I doubt that. You do realise there's more to the "bundled browser" than that little Safari icon in/Applications, right ?
Not really there isn't. Sure there's WebCore but you can delete that too. The great thing about OS X is 99% of the applications are self contained. Delete the little icon in/Applications and it's gone. Even MS Office manages to not fill your computer with worthless garbage in random directories.
Every single bluetooth device I have seen, without exception, comes with its own (usually USB) receiver.
You're kidding right? I can barely stand to have the wireless reciever for my mouse let alone every other device I might want to use. Where the hell do you put all those recievers? I don't know about you, but my desktop doesn't have a lot of room for random recievers.
Hmm, the normal method of using code is a file with code yes? Sure it makes things easier if there are comments and extra meta data associated with the code, but it isn't nessesary nor is it required. It's possible the changes were never commented to begin with, especially given that these patches aren't finalized yet. Furthermore, extraneous commenting and help that the internal devs don't need is more work overall for Apple. Just as I don't expect the KHTML guys to sit down with me and go through their code line by line when I want to make something, we shouldn't expect that of Apple.
You know who Steve Jobs is, and you know the company he's CEO of right? Without using google, who's the CEO of McDonalds right now? Sears? Target? Most people don't know because they aren't part of the image. Steve Jobs is part of Apple's image, and people know who he is.
So that user can buy the X800. But if you buy the G5 for number crunching or some other non GPU intensive process, why should they pay for the highend card?
There were other people that worked there when they kicked him out years ago. Look where that got Apple. Lots of debt, a dilluted product line and a succession of crappy CEOs.
I don't know one way or the other whether Jobs has a plan for succession. One can hope that he does, but without Jobs, Apple will not be the same company that it is today. One need look no futher than Disney to see this. The Disney of long ago is not the same Disney it is today. That doesn't mean the company isn't still arround, but it's not the same disney. Apple may stick arround after Jobs, but it won't be the same.
Yay for selective memory. Perhaps you'll recall a year ago when Jobs admited the mistake they had made with that prediction and explained why it wasn't happening?
Besides, dual cores have nothing to do with getting to 3 Ghz.
And Apple is nothing without Steve Jobs. It's an inevitable truth that most of us are prepared to face. We saw what will happen when jobs is gone. It's not pretty. Steve Jobs is as much Apple as the macintosh is.
Dell and Gateway don't sell anything interesting. Hoever, arround slashdot anytime AMD so much a sneezes becomes news. Hell they put up articles when someone overclocks a procesor.
As an Apple share holder, I would apprecieate it if you NEVER EVER pressume to speak for me again. As an Apple share holder, Apple has a specific brand to protect. When a publisher publishes something that degrades that brand, even after Apple asked them NOT to publish it, Apple should stop doing business with that publisher. As far as I'm concerned it was entirely appropriate.
So now businesses are forced to do business with companies whom they don't agree with? On what planet is this a good idea? They sent a proof to Apple, Apple said we don't like it and don't want you to publish it. They published anyway. Now apple is choosing (just as you a consumer chooses) to not do business with the publisher anymore.
By distro I meant a distribution of a particular product, be it a movie player or something else. There are various projects that accomplish the same general task, some even using the same base code and you must chose one, and then for many of them, there are various versions.
The source for the version you're using maybe, but any future releases can be closed. Furthermore, as the GPL is a license, granted by the original copyright holder of the work, the license can be revoked by the original owner and by subsequent owners for their specific parts of the code. Nothin in the GPL prevents this, and the GPL explicity points out that the License grants you the rights to copy and distribute, that you do not have these right autmoatically and that those rights can be revoked.
As it stands, one can simultaneously release a program under a GPL license and under another license, and there is no reason to believe that as an OSS developer one couldn't decide to revoke the GPL licenses for their code.
Sure it can. All the dev has to do is close the source and boom, you're fucked. Or even better, just stop development altogether. OSS is as much a house of cards as proprietary software, there's just more things to grab on to when your OSS project collapses.
And under the free software model as it stands, you:
1) Buy it
2) Chose a distro, choose a version, download it, compile it, hope you have the right dependencies, pray you can get it running, hope it plays nice with your custom setup, curse at the lack of proper documentation, curse at the lack of support, write you own additions for all the parts where it falls short.
or
3) Develop equivilent software.
Each of them has their own downfalls and problems, but OSS isn't solving any major problems.
Actually, this may be a big part of it. My experience with the CS and ECE departments here have shown me two types of professors.
Type A is a brilliant person who knows how to code inside and out, but has absolutely no idea how to begin teaching or explaining concepts.
Type B may be brilliant or may not, but either way they are of the opinion that they are god's gift to the university, you should be honnored to be in their presense and if you can't understand the concept the first time they explain it the way they explain it then you are unworthy to be in the same room.
The success of the iPod (over other similar devices) is testament to the ease with which people can be brainwashed by advertising and publicity.
Is a testament to the fact which so many geeks overlook; people don't give a damn about wizbang feature when it comes to their gadgets. No one cares if the player plays ogg-wierdNameOfTheMonth files. No one gives a shit if it can process files with bit rate of 2345098. No one gives two shits if it promotes open formats or closef formats or slightly shy formats. They dont' care what the impedence is. They don't care what the screen resolution is. They certainly don't give a fuck about whether it was the first, last or 800th to the market. They care about one thing. They want a product that works and does what they bought it to do. And people went out in search of an MP3 player (not an OGG player, not a video player, not a tape recorder, not an FM walkman). And people found their MP3 player in the iPod. That's all there is too it. All the wizbang features in teh world mean nothing if it doesn't do it's main feature right.
XP is substantialy slower. I used 2k for the longest time, and then for whatever reason (I think a reinstall) I put XP on it, and my computer is slow as shit. Fucking Athlon XP 3200 and I can barely stand to use the damn thing. And this is after I've turned off all the themeing stuff.
OS X WAS slow as shit, but it hasn't been for quite some time. By contrast, if Tiger provides the same speed increases that we've been seing for some time now, that is an improvement, because as it stands, OSX has been up to normal speeds since panther first came out.
Dashboard did not alredy exist from third parties. Don't give me the crap about konfabulator. I used it. It was shit. Slow, resource hog and nothing really useful from it, and the damn stuff took up space on my desktop. Dashboard is everything I wished Konfabulator could have been. Remember, bundling is not in and of itself evil. It's when you can't remove the bundled apps that you get into evil.
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I doubt that. You do realise there's more to the "bundled browser" than that little Safari icon in /Applications, right ?
/Applications and it's gone. Even MS Office manages to not fill your computer with worthless garbage in random directories.
Not really there isn't. Sure there's WebCore but you can delete that too. The great thing about OS X is 99% of the applications are self contained. Delete the little icon in
Every single bluetooth device I have seen, without exception, comes with its own (usually USB) receiver.
You're kidding right? I can barely stand to have the wireless reciever for my mouse let alone every other device I might want to use. Where the hell do you put all those recievers? I don't know about you, but my desktop doesn't have a lot of room for random recievers.
preferred by who? Preferred for making modifications? Sounds like an editable file to me as opposed to say a PDF or a JPEG.
Should it also be localized in other languages? What if I want it in the assembly?
Hmm, the normal method of using code is a file with code yes? Sure it makes things easier if there are comments and extra meta data associated with the code, but it isn't nessesary nor is it required. It's possible the changes were never commented to begin with, especially given that these patches aren't finalized yet. Furthermore, extraneous commenting and help that the internal devs don't need is more work overall for Apple. Just as I don't expect the KHTML guys to sit down with me and go through their code line by line when I want to make something, we shouldn't expect that of Apple.
Yes. The GPL states that the source has to be provided, not that it has to be provided in a manner of your choice.
You know who Steve Jobs is, and you know the company he's CEO of right? Without using google, who's the CEO of McDonalds right now? Sears? Target? Most people don't know because they aren't part of the image. Steve Jobs is part of Apple's image, and people know who he is.
Yellow dog linux: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/
An entire company whose business revolves arround making Linux work on macs.
So that user can buy the X800. But if you buy the G5 for number crunching or some other non GPU intensive process, why should they pay for the highend card?
There were other people that worked there when they kicked him out years ago. Look where that got Apple. Lots of debt, a dilluted product line and a succession of crappy CEOs.
I don't know one way or the other whether Jobs has a plan for succession. One can hope that he does, but without Jobs, Apple will not be the same company that it is today. One need look no futher than Disney to see this. The Disney of long ago is not the same Disney it is today. That doesn't mean the company isn't still arround, but it's not the same disney. Apple may stick arround after Jobs, but it won't be the same.
Yay for selective memory. Perhaps you'll recall a year ago when Jobs admited the mistake they had made with that prediction and explained why it wasn't happening?
Besides, dual cores have nothing to do with getting to 3 Ghz.
And Apple is nothing without Steve Jobs. It's an inevitable truth that most of us are prepared to face. We saw what will happen when jobs is gone. It's not pretty. Steve Jobs is as much Apple as the macintosh is.
Dell and Gateway don't sell anything interesting. Hoever, arround slashdot anytime AMD so much a sneezes becomes news. Hell they put up articles when someone overclocks a procesor.
As an Apple share holder, I would apprecieate it if you NEVER EVER pressume to speak for me again. As an Apple share holder, Apple has a specific brand to protect. When a publisher publishes something that degrades that brand, even after Apple asked them NOT to publish it, Apple should stop doing business with that publisher. As far as I'm concerned it was entirely appropriate.
So now businesses are forced to do business with companies whom they don't agree with? On what planet is this a good idea? They sent a proof to Apple, Apple said we don't like it and don't want you to publish it. They published anyway. Now apple is choosing (just as you a consumer chooses) to not do business with the publisher anymore.
By distro I meant a distribution of a particular product, be it a movie player or something else. There are various projects that accomplish the same general task, some even using the same base code and you must chose one, and then for many of them, there are various versions.
The source for the version you're using maybe, but any future releases can be closed. Furthermore, as the GPL is a license, granted by the original copyright holder of the work, the license can be revoked by the original owner and by subsequent owners for their specific parts of the code. Nothin in the GPL prevents this, and the GPL explicity points out that the License grants you the rights to copy and distribute, that you do not have these right autmoatically and that those rights can be revoked.
As it stands, one can simultaneously release a program under a GPL license and under another license, and there is no reason to believe that as an OSS developer one couldn't decide to revoke the GPL licenses for their code.
Sure it can. All the dev has to do is close the source and boom, you're fucked. Or even better, just stop development altogether. OSS is as much a house of cards as proprietary software, there's just more things to grab on to when your OSS project collapses.
And under the free software model as it stands, you:
1) Buy it
2) Chose a distro, choose a version, download it, compile it, hope you have the right dependencies, pray you can get it running, hope it plays nice with your custom setup, curse at the lack of proper documentation, curse at the lack of support, write you own additions for all the parts where it falls short.
or
3) Develop equivilent software.
Each of them has their own downfalls and problems, but OSS isn't solving any major problems.
The solution of course, is to not buy Nikon then.
Actually, this may be a big part of it. My experience with the CS and ECE departments here have shown me two types of professors.
Type A is a brilliant person who knows how to code inside and out, but has absolutely no idea how to begin teaching or explaining concepts.
Type B may be brilliant or may not, but either way they are of the opinion that they are god's gift to the university, you should be honnored to be in their presense and if you can't understand the concept the first time they explain it the way they explain it then you are unworthy to be in the same room.
Does it matter?
The success of the iPod (over other similar devices) is testament to the ease with which people can be brainwashed by advertising and publicity.
Is a testament to the fact which so many geeks overlook; people don't give a damn about wizbang feature when it comes to their gadgets. No one cares if the player plays ogg-wierdNameOfTheMonth files. No one gives a shit if it can process files with bit rate of 2345098. No one gives two shits if it promotes open formats or closef formats or slightly shy formats. They dont' care what the impedence is. They don't care what the screen resolution is. They certainly don't give a fuck about whether it was the first, last or 800th to the market. They care about one thing. They want a product that works and does what they bought it to do. And people went out in search of an MP3 player (not an OGG player, not a video player, not a tape recorder, not an FM walkman). And people found their MP3 player in the iPod. That's all there is too it. All the wizbang features in teh world mean nothing if it doesn't do it's main feature right.
why? It isn't reproducing.
See, my experience is just the opposite. My 1 Ghz TiBook runs faster than my Athlon 3200 box at home.
XP is substantialy slower. I used 2k for the longest time, and then for whatever reason (I think a reinstall) I put XP on it, and my computer is slow as shit. Fucking Athlon XP 3200 and I can barely stand to use the damn thing. And this is after I've turned off all the themeing stuff.
OS X WAS slow as shit, but it hasn't been for quite some time. By contrast, if Tiger provides the same speed increases that we've been seing for some time now, that is an improvement, because as it stands, OSX has been up to normal speeds since panther first came out.
Dashboard did not alredy exist from third parties. Don't give me the crap about konfabulator. I used it. It was shit. Slow, resource hog and nothing really useful from it, and the damn stuff took up space on my desktop. Dashboard is everything I wished Konfabulator could have been. Remember, bundling is not in and of itself evil. It's when you can't remove the bundled apps that you get into evil.