Then again, if you tend to call only the kernel the OS, then Linux (and for that any Unix) is worthless. Yes, you can execute the kernel and then look at it and be proud, but either (the kernel and the userland with utilities) is pretty useless without the other.
P.S.: and the HURD microkernel to make the GNU/OS complete is just around the corner, actually it will be bundled with Duke Nukem forever.
My take is those numbers are as good as the Apple numbers why should we believe that Dell, Intel and AMD are optimizing for SPEC and Apple isn't.
Well maybe with closed source compilers you don't get caught that easily when cheating and with gcc being GPLed it would immediately be clear if Apple were optimizing it for benchmarks.
Isn't it funny that Ars(e) is always being so anal about good GUI design, and their own website is white text on black background? That pretty much destroys all credibility about their competence in good interface-design..
Well you don't need to do a CMD+F, simply set the search field in the Finder window to "selection" and start typing. Instant searching. Is that what you've been looking for?
Bullshit. the parent's parent was generalizing on Mac users and stupid. I might as well say all Jews tend to be greedy and all Black people tend to be lazy. Complete nonsense.
Oh, 10.2 is unusable? Good you're telling me. Dammit, I could swear I've been using it happily for months. Must have been the reality distortion field...
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you click on the Network shortcut on the left side of a Finder window, you can login to servers and browse (and search) the server's drive from there.
And while doing so slapping on a incredible clean and simple interface onto it (which is what makes Safari special) and fixing about two years' work of bugs while they're at it, and giving that back to the community. Sounds cool to me.
Yes, like a fully workable and intuitive GUI based OS, plug-and-play self configuring networking (AppleTalk), on-board Ethernet, laser printers, on-board digital 16 bit audio, thorough support in software and hardware for USB, Gigabit ethernet on all laptops, FireWire (400 and 800), wireless networking (AirPort), 64-bit personal computers.
Yes most of those things were available for PCs around the same time add-on AS OPTIONs. They wouldn't work properly most of the time and would suck (until years later they finally got it right on the PC). Apple had all of the above (and more) first, as a standard on all machines.
Actually digital video on personal computers more or less started with QuickTime a loooooong time ago. If you bother to write plug-ins you can get about any thinkable codec to quicktime, it also plays flash movies does interactive stuff, now supports dolby 5.1 audio etc.
ZeroConf was first and foremost started by an Apple Employee. Yes the IETF got behind it very early, but after all it's Apple's baby, even if they call it Rendezvous.
X Windows: You aren't stuck with a default Window Manager with Linux (yes with MacOS X you can change WM also nowdays) - you can use any that you like, and installation in most cases is trivial (not quite so easy with Mac OS X)
Huh? Go to Apple's X11 download page. After the download the disk image will be mounted automatically and the installer will launch automatically. Install. Double click the X11 icon. Run X Windows.
Now, that wasn't too hard was it? And with Panther even the download won't be necessary any more.
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Some people claim they can make a GNU-less Linux variant, but that would be a good trick since all the tools are GNU
Big deal, just use the FreeBSD tools. That would only leave gcc which still is GNU. But that's as GNU free as it gets.
Yes, but an engine without the rest ain't a car either.
Then again, if you tend to call only the kernel the OS, then Linux (and for that any Unix) is worthless. Yes, you can execute the kernel and then look at it and be proud, but either (the kernel and the userland with utilities) is pretty useless without the other.
P.S.: and the HURD microkernel to make the GNU/OS complete is just around the corner, actually it will be bundled with Duke Nukem forever.
Metallica to show up and add their intellectual weight to the argument.
... making things lighter? ;-)
My take is those numbers are as good as the Apple numbers why should we believe that Dell, Intel and AMD are optimizing for SPEC and Apple isn't.
Well maybe with closed source compilers you don't get caught that easily when cheating and with gcc being GPLed it would immediately be clear if Apple were optimizing it for benchmarks.
Ah, and by the way DUH.
Isn't it funny that Ars(e) is always being so anal about good GUI design, and their own website is white text on black background?
That pretty much destroys all credibility about their competence in good interface-design..
>I see Darwin as FreeBSD's little brother
Then I'm afraid you know fuck about Mach and NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP.
Well you don't need to do a CMD+F, simply set the search field in the Finder window to "selection" and start typing.
Instant searching. Is that what you've been looking for?
Their G5 dualies are about 1000$ cheaper than any comparable product. That's really ridiculously cheap.
Bullshit. the parent's parent was generalizing on Mac users and stupid. I might as well say all Jews tend to be greedy and all Black people tend to be lazy. Complete nonsense.
Oh, 10.2 is unusable?
Good you're telling me. Dammit, I could swear I've been using it happily for months. Must have been the reality distortion field...
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you click on the Network shortcut on the left side of a Finder window, you can login to servers and browse (and search) the server's drive from there.
"Excuse me Mr. President, but in the dictionary under redundant it says, 'see redundant.'" - R. Williams
Unfortunately this isn't redundant but recursive.
If you were such a man as you claim you wouldn't post here as AC, pussy.
It's not a rice scoop, but get this: the resonance skin on the instrument is preferably made from cat skin. meow!
"50 ways to loose your data" wasn't that a song sung by Simon and Garfunkel?
And while doing so slapping on a incredible clean and simple interface onto it (which is what makes Safari special) and fixing about two years' work of bugs while they're at it, and giving that back to the community. Sounds cool to me.
Yes, like a fully workable and intuitive GUI based OS, plug-and-play self configuring networking (AppleTalk), on-board Ethernet, laser printers, on-board digital 16 bit audio, thorough support in software and hardware for USB, Gigabit ethernet on all laptops, FireWire (400 and 800), wireless networking (AirPort), 64-bit personal computers.
Yes most of those things were available for PCs around the same time add-on AS OPTIONs. They wouldn't work properly most of the time and would suck (until years later they finally got it right on the PC). Apple had all of the above (and more) first, as a standard on all machines.
Actually digital video on personal computers more or less started with QuickTime a loooooong time ago. If you bother to write plug-ins you can get about any thinkable codec to quicktime, it also plays flash movies does interactive stuff, now supports dolby 5.1 audio etc.
(and there's VLC for the Mac and Mplayer OS X)
ZeroConf was first and foremost started by an Apple Employee. Yes the IETF got behind it very early, but after all it's Apple's baby, even if they call it Rendezvous.
Huh? Go to Apple's X11 download page. After the download the disk image will be mounted automatically and the installer will launch automatically. Install. Double click the X11 icon. Run X Windows.
Now, that wasn't too hard was it? And with Panther even the download won't be necessary any more.
Hmmm. I'm afraid you misinterpreted the term "shaving your pussy"...
Wrong.
A McDonald's cluster of Big Macs is called "Happy Meal".
No, sorry I don't think they use BSD. ;-)
Yeah, but it will still have only one button...
Now beat me. This was a joke.