Sorry but you are the only one who fits that category in this conversation. He was not spending your money, he was not spending the public's money, he was spending his own money. He's not doing anything that is offensive to any reasonable person with the possible exception of Apple designers.
... he managed to butcher the ONLY aesthetically pleasing piece of equipment he bought!
What the hell is so aesthetic about a cube? I love my mini, it's price, it's size, it's low maintenance, but it's not a friggin piece of art.
I do not see an incosistency between the orginal post's "83% of Mac developers use XCode primarily. 74% of commercial Mac developers use XCode primarily." and your "Xcode, 2.1, still has *major* potholes for any medium sized or larger projects." Small projects will outnumber medium and large. Small companies, individuals, and hobbyists will outnumber medium and large companies.
Also, some of those still using CodeWarrior are not doing so out of love. They are doing so because they are using legacy code or technologies not supported by XCode.
I'm not slamming CodeWarrior. I was there when they came onto the scene and Symantec fumbled. However when Apple started giving away a credible(*) IDE and compiler developers could see this day coming and developers should have started getting their code ready. They've had years.
Real geeks know that versioning starts before 1.0:)
There were geeks before computers. They were generally more proficient than computer geeks and went through fewer revisions. Their gizmos got by with Mark 2, Mark 3,..., A1, A2,..., etc.
The slightly geekier way would be to hold the ballast in place with electromagnets.
Be sure to bring many spares, You will drop a bunch just during "normal" dive preparations. I would consider a manual locking mechanism that is disengaged just before the dive begins. Also be sure to train any divers or swimmers to *never* go under the vehicle.
Vin was also in Saving Private Ryan. They guy trying to help the little girl and who the sniper used for bait IIRC. Like Dwayne, some of there roles are dumb, but the more I see these guys being interviewed and learn of their business dealings the more I realize that they are far smarter than some of the characters they play.
Grandma's suit may let "hostile" lawyers get a look at RockStar's emails and other internal documents. Then the truth may come out as to whether the offensive content was there intentionally, waiting to be "discovered", or simply forgetten cruft that didn't make the final cut but did not get deleted due to "honest" oversights.
All the knee-jerk reactions to the contrary this suit may be quite useful.
When Macs use different hardware the value can be perceived. When the Macs use the same stuff that's in an Intel machine the price comparison becomes an issue.
For the vast majority of actual Mac users and potential Mac users the CPU is irrelevant, they choose Apple for the Operating System. The remaining people are either locked into Mac due to a particular application program or they have large computational jobs that actually benefit from a RISC architecture. Both of these cases are quite rare.
Only one group is truly devestated by the switch, Apple PR. They no longer have the fake PowerPC vs Intel issue to base an ad campaign on.
I'm disappointed that Hillary is following the lead of senators like Biden or thumpers like Graham...
I haven't had high expectations for Hillary since '91 after reading some Time magazine article that profiled her. I recall thinking at the time that we were running the wrong Clinton, that Bill was too much of a sleeze. Soon after "they" gained office it became apparent what I puff piece I had been suckered by, that she was just as much a political animal as he, but then again at least she didn't have the sleeze.
I'm fairly certain that very few US Senators are listening over the sound of hype.
You have a niave view of Senators. They understand the silliness and meaningless of what they are saying, probably better than most people around here. What you fail to understand is that media events like this are all about getting face time on TV. Free face time on TV is more highly prized than nearly anything else. The explicit lyrics crusade of the 80s, the assault weapons crusade of the 90s, the current video game violence crusade, all were merely PR stunts that accomplished very little.
Apple has already decided, they chose to be a hardware company. That is why the software is used to exclusively promote the sale of their relatively expensive, with the exception of the Mac Mini, hardware.
They should not decide, they should divide.
One high class PC/iPod/etc company, and one software company to develop and publish OS X ++
That would leave the hardware part to blossom if it is worth it, or die if its not.
Been there, done that. They tried allowing Mac clones and it hurt them badly. And that was when they had some control and a royalty. Shipping Mac OS X on generic PC hardware would kill their Mac hardware sales. It would be suicidal.
One of the various facts that you are ignoring is that MacOS X's stability is in part due to limited hardware options, drivers generally come from Apple or other relatively reliable sources. Part of the instability of Windows is the various pieces of cheap-a** low-budget hardware and their questionable drivers.
As I said, and as you admit, you can get PCs without Windows. My company does so when it chooses to, so do I as an individual. You are merely complaining that you cannot get a PC without Windows from *every* PC vendor. So what? If you prefer a niche product you have to expect that not everyone will cater to you, this is true for many things beyond operating systems. Secondly, many vendors probably do not want the configuration and support complications and selling Windows only configurations has nothing to do with Microsoft pressure.
it's roughly analogous to someone holding me at gunpoint and making me hand over $150 to them every time I buy a PC
Thank you for proving my point that the "Windows tax" argument is largely an emotional philosophical/political issue.
"The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation."
No, the cost of the Windows license (or Windows "tax") is an actual out of pocket cost to the purchaser of the computer that is built into the cost of the computer. To add insult to injury, in most areas the purchaser pays sales tax on the added cost of the operating system.
I know, that's why I wrote "At worse you can only say you wasted money on a Windows license you will not use" before the sentence you quote.
No one is locked out from Linux. Anyone who wants it can get it installed if they cannot do it themselves. Corporate customers have options that do not appear on the stock online store options and they can get Linux is they choose to from many vendors.
At worse you can only say you wasted money on a Windows license you will not use. However in truth that is an insignficant issue, dwarfed by the cost savings of your switch to Linux right? The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation.
You confuse "free" with "enforced benevolence"
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The BSD license gives more freedom to the developer - they can take other people's work and close it to the community (and even the original developer)
Untrue, the original developer and the community have lost nothing. The original work is still there, still available. To borrow an idea from music pirates: nothing has been stolen, the owner (copright holder) has not lost access to their property.
... you can also consider the GPL to be "free'er" in that it ensures that free software stays free.
What you are talking about is not really freedom, you are in fact describing an enforced benevolence.
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... BSD License gives you the power to make the code closed, while GPL does not, so obviously, GPL is better if you want your code to stay free.
What a twisted definition of "free" you have where you state not having the power to make a choice is more freedom. Whether you take the person or the code perspective BSD is more free. The person using the code has complete freedom to use it where and how they see fit. The code is completely free to be used is commercial or non-commercial environments, open or closed projects. That said, there is nothing wrong with the GPL. The original author of a piece of code has every right to restrict its use and to attach strings.
Free'er as in "speech" not "beer"
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> FreeBSD is free'er than Linux, or more accurately
> the BSD license is free'er than the GPL. That
> said, the less free GPL's restrictions are meant
> to be benevolent for certain users
This is true as long as "free" beer is "free'er" than "free" speech.:)
BSD is free'er with respect to "speech". Wasn't that obvious, they have the same price? The GPL has strings, BSD is free from strings. "Free Speech" gives you the right to speak, it does not compel you to do so, you have the right to keep your thoughts to yourself should you choose to. BSD respects the individual's choice to share or not to share. You may disagree with someone's choice, but it is their call, just as it is the choice of an original author to choose BSD or GPL as suits their personal goals.
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freebsd is dying as is macos x and windows. The future is Linux. The future is Free.
FreeBSD is free'er than Linux, or more accurately the BSD license is free'er than the GPL. That said, the less free GPL's restrictions are meant to be benevolent for certain users.
Mac OS X's share is growing wildly. For some it is replacing Linux as their general purpose unix. Now some people have more specialized needs and Linux may be a better choice but many folks using Linux just need a general purpose unix box and are not into the politics and Mac OS X combines unix, a consumer GUI, FOS software, and off-the-shelf retail software very nicely.
We should all boycott Blizzard for using the DMCA to shut down bnetd.
The three of you who cared did. The rest of us don't. Play whatever game you care to, for whatever reason(s) you have, and kindly have the courtesy to let us do the same. Thank you.
He probably has but they are completely and utterly irrelevant. Re-read the post and article. Gold cannot be moved off of your character's server, your character is fixed to an account that is fixed to one particular server, servers are regional. A person playing on a Chinese account is playing on a Chinese server. A Chinese person playing on a non-Chinese account on a non-Chinese server is counted as one of the 2 million US, European, or Korean players not one of the 1.5 million Chinese players.
Apple would count me as a switcher but I bought a Mac mini to (1) Have a higher degree of safety when dealing with email and the web and (2) to replace a Linux box for the occasional general Unix task. My Windows box is still my main machine and I will be buying another Windows box in the future, probably much much sooner than I buy my next Mac. Given my Mac's relatively lightweight use it will have a much longer useful lifespan. Well, with respect to email/web/unix tasks, I already have it's second life planned, replacing my silent P2-233 being used as an OpenBSD firewall.
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What a prick.
... he managed to butcher the ONLY aesthetically pleasing piece of equipment he bought!
Sorry but you are the only one who fits that category in this conversation. He was not spending your money, he was not spending the public's money, he was spending his own money. He's not doing anything that is offensive to any reasonable person with the possible exception of Apple designers.
What the hell is so aesthetic about a cube? I love my mini, it's price, it's size, it's low maintenance, but it's not a friggin piece of art.
I do not see an incosistency between the orginal post's "83% of Mac developers use XCode primarily. 74% of commercial Mac developers use XCode primarily." and your "Xcode, 2.1, still has *major* potholes for any medium sized or larger projects." Small projects will outnumber medium and large. Small companies, individuals, and hobbyists will outnumber medium and large companies.
Also, some of those still using CodeWarrior are not doing so out of love. They are doing so because they are using legacy code or technologies not supported by XCode.
I'm not slamming CodeWarrior. I was there when they came onto the scene and Symantec fumbled. However when Apple started giving away a credible(*) IDE and compiler developers could see this day coming and developers should have started getting their code ready. They've had years.
(*) MrC was great at the time.
IANAI (I am not an ichthyologist), but I think the fish would be gasping for water, not air.
No, they are gasping for air. Water is just a delivery vehicle for the air.
Real geeks know that versioning starts before 1.0 :)
..., A1, A2, ..., etc.
There were geeks before computers. They were generally more proficient than computer geeks and went through fewer revisions. Their gizmos got by with Mark 2, Mark 3,
An emergency blow apparatus is probably not enough. You may also need to detach the umbilical.
The slightly geekier way would be to hold the ballast in place with electromagnets.
Be sure to bring many spares, You will drop a bunch just during "normal" dive preparations. I would consider a manual locking mechanism that is disengaged just before the dive begins. Also be sure to train any divers or swimmers to *never* go under the vehicle.
... donating parts of the Windows and Office code bases under the GPL and turning it into the world's best operating system.' Could this ever happen?
Like Apple they would go BSD not GPL.
Vin was also in Saving Private Ryan. They guy trying to help the little girl and who the sniper used for bait IIRC. Like Dwayne, some of there roles are dumb, but the more I see these guys being interviewed and learn of their business dealings the more I realize that they are far smarter than some of the characters they play.
Grandma's suit may let "hostile" lawyers get a look at RockStar's emails and other internal documents. Then the truth may come out as to whether the offensive content was there intentionally, waiting to be "discovered", or simply forgetten cruft that didn't make the final cut but did not get deleted due to "honest" oversights.
All the knee-jerk reactions to the contrary this suit may be quite useful.
When Macs use different hardware the value can be perceived. When the Macs use the same stuff that's in an Intel machine the price comparison becomes an issue.
For the vast majority of actual Mac users and potential Mac users the CPU is irrelevant, they choose Apple for the Operating System. The remaining people are either locked into Mac due to a particular application program or they have large computational jobs that actually benefit from a RISC architecture. Both of these cases are quite rare.
Only one group is truly devestated by the switch, Apple PR. They no longer have the fake PowerPC vs Intel issue to base an ad campaign on.
I'm disappointed that Hillary is following the lead of senators like Biden or thumpers like Graham ...
I haven't had high expectations for Hillary since '91 after reading some Time magazine article that profiled her. I recall thinking at the time that we were running the wrong Clinton, that Bill was too much of a sleeze. Soon after "they" gained office it became apparent what I puff piece I had been suckered by, that she was just as much a political animal as he, but then again at least she didn't have the sleeze.
I'm fairly certain that very few US Senators are listening over the sound of hype.
You have a niave view of Senators. They understand the silliness and meaningless of what they are saying, probably better than most people around here. What you fail to understand is that media events like this are all about getting face time on TV. Free face time on TV is more highly prized than nearly anything else. The explicit lyrics crusade of the 80s, the assault weapons crusade of the 90s, the current video game violence crusade, all were merely PR stunts that accomplished very little.
Apple has already decided, they chose to be a hardware company. That is why the software is used to exclusively promote the sale of their relatively expensive, with the exception of the Mac Mini, hardware.
They should not decide, they should divide. One high class PC/iPod/etc company, and one software company to develop and publish OS X ++ That would leave the hardware part to blossom if it is worth it, or die if its not.
Been there, done that. They tried allowing Mac clones and it hurt them badly. And that was when they had some control and a royalty. Shipping Mac OS X on generic PC hardware would kill their Mac hardware sales. It would be suicidal.
One of the various facts that you are ignoring is that MacOS X's stability is in part due to limited hardware options, drivers generally come from Apple or other relatively reliable sources. Part of the instability of Windows is the various pieces of cheap-a** low-budget hardware and their questionable drivers.
As I said, and as you admit, you can get PCs without Windows. My company does so when it chooses to, so do I as an individual. You are merely complaining that you cannot get a PC without Windows from *every* PC vendor. So what? If you prefer a niche product you have to expect that not everyone will cater to you, this is true for many things beyond operating systems. Secondly, many vendors probably do not want the configuration and support complications and selling Windows only configurations has nothing to do with Microsoft pressure.
it's roughly analogous to someone holding me at gunpoint and making me hand over $150 to them every time I buy a PC
Thank you for proving my point that the "Windows tax" argument is largely an emotional philosophical/political issue.
"The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation."
No, the cost of the Windows license (or Windows "tax") is an actual out of pocket cost to the purchaser of the computer that is built into the cost of the computer. To add insult to injury, in most areas the purchaser pays sales tax on the added cost of the operating system.
I know, that's why I wrote "At worse you can only say you wasted money on a Windows license you will not use" before the sentence you quote.
No one is locked out from Linux. Anyone who wants it can get it installed if they cannot do it themselves. Corporate customers have options that do not appear on the stock online store options and they can get Linux is they choose to from many vendors.
At worse you can only say you wasted money on a Windows license you will not use. However in truth that is an insignficant issue, dwarfed by the cost savings of your switch to Linux right? The cost of the Windows license is more of a political/philosophical irritation.
The BSD license gives more freedom to the developer - they can take other people's work and close it to the community (and even the original developer)
... you can also consider the GPL to be "free'er" in that it ensures that free software stays free.
Untrue, the original developer and the community have lost nothing. The original work is still there, still available. To borrow an idea from music pirates: nothing has been stolen, the owner (copright holder) has not lost access to their property.
What you are talking about is not really freedom, you are in fact describing an enforced benevolence.
... BSD License gives you the power to make the code closed, while GPL does not, so obviously, GPL is better if you want your code to stay free.
What a twisted definition of "free" you have where you state not having the power to make a choice is more freedom. Whether you take the person or the code perspective BSD is more free. The person using the code has complete freedom to use it where and how they see fit. The code is completely free to be used is commercial or non-commercial environments, open or closed projects. That said, there is nothing wrong with the GPL. The original author of a piece of code has every right to restrict its use and to attach strings.
> FreeBSD is free'er than Linux, or more accurately
:)
> the BSD license is free'er than the GPL. That
> said, the less free GPL's restrictions are meant
> to be benevolent for certain users
This is true as long as "free" beer is "free'er" than "free" speech.
BSD is free'er with respect to "speech". Wasn't that obvious, they have the same price? The GPL has strings, BSD is free from strings. "Free Speech" gives you the right to speak, it does not compel you to do so, you have the right to keep your thoughts to yourself should you choose to. BSD respects the individual's choice to share or not to share. You may disagree with someone's choice, but it is their call, just as it is the choice of an original author to choose BSD or GPL as suits their personal goals.
freebsd is dying as is macos x and windows. The future is Linux. The future is Free.
FreeBSD is free'er than Linux, or more accurately the BSD license is free'er than the GPL. That said, the less free GPL's restrictions are meant to be benevolent for certain users.
Mac OS X's share is growing wildly. For some it is replacing Linux as their general purpose unix. Now some people have more specialized needs and Linux may be a better choice but many folks using Linux just need a general purpose unix box and are not into the politics and Mac OS X combines unix, a consumer GUI, FOS software, and off-the-shelf retail software very nicely.
We should all boycott Blizzard for using the DMCA to shut down bnetd.
The three of you who cared did. The rest of us don't. Play whatever game you care to, for whatever reason(s) you have, and kindly have the courtesy to let us do the same. Thank you.
Ever hear of proxy servers?
He probably has but they are completely and utterly irrelevant. Re-read the post and article. Gold cannot be moved off of your character's server, your character is fixed to an account that is fixed to one particular server, servers are regional. A person playing on a Chinese account is playing on a Chinese server. A Chinese person playing on a non-Chinese account on a non-Chinese server is counted as one of the 2 million US, European, or Korean players not one of the 1.5 million Chinese players.
You hit 60, though, and there is not much to do, besides PvP and run through the same dungeons over and over again.
Battlegrounds, it is much more than simple PvP. In some you are more like a unit in a Warcraft III single player campaign map.
Apple would count me as a switcher but I bought a Mac mini to (1) Have a higher degree of safety when dealing with email and the web and (2) to replace a Linux box for the occasional general Unix task. My Windows box is still my main machine and I will be buying another Windows box in the future, probably much much sooner than I buy my next Mac. Given my Mac's relatively lightweight use it will have a much longer useful lifespan. Well, with respect to email/web/unix tasks, I already have it's second life planned, replacing my silent P2-233 being used as an OpenBSD firewall.