Unfortunately Microsoft tried to sue me, because they already have the 3,684 click technology implemented in the Windows setup procedure and most other preference dialogues. (Now I hear Real is trying to prove that they've got prior art on this in their installers).
If the Finder is a proper Cocoa app (which I believe it is in Panther) you can actually go in there yourself.
Right click on the application, select "Show Package Contents", in the Resources folder find the English.lproj folder and in there are several.nib files which make up the user interface of the application.
Now if you open these.nib files with Interface Builder (included in the Developer Tools), you can select get info and in Attributes you uncheck "Textured Window". Save it. Relaunch and your Metal app is an Aqua app again.
Do you seriously think that Motorola (who own CodeWarrior) are in any urge to optimize CodeWarrior for the CPU of their biggest competitor, especially since that competitor CPU has just taken a big bite out of Motorolas market by making Apple their customer for the high end?
I could imagine that CodeWarrior simply doesn't do put out 64 bit optimized code for the G5 yet. Hence Apple used their own compiler which is gcc.
OK, your brother happened to have had a very bad experience. So this automatically means that Macs never work? Great logic.
I've never had issues on the Mac with hardware and software integration as annoying and severe as I had on Windows/Intel. The problems tend to be much worse on Wintel and fixing tends to take much more time. And I've seen this crap happening over and over, not just one unlucky shot.
While the Mac is far from a perfect machine, it appears so much more like it when compared to most of the stuff in the Wintel world.
Well YMMV, but just because it doesn't work once, it doesn't invalidate all the great experiences most Mac users have.
>Apple's core competence is in making systems that are easy to set up and easy to administer and easy to use.
And that's not only thanks to the software, but also due to the great integration of software and hardware.
This integration ("it just works") is why people buy Apple. And therefore it's really hardware and software that attract customers (ey, and don't tell me I didn't buy my 17" PowerBook just for the software, I could have gotten an iBook if I only wanted to run OS X!)
Or there is the good old Plan9 and they even have a Rabbit mascot.
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10.1 was free. 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4, 10.1.5 were free.
10.2 wasn't free
Let's see. 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6 were all free.
We pay for every upgrade? Sure.
Re:You guys are in a dream world
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How does a roadmap of failed OS attempts and finally choosing BSD refute my point.
You haven't really read the articles, have you? You say OS X is FreeBSD with a pretty face. And I say that's bullshit. If you had the slightest idea what NeXTSTEP is and where it came from you wouldn't write such nonsense. All Apple chose to be FreeBSD in OS X is the userland.
There is so endlessly much more to OS X than the BSD userland. In fact you can install OS X without the whole BSD layer and still run all of your Mac OS X applications.
So if OS X doesn't even need BSD underneath, how can you say it is FreeBSD with a pretty face?
Yeah, but the big thing Apple did wasn't inventing the GUI (which they didn't and even Xerox didn't completely, the whole idea about GUIs is older than that). But they were the first to bring out a GUI based system that had most of the GUI elements as we know them today.
Some of the inventions of Apple are things like the Desktop metaphor, and this is big. Also the idea of using Icons representing files and programmes (whereas with the first graphic demos at Xerox, icons were used for commands). A menue bar, pulldown menues are inventions from Apple. These are original inventions from Apple. So they took a very basic idea from Xerox (and payed big bucks for it) and refined it into a GUI one could use for real work, and that would even be understood by complete newbies.
What's bad with someone elses solution? You've got some heavy variation of the NIH syndrome? To me even Linux is "someone else's solution", after all, the last time I checked, I didn't make it.
So I'm fine with someone else's solution if it works and is affordable. I make a living using my Mac and it works. My 17" PowerBook has paid itself in no time. I'm happy. And by the way:
Not everyone is a coder. And since I neither have the time nor will nor knowledge to implement that, I rather choose to use an implementation that works and is available now. I for my part want to use my computer as a tool, do to cool graphics stuff.
And that's the Mac for me (suum cuique).
Re:I see we failed history again....
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I've got to double that. We are still (!) using the Macs from Apple from that aera (with original parts), but the PowerComputing machines were complete crap. The cases were abysmally badly designed, so adding/changing parts was a pain, and this was a big issue because most of the parts died in no time, so we had to replace them.
I don't know where this "Clones were better than Apples machines" myth came from, but all the clones I've ever seen or used (Umax, PowerComputing several models) were all really dissappointing and crap.
Re:You guys are in a dream world
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I think the Celts in Europe did fine with their own high-culture even before the Romans, without intervention of the Arabs;-)
Only in the late middle-ages think were getting a bit dim, so Europeans started getting their ideas from somewhere else (Arab world), but selling them as their own, setting the foundation stone for Microsoft's business model as we know it today.
JFC* , it took them 6 versions to even get IP right with IPv6. And we're not even using it yet!
*Jeesus-Fucking-Christ
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I doubt you could find a true system where MS Windows or Mac OS truly outshine Linux when set up by someone who knows what they're doing.
Well I'm afraid for printing and DTP (CMYK, colour corrections etc.) Windows is barely in the game and Linux isn't even in the league.
There still are things that one OS does far better than others, partly due to well done integration of many available tools. And in my example the main focus of graphic/layout/DTP Software vendors is still on the Mac, so that's why the Mac is where it's at in that business.
Now if any company would come and implement CMYK support, colour correction, bleed adjustment, screen angle settings, under colour reduction etc. in the GIMP and also integrate that with a colour matching system that works throughout the whole OS, I'm sure it then could be just as good as Photoshop on the Mac. The problem is no one has done that yet, so it isn't. (Even on Windows Photoshop is featurewise the same, but getting proper colour out still doesn't work that smoothly, don't ask me why. Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt).
Of course this also counts vice versa for Linux, so I am sure there are things Linux excels at where OS X and Windows really look pale, partly due to the Linux architecture itself and partly thanks to the people/companies that put their efforts into Linux for a certain field of application (Beowulf comes to mind).
I just don't believe that every OS can do every task just as well, if setup by the proper person. Simply due to the fact that each OS or even the users of the OS have some leve of focus on certain applications, and therefore most software available for that platform is focused the same way.
I.e. even if you made lots of graphic and DTP software for Linux right now, most design people just wouldn't feel at home, so it wouldn't sell, hence there isn't much graphics DTP stuff there.
Now looking at 3D (or very high end motion graphics), where the users are much more technically knowledgeable, and suddenly you find quite a few very important apps on Linux (Maya, Shake, Houdini). Software still needs to be paid for, so the paying users define to a large part what software is written for the platform.
That "niche" application Phoenix IS the slimmed down browser part of the bloated Monster that Mozilla has become (maybe making Mozilla into a bloated monster was part of the initial plan, considering the name...)
When you create GPL software you can handle the copyrights to GNU to administer for you, and they have a lot more power than you for defending that copyright in case somebody violates it.
GNU is basically RMS and he surely isn't more convincing in court than I could ever be, but if you mean the Open Source Initiative, I might agree. But then we're not talking about GNU only but OpenSource in general. Mind the two are different.
I think you should have the freedom to say stupid things. You have that freedom in Germany, too (just look at our politicians 8-).
But it's another thing when someone says something incredibly stupid/racist and almost no one is objecting against it. This would make me VERY concerned. And that's why (maybe I'm paranoid) looking at the US in it's current state just scares me.
My glimpse of hope is that every once in a while I meet an American, who's very educated and has a very civilized opinion about things. But then again I meet those people here in Japan, and maybe they left their country for a reason. Well what do I know, maybe things look worse to me than they really are.
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I patented 3,684 click shopping.
Unfortunately Microsoft tried to sue me, because they already have the 3,684 click technology implemented in the Windows setup procedure and most other preference dialogues. (Now I hear Real is trying to prove that they've got prior art on this in their installers).
If the Finder is a proper Cocoa app (which I believe it is in Panther) you can actually go in there yourself.
.nib files which make up the user interface of the application.
.nib files with Interface Builder (included in the Developer Tools), you can select get info and in Attributes you uncheck "Textured Window". Save it. Relaunch and your Metal app is an Aqua app again.
Right click on the application, select "Show Package Contents", in the Resources folder find the English.lproj folder and in there are several
Now if you open these
"Without Linux this market wouldn't exists Unix would still primarily be on custom hardware."
Sorry, to dissapoint you but 386BSD was there in 93 as well from which FreeBSD partly derived.
Especially considering that Apple's internal codename for their G5 was "Neo". That wouldn't make sense.
I guess the sentence wasn't complete. It should have said
"Every company must have the ability to innovate and improve its products. So we can rip-off their ideas and sell them as ours." - Bill Gates
I always thought that:
;-)
Linux is for geeks that hate Microsoft, but
BSD is for people that love UN*X.
(note: if you hate Microsoft and you're not a geek, or a geek with an attitude you might as well get a Mac and run OS X)
>I obviously have a much broader knowledge of computers than this one-OS-in-20-years schmoe does.
But you have no guts since you post this as anonymous coward.
Do you seriously think that Motorola (who own CodeWarrior) are in any urge to optimize CodeWarrior for the CPU of their biggest competitor, especially since that competitor CPU has just taken a big bite out of Motorolas market by making Apple their customer for the high end?
I could imagine that CodeWarrior simply doesn't do put out 64 bit optimized code for the G5 yet. Hence Apple used their own compiler which is gcc.
OK, your brother happened to have had a very bad experience. So this automatically means that Macs never work? Great logic.
I've never had issues on the Mac with hardware and software integration as annoying and severe as I had on Windows/Intel. The problems tend to be much worse on Wintel and fixing tends to take much more time. And I've seen this crap happening over and over, not just one unlucky shot.
While the Mac is far from a perfect machine, it appears so much more like it when compared to most of the stuff in the Wintel world.
Well YMMV, but just because it doesn't work once, it doesn't invalidate all the great experiences most Mac users have.
>Apple's core competence is in making systems that are easy to set up and easy to administer and easy to use.
And that's not only thanks to the software, but also due to the great integration of software and hardware.
This integration ("it just works") is why people buy Apple. And therefore it's really hardware and software that attract customers (ey, and don't tell me I didn't buy my 17" PowerBook just for the software, I could have gotten an iBook if I only wanted to run OS X!)
Coolest sounding name?
How about Lesbian Linux or GeekOS ?
Or there is the good old Plan9 and they even have a Rabbit mascot.
10.1 was free.
10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4, 10.1.5 were free.
10.2 wasn't free
Let's see. 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6 were all free.
We pay for every upgrade? Sure.
You haven't really read the articles, have you? You say OS X is FreeBSD with a pretty face. And I say that's bullshit. If you had the slightest idea what NeXTSTEP is and where it came from you wouldn't write such nonsense. All Apple chose to be FreeBSD in OS X is the userland.
There is so endlessly much more to OS X than the BSD userland. In fact you can install OS X without the whole BSD layer and still run all of your Mac OS X applications.
So if OS X doesn't even need BSD underneath, how can you say it is FreeBSD with a pretty face?
Yeah, but the big thing Apple did wasn't inventing the GUI (which they didn't and even Xerox didn't completely, the whole idea about GUIs is older than that). But they were the first to bring out a GUI based system that had most of the GUI elements as we know them today.
Some of the inventions of Apple are things like the Desktop metaphor, and this is big. Also the idea of using Icons representing files and programmes (whereas with the first graphic demos at Xerox, icons were used for commands). A menue bar, pulldown menues are inventions from Apple. These are original inventions from Apple. So they took a very basic idea from Xerox (and payed big bucks for it) and refined it into a GUI one could use for real work, and that would even be understood by complete newbies.
But when/if Panther is going to be 64 bit clean and will run on 970's, and the prices stay at least where they are right now then:
UltraSPARC = way overpriced workstation
Mac = affordable workstation
x86 = cheap old and busted
What's bad with someone elses solution? You've got some heavy variation of the NIH syndrome? To me even Linux is "someone else's solution", after all, the last time I checked, I didn't make it.
So I'm fine with someone else's solution if it works and is affordable. I make a living using my Mac and it works. My 17" PowerBook has paid itself in no time. I'm happy. And by the way:
Not everyone is a coder. And since I neither have the time nor will nor knowledge to implement that, I rather choose to use an implementation that works and is available now. I for my part want to use my computer as a tool, do to cool graphics stuff.
And that's the Mac for me (suum cuique).
I've got to double that. We are still (!) using the Macs from Apple from that aera (with original parts), but the PowerComputing machines were complete crap. The cases were abysmally badly designed, so adding/changing parts was a pain, and this was a big issue because most of the parts died in no time, so we had to replace them.
I don't know where this "Clones were better than Apples machines" myth came from, but all the clones I've ever seen or used (Umax, PowerComputing several models) were all really dissappointing and crap.
Puhleeeze. Go and get a clue
I think the Celts in Europe did fine with their own high-culture even before the Romans, without intervention of the Arabs ;-)
Only in the late middle-ages think were getting a bit dim, so Europeans started getting their ideas from somewhere else (Arab world), but selling them as their own, setting the foundation stone for Microsoft's business model as we know it today.
JFC* , it took them 6 versions to even get IP right with IPv6. And we're not even using it yet!
*Jeesus-Fucking-Christ
Well I'm afraid for printing and DTP (CMYK, colour corrections etc.) Windows is barely in the game and Linux isn't even in the league.
There still are things that one OS does far better than others, partly due to well done integration of many available tools. And in my example the main focus of graphic/layout/DTP Software vendors is still on the Mac, so that's why the Mac is where it's at in that business.
Now if any company would come and implement CMYK support, colour correction, bleed adjustment, screen angle settings, under colour reduction etc. in the GIMP and also integrate that with a colour matching system that works throughout the whole OS, I'm sure it then could be just as good as Photoshop on the Mac. The problem is no one has done that yet, so it isn't. (Even on Windows Photoshop is featurewise the same, but getting proper colour out still doesn't work that smoothly, don't ask me why. Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt).
Of course this also counts vice versa for Linux, so I am sure there are things Linux excels at where OS X and Windows really look pale, partly due to the Linux architecture itself and partly thanks to the people/companies that put their efforts into Linux for a certain field of application (Beowulf comes to mind).
I just don't believe that every OS can do every task just as well, if setup by the proper person. Simply due to the fact that each OS or even the users of the OS have some leve of focus on certain applications, and therefore most software available for that platform is focused the same way.
I.e. even if you made lots of graphic and DTP software for Linux right now, most design people just wouldn't feel at home, so it wouldn't sell, hence there isn't much graphics DTP stuff there.
Now looking at 3D (or very high end motion graphics), where the users are much more technically knowledgeable, and suddenly you find quite a few very important apps on Linux (Maya, Shake, Houdini). Software still needs to be paid for, so the paying users define to a large part what software is written for the platform.
That "niche" application Phoenix IS the slimmed down browser part of the bloated Monster that Mozilla has become (maybe making Mozilla into a bloated monster was part of the initial plan, considering the name...)
GNU is basically RMS and he surely isn't more convincing in court than I could ever be, but if you mean the Open Source Initiative, I might agree. But then we're not talking about GNU only but OpenSource in general. Mind the two are different.
I think you should have the freedom to say stupid things. You have that freedom in Germany, too (just look at our politicians 8-).
But it's another thing when someone says something incredibly stupid/racist and almost no one is objecting against it. This would make me VERY concerned. And that's why (maybe I'm paranoid) looking at the US in it's current state just scares me.
My glimpse of hope is that every once in a while I meet an American, who's very educated and has a very civilized opinion about things. But then again I meet those people here in Japan, and maybe they left their country for a reason. Well what do I know, maybe things look worse to me than they really are.