Yeah, I can't believe the way he drove Woz right into the poorhouse like that.:-) I'd say Apple needed both of them to get where they are now (and get that G4, OS X totally rules).
This grim future you describe, of free software looking like a joke and Microsoft being far ahead with the coolest new features, sounds pretty much like the current state of affairs to me. I say Miguel should go for it. After all, what have you got to lose?
Yeah, if you don't like somebody's politics, punishing your users by forcing them to learn a whole new environment is definitely the way to go. Of course, after one of them complains and you explain to your boss why you did it you'll be out of a job, but that's the price you gotta pay. I bet Miguel will be sorry then!
You didn't address the most important point, which is that a.NET implementation for the free unixes will make it easy for developers to target those platforms (in theory anyway). Even if Microsoft does play dirty and tries to screw this up, a not-quite-.NET-compatible Mono still sounds like a pleasant environment for developing software. You can still use it for your own stuff even if the runtime won't run everything out there produced with the MS tools.
Of course Microsoft is going to charge people to run Office.NET, just like they charge for current versions of Office. Are you saying that if I run a non-MS program like Gnome on a non-MS runtime like Mono, that Microsoft is still going to charge me? How?
Which version of OmniWeb are you running? I'm using 4.1sp36 on my iBook and very rarely does it crash on me. I'm going to take another look at this new Mozilla, but the thing that kills it for me is that the keyboard support sucks. If you have two windows or tabs open, switching between them using the keyboard doesn't take the focus with it, so you have to click the mouse somewhere in the pane before you can use the arrow keys to scroll. Little things like that make a big difference.
BTW, I agree with you about IE, it's pretty nice. The only things I don't like about it are the slow rendering of big tables that you mentioned, no popup-blocking, and the Carbon text doesn't look as good to me as the Cocoa text that OmniWeb uses (especially for serif fonts).
Anyway, get the latest OmniWeb and give it a spin. Be sure to clean out any junk in ~/Library/Application\ Support/OmniWeb/ first, corrupted history files have been known to cause problems.
Are you implying that Slashdot would post incorrect information? Unthinkable!
On another note, I didn't see anything on divx.com or divxnetworks.com about source availability. Besides, if divxnetworks is licensing patents that hardly sounds like technology that could be used in free software. Perhaps a double dose of misinformation?
I don't care if you like Macs or not, but I like mine a lot. I used Linux pretty much exclusively since the pre-1.0 days, and eventually I just got to the point where I didn't care about infinite configurability, I just wanted things to work out of the box. That's what my Mac gives me, along with the familiarity of the unix underpinnings.
The users wouldn't necessarily switch to a new OS, they would probably just stick with what they already have. Of course, from Microsoft's point of view this is every bit as bad.
I'm going to get one of these and set it up on my desk in the office. Then I can tell my boss that it allows me to fit eight hours of work into only five hours of realtime. Technology, making your world better!:-)
With OmniWeb you can set it to only allow pop-ups in response to a link being clicked. I think Mozilla has the same functionality if you put the correct gibberish in user.js. This certainly makes browsing more pleasant than just blocking them altogether, as sometimes you actually do want the popups for certain sites.
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I know it's spelled "savvy", in the article he spelled it "savy". That's why I wrote "(sic)", you illiterate doofus.
Yes, it's protected by Run-DMC to be specific. Better watch out or you'll end up with an Adidas up yo' ass...
Yeah, but with Shaq on the shelf with a bum wheel they could use some help in the post...
If it's so easy, why didn't you provide a specific example as requested?
I would imagine that content producers will choose the codec *THAT ACTUALLY EXISTS*. This Tarkin stuff is 100% hot air so far as I can tell.
Yeah, I can't believe the way he drove Woz right into the poorhouse like that. :-) I'd say Apple needed both of them to get where they are now (and get that G4, OS X totally rules).
This grim future you describe, of free software looking like a joke and Microsoft being far ahead with the coolest new features, sounds pretty much like the current state of affairs to me. I say Miguel should go for it. After all, what have you got to lose?
Yeah, if you don't like somebody's politics, punishing your users by forcing them to learn a whole new environment is definitely the way to go. Of course, after one of them complains and you explain to your boss why you did it you'll be out of a job, but that's the price you gotta pay. I bet Miguel will be sorry then!
You didn't address the most important point, which is that a .NET implementation for the free unixes will make it easy for developers to target those platforms (in theory anyway). Even if Microsoft does play dirty and tries to screw this up, a not-quite-.NET-compatible Mono still sounds like a pleasant environment for developing software. You can still use it for your own stuff even if the runtime won't run everything out there produced with the MS tools.
Of course Microsoft is going to charge people to run Office.NET, just like they charge for current versions of Office. Are you saying that if I run a non-MS program like Gnome on a non-MS runtime like Mono, that Microsoft is still going to charge me? How?
To get at the OmniWeb 4.1 prereleases, go to:
. sneakypeek/
http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/
and follow the instructions there.
Which version of OmniWeb are you running? I'm using 4.1sp36 on my iBook and very rarely does it crash on me. I'm going to take another look at this new Mozilla, but the thing that kills it for me is that the keyboard support sucks. If you have two windows or tabs open, switching between them using the keyboard doesn't take the focus with it, so you have to click the mouse somewhere in the pane before you can use the arrow keys to scroll. Little things like that make a big difference.
BTW, I agree with you about IE, it's pretty nice. The only things I don't like about it are the slow rendering of big tables that you mentioned, no popup-blocking, and the Carbon text doesn't look as good to me as the Cocoa text that OmniWeb uses (especially for serif fonts).
Anyway, get the latest OmniWeb and give it a spin. Be sure to clean out any junk in ~/Library/Application\ Support/OmniWeb/ first, corrupted history files have been known to cause problems.
Are you implying that Slashdot would post incorrect information? Unthinkable!
On another note, I didn't see anything on divx.com or divxnetworks.com about source availability. Besides, if divxnetworks is licensing patents that hardly sounds like technology that could be used in free software. Perhaps a double dose of misinformation?
Would you still say that if it were the other way around? Or would it still be proof that "M$ suX0rz"?
I don't care if you like Macs or not, but I like mine a lot. I used Linux pretty much exclusively since the pre-1.0 days, and eventually I just got to the point where I didn't care about infinite configurability, I just wanted things to work out of the box. That's what my Mac gives me, along with the familiarity of the unix underpinnings.
Mac OS X is now at 10.1.2. I'm sure Irix 1.0 had a few bugs too. So what?
Don't say I never gave you anything...
http://www.gno.org/
Is that an emoticon or a VMS version number at the end of your post? It is about the ninth "Beowulf cluster" joke in this story, after all.
The users wouldn't necessarily switch to a new OS, they would probably just stick with what they already have. Of course, from Microsoft's point of view this is every bit as bad.
Don't forget the little hole for shining blue light on the user's face.
All computer companies are interested in money, except maybe for all of the Linux-oriented ones that are now out of business.
I'm going to get one of these and set it up on my desk in the office. Then I can tell my boss that it allows me to fit eight hours of work into only five hours of realtime. Technology, making your world better! :-)
With OmniWeb you can set it to only allow pop-ups in response to a link being clicked. I think Mozilla has the same functionality if you put the correct gibberish in user.js. This certainly makes browsing more pleasant than just blocking them altogether, as sometimes you actually do want the popups for certain sites.
continuously promoting the mediocre or worse
Like Ayn Rand novels?
The Mac OS X developer kit comes with gcc 2.95.4 (presumably not quite stock). The linker isn't GNU though, it's a custom Apple thingy.