basic keyboard shortcuts in every application, most menues are in the same location in every app etc. - OS X Services (this rules) - Automatic switching of network interfaces seamlessly on-the-fly (wirless, ethernet, firewire etc.)
Mac on Linux to run Photoshop? Great, then you'll have to run two operating systems at the same time to get your work done? How effective. I guess you've found a way to stash more than 640MB of RAM into your iBook, because that's about what you'd need to keep your machine running effectively.
I'd rather stay in OS X, install X11 and fink for the few Linux GUI apps you might need and I'd be done.
This may sound revolutionary to you, but some people like paying money for things that take a lot of effort to create and which benefit their daily workflow (10.3 etc.).
If you don't like paying for stuff, that's OK, but don't tell me we're all stupid, just because we think paying for the work of other is OK.
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Considering that TerraSoft have to take Apple's machine, install Linux for you, and then repackage everything, well I guess having them charge 129 bucks for that might not be so overpriced.
I have to disagree. Alone the fact that their mice are right handed speaks of bad design. All logitech mice and even the lowly Apple (n)one-button mouse are suitable for right- and lefthanded people.
You can get them here. They take orders online. But the specification was a laptop without WinXP on so I don't see the problem with OS X anyway.
My boss is EXACTLY like the pointy haired boss. Most of our conversations are EXACTLY like the ones in Dilbert (no joke) and I tell you, people are quitting the company left and right. I am at the point where I can't really laugh about Dilbert comics anymore because they are too true to be good.
He's also to great parts too stupid to use a Mac. And that's Mac OS X. And he always lets his PowerBook's battery run completely emtpy until the machine switches off (well, the power gets cut-off that is), and then is surprised that some of the data on his harddisk is fubar-ed (might also be connected to the dropping).
PHB are the pestilence of earth and they drive nothing and no one (except me nuts). PHB are too stupid to use any computer. Take my boss. He's really managed to break 4 laptops all of them by dropping them on a concrete floor (repeatedly). Still he wouldn't start handling his laptop with more care.
PHBs are simply unworthy and shouldn't touch computers at all. They'll never get it.
And of course Aunt Sally and her dog know that pointing your browser to localhost:631 will bring you to the web-based admin tool to setup your printer, because that's the first thing to learn in school.
It's not his mistake to use the only "obvious" tool that's available on his box to setup the printer.
Well then let me assure you then that it's most likely completely wrong. Even the actress playing the Japanese lady wasn't Japanese.
All XML files I've seen so far have been in Unicode. I know, if it's UTF-8 this also happens to cover ASCII.
I'd rather go with a cheerful "Yare, yare! Yattsuketchimae!"
Give him the death blow with WYSIWYG.
I didn't know it was a war crime or illegal to "try to kill American soldiers" when you happen to be at war with the US, especially when being attacked by the US illegaly.
But the thing is if the new OS breaks a major piece of software then the question is, why? Most likely the major piece of software might have been using some undocumented API and they knew it was going to break some day.
I mean Apple warns about that all the time. If you use undocumented APIs, those might change and break the app. So if there's a change in those APIs, usually developers will find out with beta releases and early seeds of the OS and they can provide patches in time. Why would you patch the OS for that?
E.g. OS X 10.1 broke a helluvalot apps and they all got patched to be able to run on the new OS. Same with 10.2
You don't really want to piss off heaps of disenchanted, fanatical and angry people.
;-)
But McBribe had done exactly that by attacking the Linux crowd.
I always thought art is all about creation. Graffiti is taking "art" as a bad excuse to vandalise other people's property.
the group settled on "mudasobwa," which roughly translates to "something or someone that does not make mistakes."'
Cool, by doing so they have automatically ruled out using Microsoft products.
And the quality was near DVD.
I bet it is far better than DVD, otherwise it wouldn't be a studio-grade codec for filmmakers. DVD quality is inacceptable for professional editing work.
You can download the developer tools from apple's website for free (need to register, but that's also free).
How about these little things
- drag and drop works throughout the system between all applications (you can even drag and drop an item to the terminal window to get it's path pasted in there)
- Most applications can handle multibyte fonts/languages out of the box and switching input methods on the fly is one keystroke away
- there's a proper font management system and OS X handles TrueType Mac, TrueType Windows, Type 1 (PostScript fonts) and OTF fonts just fine (again installing them is as easy as drag and drop or doubleclicking and clicking the install button)
- when installing an application RPM won't tell you that it actually needs the "whateverthefuck.lib.so.8" before it can install the package, but won't tell you where in the world to get that library
- There are interface guidelines and most developers stick to them (!), so you can enjoy the same basic keyboard shortcuts in every application, most menues are in the same location in every app etc.
- OS X Services (this rules)
- Automatic switching of network interfaces seamlessly on-the-fly (wirless, ethernet, firewire etc.)
I could go no for hours, but you get the idea.
Mac on Linux to run Photoshop? Great, then you'll have to run two operating systems at the same time to get your work done? How effective. I guess you've found a way to stash more than 640MB of RAM into your iBook, because that's about what you'd need to keep your machine running effectively.
I'd rather stay in OS X, install X11 and fink for the few Linux GUI apps you might need and I'd be done.
This may sound revolutionary to you, but some people like paying money for things that take a lot of effort to create and which benefit their daily workflow (10.3 etc.).
If you don't like paying for stuff, that's OK, but don't tell me we're all stupid, just because we think paying for the work of other is OK.
But for some reason the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world runs on OS X and nobody thought about slapping Linux or NetBSD on it...
>I use it mainly on the coffee table
;-)
Maybe you should try to stop spilling coffee on it?
Usenet is all and everything. The Matrix has you.
Please stop being so damn reasonable and honest, after all this is Slashdot.
These iMac monitors are so nice, it is a shame to have them tied to hardware which will become obsolete so much sooner.
Well, then get an Apple Cinema Display, duh.
Bzzzt. It's running OS X. Nice try.