Fine, some people like the 'awesomebar' - a lot, however, don't. A way to turn it off completely would definitely be appreciated, being forced into using it is not.
The simplest answer is that many people are assholes, and as such, assholes are almost certain to exist in a loosely bound, mostly unrelated group of people that make up an activism group that has little to no overall leadership or guidance.
Furthermore, cheating on sales tax is a lot easier than cheating on income tax. Imagine buying a $10,000 car - if you have to pay 30% sales tax, that's $13,000 total. Now suppose you offer to pay $11,500 cash if the dealer doesn't report the sale: you both gain $1500 and no one will notice, unless you want to keep the IRS around and let them audit every business's inventory. Uhm, most countries work like that - in the UK its called VAT (Value Added Tax) and its the businesses responsibility to collect it and pass it on. No, it doesn't cripple the economy to have a governmental body around to enforce it (Inland Revenue), and yes, it works very well. Its a relatively hard system to cheat because nearly everything in the UK is VATable, so if there are large differences between your incomings and outgoings, it automatically raises a flag (eg - for your example, where did that car go? Its no longer on the dealers books, he has to write the value down on his books somewhere - what happened to it? $11,500 is quite a loss to explain, especially if you are doing it regularly).
The latest version of OS-X can be had for approximately $100. This OS is, by most accounts, far superior to Vista. But in order to run it, you have to purchase a dongle from Apple.
Apple's cheapest dongle is close to $1000. How can it be so expensive? Because they won't sell you a dongle by itself you see. Troll much? Apples cheapest 'dongle' is their $599 Mac Mini - its right there on their store, I wonder how you missed it during your oh so obviously indepth research.
Your network sucks then, none of my 9 Windows 2008 servers (ranging from a VMware Server 1.0.4 VM with 512MB ram to a dual quad-core Xeon 2.0Ghz with 4GB ram) take any longer than any of my Windows 2003 R2 servers (same hardware range) to copy 40GB.
In your case, I would stop looking at Windows and start looking elsewhere - the network hardware, drivers et al?
There are actually quite a few crimes that are based on the fact that you were about to attempt to break other laws - attempted murder, conspiracy to commit fraud et al.
Without the iPhone SDKs license, you couldn't redistribute stuff based on it either. It is also a form of permission from the copyright holder, granting you additional rights.
No, I will switch platforms and so will a heck of a lot of other people. I have no entitlement to use OS X, so if they want to make it as hard for me as possible, then I can easily go else where - thats their incentive to not do that.
They are trying to use their phone to push out ObjC over Java.
Why shouldn't Apple have a preference? Java on OS X has been very much a third class citizen for application development for years, while the ObjC frameworks have seen massive improvement. Whats wrong with this?
Im willing to bet you're one of the same people who cries out how wrong it is when Sony or Microsoft does it. Why isnt it wrong when Apple does it? Is this because, yet again, it's Apple?
Nope, I call it as I see it on each matter - I'm not particularly bothered about Sony pushing Blu-Ray, and my feelings are mixed on the Microsoft side as I sometimes feel they are victimised simply because they can be.
Excuse me, how exactly is this an anti-competitive issue? Apple aren't restricting the right of other companies to compete within the smart phone market. If you are going to claim this as an anti-competitive issue, then there are literally *thousands* of other phones on the market which are vastly more locked down. Is this because, yet again, its Apple?
The rules change when you have a monopoly position in a market - there are many things one business can do while another can't do. It doesn't mean the action itself is inherently right or wrong.
Just installed that extension, unfortunately while it reverts the look and feel to the old menu bar, it doesn't seem to totally revert it - I use 'find while typing' a lot to visit certain pages a lot, and this behavior seems to have changed in FF3 to include content other than the URL, resulting in a weird display order. This is one of the behaviors I wish to revert.
You are perfectly within your rights to rip your iPhone apart in any way imaginable and bend it to your will as you wish - solder new parts onto the motherboard, change the firmware, add new applications, Apple isn't stopping you doing any of those things.
They just won't support you doing it through their framework. And why should they?
Ok, I can live with the speed increases, the nice new native look and feel, the decreased memory usage - but someone please tell me how to turn off that damn funky new address bar - its driving me mad (and slowing down new tab creation)!
Some docs say to tweak the 'browser.urlbar.richResults' setting, which I have done and it has had zero effect (FF3 Beta 3). Any ideas?
I run several XP systems, all with Firefox set as the default - none have ever had their default setting removed, and they are all kept up to date with patches.
Installing Office does add extra functionality to Visual Studio (or at least certain versions) - it adds the Office data components, which are not shipped with Visual Studio. Or you could just download the Office SDK which includes them.
Outlook uses the Word HTML engine to display messages, but it comes with it included - you can install Outlook standalone with no issues (and you can even buy it standalone).
I can't see one thing the GP has said which I couldn't classify as FUD from experience with the products involved.
Why should Apple support two different APIs? No one has yet asked or answered that question - they have a viable and available API already (Cocoa), why should they splinter their developer base and spend more time and money supporting a second API at the same time?
But that's the point of the GPL. You aren't allowed to link it to GPL-incompatible code. If you want this, then you'll have to release it under LGPL terms which permits such things. There is a very important word missing from your statement - distribute. You aren't allowed to link it to GPL-incompatible code and distribute.
NDISWrapper isn't doing that, it isn't linking against anything untoward before its distributed to you - the linking to 'nasty' things are happening at your end, post distribution to you. If you are getting something thats been linked pre-distribution, then whomever distributed to you is at fault.
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Fine, some people like the 'awesomebar' - a lot, however, don't. A way to turn it off completely would definitely be appreciated, being forced into using it is not.
That was just Slashdots spin on the ruling - the effect of the judgment was 'begin logging'.
The simplest answer is that many people are assholes, and as such, assholes are almost certain to exist in a loosely bound, mostly unrelated group of people that make up an activism group that has little to no overall leadership or guidance.
Apple's cheapest dongle is close to $1000. How can it be so expensive? Because they won't sell you a dongle by itself you see. Troll much? Apples cheapest 'dongle' is their $599 Mac Mini - its right there on their store, I wonder how you missed it during your oh so obviously indepth research.
The iPod connection in my new car can't....
You say "no", but your window says "yes" - please, do mankind a favour and shut your curtains next time you undress!
Your network sucks then, none of my 9 Windows 2008 servers (ranging from a VMware Server 1.0.4 VM with 512MB ram to a dual quad-core Xeon 2.0Ghz with 4GB ram) take any longer than any of my Windows 2003 R2 servers (same hardware range) to copy 40GB.
In your case, I would stop looking at Windows and start looking elsewhere - the network hardware, drivers et al?
Uhm, they will fly each plane more than once...
There are actually quite a few crimes that are based on the fact that you were about to attempt to break other laws - attempted murder, conspiracy to commit fraud et al.
From my understanding of the common carrier laws, only their phone service qualifies - ISPs have never had common carrier status.
Sorry, but if I have to GPL my app because I linked against a GPL library, then this is very much a similar situation.
Without the iPhone SDKs license, you couldn't redistribute stuff based on it either. It is also a form of permission from the copyright holder, granting you additional rights.
No, I will switch platforms and so will a heck of a lot of other people. I have no entitlement to use OS X, so if they want to make it as hard for me as possible, then I can easily go else where - thats their incentive to not do that.
Ahh, dammit - thats what I was afraid of. It would seem we both have exactly the same issues with the 'feature'.
Hint to the devs: I already have a search field, its right next to the address bar. I can live with that.
Why shouldn't Apple have a preference? Java on OS X has been very much a third class citizen for application development for years, while the ObjC frameworks have seen massive improvement. Whats wrong with this?
Im willing to bet you're one of the same people who cries out how wrong it is when Sony or Microsoft does it. Why isnt it wrong when Apple does it? Is this because, yet again, it's Apple?
Nope, I call it as I see it on each matter - I'm not particularly bothered about Sony pushing Blu-Ray, and my feelings are mixed on the Microsoft side as I sometimes feel they are victimised simply because they can be.
Excuse me, how exactly is this an anti-competitive issue? Apple aren't restricting the right of other companies to compete within the smart phone market. If you are going to claim this as an anti-competitive issue, then there are literally *thousands* of other phones on the market which are vastly more locked down. Is this because, yet again, its Apple?
So don't use their SDK - you haven't got an entitlement to use it, after all.
The rules change when you have a monopoly position in a market - there are many things one business can do while another can't do. It doesn't mean the action itself is inherently right or wrong.
Just installed that extension, unfortunately while it reverts the look and feel to the old menu bar, it doesn't seem to totally revert it - I use 'find while typing' a lot to visit certain pages a lot, and this behavior seems to have changed in FF3 to include content other than the URL, resulting in a weird display order. This is one of the behaviors I wish to revert.
You are perfectly within your rights to rip your iPhone apart in any way imaginable and bend it to your will as you wish - solder new parts onto the motherboard, change the firmware, add new applications, Apple isn't stopping you doing any of those things.
They just won't support you doing it through their framework. And why should they?
Ok, I can live with the speed increases, the nice new native look and feel, the decreased memory usage - but someone please tell me how to turn off that damn funky new address bar - its driving me mad (and slowing down new tab creation)!
Some docs say to tweak the 'browser.urlbar.richResults' setting, which I have done and it has had zero effect (FF3 Beta 3). Any ideas?
Just to add to your comment -
I run several XP systems, all with Firefox set as the default - none have ever had their default setting removed, and they are all kept up to date with patches.
Installing Office does add extra functionality to Visual Studio (or at least certain versions) - it adds the Office data components, which are not shipped with Visual Studio. Or you could just download the Office SDK which includes them.
Outlook uses the Word HTML engine to display messages, but it comes with it included - you can install Outlook standalone with no issues (and you can even buy it standalone).
I can't see one thing the GP has said which I couldn't classify as FUD from experience with the products involved.
Why should Apple support two different APIs? No one has yet asked or answered that question - they have a viable and available API already (Cocoa), why should they splinter their developer base and spend more time and money supporting a second API at the same time?
NDISWrapper isn't doing that, it isn't linking against anything untoward before its distributed to you - the linking to 'nasty' things are happening at your end, post distribution to you. If you are getting something thats been linked pre-distribution, then whomever distributed to you is at fault.