I think this has quite a good chance of being secure.
Anybody that starts with that assumption, or the stated and equally unlikely "cannot be hacked" has already lost whatever battle they imagined they were fighting. There are probably more holes in making the discs than there are in distributing them. How many hands does a film pass through before it even gets to be a master copy waiting to be encrypted?
Nowhere do I see anything about whether or not they'll bring this to a non-Windows platform (hell, I can't even find the system requirements on their web site). I'd probably give these guys hundreds of dollars playing CoV if it supported Mac OS X. As it stands, DOOM III is the only release I'm really looking forward to this year.
It comes down to the philosophy of the OS used in the schools. If you've used Windows95, you can used WindowsXP...not too much has changed. Try going from XP to OSX....it's a little tougher you see.
It's only tougher if you've done a poor job teaching (or learning). Sitting down in front of a computer for a student shouldn't be about learning that one system, it should be either about learning general computation or, conversely, have nothing to do with the technology at all (e.g., Lemonade Stand).
So if you're going to pick on OS, you may as well make it a version of the most popular one.
From an education standpoint, that's totally backwards. If you're going to pick an OS, you are doing a disservice to the students if you just give them the same thing they can get anywhere the MS monopoly extends. A student (everyone, really) is better served by broad exposure to multiple different platforms.
Not that it matters, schools are teching kids to "Wordprocess and make presentations". These are good skills, but the schools should be teaching a little more about the computer itself. Give them tools so they are better able to figure out an unfamiliar app or system.
Which totally contradicts what you just said. How could you expect them to figure out the unfamiliar when all they are exposed to is Word or PowerPoint or Internet Explorer? It's that kind of limited environment that turns them into adults with poor computer skills.
The Platform is not the Technology
on
Apple Delays New iMac
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
I'm not sure how valid this thought is but it would seem that using Apple products in a school (talked about in the article) setting would pidgeon hole students into a very limited sector of the market.
That is moronic, and yet oddly it is used by school districts all the time to put a Windows monoculture in place. Think about it: what system could possibly be used that isn't totally outdated by the time kids graduate in 5 years? Even if you gave them expert-level training on Windows XP, Microsoft's defacto standard that enjoys a monopoly position, that "education" is down the drain when Longhorn ships. The same is true of any non-monopoly system, too. The pigeon hole playing field is pretty level.
I would have loved being able to choose to work on a platform of my choosing instead of being forced into one thing.
Kids don't know shit. Platforms of their "own choosing" are video game consoles. Teachers aren't there to follow the students' instruction; it's the other way around. What school administration needs to go with is a computer that will build a technology base for the students without causing the teachers a lot of headaches. That neither describes Windows nor Linux.
Though the PS2 console itself was sold at cost around launch time, Sony still makes money on every sale of a PS1 game or Columbia TriStar DVD video that you put into a PS2 console.
I miss one secret meeting and the whole master plan leaks out. Doh!
But, really, at this stage it would make more sense for MS to go to Apple for help on the XB2. If they are, in fact, going to use a PPC processor in it, there are many advantages in collaboration for both sides. MS tapping Apple for hardware design clout doesn't seem very far-fetched, and if the Mac then became a target for ports of console games, Apple would benefit. Of course it would be absolutely priceless to see a division of MS to go with a solution that supports the iPod instead of some MS approved, non-Firewire WMA portable.
I'm still waiting for Apple to bust out a good use/reason they went with "Pod" instead of something more in line with it's music capabilities. Music and gaming demographics would seem to have a lot of overlap, so using one to store saved games (or anything else you'd be inclined to jam a HD into a console for) seems like a reasonable start.
Another part of the reason is that Microsoft owns VirtualPC now, and they understandably don't have much incentive to make it easier for Mac owners to get the most out of their Panther-running G5 boxen. It's outside of their core market.
That's totally backwards. From a marketing perspective, the most attractive segment is the one you don't already control. That's why you see many more incentives given by companies to attract new customers. MS needs things like VPC and Office for the Mac because without them they're making $0 from Apple users. It's the same way that Apple is in a better marketshare position than Microsoft because if MS crushes Apple, they only get another 5-10% bump, but Apple has 90+% of the market it can expand to if MS vanishes. It is by virtue of their monopoly that MS needs the Mac market to see any expansion at all; otherwise it's all downhill for them.
You're thinking that going to "gigs of flash memory" will cut production costs? What're you smoking? Why do you think we all still use hard drives? Right, because flash memory isn't a commodity, and hard disks are.
Absolutely right. In fact, the smart thing would be to stop trying to jam everything into the console itself and make it a properly modular system. If Apple was putting out a console, you can damn well bet it would be part of their digital hub concept and you would be able to connect an iPod to store your saved games. The bonus, of course, is that you could listen to your favorite music while playing a game instead of some of the annoying crap a lot of titles ship with.
A lot of people have chimed in with their own answers, so I'll instead pose the subject question. If it isn't Iraqis that penned the invite, I wouldn't suggest going. You're looking to go into a situation where "rebuilding" has begun though the war isn't over. They don't collectively want your help, and that should be enough to pass.
See what you mean, though tbh I've only found dictionary attacks a problem with large ISPs or email providers - my domain is simply my own name and very much doubt a dictionary attack would be done solely to get me.
I used to think the same thing. Unfortunately, it seems like I'm ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with spam issues. I have one domain that is just parked, and it has already been the target of multiple/continued dictionary attacks. Spammers don't (likely) know from the domain name alone who or what is on the other end, so it's just easier to blanket domains. Unless they get blocked server side, once they find you, things will get painful. It's best to have a plan on what to do before that happens.
Anyone who decides to spam me or give out or sell my email address will be found.
Nope. Ever hear of a dictionary attack? That'll hit your amazon@ address today, and in the future you can, if such custom addressing takes off, expect to see specific domain attacks as well. The problem is that your allocation is done publicly. What you need to do instead is assign a specific, unguessable name for a site, likely using a hash of some kind on the domain + a secret token. Only then could you find out who sold you out with 5fb9b7d1b9d427ad7c44a8ff61a64765@example.com (or whatever).
If it means a virtual Jar Jar Binks can be killed, there will be a good deal more rejoicing. I think a number of people would see to it that "Gungans - 0%" is a fixture of the game . . .
About 10 years ago I had a password where I typed an easy-to-remember non-word with my hands shifted on the keyboard. I actually went over a year without knowing what my password was, until one day I accidentally typed it at a login prompt.
Is that when you found out that all along you were using "password"? I hate it when that happens!
Yes, so? I don't want to have to download 600 MB just to get the dev tools that Debian gives me in like 20 MB. It's good they provide them for free, but it would still be a lot better if they could be gotten in separate packages.
OK, seriously, you had me going for the first post, but I recognized the troll right here. To pretend that Debian even has tools like the CHUD suite (to name some things on the CD you probably don't know) let alone bundles them with the compiler, IDE, and GUI design tools all under 20MB is so sad it's funny. You should have said you only wanted gcc and that the Apple extras were fluff; that would have been a more believable troll.
No, the reason is that they use functions that are available in glibc, but not in other libcs. Few programs actually use code that only works on x86.
Two bird of the same color. Portability, with some irony, is an afterthought to most open source developers. Whether that manifests itself in link issues or endian issues is not important. You simply can't blame Apple because a Linux coder is unprofessional.
It's true that fink has some applications, but it's very very meagre compared to Debian's collection.
Yet you never name a single package you had trouble with or give any details of the problem. I'm more likely to believe your story if you back it up with real evidence.
As for Java; yes, it is a miserable failure and definitely not write once, run everywhere, but c'mon. Swing doesn't even use native widgets, does it? That should be _really_ easy to port.
What makes you think that? Because a Sun brochure said so? It is subject to per-platform issues no matter what they do. Again, I have no idea if Apple's implementation is the buggy one, or if the code is written to work on the other platform's buggy emulator ("virtual machine" my ass; now there is one amazing bit of marketing-speak that nobody ever shines a light on).
Well, under Linux, I used to run XFree86, WindowMaker, Mozilla Firefox, GAIM, XMMS, Gkrellm2, xterm with screen and a couple of shells, mutt, and elvis. It fits under 128 MB, comfortably - maybe even under 64 MB, I can't test it now. In my iBook, I have 256 MB RAM, and it constantly runs out.
As I said, I was looking for parity examples. Feel free to post actual process stats for programs that you run, but it'll still be a toss up whether you can say, for example that WindowMaker and WindowServer offer identical functionality. Also note that a related factor is the RISC instruction set of the PPC; programs tend to require more instructions (equals more RAM and HD) to accomplish the same task. To be more fair you should give process stats for Linux running on PPC.
Yes, Apple "gets it". You take KHTML, and *poof*, instant web browser. That's the way open source is supposed to work!
Back to the more obvious troll, here. It's not like they run the thing in an X11 window. Safari may use the same core as KHTML, but there was no "poof". It was a lot of work, and Apple contributed a great deal of code back to the KHTML project.
Tell me how. I looked.
Not very well. It took me under a minute, and I wasn't really trying. Here's a hint: Terminal->Window Settings->Keyboard. Nothing difficult about that at all.
I crashed the system yesterday. That's a show stopper, and an intolerable one.
You don't give any details, so I can't say what the issue is. Your statement is vague enough that I could think you just had an app die on you instead of a kernel panic. I've haven't seen a random panic since OS X was in Beta. Such things are usually caused by bad hardware or outdated hardware drivers.
This thread isn't about show stoppers, it's about falling out of love with OS X and the software that is shipped with it.
It's a bloody computer! Love is not important. It's a tools that either does the job or it doesn't. All I'm still hea
1. First thing I noticed that, contrary to what it says on several website, the system ships without a C compiler. To get one, I had to download > 600 MB (big big gasp! that's more than my entire Debian installation was) from Apple.
I don't know what sites you're reading or what system you bought, but I got a developer CD with my Mac OS X system. If you're whining about it not being installed by default then keep in mind that, unlike Linux, most Mac users aren't expected to compile the software they want to run. You also complain about the size, but that's stupid/pointless because Apple gives you for free a lot of development tools you just don't have on Linux.
2. Many applications written for the GNU system won't compile on it. This is because glibc is bloated with all kinds of functions that do get used by developers who target GNU/Linux.
Nah. The real reason is that Linux developers often have tunnel vision for their (x86) systems. Still, you need look no farther than fink for counter-examples of software that is readily ported to Mac OS X.
3. Some software just doesn't run correctly. I wrote a webserver that I started developing on OS X, then further developed on Linux. It compiles without warnings, but goes completely insane when run on OS X. Several Java applications fail when trying to use Swing.
You don't establish Apple being at fault. For all I know you simply write crappy, non-portable code. That is especially true when I see Java/Swing stuff, where the developer themselves actually bought into the "write once, run anywhere" Sun marketing slogan BS.
4. The OS (including the GUI) eats a *lot* of memory. The iLife apps are also huge.
Compared to what parity apps? Both disk space and RAM are cheap these days. If you can't scrape up ten cents to cover the HD cost of 20 language localizations (or whatever) for an app, delete them. I'm not seeing any significant RAM usage difference from my Linux box, so maybe you could explain what you're talking about in more detail.
5. Safari does too many things in one thread; when it's rendering a page in one tab, I can't switch to another tab: the Spinning Beachball of Death appears and the switch happens only *after* the page has rendered.
I'll partially grant you this one. I tend to switch to another tab before a page load and renders, so I'm not really seeing what you're seeing. For a 1.x version browser, though, it's a damn nice job.
6. iChat A/V doesn't work behind my NAT box - after a request for audio chat (no connection can be established), messages I send do not get delivered, and eventually iChat loses its connection altogether.
Never use it, so I can't say. Does Apple make claims it'll work under such conditions, or does your ISP make claims they support such usage? If not, then I don't see how you can reasonably make an issue out of this.
7. The Terminal is sloooow to start, and annoyingly eats the PgUp and PgDn keypresses, sending them to the scroll bar instead of the program that's running. I know, I can use Shift+PgUp, but that's annoying, especially since that's actually Shift+fn+up on my iBook.
You can also, you know, maybe change the preferences! Don't blame Apple if you can't be bothered to learn how to use the app. I don't observe any slowness, so I can't explain what you are seeing. Try creating another user and see if it might not be some profile/preference setting that if affecting you.
So, yeah, you may see a lot of "unfamiliar" things and think they're just flaws, but every system is going to have quirks to learn about. What would concern me are real show stoppers, not minor annoyances people seem to complain about.
With Cassini actually passing through a gap in the inner rings during its orbit insertion it's hard to imaging the spectacular images that await us.
I'm sorry, but goatse.cx has made it impossible to utter phrases like that without a collective cringing. The only way you could have made that more mentally disturbing is if this were a mission to Uranus.
according to the download page, both linux and Mac OS X version are 'coming soon'
Which, to me, says the same thing as "the day before DNF is released". Nothing on their site indicates they have any Mac experience at all, and the one non-Windows thing they seem to have (BCS) was ported to Linux before the Mac, which makes no business sense. Kinda sad, since the game trailer does make it look pretty cool.
and if you have a pool of junior editors/interns at your disposal, it's a simple matter of giving them each 15 minutes of film and having them step through it at 2 fps
And knowing that it's a motion picture you can prioritize the frames by running them through a routine that figures out the differences between successive frames. If one frame is very different than the frame that came before it and the frame that comes after it, it'll get looked at more closely.
Why the hell does it need an installer at all? Just give the user a folder to drag and drop, or go the extra mile and hire a developer with a clue to make a proper application package. OK, I get that Diablo might have a lot of data, but even I can think of a few ways to locate and load resources without writing a separate installer application. Certainly I can't be the only one concerned with all the opaque installers that ask for the Administrator password first thing after being launched, too.
Yes, this is so much worse than the 99.9% of companies that do absolutely nothing.
You can do nothing if you don't blow your horn about it. These people are blowing their horn over what is essentially trivial community participation. This reminds me so much of Chris Rock's "Niggas vs. Black People" routine that it's not funny. "Salesforce.com always want some credit for some shit they supposed to do . .."
Slashdot Mirror
I think this has quite a good chance of being secure.
Anybody that starts with that assumption, or the stated and equally unlikely "cannot be hacked" has already lost whatever battle they imagined they were fighting. There are probably more holes in making the discs than there are in distributing them. How many hands does a film pass through before it even gets to be a master copy waiting to be encrypted?
Nowhere do I see anything about whether or not they'll bring this to a non-Windows platform (hell, I can't even find the system requirements on their web site). I'd probably give these guys hundreds of dollars playing CoV if it supported Mac OS X. As it stands, DOOM III is the only release I'm really looking forward to this year.
It comes down to the philosophy of the OS used in the schools. If you've used Windows95, you can used WindowsXP...not too much has changed. Try going from XP to OSX....it's a little tougher you see.
It's only tougher if you've done a poor job teaching (or learning). Sitting down in front of a computer for a student shouldn't be about learning that one system, it should be either about learning general computation or, conversely, have nothing to do with the technology at all (e.g., Lemonade Stand).
So if you're going to pick on OS, you may as well make it a version of the most popular one.
From an education standpoint, that's totally backwards. If you're going to pick an OS, you are doing a disservice to the students if you just give them the same thing they can get anywhere the MS monopoly extends. A student (everyone, really) is better served by broad exposure to multiple different platforms.
Not that it matters, schools are teching kids to "Wordprocess and make presentations". These are good skills, but the schools should be teaching a little more about the computer itself. Give them tools so they are better able to figure out an unfamiliar app or system.
Which totally contradicts what you just said. How could you expect them to figure out the unfamiliar when all they are exposed to is Word or PowerPoint or Internet Explorer? It's that kind of limited environment that turns them into adults with poor computer skills.
I'm not sure how valid this thought is but it would seem that using Apple products in a school (talked about in the article) setting would pidgeon hole students into a very limited sector of the market.
That is moronic, and yet oddly it is used by school districts all the time to put a Windows monoculture in place. Think about it: what system could possibly be used that isn't totally outdated by the time kids graduate in 5 years? Even if you gave them expert-level training on Windows XP, Microsoft's defacto standard that enjoys a monopoly position, that "education" is down the drain when Longhorn ships. The same is true of any non-monopoly system, too. The pigeon hole playing field is pretty level.
I would have loved being able to choose to work on a platform of my choosing instead of being forced into one thing.
Kids don't know shit. Platforms of their "own choosing" are video game consoles. Teachers aren't there to follow the students' instruction; it's the other way around. What school administration needs to go with is a computer that will build a technology base for the students without causing the teachers a lot of headaches. That neither describes Windows nor Linux.
Why was a Texan company managing the .iq domains anyhow?
I'm guessing they somehow had ties to Bush.
Even I'm not sure if I'm trying to be funny!
Though the PS2 console itself was sold at cost around launch time, Sony still makes money on every sale of a PS1 game or Columbia TriStar DVD video that you put into a PS2 console.
One word rebuttal: used
That's the big secret! Keep quiet, you.
I miss one secret meeting and the whole master plan leaks out. Doh!
But, really, at this stage it would make more sense for MS to go to Apple for help on the XB2. If they are, in fact, going to use a PPC processor in it, there are many advantages in collaboration for both sides. MS tapping Apple for hardware design clout doesn't seem very far-fetched, and if the Mac then became a target for ports of console games, Apple would benefit. Of course it would be absolutely priceless to see a division of MS to go with a solution that supports the iPod instead of some MS approved, non-Firewire WMA portable.
I'm still waiting for Apple to bust out a good use/reason they went with "Pod" instead of something more in line with it's music capabilities. Music and gaming demographics would seem to have a lot of overlap, so using one to store saved games (or anything else you'd be inclined to jam a HD into a console for) seems like a reasonable start.
Another part of the reason is that Microsoft owns VirtualPC now, and they understandably don't have much incentive to make it easier for Mac owners to get the most out of their Panther-running G5 boxen. It's outside of their core market.
That's totally backwards. From a marketing perspective, the most attractive segment is the one you don't already control. That's why you see many more incentives given by companies to attract new customers. MS needs things like VPC and Office for the Mac because without them they're making $0 from Apple users. It's the same way that Apple is in a better marketshare position than Microsoft because if MS crushes Apple, they only get another 5-10% bump, but Apple has 90+% of the market it can expand to if MS vanishes. It is by virtue of their monopoly that MS needs the Mac market to see any expansion at all; otherwise it's all downhill for them.
You're thinking that going to "gigs of flash memory" will cut production costs? What're you smoking? Why do you think we all still use hard drives? Right, because flash memory isn't a commodity, and hard disks are.
Absolutely right. In fact, the smart thing would be to stop trying to jam everything into the console itself and make it a properly modular system. If Apple was putting out a console, you can damn well bet it would be part of their digital hub concept and you would be able to connect an iPod to store your saved games. The bonus, of course, is that you could listen to your favorite music while playing a game instead of some of the annoying crap a lot of titles ship with.
A lot of people have chimed in with their own answers, so I'll instead pose the subject question. If it isn't Iraqis that penned the invite, I wouldn't suggest going. You're looking to go into a situation where "rebuilding" has begun though the war isn't over. They don't collectively want your help, and that should be enough to pass.
See what you mean, though tbh I've only found dictionary attacks a problem with large ISPs or email providers - my domain is simply my own name and very much doubt a dictionary attack would be done solely to get me.
I used to think the same thing. Unfortunately, it seems like I'm ahead of the curve when it comes to dealing with spam issues. I have one domain that is just parked, and it has already been the target of multiple/continued dictionary attacks. Spammers don't (likely) know from the domain name alone who or what is on the other end, so it's just easier to blanket domains. Unless they get blocked server side, once they find you, things will get painful. It's best to have a plan on what to do before that happens.
Anyone who decides to spam me or give out or sell my email address will be found.
Nope. Ever hear of a dictionary attack? That'll hit your amazon@ address today, and in the future you can, if such custom addressing takes off, expect to see specific domain attacks as well. The problem is that your allocation is done publicly. What you need to do instead is assign a specific, unguessable name for a site, likely using a hash of some kind on the domain + a secret token. Only then could you find out who sold you out with 5fb9b7d1b9d427ad7c44a8ff61a64765@example.com (or whatever).
Oh, you have to love the opt-in selection on the registration page:
Click here if you would like to be contacted by Google regarding employment opportunities and other promotions.
Pay me $100k to work for them or spam me to decrease my mortgage payment while I increase my penis size; it's all the same, right? Why, Google, why?
A small handful of people REJOICE!!
If it means a virtual Jar Jar Binks can be killed, there will be a good deal more rejoicing. I think a number of people would see to it that "Gungans - 0%" is a fixture of the game . . .
The problem with ads is that I am seeing ads that aren't my thing. I don't care about pantyhose. I am a man.
If watching a Victoria's Secret ad isn't your thing, you're no man I've ever heard of. Straight or gay!
I still don't understand why they don't have iTMS in Canada yet.
Two words: Celine Dion.
About 10 years ago I had a password where I typed an easy-to-remember non-word with my hands shifted on the keyboard. I actually went over a year without knowing what my password was, until one day I accidentally typed it at a login prompt.
Is that when you found out that all along you were using "password"? I hate it when that happens!
Yes, so? I don't want to have to download 600 MB just to get the dev tools that Debian gives me in like 20 MB. It's good they provide them for free, but it would still be a lot better if they could be gotten in separate packages.
OK, seriously, you had me going for the first post, but I recognized the troll right here. To pretend that Debian even has tools like the CHUD suite (to name some things on the CD you probably don't know) let alone bundles them with the compiler, IDE, and GUI design tools all under 20MB is so sad it's funny. You should have said you only wanted gcc and that the Apple extras were fluff; that would have been a more believable troll.
No, the reason is that they use functions that are available in glibc, but not in other libcs. Few programs actually use code that only works on x86.
Two bird of the same color. Portability, with some irony, is an afterthought to most open source developers. Whether that manifests itself in link issues or endian issues is not important. You simply can't blame Apple because a Linux coder is unprofessional.
It's true that fink has some applications, but it's very very meagre compared to Debian's collection.
Yet you never name a single package you had trouble with or give any details of the problem. I'm more likely to believe your story if you back it up with real evidence.
As for Java; yes, it is a miserable failure and definitely not write once, run everywhere, but c'mon. Swing doesn't even use native widgets, does it? That should be _really_ easy to port.
What makes you think that? Because a Sun brochure said so? It is subject to per-platform issues no matter what they do. Again, I have no idea if Apple's implementation is the buggy one, or if the code is written to work on the other platform's buggy emulator ("virtual machine" my ass; now there is one amazing bit of marketing-speak that nobody ever shines a light on).
Well, under Linux, I used to run XFree86, WindowMaker, Mozilla Firefox, GAIM, XMMS, Gkrellm2, xterm with screen and a couple of shells, mutt, and elvis. It fits under 128 MB, comfortably - maybe even under 64 MB, I can't test it now. In my iBook, I have 256 MB RAM, and it constantly runs out.
As I said, I was looking for parity examples. Feel free to post actual process stats for programs that you run, but it'll still be a toss up whether you can say, for example that WindowMaker and WindowServer offer identical functionality. Also note that a related factor is the RISC instruction set of the PPC; programs tend to require more instructions (equals more RAM and HD) to accomplish the same task. To be more fair you should give process stats for Linux running on PPC.
Yes, Apple "gets it". You take KHTML, and *poof*, instant web browser. That's the way open source is supposed to work!
Back to the more obvious troll, here. It's not like they run the thing in an X11 window. Safari may use the same core as KHTML, but there was no "poof". It was a lot of work, and Apple contributed a great deal of code back to the KHTML project.
Tell me how. I looked.
Not very well. It took me under a minute, and I wasn't really trying. Here's a hint: Terminal->Window Settings->Keyboard. Nothing difficult about that at all.
I crashed the system yesterday. That's a show stopper, and an intolerable one.
You don't give any details, so I can't say what the issue is. Your statement is vague enough that I could think you just had an app die on you instead of a kernel panic. I've haven't seen a random panic since OS X was in Beta. Such things are usually caused by bad hardware or outdated hardware drivers.
This thread isn't about show stoppers, it's about falling out of love with OS X and the software that is shipped with it.
It's a bloody computer! Love is not important. It's a tools that either does the job or it doesn't. All I'm still hea
bur^3pP$
1. First thing I noticed that, contrary to what it says on several website, the system ships without a C compiler. To get one, I had to download > 600 MB (big big gasp! that's more than my entire Debian installation was) from Apple.
I don't know what sites you're reading or what system you bought, but I got a developer CD with my Mac OS X system. If you're whining about it not being installed by default then keep in mind that, unlike Linux, most Mac users aren't expected to compile the software they want to run. You also complain about the size, but that's stupid/pointless because Apple gives you for free a lot of development tools you just don't have on Linux.
2. Many applications written for the GNU system won't compile on it. This is because glibc is bloated with all kinds of functions that do get used by developers who target GNU/Linux.
Nah. The real reason is that Linux developers often have tunnel vision for their (x86) systems. Still, you need look no farther than fink for counter-examples of software that is readily ported to Mac OS X.
3. Some software just doesn't run correctly. I wrote a webserver that I started developing on OS X, then further developed on Linux. It compiles without warnings, but goes completely insane when run on OS X. Several Java applications fail when trying to use Swing.
You don't establish Apple being at fault. For all I know you simply write crappy, non-portable code. That is especially true when I see Java/Swing stuff, where the developer themselves actually bought into the "write once, run anywhere" Sun marketing slogan BS.
4. The OS (including the GUI) eats a *lot* of memory. The iLife apps are also huge.
Compared to what parity apps? Both disk space and RAM are cheap these days. If you can't scrape up ten cents to cover the HD cost of 20 language localizations (or whatever) for an app, delete them. I'm not seeing any significant RAM usage difference from my Linux box, so maybe you could explain what you're talking about in more detail.
5. Safari does too many things in one thread; when it's rendering a page in one tab, I can't switch to another tab: the Spinning Beachball of Death appears and the switch happens only *after* the page has rendered.
I'll partially grant you this one. I tend to switch to another tab before a page load and renders, so I'm not really seeing what you're seeing. For a 1.x version browser, though, it's a damn nice job.
6. iChat A/V doesn't work behind my NAT box - after a request for audio chat (no connection can be established), messages I send do not get delivered, and eventually iChat loses its connection altogether.
Never use it, so I can't say. Does Apple make claims it'll work under such conditions, or does your ISP make claims they support such usage? If not, then I don't see how you can reasonably make an issue out of this.
7. The Terminal is sloooow to start, and annoyingly eats the PgUp and PgDn keypresses, sending them to the scroll bar instead of the program that's running. I know, I can use Shift+PgUp, but that's annoying, especially since that's actually Shift+fn+up on my iBook.
You can also, you know, maybe change the preferences! Don't blame Apple if you can't be bothered to learn how to use the app. I don't observe any slowness, so I can't explain what you are seeing. Try creating another user and see if it might not be some profile/preference setting that if affecting you.
So, yeah, you may see a lot of "unfamiliar" things and think they're just flaws, but every system is going to have quirks to learn about. What would concern me are real show stoppers, not minor annoyances people seem to complain about.
With Cassini actually passing through a gap in the inner rings during its orbit insertion it's hard to imaging the spectacular images that await us.
I'm sorry, but goatse.cx has made it impossible to utter phrases like that without a collective cringing. The only way you could have made that more mentally disturbing is if this were a mission to Uranus.
according to the download page, both linux and Mac OS X version are 'coming soon'
Which, to me, says the same thing as "the day before DNF is released". Nothing on their site indicates they have any Mac experience at all, and the one non-Windows thing they seem to have (BCS) was ported to Linux before the Mac, which makes no business sense. Kinda sad, since the game trailer does make it look pretty cool.
and if you have a pool of junior editors/interns at your disposal, it's a simple matter of giving them each 15 minutes of film and having them step through it at 2 fps
And knowing that it's a motion picture you can prioritize the frames by running them through a routine that figures out the differences between successive frames. If one frame is very different than the frame that came before it and the frame that comes after it, it'll get looked at more closely.
Why the hell does it need an installer at all? Just give the user a folder to drag and drop, or go the extra mile and hire a developer with a clue to make a proper application package. OK, I get that Diablo might have a lot of data, but even I can think of a few ways to locate and load resources without writing a separate installer application. Certainly I can't be the only one concerned with all the opaque installers that ask for the Administrator password first thing after being launched, too.
Yes, this is so much worse than the 99.9% of companies that do absolutely nothing.
You can do nothing if you don't blow your horn about it. These people are blowing their horn over what is essentially trivial community participation. This reminds me so much of Chris Rock's "Niggas vs. Black People" routine that it's not funny. "Salesforce.com always want some credit for some shit they supposed to do . . ."