There's nothing wrong with inventing hammers, but while you're working on it you still use a rock to drive nails, rather than giving up building houses.
The problem with M$ is that their approach was more along the lines of:
"Rocks are out? Hammers are in? Let's make a Hammer!" and they went and built a hammer-shaped rock. duh.
I always thought the idea was that you can still scroll even when the window is too large to fit on your screen (windows grow to the right), whereas with the scrollbar on the right you first have to resize then scroll.
Of course this is now less of an issue with scroll wheels and such.
Ironically the interface in NeXTSTEP still is more consistent and makes more sense in many aspects than OS X.
Like having scrollbars to the left side of the window makes a lot of sense, also having the close button to the right while minimize and shade buttons are at the left and such. Yes it is radically different from what we Mac users are used to, but that probably why S.J. called it NeXTSTEP.
BT, FW800, 802.11g add little value, and little cost to this machine. BT is not used by much of anything yet...
Except for some phone which might be of immense value to some.
FW800 is a waste. Standard firewire doesn't use all the bandwidth available (sound familiar).
Did you know that there are FireWire RAIDs, you can build them by daisychaining or better get an enclosure for an eight drive FW RAID. I bet you WILL max out FW 400.
802.11g will not let you surf the net faster. Moving files from one machine to another on your subnet might go faster.
Wrong. Here in Tokyo 100Mbps Fibreoptic connections to the internet are widely available (ca. 5000 yen/month). Although most of them will max out at about 30 to 40 Mbps, this is still about three to four times of 802.11b. So it will be faster for your browsing having AirPort Extreme.
Yes and I'll start getting RSI because I'll have to hit CTRL+some_key all of the time on a Windoze machine, ouch!. Also the mouse acceleration curve that sucks on Windows is of course not important for designers, as well as the trouble you have to go through to get color management working properly on Windows.
The GNU Darwin people are a bunch of whining trolls. And if they leave the ppc platform no one's going to shed a tear. There still is open darwin and Fink.
For some incomprehensible reason they will still support darwin on x86... isn't that also covered by the Apple license, you might ask. Yes and that's why the GNU Darin people are morons. They say:
"hey we have a problem with Apple and the way they do things, so to punish them we are only going to use their software covered under their license on a different platform"... well, duh.
Every new Mac I've bought so far couldn't boot into any OS older than the most current one at the time of purchase (that's partly due to the fact that they put hardware support into those most recent version for the new machines). My old 7600 could only boot into 7.5.3 and upwards. A long time ago I wanted to install KanjiTalk 7.1 just to find out that I can't.
So with OS X Apple have been nice and done you guys a favour, still letting you boot into 9.x, that time is now over and I think Apple is right taking that step. They can't go on pouring resources in supporting new hardware on a dead OS. Everything has to move to OS X sooner or later, and Apple aren't Microsoft, so they don't have 50 idle Programmers hanging around that they could delegate to look after 9.x and supporting it for years to come. For me 9.x can't be dead enough. And QuarkXpress 5 runs fine in Classic AFAIK. Then if you ouput on a Postscript compliant printer or film recorder WTF is the problem with switching to OS X??
And then waste 3 hours figuring out how to get the %$#%&' thing to work, because audio is out of sync or suddenly your FireWire card stopped working as expected etc...
Or your PC just stopped working, because you replaced more than three pieces of hardware, and your XP went belly up;-))
I've seen several test with AE used for benchmarking and all I found was that AE was a really sloppy port to OS X and runs very slow on it.
I do agree that the Athlon is quicker doing certain functions, but the suite of functions carried out is very limited, so I still am not sure whether I can believe this test fully or not...
The GPL requires you to make the source available for the cost of redistribution (that's for "free" if you will), if your work is derived from GPLed software. the BSD license doesn't put such restrictions on you.
Mac OS X as a whole is not Open Source just based on it, but Darwin (the kernel and BSD userland, and what else is left of the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP guts) is Open Source, also QuickTime Streaming Server is Open Source.
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No way, God already owns the patent rights to DNA.
I'm afraid he did already, brrr2 .2/1909.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/030
"Rocks are out? Hammers are in? Let's make a Hammer!" and they went and built a hammer-shaped rock. duh.
Yep. Who would want to get 64Bit in the first place? That's even less than 640k ;-))))
I always thought the idea was that you can still scroll even when the window is too large to fit on your screen (windows grow to the right), whereas with the scrollbar on the right you first have to resize then scroll.
Of course this is now less of an issue with scroll wheels and such.
Ironically the interface in NeXTSTEP still is more consistent and makes more sense in many aspects than OS X.
Like having scrollbars to the left side of the window makes a lot of sense, also having the close button to the right while minimize and shade buttons are at the left and such. Yes it is radically different from what we Mac users are used to, but that probably why S.J. called it NeXTSTEP.
The issue was calling them MACs rather than Macs. Since writing it all capitals would imply that it is an acronym.
A MAC is your network hardware address as opposed to a Mac.
The worst spacial incident in recorded history just occurred and you fucktard have nothing better to do than to post all over slashdot.
So much about YOUR priorities
Except for some phone which might be of immense value to some.
Did you know that there are FireWire RAIDs, you can build them by daisychaining or better get an enclosure for an eight drive FW RAID. I bet you WILL max out FW 400.
Wrong. Here in Tokyo 100Mbps Fibreoptic connections to the internet are widely available (ca. 5000 yen/month). Although most of them will max out at about 30 to 40 Mbps, this is still about three to four times of 802.11b. So it will be faster for your browsing having AirPort Extreme.
Hey, they're all the same. WTF.
Sorry for the typo, I meant to say grammar
If you want to build the plural form for "Pentium" based on latin grammer, it would be "Pentia".
Hellooo? Moderators? Anybody there?? The above post is a troll? WTF?
To me it sounds like the truth. That was exactly my expericence.
The GNU Darwin people are a bunch of whining trolls. And if they leave the ppc platform no one's going to shed a tear. There still is open darwin and Fink.
... well, duh.
For some incomprehensible reason they will still support darwin on x86... isn't that also covered by the Apple license, you might ask. Yes and that's why the GNU Darin people are morons. They say:
"hey we have a problem with Apple and the way they do things, so to punish them we are only going to use their software covered under their license on a different platform"
Yes and he should add the line:
In Soviet Russia YOU are unusable for Apple Laptops.
Every new Mac I've bought so far couldn't boot into any OS older than the most current one at the time of purchase (that's partly due to the fact that they put hardware support into those most recent version for the new machines). My old 7600 could only boot into 7.5.3 and upwards. A long time ago I wanted to install KanjiTalk 7.1 just to find out that I can't.
So with OS X Apple have been nice and done you guys a favour, still letting you boot into 9.x, that time is now over and I think Apple is right taking that step. They can't go on pouring resources in supporting new hardware on a dead OS. Everything has to move to OS X sooner or later, and Apple aren't Microsoft, so they don't have 50 idle Programmers hanging around that they could delegate to look after 9.x and supporting it for years to come. For me 9.x can't be dead enough. And QuarkXpress 5 runs fine in Classic AFAIK. Then if you ouput on a Postscript compliant printer or film recorder WTF is the problem with switching to OS X??
And then waste 3 hours figuring out how to get the %$#%&' thing to work, because audio is out of sync or suddenly your FireWire card stopped working as expected etc...
;-))
Or your PC just stopped working, because you replaced more than three pieces of hardware, and your XP went belly up
I've seen several test with AE used for benchmarking and all I found was that AE was a really sloppy port to OS X and runs very slow on it.
I do agree that the Athlon is quicker doing certain functions, but the suite of functions carried out is very limited, so I still am not sure whether I can believe this test fully or not...
GPLed == OpenSource
BUT
Open Source != GPLed
The GPL requires you to make the source available for the cost of redistribution (that's for "free" if you will), if your work is derived from GPLed software. the BSD license doesn't put such restrictions on you.
Mac OS X as a whole is not Open Source just based on it, but Darwin (the kernel and BSD userland, and what else is left of the NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP guts) is Open Source, also QuickTime Streaming Server is Open Source.
>And what exactly can IE do that Konqueror can't?
;-)
Uh, format your harddrive?
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Apple: going out of business since 1984!
You're still supporting MS by buying their hardware, thus shooting in your own foot.
That makes the human mind the killer-app of the last few millenia
I think the official pronunciation is "Apple server thingy, the flat one". ;-)
Yes, the network renderer is another great goodie (cross platform) the rendering speed is one of the fastest for the Mac, and above all
Cinema 4D HAS NEVER EVER CRASHED ON ME ONCE.
That says it all.