The people that are already predisposed to stealing benches and bins would consider these things friends they can talk to at home....or in an abandoned building.
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Well, quite frankly, BSD licensed software is not truly free
I guess some people are delusional enough to think that if they lie enough it'll become fact.
Sorry, nobody is buying that drivel except GNU fundies.
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It's not just a liicense, it's a "constitution" and a "literary work".
It's not about free sotware, it's all about Stallman.
But it doesn't really matter. This also opens up Apple to a new line of products that appeal to the desktop replacement crowd that don't give a shit about battery life, but just want raw power.
Thanks for confirming what I already said in a previous post on this thread.
Listen folks, the real news is that Apple does want to goto vanilla PC but can't at this present point in time.
It's all about piracy. At what percentage of desktop marketshare can Apple take the piracy hit. Maybe DRM wouldn't be needed if assholes would actually pay for what they're supposed to instead of stealing.
Steve is not the only one that works at Apple. Jobs has always had a hardware fetish because he never had any technical skills, so would make sure the plastic molding for the Apple IIs looked good.
Hardware is just a means to an ends. OSX is the ends.
The whole point of the switch is to make the OSX experience better. Nobody cares about hardware except a few assembly language geeks.
I guess you haven't been following the news in the past few days.
Apple PCs will run Windows. This has already been confirmed by one of Apple's VPs. They will not be using OpenFirmware. You'll be able to triple boot windows, OSX and Linux.
If I was Kreskin I would say that this is part of the master plan. Let people dual-triple boot and compare the desktops. They're guessing that they'll always go back to the OSX partition and they get to sell premium-priced hardware
This is very simple and I'm surprised you haven't figured this out on your own.
AMD cannot guarantee production levels of their chips PLUS everything is laptops now which (to my knowledge) AMD still doesn't have an answer to the Pentium-M and whatever else Intel has down the pipeline.
Apple is a software company...period. But until (or ever) they get at least 25% of the desktop marketshare they need hardware to generate revenue.
Apple would love nothing more than to ditch the hardware all together, but can't because of economic necessities.
Just because OSX isn't going to run on vanilla boxes in 2006 doesn't mean they won't start licensing out OSX to independent vendors in 2010 and in 2015 start selling OSX DVDs to run on vanilla boxes.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to use Linux or BSD or whatever, but once you brain damaged GNU drones pull your heads out of your ass and realize you're not more "free" because you have source code the better off you will be dealing with reality.
....at least for a while. these guys sell p4s that go up to 3.8 mhz now, and you can get intel x86-64 up to 3.6 mhz now. Not only that, but the sagers now offer upgradeable video card slots.
I don't need ultramobile. I need something that I can put on a table in the living room, or dining room, or take it somewhere else with a table and an outlet. I'm not one of the guys in the commercials sitting in the park with my pup surfing the web
...and all American women will have to wear those tiny little shoes for their Chinese overlords, and we'll all be slaves to Chinese corporations, and I never leave my bed except to post raving lunacy on slashdot.
Yippeee....hooray, tinfoil hats rule.
This all sounds familiar. Oh yeah....the doom-n-gloom crowd in the mid 80s regarding Japan.
I'm sure you're too young to remember that though.
What's so funny about your bitterness in your comment is that Apple notebooks are woefully underpowered and overpriced compared to "something that drives the computers that go "Beep Beep"".
Watching the OSX fanboys (who wouldn't know microprocessor architecture from their asshole) get their panties in a knot is too funny.
...that Apple was getting creamed with their underpowered notebooks. It looks like one of the big reasons is that they couldn't get the G5 into a notebook. I wouldn't expect Apple to start shipping desktop replacements anytime soon, but at least they now have the option.
I doubt I'll be buying anything except notebooks for the near to medium future. With the new Sagers, I can even upgrade the video cards. I just don't see the reason for a tower or even a form factor.
Open Source software would not be as "good" today if it weren't for corporate cash. However, corporate cash has also distorted development of important packages like GCC and Linux, where minority platforms and user communities get marginalized because the developers are focused on the needs of their corporate sponsors
That's the reason that the French voted against the EU constitution. They can't handle free markets and also called it some kind of "anglo-saxon" thing.
Swing still doesn't have subpixel rendering (developer build B39 slated for release this week) until next year.
But over at Javalobby one of the Java2d developers was proclaiming that subpixel rendering hasn't hurt Swing and then goes on to cite numbers of CRT sales vs LCD sales.
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My girlfriend still insists that I try and get ROTT to work on XP.....something about jumpads.
Of course, thankfully, she's addicted to Quake3 now.
Some of you may be aware that the finals of the Worldwide Halo 2 tourney over Xbox Live was held on Friday
Oh of course, loads of us. There was a world wide Rise of the Triad competition the other day too.
Timothy, don't turn into a Michael and put stupid shit like this on the front page.
The people that are already predisposed to stealing benches and bins would consider these things friends they can talk to at home....or in an abandoned building.
Well, quite frankly, BSD licensed software is not truly free
I guess some people are delusional enough to think that if they lie enough it'll become fact.
Sorry, nobody is buying that drivel except GNU fundies.
It's not just a liicense, it's a "constitution" and a "literary work".
It's not about free sotware, it's all about Stallman.
Goto Apple's developer site and read the Universal Binary PDF. They've stated they will not be using Openfirmware.
But it doesn't really matter. This also opens up Apple to a new line of products that appeal to the desktop replacement crowd that don't give a shit about battery life, but just want raw power.
www.pctorque.com
Thanks for confirming what I already said in a previous post on this thread.
Listen folks, the real news is that Apple does want to goto vanilla PC but can't at this present point in time.
It's all about piracy. At what percentage of desktop marketshare can Apple take the piracy hit. Maybe DRM wouldn't be needed if assholes would actually pay for what they're supposed to instead of stealing.
Steve is not the only one that works at Apple. Jobs has always had a hardware fetish because he never had any technical skills, so would make sure the plastic molding for the Apple IIs looked good.
Hardware is just a means to an ends. OSX is the ends.
The whole point of the switch is to make the OSX experience better. Nobody cares about hardware except a few assembly language geeks.
OS X has been running on Intel for years now, and they are no closer to letting it run on vanilla boxes than they were in 2001.
Of course your comment is completely idiotic considering that they are switching to Intel. So of course they are closer - whether they like it not.
after posting this http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152036&cid=127 59477
I guess you haven't been following the news in the past few days.
Apple PCs will run Windows. This has already been confirmed by one of Apple's VPs. They will not be using OpenFirmware. You'll be able to triple boot windows, OSX and Linux.
If I was Kreskin I would say that this is part of the master plan. Let people dual-triple boot and compare the desktops. They're guessing that they'll always go back to the OSX partition and they get to sell premium-priced hardware
This is very simple and I'm surprised you haven't figured this out on your own.
AMD cannot guarantee production levels of their chips PLUS everything is laptops now which (to my knowledge) AMD still doesn't have an answer to the Pentium-M and whatever else Intel has down the pipeline.
Apple is a software company...period. But until (or ever) they get at least 25% of the desktop marketshare they need hardware to generate revenue.
Apple would love nothing more than to ditch the hardware all together, but can't because of economic necessities.
Just because OSX isn't going to run on vanilla boxes in 2006 doesn't mean they won't start licensing out OSX to independent vendors in 2010 and in 2015 start selling OSX DVDs to run on vanilla boxes.
He drove leftists and FSF cult members alike insane with his logic.
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to use Linux or BSD or whatever, but once you brain damaged GNU drones pull your heads out of your ass and realize you're not more "free" because you have source code the better off you will be dealing with reality.
....at least for a while. these guys sell p4s that go up to 3.8 mhz now, and you can get intel x86-64 up to 3.6 mhz now. Not only that, but the sagers now offer upgradeable video card slots.
I don't need ultramobile. I need something that I can put on a table in the living room, or dining room, or take it somewhere else with a table and an outlet. I'm not one of the guys in the commercials sitting in the park with my pup surfing the web
...and all American women will have to wear those tiny little shoes for their Chinese overlords, and we'll all be slaves to Chinese corporations, and I never leave my bed except to post raving lunacy on slashdot.
Yippeee....hooray, tinfoil hats rule.
This all sounds familiar. Oh yeah....the doom-n-gloom crowd in the mid 80s regarding Japan.
I'm sure you're too young to remember that though.
Ahh, ok. I'm sure you'll be telling all your neighbors that they're full of shit when they tell you that they're running OSX on a pentium.
I guess someone will have to pony up for you in order for it to be fact
What's so funny about your bitterness in your comment is that Apple notebooks are woefully underpowered and overpriced compared to "something that drives the computers that go "Beep Beep"".
Watching the OSX fanboys (who wouldn't know microprocessor architecture from their asshole) get their panties in a knot is too funny.
...that Apple was getting creamed with their underpowered notebooks. It looks like one of the big reasons is that they couldn't get the G5 into a notebook. I wouldn't expect Apple to start shipping desktop replacements anytime soon, but at least they now have the option.
I doubt I'll be buying anything except notebooks for the near to medium future. With the new Sagers, I can even upgrade the video cards. I just don't see the reason for a tower or even a form factor.
Open Source software would not be as "good" today if it weren't for corporate cash. However, corporate cash has also distorted development of important packages like GCC and Linux, where minority platforms and user communities get marginalized because the developers are focused on the needs of their corporate sponsors
Thanks for the input Ulrich.
That's the reason that the French voted against the EU constitution. They can't handle free markets and also called it some kind of "anglo-saxon" thing.
Hehe, I know it's hilarious. The FSF drones think if they can redefine freedom enough times that enough people will buy into their drivel.
Quite amusing looking inside the mind of the insane.
Swing still doesn't have subpixel rendering (developer build B39 slated for release this week) until next year.
But over at Javalobby one of the Java2d developers was proclaiming that subpixel rendering hasn't hurt Swing and then goes on to cite numbers of CRT sales vs LCD sales.