Some of the stuff the Mozilla people have written reeks of bitterness as well. It goes along the lines of our rendering engine is far better than KHTML, therefore ours is not complient yet. This makes no sense to me, the KHTML/Webkit people must be doing somehting right if they can meet the standards and the Mozilla people can't. Guess they're still bitter Apple didn't use Gecko on Safari.
To be fair to the Mozilla people though, they have at last made a decent Mac browser. Camino 1.0 is right up there with Safari 2. Like most cross platform apps, Firefox just looks rubbish on Mac OS X.
Its this kind of thing that gives the GPL people a bad name. Is it really necessary to enforce the GPL at every opportunity? I remember another case that annoyed me a few years ago - the Gaim developers had a go at the FreeBSD ports people for linking Gaim with OpenSSL (which is of course not GPLed, but BSD licensed). Daft.
Yes i will. All Win32 binaries are in PE (Portable Executable format) and one of the headers on this file is the machine architecture. 99.99% (at least) of Win32 exes in the world are i386, and the rest are mostly Alpha, so it won't run any of those, but there must be a PPC app somewhere (notepad?) you can run, and if you can find a compiler, Firefox would probably work, assuming NT4 had a PPC build.
Its a bit of a joke isn't it. Except that its not funny. The US patent office needs to tighten up the rules, and get some more teeth.
How about, all no decisions are final, no legal challenges allowed, and all inventions must be inventive. Legal challenges to yes decisios will be allowed and its up to the patent holder to prove that they're right.
Absolutely, what is wrong with simply putting a cross in a box with a pencil. Sure, you have to physically count the things at the end of the election, but there are usually plenty of civil servants at the town hall with nothing better to do the next day. Old fashoned it may be, but its effective and reliable.
Its all basically MPEG, right? Underneath all the content protection and DRM? Sooner or later somebody will figure out how to extract the mpeg and then its playable anywhere. I think the major barrier to (other people) ripping this stuff off is that broadband is gonna have to get pretty fast to enable sharing video at that resolution over the net. It will happen one day though.
This is a little silly. For the money the MacBook costs, you could get an immensely powerful Windows laptop. With a mac you pay a premium for the hardware and software combination (MacOS X). The only reason to install Windows on one is to wind up the mac zealots (which is possibly why this whole article should be -1 Flamebait.
Ghz are not directly comparable between different processor architectures, and PowerPC has tended to deliver faster chips at the same Mhz as x86. I think they now could do a Powerbook G5, they've just chosen not to because of the Intel project. That said, G5s have always been power hungry so there may have been battery issues.
You dont want too work for them. IBMs pay rise policy:
'He's got a house, and a wife and kids, he won't risk leaving. We don't need to give him a pay rise'
I does work backwards though:
'He's a new graduate, better give him a pay rise or he'll leave'
Outside of certain cities, such as Athens and Tehran, motor pollution is not such an issue anymore, as we all have catalytic convertors fitted to our cars (at least we do in the EU). Unfortunately, its still pumping out CO2.
What is required is a catalyst which turns CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen. Unfortunately outside of plants and trees we don't have one. I suspect the worlds largest polluter will have to do better than this.
At WWDC, Jobs made it quite clear why they chose Intel. The performace per watt of power of Intel chips was massively higer then for PowerPC and the gap was predicted to get wider.
Jobs wants to lose the costly liquid cooling in the G5s and make faster powerbooks. This is clearly reason enough without the need for any ulterior motive. All this DRM stuff is just Linux community FUD.
There's one think that people haven't figured out. For the average family PC, Linux probably costs more than Windows. This is due to the owner (lets call him dad) feeling the buy things.
1. First, dad will go out and buy a redhat cd, in a box in the hope that he might get a manual. This will probably cost him £40
2. On finding that he's just spent £40 on a box with a cd and a quickstart guid if he's lucky, dad will hit amazon. He will buy at least two linux box, probably 'Complete idiots guide to Linux' and something link 'Linux unleashed'. We'll call those two £45. Dad will not read these books, but they reassure him that he'll be able to stay one step ahead of the kids.
So, that £85 down already, on an operating system he doesn't know how to use, and doesn't have time to learn. Most dads would stick with the Windows that came with their PC. Besides, the kids can play games on that and it seems to keep them quiet.
I breaks the niceness. MacOS X and the Apple platform are solid, reliable and expensive. At the moment every mac you buy is a balance of hardware and software that makes it reliable, fast and great to use. If you run MacOS X on a cheap PC which crashes all the time, it will lose that.
Also, its just chav. I paid a lot of money for my Mac, it looks great and runs great. I don't want everyone on the planet running MacOS X because then its exclusivity, and if any version of MacOS X that runs on any old PC (even the dev previews) gets out, every no-name korean brick will be running it before you can say bittorrent.
This is gonna be a bit of a me to post (mod -1 redundent).
I pretty much agree with all of that, but what you didn't say (although you implied it) was that from the photos, this one looks
no different. It just doesn't look anywhere near as good as the mac mini turned off, and when you turn it on, you get that hideous Windows XP orange, blue and green.
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Will they also be equiped with microphones so that the operator can hear the abuse that comes back. Or will we have to make do with gestures?
Ans anyone checked that plutons aren't made up of plutons? That would make the whole thing much easier....
Didn't Settlers 2 multiplayer (Amiga I think) do this years back. Maybe we can get it to work.
I only speak computer-geek. I can't do electronics geek or optics geek.
Some of the stuff the Mozilla people have written reeks of bitterness as well. It goes along the lines of our rendering engine is far better than KHTML, therefore ours is not complient yet. This makes no sense to me, the KHTML/Webkit people must be doing somehting right if they can meet the standards and the Mozilla people can't. Guess they're still bitter Apple didn't use Gecko on Safari.
To be fair to the Mozilla people though, they have at last made a decent Mac browser. Camino 1.0 is right up there with Safari 2. Like most cross platform apps, Firefox just looks rubbish on Mac OS X.
Its this kind of thing that gives the GPL people a bad name. Is it really necessary to enforce the GPL at every opportunity? I remember another case that annoyed me a few years ago - the Gaim developers had a go at the FreeBSD ports people for linking Gaim with OpenSSL (which is of course not GPLed, but BSD licensed). Daft.
Safari is Microsoft's recommended browser for Mac users, since they stopped supporting IE 5.2 Mac. I don't see how the can not support it.
Boot camp is a sales pitch, not a product
Customer: Tell me about this laptop, its pretty
Salesman: Its a mac, look how shiney it is.
Customer: Oh, I don't want one of those, it doesn't run Windows.
Salesman: It has this clever boot camp thing that lets you put windows on it.
Customer: Oh, okay, I'll take one then.
Once the customer gets home and starts using MacOS X, they won't bother with installing Windows.
Pedant time.
Yes i will. All Win32 binaries are in PE (Portable Executable format) and one of the headers on this file is the machine architecture. 99.99% (at least) of Win32 exes in the world are i386, and the rest are mostly Alpha, so it won't run any of those, but there must be a PPC app somewhere (notepad?) you can run, and if you can find a compiler, Firefox would probably work, assuming NT4 had a PPC build.
I can't believe nobody ever got the old PPC builds of Windows NT to boot on a PPC Mac?
Its a bit of a joke isn't it. Except that its not funny. The US patent office needs to tighten up the rules, and get some more teeth.
How about, all no decisions are final, no legal challenges allowed, and all inventions must be inventive. Legal challenges to yes decisios will be allowed and its up to the patent holder to prove that they're right.
Absolutely, what is wrong with simply putting a cross in a box with a pencil. Sure, you have to physically count the things at the end of the election, but there are usually plenty of civil servants at the town hall with nothing better to do the next day. Old fashoned it may be, but its effective and reliable.
Its all basically MPEG, right? Underneath all the content protection and DRM? Sooner or later somebody will figure out how to extract the mpeg and then its playable anywhere. I think the major barrier to (other people) ripping this stuff off is that broadband is gonna have to get pretty fast to enable sharing video at that resolution over the net. It will happen one day though.
This is a little silly. For the money the MacBook costs, you could get an immensely powerful Windows laptop. With a mac you pay a premium for the hardware and software combination (MacOS X). The only reason to install Windows on one is to wind up the mac zealots (which is possibly why this whole article should be -1 Flamebait.
Ghz are not directly comparable between different processor architectures, and PowerPC has tended to deliver faster chips at the same Mhz as x86. I think they now could do a Powerbook G5, they've just chosen not to because of the Intel project. That said, G5s have always been power hungry so there may have been battery issues.
You dont want too work for them. IBMs pay rise policy: 'He's got a house, and a wife and kids, he won't risk leaving. We don't need to give him a pay rise' I does work backwards though: 'He's a new graduate, better give him a pay rise or he'll leave'
Outside of certain cities, such as Athens and Tehran, motor pollution is not such an issue anymore, as we all have catalytic convertors fitted to our cars (at least we do in the EU). Unfortunately, its still pumping out CO2. What is required is a catalyst which turns CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen. Unfortunately outside of plants and trees we don't have one. I suspect the worlds largest polluter will have to do better than this.
I was pretty sure that the regulation of investigatory powers act (1998?) already made it an offense to refuse to disclose an encryption key?
I kind of agree with this. I prefer this though.
The GPL is about making FOSS software better.
The BSD licence is about making all software better regardless of whether it is commercial or not.
I get the impression they don't understand the legislation. I don't see how else they can think its a good idea.
At WWDC, Jobs made it quite clear why they chose Intel. The performace per watt of power of Intel chips was massively higer then for PowerPC and the gap was predicted to get wider.
Jobs wants to lose the costly liquid cooling in the G5s and make faster powerbooks. This is clearly reason enough without the need for any ulterior motive. All this DRM stuff is just Linux community FUD.
There's one think that people haven't figured out. For the average family PC, Linux probably costs more than Windows. This is due to the owner (lets call him dad) feeling the buy things.
1. First, dad will go out and buy a redhat cd, in a box in the hope that he might get a manual. This will probably cost him £40
2. On finding that he's just spent £40 on a box with a cd and a quickstart guid if he's lucky, dad will hit amazon. He will buy at least two linux box, probably 'Complete idiots guide to Linux' and something link 'Linux unleashed'. We'll call those two £45. Dad will not read these books, but they reassure him that he'll be able to stay one step ahead of the kids.
So, that £85 down already, on an operating system he doesn't know how to use, and doesn't have time to learn. Most dads would stick with the Windows that came with their PC. Besides, the kids can play games on that and it seems to keep them quiet.
I breaks the niceness. MacOS X and the Apple platform are solid, reliable and expensive. At the moment every mac you buy is a balance of hardware and software that makes it reliable, fast and great to use. If you run MacOS X on a cheap PC which crashes all the time, it will lose that.
Also, its just chav. I paid a lot of money for my Mac, it looks great and runs great. I don't want everyone on the planet running MacOS X because then its exclusivity, and if any version of MacOS X that runs on any old PC (even the dev previews) gets out, every no-name korean brick will be running it before you can say bittorrent.
More like only, and thats pushing it. Win2k is the best version of Windows there is, but whether its any good or not is definitely up for debate.
Either way, after XP, I can't see them ever getting this good again. |Its a shame 2k never made it into the mainstream.
This is gonna be a bit of a me to post (mod -1 redundent). I pretty much agree with all of that, but what you didn't say (although you implied it) was that from the photos, this one looks no different. It just doesn't look anywhere near as good as the mac mini turned off, and when you turn it on, you get that hideous Windows XP orange, blue and green.