anyone who put's scripting in any email program needs to be brutally killed in the streets
Ouch, tough crowd.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with scripting in any application. We should point the fingers at the virus writers and commit heinous crimes against their personage.
It should be safe to have scripting in an application.
...in the development of Linux as a viable desktop OS - are the people currently using it.
The actual USE of Linux as a desktop OS just requires a bit of knowledge, either on the part of the user or on the part of the installer. The various successes out there in governments and schools show that it can be done.
This was a very disappointing little article. He is basically saying that his Microsoft Office Suite kept crashing for some unknown reason so he decided to 'switch' to the same office suite only under MacOSX.
Under normal circumstances when talking about an OS vendor and a software vendor I'd agree. But Windows and Office are made by the same company. It's outrageous they should have the problems they do and even more ridiculous that Office running on a third party OS should have LESS problems.
Shame that the wilWheaton does Mandrake was mixed with the Switcher story as it seems to have again brought out the worst in people.
I use Mac OS X and I'm happy with it. I have access to Linux and *BSD and Windows on new hardware but I just prefer running OSX on my 2 year old Powerbook. I don't CARE what you run and that's a GOOD thing. What is nice is that I'm on UNIX. If you're running Mandrake or SuSe or Debian then you're on UNIX too. It's a cliche but we've all got bigger fish to fry.
As for the commercial == Bad? Pardon? I suppose software engineers live on handouts? Pay someone to do it right. Make it open source so people can tell you what's wrong with it.
Apple used the 68K series from 8 MHz to 80MHz (40 really). They used the G1 PowerPCs (PPC601) from 60MHz to 132MHz. Then the G2s (PPC 603/604 series') from 75Mhz to 350MHz.
The G3s came in at 233MHz (blowing the G2s away) and they've currently reached over a Ghz. The G4 is, for all intensive purposes, a G3 series.
I run Mac OS X. I'm a LAN Administrator and Network Designer. My job would be harder using Windows or Linux. I need access to the CLI and DOS is a joke. I need access to Office and Office v.X is the best version out there. I need X11. I need a good Java VM for some of our network adminstration tools. I need a portable with a long battery life. Pretty much a no brainer.
My wife runs Mac OS X. She's a Project Manager for a International Medical Informatics project. She doesn't need the CLI but needs WebDAV, SMB, NFS and whatever else the project throws at her. Need to communicate with a hundred people all in different countries with different machines? You can't just send them Word files. I'm pretty amazed that a single platform can cope with both of our workloads.
My good friend runs FreeBSD. He swears by it. He writes little networked apps. He's recently got himself an iBook for development because he figures he can do 90% of the hard development work on any of his machines and then by just adding a pretty little GUI in InterfaceBuilder, he can sell the little apps to Mac people as well. He's not aMac guy but he tells me how much he's spent on hardware upgrades in the last two years and I'm amazed. Sure, PC hardware is cheaper, but is it necessary to upgrade everything every month???
I don't care what platform you use. Just leave me to use Mac OS X. You on Linux? Want to show me a cool app? Recompile and we're there.
The companies should collaborate and be forced to provide gateways to their service. It should be open to several protocols including ones like Jabber.
Jabber as a messaging platform/gateway fails in the respect that multi-protocol clients fail. You still need different accounts for each of the messaging platforms.
Why can't my friend stay as rootuser@hotmail.com while I use thebigsteve@mac.com while my l33t friend uses bigbunsguy@jabber.slashdot.org and we should be able to talk, exchange files or whatever with our friends on AOL and others.
Having to maintain separate accounts is a pain. And in this day and age it's a joke.
So Apple have finally decided to differentiate from NEWS and FAN sites. News is Macworld et al, Fan sites and rumor sites don't deserve MEDIA passes (get in for free, get fed, get watered, get free net connection).
There's nothing wrong with being non-tech savvy. I'd blame the systems admin there for not educating his userbase. Why can't they email out 40 MB files - surely that's a failing of the systems rather than the people.
As for traffic generation by Macs. That's REALLY old and shows a lot of ignorance. On a properly designed network you wouldn't even see it. Again the techs are at fault.
Why do you need it? Apple is..more or less...deprecating Sorenson anyway in favour of MPEG4 and you can't say that Linux doesn't have any access to that.
So you can use an iPod with a PC. Big deal. It's just a HFS+ disk. The difference and the bit that makes it cool is that it is all one integrated solution. Having used a slew of MP3 players, iPod blew me away and not just the device itself but also the integration with the machine.
"A big chunk of Apple is owned by our friends at MS"
Don't you read? 150 million dollars of non-voting stock five years ago is not "big chunk". It has been a nice little earner for Mr Gates as it is currently worth 8-10 times what he paid for it. But it's non-voting...geddit...
Biggest reason for Apple not to include iPod or ##### for Windows is that they do want you to buy a Mac. When ##### comes outyou'll want one more. Going to buy more third party software just to get it to work?
"The Earth's temperature has ALWAYS fluctuated -- massively. Only in the past thousand years or so has the temperature leveled out at a rather warm plateau. But if you look at a statistical chart of the earth's history over the past few million years you'll see wide temperature swings that have absolutely nothing at all to do with humanities actions or inaction."
The thing is - we don't really care what the Earth thinks is normal.
We would, however, like to prolong the existence of a climate that is conducive to human life. Like it or not, CO2 makes it bad for humans and adding toxins make it worse.
Anyone in a maritime climate or who has property at an altitude up to 1 m above sea level should shore up.
The problem is that too many people use "global warming" and don't understand what it means.
Here in Ireland we've seen the effects. It doesn't really get warmer but it's got a hell of a lot more extreme in the heights of summer and the depths of winter. It's a lot wetter too.
This is a big deal...specially for you people on the coasts and in the central states. If I was you I'd start investing in appalachian or rockies property.:)
"More proprietary software. OS X: lets sell out freedom for eyecandy."
People go on about proprietary software without realising what the implications of this are. There's nothing wrong with proprietary software and you damn well know it. If you're on x86 you use proprietary software even if you run Linux.
Who made your BIOS? You?
And the hardware is neither Free or free on x86 so...give up already. It's not "if" you like Mac OS X but rather "when".
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but I've successfully run Debian and FreeBSD from a Virtual PC image. It's like having a spare unix.
why are Apple competing with their own dealers like that, by grabbing all the hot product right away
Because most dealers don't know how to market or sell Apple product - let's face it they haven't been doing a good job for the last decade.
Apple is taking things into their own hands - we know Apple sucks at marketing, just seems that Elite/CW sucked more.
Would you be happy if your future depended on these guys?
Quick, hide all the Gigabit ethernet....we wouldn't want people comparing the marketing numbers to ACTUAL THROUGHPUT.
anyone who put's scripting in any email program needs to be brutally killed in the streets
Ouch, tough crowd.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with scripting in any application. We should point the fingers at the virus writers and commit heinous crimes against their personage.
It should be safe to have scripting in an application.
...in the development of Linux as a viable desktop OS - are the people currently using it.
The actual USE of Linux as a desktop OS just requires a bit of knowledge, either on the part of the user or on the part of the installer. The various successes out there in governments and schools show that it can be done.
Under normal circumstances when talking about an OS vendor and a software vendor I'd agree. But Windows and Office are made by the same company. It's outrageous they should have the problems they do and even more ridiculous that Office running on a third party OS should have LESS problems.
Shame that the wilWheaton does Mandrake was mixed with the Switcher story as it seems to have again brought out the worst in people.
I use Mac OS X and I'm happy with it. I have access to Linux and *BSD and Windows on new hardware but I just prefer running OSX on my 2 year old Powerbook. I don't CARE what you run and that's a GOOD thing. What is nice is that I'm on UNIX. If you're running Mandrake or SuSe or Debian then you're on UNIX too. It's a cliche but we've all got bigger fish to fry.
As for the commercial == Bad? Pardon? I suppose software engineers live on handouts? Pay someone to do it right. Make it open source so people can tell you what's wrong with it.
Apple used the 68K series from 8 MHz to 80MHz (40 really). They used the G1 PowerPCs (PPC601) from 60MHz to 132MHz. Then the G2s (PPC 603/604 series') from 75Mhz to 350MHz.
The G3s came in at 233MHz (blowing the G2s away) and they've currently reached over a Ghz. The G4 is, for all intensive purposes, a G3 series.
There's a change due. Who knows where.
My wife runs Mac OS X. She's a Project Manager for a International Medical Informatics project. She doesn't need the CLI but needs WebDAV, SMB, NFS and whatever else the project throws at her. Need to communicate with a hundred people all in different countries with different machines? You can't just send them Word files. I'm pretty amazed that a single platform can cope with both of our workloads.
My good friend runs FreeBSD. He swears by it. He writes little networked apps. He's recently got himself an iBook for development because he figures he can do 90% of the hard development work on any of his machines and then by just adding a pretty little GUI in InterfaceBuilder, he can sell the little apps to Mac people as well. He's not aMac guy but he tells me how much he's spent on hardware upgrades in the last two years and I'm amazed. Sure, PC hardware is cheaper, but is it necessary to upgrade everything every month???
I don't care what platform you use. Just leave me to use Mac OS X. You on Linux? Want to show me a cool app? Recompile and we're there.
Jabber as a messaging platform/gateway fails in the respect that multi-protocol clients fail. You still need different accounts for each of the messaging platforms.
Why can't my friend stay as rootuser@hotmail.com while I use thebigsteve@mac.com while my l33t friend uses bigbunsguy@jabber.slashdot.org and we should be able to talk, exchange files or whatever with our friends on AOL and others.
Having to maintain separate accounts is a pain. And in this day and age it's a joke.
So Apple have finally decided to differentiate from NEWS and FAN sites. News is Macworld et al, Fan sites and rumor sites don't deserve MEDIA passes (get in for free, get fed, get watered, get free net connection).
As for traffic generation by Macs. That's REALLY old and shows a lot of ignorance. On a properly designed network you wouldn't even see it. Again the techs are at fault.
Everyone would then be on an even playing field.
But...jeez...who has time to waste on Linux.
"A big chunk of Apple is owned by our friends at MS"
Don't you read? 150 million dollars of non-voting stock five years ago is not "big chunk". It has been a nice little earner for Mr Gates as it is currently worth 8-10 times what he paid for it. But it's non-voting...geddit...
Biggest reason for Apple not to include iPod or ##### for Windows is that they do want you to buy a Mac. When ##### comes outyou'll want one more. Going to buy more third party software just to get it to work?
Oh yeah, and end-of-lifing Project (after a slow and lingering stasis).
Oh and the complete lack of proper Outlook for Macintosh.
and let's not forget what they did to Halo...
commando has to be the biznez.
And of course it runs my System 7 progs - I have SIMTower running almost constantly....without crashing...
/. is the haven of the WaReZ kiddies.
And force them to use Windows or *worse* Linux in order to get their assignments and projects done?
Get real.
The ones we sell to yankee doodle suckers do, yeah...
I know so many people - new to the Mac so not complete suckers - who HAd to buy the 17" LCD to go with their G4 when a 17" CRT would have sufficed.
There's also the issue that a 23" LCD would give you the same screen size as..what..a 25" CRT?
"The Earth's temperature has ALWAYS fluctuated -- massively. Only in the past thousand years or so has the temperature leveled out at a rather warm plateau. But if you look at a statistical chart of the earth's history over the past few million years you'll see wide temperature swings that have absolutely nothing at all to do with humanities actions or inaction."
The thing is - we don't really care what the Earth thinks is normal.
We would, however, like to prolong the existence of a climate that is conducive to human life. Like it or not, CO2 makes it bad for humans and adding toxins make it worse.
The problem is that too many people use "global warming" and don't understand what it means.
Here in Ireland we've seen the effects. It doesn't really get warmer but it's got a hell of a lot more extreme in the heights of summer and the depths of winter. It's a lot wetter too.
This is a big deal...specially for you people on the coasts and in the central states. If I was you I'd start investing in appalachian or rockies property.
Just a thought...
People go on about proprietary software without realising what the implications of this are. There's nothing wrong with proprietary software and you damn well know it. If you're on x86 you use proprietary software even if you run Linux.
Who made your BIOS? You?
And the hardware is neither Free or free on x86 so...give up already. It's not "if" you like Mac OS X but rather "when".