OK. Then explain how it is that Nasa could go to the moon a whole bunch of times in the 70s (where everything works perfectly) and since then hasn't been able to leave low earth orbit? (And has serious problems even *making* it to low earth orbit.)
- QuickTime APIs that I can call through Cocoa without having to go on a scavenger hunt to get things into the right datatypes (for example right now I have to convert things into an FSSpec.)
- Apple should make it easier to make a Cocoa application AppleScriptable and Recordable.
- Fix the problems with xCode that keep me from being able to use it to write an app that runs on 10.1.5. Yes, I've seen the feature they have that supposedly addresses this issue. In practice, it doesn't work.
- Issue maintenance patches to fix bugs in older OSes. (10.2, 10.1) This might be asking too much, but working around OS bugs in older OS versions takes a lot of my time.
Give it a rest. Apple's hardware is competitively priced for what you get - for the most part. Their R&D costs are higher than a lot of other companies and they have a smaller base to spread it out on which is why they charge $120 for a new version of the OS every year. Their OS is still a good value. If you disagree, you can always choose to use something else.
As a MacOS X developer, I really wish more people would upgrade. Supporting 10.1 is a real pain in the ass. There are all kinds of cool OS features from a developer's perspective that I use/would like to use that currently I have to conditionalize. For example, the NSObject methods involving performSelectorOnMainThread don't work on 10.1.x which is a real pain. Also, there are a ton of bugs in 10.1 that I have to work around. Plus, it is dog slow. Whenever the testers find a 10.1 specific problem I just want to crawl under my desk and cry because chances are that its a bug in the OS and there won't be a good way to fix it.
I'd like to use SearchKit, but it doesn't exist under 10.2.
This is just like a few years ago when I wanted to use the URL Access Manager, but I couldn't because my company wanted to support MacOS 8.1, so I had to write (and debug) a whole HTTP layer myself.
Besides, the beta had a clear warning on the package that it should only be purchased to aliviate frothing at the mouth, not to be used as an actual OS.
I believe that you are correct. People who are poor generally think in terms of the lowest initial cost rather than the real value of items they are purchasing. You can find PCs with an initial price between $99 and $299. The lowest priced new Macintosh, the eMac costs $799 is a lot more than that. Of course, for $799 the eMac is a really nice computer which would provide a lot more value than the cheap PC.
On the other hand, poor people who buy the PC probably wouldn't be doing the things on their PC that you would be doing on the eMac since they wouldn't be buying a lot of software or peripherals. Surf the web and IM some people and that will be it.
Not only that, but don't forget that many americans are of French heritage (and proud of it!). And also the huge help that France gave to the USA during our revolution.
French has been our friend and aly since 1776 - W. has been "president" only 3.5 years.
If the US hadn't been involved, maybe the british army would have been forced to find a commander who could win. (Or maybe the Soviets would have liberated France.)
I can't get my robot to do his work. First he claimed he was depressed because the purpose of his work, bending girders, is to construct suicide booths. Then, he started drinking a lot of liquor. Now, when I ask him to do any work he claims it is a robot holiday - Robotica, Robonza, and the latest Robomodon.
Lately he has started to abuse electricity.
What can I do to get bending unit functional again?
IBM wanted to switch to NeXT instead of Windows and Jobs treated IBM like shit until they gave up on the idea. I've not heard anything about Gates trying to help out NeXT. I remember him being asked if he was going to develop for it and he said that he would piss on the NeXT cube, but never develop for it. (Maybe that's why he said that?)
Jobs was kicked out of Apple right after the Mac shipped. Even when he was there, he was *not* the CEO and was *not* in charge of those type of decisions. In the 80s, Jobs was never the president or CEO of Apple once they got funding. He was the chairman of the board and the largest stockholder and he had enough power to be able to contribute to some projects (Apple III, Lisa, and the Mac), he was actually *kicked off* the Lisa project before taking over the Mac project. You're blaming jobs for a decision he didn't make and had no control over.
Personally, I think that if he had been given absolute control over Apple in the 80s, things would probably have turned out better for Apple. I have no evidence to back that up obviously.
Sure I would. I was responding to the notion in the parent post that all people who are in car accidents have broken the law.
My sister was once rear ended on the freeway by someone who was drunk and driving on a suspended license and she still lost in court because the guy claimed she stopped on the freeway "for no reason". In reality she stopped because the car in front of her stopped (i.e. it was a traffic jam) and the drunk fool behind her did not stop.
The fact that she lost in court would have been enough to convince me it was time to move away from Oklahoma, but she still lives there!
I was in an accident recently when the person behind me failed to stop and ran into the rear of my car. I had my foot on the brake which prevented me from hitting the car in front of me. Tell me how I broke the law.
If I'd put the same person on KDE or Gnome, they probably would have spent half of their time fighting their own intuition, and the other half wondering why they were being forced to sit in front of such a clunky desktop when their Windows XP computer worked so much better.
Emphasis mine. She may very well be right on this point - but she has not a shred of evidence to back this up! She's just asserting that MacOS X is easier to use than Gnome or KDE and then using this assertion as a club to bash open source!
This isn't science. It isn't scholarship. And its not worth reading. The article is drivel.
Did you ever notice how lame Zork games got once they started trying to add graphics? Zork Zero was pretty bad, but no where near as bad as Return to Zork.
Why in the world would you list someone as a reference who would say anything negative. I have plenty of "old bosses" to choose from when applying for a job. I pick only those who will give me a good reference.
do you really want to move to India just to get a job?
You can't anyway. We spend millions bringing Indians to the US for IT education at our best (publicly funded) universities. We allow indians to move here. Yet, Americans are not allowed to move to India for work.
Most people don't becoming physicists or have any interest in the topic. Yet, universities all offer courses in physics. Obviously, they should devote more time to popular things like maybe a course in Brittany Spears, or perhaps a seminar in watching TV. That's basically what you are arguing.
Last year I had a laptop running Red Hat. I wanted to get an 802.11b card for it. I could not find any drivers for linux for any 802.11b PCMCIA card. I finally did find some vague information that said that a particular card had Linux drivers in the box, but not advertised on the box. This turned out to be wrong after I bought the card. Then I found a site where I could get an open source driver which I had to compile myself. The compilation failed because it couldn't find some header file. So, I finally gave up and installed Windows.
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And what does a bunch of typewritten paper supposedly prove?
OK. Then explain how it is that Nasa could go to the moon a whole bunch of times in the 70s (where everything works perfectly) and since then hasn't been able to leave low earth orbit? (And has serious problems even *making* it to low earth orbit.)
It just doesn't add up.
I'd like to add:
- QuickTime APIs that I can call through Cocoa without having to go on a scavenger hunt to get things into the right datatypes (for example right now I have to convert things into an FSSpec.)
- Apple should make it easier to make a Cocoa application AppleScriptable and Recordable.
- Fix the problems with xCode that keep me from being able to use it to write an app that runs on 10.1.5. Yes, I've seen the feature they have that supposedly addresses this issue. In practice, it doesn't work.
- Issue maintenance patches to fix bugs in older OSes. (10.2, 10.1) This might be asking too much, but working around OS bugs in older OS versions takes a lot of my time.
Give it a rest. Apple's hardware is competitively priced for what you get - for the most part. Their R&D costs are higher than a lot of other companies and they have a smaller base to spread it out on which is why they charge $120 for a new version of the OS every year. Their OS is still a good value. If you disagree, you can always choose to use something else.
As a MacOS X developer, I really wish more people would upgrade. Supporting 10.1 is a real pain in the ass. There are all kinds of cool OS features from a developer's perspective that I use/would like to use that currently I have to conditionalize. For example, the NSObject methods involving performSelectorOnMainThread don't work on 10.1.x which is a real pain. Also, there are a ton of bugs in 10.1 that I have to work around. Plus, it is dog slow. Whenever the testers find a 10.1 specific problem I just want to crawl under my desk and cry because chances are that its a bug in the OS and there won't be a good way to fix it.
I'd like to use SearchKit, but it doesn't exist under 10.2.
This is just like a few years ago when I wanted to use the URL Access Manager, but I couldn't because my company wanted to support MacOS 8.1, so I had to write (and debug) a whole HTTP layer myself.
Besides, the beta had a clear warning on the package that it should only be purchased to aliviate frothing at the mouth, not to be used as an actual OS.
It's a hell of a lot easier to cut your own hair than to give yourself a root canal.
Actually, my wife cuts here own hair (and mine too) and does a very good job of it.
I believe that you are correct. People who are poor generally think in terms of the lowest initial cost rather than the real value of items they are purchasing. You can find PCs with an initial price between $99 and $299. The lowest priced new Macintosh, the eMac costs $799 is a lot more than that. Of course, for $799 the eMac is a really nice computer which would provide a lot more value than the cheap PC.
On the other hand, poor people who buy the PC probably wouldn't be doing the things on their PC that you would be doing on the eMac since they wouldn't be buying a lot of software or peripherals. Surf the web and IM some people and that will be it.
Not only that, but don't forget that many americans are of French heritage (and proud of it!). And also the huge help that France gave to the USA during our revolution.
French has been our friend and aly since 1776 - W. has been "president" only 3.5 years.
If the US hadn't been involved, maybe the british army would have been forced to find a commander who could win. (Or maybe the Soviets would have liberated France.)
I can't get my robot to do his work. First he claimed he was depressed because the purpose of his work, bending girders, is to construct suicide booths. Then, he started drinking a lot of liquor. Now, when I ask him to do any work he claims it is a robot holiday - Robotica, Robonza, and the latest Robomodon.
Lately he has started to abuse electricity.
What can I do to get bending unit functional again?
IBM wanted to switch to NeXT instead of Windows and Jobs treated IBM like shit until they gave up on the idea. I've not heard anything about Gates trying to help out NeXT. I remember him being asked if he was going to develop for it and he said that he would piss on the NeXT cube, but never develop for it. (Maybe that's why he said that?)
NeXT cube urinal? Only Gates could afford that!
Jobs was kicked out of Apple right after the Mac shipped. Even when he was there, he was *not* the CEO and was *not* in charge of those type of decisions. In the 80s, Jobs was never the president or CEO of Apple once they got funding. He was the chairman of the board and the largest stockholder and he had enough power to be able to contribute to some projects (Apple III, Lisa, and the Mac), he was actually *kicked off* the Lisa project before taking over the Mac project. You're blaming jobs for a decision he didn't make and had no control over.
Personally, I think that if he had been given absolute control over Apple in the 80s, things would probably have turned out better for Apple. I have no evidence to back that up obviously.
Sure I would. I was responding to the notion in the parent post that all people who are in car accidents have broken the law.
My sister was once rear ended on the freeway by someone who was drunk and driving on a suspended license and she still lost in court because the guy claimed she stopped on the freeway "for no reason". In reality she stopped because the car in front of her stopped (i.e. it was a traffic jam) and the drunk fool behind her did not stop.
The fact that she lost in court would have been enough to convince me it was time to move away from Oklahoma, but she still lives there!
(She actually was found to have been at fault!)
Its in Canada - they don't have the US Constitution. Canadians do not have rights.
I was in an accident recently when the person behind me failed to stop and ran into the rear of my car. I had my foot on the brake which prevented me from hitting the car in front of me. Tell me how I broke the law.
She says:
If I'd put the same person on KDE or Gnome, they probably would have spent half of their time fighting their own intuition, and the other half wondering why they were being forced to sit in front of such a clunky desktop when their Windows XP computer worked so much better.
Emphasis mine. She may very well be right on this point - but she has not a shred of evidence to back this up! She's just asserting that MacOS X is easier to use than Gnome or KDE and then using this assertion as a club to bash open source!
This isn't science. It isn't scholarship. And its not worth reading. The article is drivel.
Did you ever notice how lame Zork games got once they started trying to add graphics? Zork Zero was pretty bad, but no where near as bad as Return to Zork.
Want some Rye? 'Course you do!
Just kill me now and get it over with!!
Why in the world would you list someone as a reference who would say anything negative. I have plenty of "old bosses" to choose from when applying for a job. I pick only those who will give me a good reference.
do you really want to move to India just to get a job?
You can't anyway. We spend millions bringing Indians to the US for IT education at our best (publicly funded) universities. We allow indians to move here. Yet, Americans are not allowed to move to India for work.
Speaker to Animals was not his name - it was his "title" (i.e. his job). Kzin have to earn names (which Speaker did on the Ringworld).
I heard people refer to natives of Africa (i.e. blacks who live in Africa and who have never left that continent) as "African Americans".
Most people don't becoming physicists or have any interest in the topic. Yet, universities all offer courses in physics. Obviously, they should devote more time to popular things like maybe a course in Brittany Spears, or perhaps a seminar in watching TV. That's basically what you are arguing.
Whether Microsoft makes money should be irrelevant to the conversation of whether Windows is a fit tool for use for a particular purpose.
Lack of nuanced thinking is sad.
Last year I had a laptop running Red Hat. I wanted to get an 802.11b card for it. I could not find any drivers for linux for any 802.11b PCMCIA card. I finally did find some vague information that said that a particular card had Linux drivers in the box, but not advertised on the box. This turned out to be wrong after I bought the card. Then I found a site where I could get an open source driver which I had to compile myself. The compilation failed because it couldn't find some header file. So, I finally gave up and installed Windows.