i do agree, apple shouldn't push as hard as they do, but they don't cut you off at the knees. They should release more patches(when applicable) for puma and jaguar and such, but you can't expect a company(fairly small given it's competition in the OS market) to not somewhat try and get users upgraded.
However, the updates(jaguar, panther) they do provide a very much worth the cost as opposed to a windows service pack, which is more bugfix orriented.
they are growing less quickly than windows, which means losing market share, but i think they are growing.
Besides, it is the mindset of 'high prices' and 'closed hardware' that hurts the mac... and i own one.
HINT: the higher(if at all, it depends on the given system) are far, far beyond worth it. the hardware: i wouldn't try and hack my laptop anyway, so why do i care?
mindshare of having a large library of software, including easy migration from mac to linux and vice-versa... linux is THE server OS, and it will just grow, the more ways it is easy to move from linux to mac(server to pro desktop, for instance) the better.
they are not nearly as money-hungry as you imply. They want people to buy macs, the hardware particularly... beyond that, they would like user to run the latest version of the OS(released about once a year, with major increases, what other OS does that?) to take advantage of all the goodies, but you don't have to.
Apple isn't stupid, they ported iTunes, because they knew it would help sell more macs by turning people on to the mac software style. The libraries arn't out of the question, more unification of linux/mac apps is a GOOD THING for apple, they already ship dozens of linux apps in their base install.
i want 1 thing from linux, a standard config setup, and a way to access that in 3 ways...
1. gui. this should be windows like, checkboxes, textboxes, menu items... lickable guiness 2. command line, with flags, recompiling(if i have to), or sub commands of something to tweak an app. 3. text file config editting. just open it in vi or openoffice.org and change the 1 to a 0.
They all should work, on all apps, they should be able to switch from 1 to 3 to 2 seamlessly without hickups, and they should have clear documentation on what the hell each thing means.
i agree, Apple making xCode and their frameworks available on linux could be huge, and if they did it in such a way that tied in easily and nicely with gnome/kde and the kernel, they could become THE opensource coding platform.
I don't believe this will happen, but I think it would be great. xCode uses gcc, too, which would make it that much easier.
well, since us fragile humans were the ones to DESIGN, CONCIEVE of, and BUILD those friggin lil computer circuit boards, i don't think it is too much to ask that we, the ones doing everything, eventually send one of our own into space.
since it IS opensource, the developers that wish to further improve the game engine can, and those that want to improve the other aspects of Blender(like the raytracind and other features you mentioneD) can aswell... It isn't a single company shifting focus, it is the adding of a new feature into an open program that now has room in new markets where it didn't use to.
you would pay per PACKET? how many packets did it take to load just the frontpage of/.?! a fraction of a cent per packet just isnt' worth the work it would take to track it all... have it be an addition to your cellphone plan or at an equivalent price if they could get equivalent coverage.
Apple spent X dollars and Y man-hours porting iTunes to Windows because they had data/figures/hopes that it would Generate A sales for iPods over a given time and B sales on the iTunes store... in a given ammount of time, Apple likely believed that A+B >= X+Y, so it would be profitable to spend the money and port to Windows... can that same calculation have the same result when porting to Linux? Honestly, I don't think so.
furthermore, since most nodes would likely just have enough instructions to pull down the OS from the network, you would only need to reboot, in waves, the nodes in a serious(!) security problem, after having patched the central image.
apparently the deal is off, i signed up 10 minutes ago, and there is no such gmail ad on the main(or any other) page. Darnit, i really want a gamil account, and I would rather have one earlier on so i could get a decent screenname.
at blogger, with hopes of getting asked to signup for gmail. no luck, is it only long-time users that get the gmail requests, or am i missing something?
I thin Gmail should have 'smart playlist' type folders such as itunes... have a 'work' 'recent' 'most replied to' 'from parents' 'from kids'... All these folders auto sort information via rules you predefine, and mail can be in multiple smart folder entries... it is like a database query, auto updating.
should have 'smart playlist' type folder such as itunes... have a 'work' 'recent' 'most replied to' 'from parents' 'from kids'... All these folders auto sort information via rules you predefine, and mail can be in multiple smart folder entries... it is like a database query, auto updating.
They sounded useless, until i used itunes... they are REALLY usefull to have.
I am a fan of freenet, but the caching system drops information that is not requested(you cannot simply host an archive on freenet, it has to be 'inserted' into other machines and then requested before the nodes drop the information in place of new data). and the level of functionality is too low. It just doesn't work very well, yet.
I am sure this is impractical, but humor me. Right now, archive.org uses a mass of rackable server in a central(or multiple) locations.
is it at all possible to write a distributed filesystem over the internet? Using ssh, if possible? I mean, it would have to have many multiple redundencies(google has 3 copies of everything they use in their googleFS), but could they use a 80-120 gig drive on few dozen/hundred/thousand peoples computers to host the archive?
Then it lends itself to a p2p system... which then lends itself into a freenet with better long-term caching features.... Aww, one can dream.
p2p is just a means of delivery. it is in place of client/server. That doesn't mean that a more powerful p2p system couldn't be created, though. Not sure how yet, but it isn't impossible to envision a iTMS(minus the monetary additions to all those songs) p2p system. Kazaa uses an IE embed page, and shared files via p2p... why not share html sites via p2p?
... was turbovision. it ran turbopascal and turboc++(others?), and was a desktop/windows UI using text characters as windows and such, very powerful and light weight. Would be awesome to have a 'gui' over ssh command line action. one example off of Google Image Search. Very cool system, and it is GPLed, too!
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i do agree, apple shouldn't push as hard as they do, but they don't cut you off at the knees. They should release more patches(when applicable) for puma and jaguar and such, but you can't expect a company(fairly small given it's competition in the OS market) to not somewhat try and get users upgraded.
However, the updates(jaguar, panther) they do provide a very much worth the cost as opposed to a windows service pack, which is more bugfix orriented.
they are growing less quickly than windows, which means losing market share, but i think they are growing.
Besides, it is the mindset of 'high prices' and 'closed hardware' that hurts the mac... and i own one.
HINT: the higher(if at all, it depends on the given system) are far, far beyond worth it. the hardware: i wouldn't try and hack my laptop anyway, so why do i care?
mindshare of having a large library of software, including easy migration from mac to linux and vice-versa... linux is THE server OS, and it will just grow, the more ways it is easy to move from linux to mac(server to pro desktop, for instance) the better.
dude, that is one of the features of this patch. Read the article.
burning in hell where they belong.
they are not nearly as money-hungry as you imply. They want people to buy macs, the hardware particularly... beyond that, they would like user to run the latest version of the OS(released about once a year, with major increases, what other OS does that?) to take advantage of all the goodies, but you don't have to.
Apple isn't stupid, they ported iTunes, because they knew it would help sell more macs by turning people on to the mac software style. The libraries arn't out of the question, more unification of linux/mac apps is a GOOD THING for apple, they already ship dozens of linux apps in their base install.
i want 1 thing from linux, a standard config setup, and a way to access that in 3 ways...
1. gui. this should be windows like, checkboxes, textboxes, menu items... lickable guiness
2. command line, with flags, recompiling(if i have to), or sub commands of something to tweak an app.
3. text file config editting. just open it in vi or openoffice.org and change the 1 to a 0.
They all should work, on all apps, they should be able to switch from 1 to 3 to 2 seamlessly without hickups, and they should have clear documentation on what the hell each thing means.
i agree, Apple making xCode and their frameworks available on linux could be huge, and if they did it in such a way that tied in easily and nicely with gnome/kde and the kernel, they could become THE opensource coding platform.
I don't believe this will happen, but I think it would be great. xCode uses gcc, too, which would make it that much easier.
Finally, to be 3-way compatable, go with java.
well, since us fragile humans were the ones to DESIGN, CONCIEVE of, and BUILD those friggin lil computer circuit boards, i don't think it is too much to ask that we, the ones doing everything, eventually send one of our own into space.
since it IS opensource, the developers that wish to further improve the game engine can, and those that want to improve the other aspects of Blender(like the raytracind and other features you mentioneD) can aswell... It isn't a single company shifting focus, it is the adding of a new feature into an open program that now has room in new markets where it didn't use to.
you would pay per PACKET? how many packets did it take to load just the frontpage of /.?! a fraction of a cent per packet just isnt' worth the work it would take to track it all... have it be an addition to your cellphone plan or at an equivalent price if they could get equivalent coverage.
Apple spent X dollars and Y man-hours porting iTunes to Windows because they had data/figures/hopes that it would Generate A sales for iPods over a given time and B sales on the iTunes store... in a given ammount of time, Apple likely believed that A+B >= X+Y, so it would be profitable to spend the money and port to Windows... can that same calculation have the same result when porting to Linux? Honestly, I don't think so.
a decent firewall would fix aim.
decent filtering would fix webpages of adult material getting in.
again, a decent firewall would cut off kazaa(and the like) so they couldn't download them that way.
would any of their obligations change if they went from a private company to a publicly traded one?
furthermore, since most nodes would likely just have enough instructions to pull down the OS from the network, you would only need to reboot, in waves, the nodes in a serious(!) security problem, after having patched the central image.
apparently the deal is off, i signed up 10 minutes ago, and there is no such gmail ad on the main(or any other) page. Darnit, i really want a gamil account, and I would rather have one earlier on so i could get a decent screenname.
at blogger, with hopes of getting asked to signup for gmail. no luck, is it only long-time users that get the gmail requests, or am i missing something?
I thin Gmail should have 'smart playlist' type folders such as itunes... have a 'work' 'recent' 'most replied to' 'from parents' 'from kids'... All these folders auto sort information via rules you predefine, and mail can be in multiple smart folder entries... it is like a database query, auto updating.
should have 'smart playlist' type folder such as itunes... have a 'work' 'recent' 'most replied to' 'from parents' 'from kids'... All these folders auto sort information via rules you predefine, and mail can be in multiple smart folder entries... it is like a database query, auto updating.
They sounded useless, until i used itunes... they are REALLY usefull to have.
how much of this is the hardware(fiber, etc) used and how much is the modified protocols?
I wonder if the home users and general internet will ever upgrade to improved TCP version that allow for better utilization of broadband connections.
I am a fan of freenet, but the caching system drops information that is not requested(you cannot simply host an archive on freenet, it has to be 'inserted' into other machines and then requested before the nodes drop the information in place of new data). and the level of functionality is too low. It just doesn't work very well, yet.
I am sure this is impractical, but humor me. Right now, archive.org uses a mass of rackable server in a central(or multiple) locations.
is it at all possible to write a distributed filesystem over the internet? Using ssh, if possible? I mean, it would have to have many multiple redundencies(google has 3 copies of everything they use in their googleFS), but could they use a 80-120 gig drive on few dozen/hundred/thousand peoples computers to host the archive?
Then it lends itself to a p2p system... which then lends itself into a freenet with better long-term caching features.... Aww, one can dream.
"Ok, so I don't keep everything I post to usenet"
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Google did! Or they bought a copy of someone who did. When do we see a Google Indy Music Search?
p2p is just a means of delivery. it is in place of client/server. That doesn't mean that a more powerful p2p system couldn't be created, though. Not sure how yet, but it isn't impossible to envision a iTMS(minus the monetary additions to all those songs) p2p system. Kazaa uses an IE embed page, and shared files via p2p... why not share html sites via p2p?
... was turbovision. it ran turbopascal and turboc++(others?), and was a desktop/windows UI using text characters as windows and such, very powerful and light weight. Would be awesome to have a 'gui' over ssh command line action. one example off of Google Image Search. Very cool system, and it is GPLed, too!