I don't think it's even the GPL, it's the GPL v3, and the problem is that even if you send someone the source, they can't install it unless they pay Apple to be developers, which, if I understand correctly, runs afoul of the anti-TIVOization clause in the GPL v3. Now, you CAN install the app on Apple's simulator... I wonder if that gets you around it?
"Without my admittedly superficial and limited knowledge of Christ and of Christianity, I would still have morals, but no power to live up to them"
This is one of the things that's scary about religious people. Apparently acting morally because it's the right thing to do, or out of respect for other people isn't enough. They need an omnipotent being to tell them to do it. Quite a few seem to need the threat of eternal torture. And for many (most?) even that doesn't work. And of course, if you can be convinced that god actually wants you to do horrible things, you do them with truly alarming conviction.
What bugs me is that they left SOME of the toolbars, but killed other ones. Some of the ribbon functionality is available in a toolbar, but some isn't.
Yeah, I couldn't find it either until I looked really closely. Poor guy. He obviously has some sort of mental disorder. OCD or something. Actually, I read an article complaining about the calendar a while ago. The author actually complained that he wanted to tear off the little bits like he would on a real calendar, but couldn't.
Yeah, the real annoyance is the OS constantly bugging you to do things. Want to clear away your excess icons? Wanna write a letter? Wanna be my friend?
A bookshelf metaphor and an inefficient app toolbar pale in comparison.
You can run KDE on a Mac if you want. You'll have to compile it yourself though, because KDE doesn't provide binaries. Or you can use MacPorts to do it for you.
Ew. The point of a multi tasking OS is that you can multitask. Two windows open, side by side, copying stuff from one to the other, or referring to one while doing something in the other. When I work I quite often have half a dozen terminal windows open, a few windows containing code and maybe a browser with some reference material (or Slashdot, for when I'm compiling, of course). All of which is arranged strategically so I can see everything that relates to a particular task all at the same time.
Tabs. I have an OS for you. It's called Windows 3.1.
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Then you have to remember two different appearances.
The leather look in OS X doesn't take up any extra space, it's just a texture and colouring applied to the toolbar at the top of the app window. Personally I think it's a bit ugly (they should have made it more brown and less yellow) but it doesn't get in the way when you're using the app, and makes it stand out when you're looking for it. And the look doesn't have to change between near and far representations. Wins all around.
I'm actually enjoying all these comments with people whining about how they're so leet the GUI (!) is getting in their way and they pine for the days when GUIs were simpler.
What happened to shunning GUIs and using the command line?
I think your example is a little off. Safari is close to the simplest interface you can put on a web browser. Address bar, search bar, a back and forward button some tabs (yeah, I guess you could get rid of those) and the content.
When Windows users get on my Mac the first thing they try to do is type a google search into the address bar. It doesn't work, but they're used to those two functions being combined. Indistinguishable, even.
So how would you redesign Safari to force users to understand what a URL is?
Since your mention of Safari suggests you're using a Mac, see that icon that says Terminal? If you don't see it, you can find it in Applications, Utilities and drag it somewhere where you can see it. Got it? Click it. There you are. Advanced UI at the click of a button.
"DLL hell was a product of different versions of libraries having the same name and path."
It wasn't quite the same problem, but manually resolving gazillions of dependencies, some of which had conflicting version requirements, was as much or more of a PITA.
Quantum computers are sort of the ultimate parallel systems. That does mean they only work well on really parallel problems though. "Cracking encryption" means factoring large numbers - it goes much faster if you can try all the possibilities at the same time. Quantum computing may well remain a niche thing though, good for physical simulations and things like factoring (until everyone quits using that kind of encryption). Or maybe we'll think of entirely new uses.
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I don't think it's even the GPL, it's the GPL v3, and the problem is that even if you send someone the source, they can't install it unless they pay Apple to be developers, which, if I understand correctly, runs afoul of the anti-TIVOization clause in the GPL v3. Now, you CAN install the app on Apple's simulator... I wonder if that gets you around it?
Maybe for adults. When you hit children with indoctrination it's an attempt at conversion.
"Without my admittedly superficial and limited knowledge of Christ and of Christianity, I would still have morals, but no power to live up to them"
This is one of the things that's scary about religious people. Apparently acting morally because it's the right thing to do, or out of respect for other people isn't enough. They need an omnipotent being to tell them to do it. Quite a few seem to need the threat of eternal torture. And for many (most?) even that doesn't work. And of course, if you can be convinced that god actually wants you to do horrible things, you do them with truly alarming conviction.
So what you're saying is that the majority of things the majority of people associate with "Christmas" have nothing to do with Christianity?
Not Thor. Go worship the rebirth of the sun.
All they have to do is convince you to visualize whatever they want you to learn. Over and over. Responding to feedback until you have it perfect.
Yeah, they just have to convince to to visualize, over and over, whatever they want you to learn.
What bugs me is that they left SOME of the toolbars, but killed other ones. Some of the ribbon functionality is available in a toolbar, but some isn't.
Yeah, I couldn't find it either until I looked really closely. Poor guy. He obviously has some sort of mental disorder. OCD or something. Actually, I read an article complaining about the calendar a while ago. The author actually complained that he wanted to tear off the little bits like he would on a real calendar, but couldn't.
Yeah, the real annoyance is the OS constantly bugging you to do things. Want to clear away your excess icons? Wanna write a letter? Wanna be my friend?
A bookshelf metaphor and an inefficient app toolbar pale in comparison.
You can run KDE on a Mac if you want. You'll have to compile it yourself though, because KDE doesn't provide binaries. Or you can use MacPorts to do it for you.
Ew. The point of a multi tasking OS is that you can multitask. Two windows open, side by side, copying stuff from one to the other, or referring to one while doing something in the other. When I work I quite often have half a dozen terminal windows open, a few windows containing code and maybe a browser with some reference material (or Slashdot, for when I'm compiling, of course). All of which is arranged strategically so I can see everything that relates to a particular task all at the same time.
Tabs. I have an OS for you. It's called Windows 3.1.
Then you have to remember two different appearances.
The leather look in OS X doesn't take up any extra space, it's just a texture and colouring applied to the toolbar at the top of the app window. Personally I think it's a bit ugly (they should have made it more brown and less yellow) but it doesn't get in the way when you're using the app, and makes it stand out when you're looking for it. And the look doesn't have to change between near and far representations. Wins all around.
Crowded, slow, confusing and mostly ads. Sounds great.
I'm actually enjoying all these comments with people whining about how they're so leet the GUI (!) is getting in their way and they pine for the days when GUIs were simpler.
What happened to shunning GUIs and using the command line?
I think your example is a little off. Safari is close to the simplest interface you can put on a web browser. Address bar, search bar, a back and forward button some tabs (yeah, I guess you could get rid of those) and the content.
When Windows users get on my Mac the first thing they try to do is type a google search into the address bar. It doesn't work, but they're used to those two functions being combined. Indistinguishable, even.
So how would you redesign Safari to force users to understand what a URL is?
Since your mention of Safari suggests you're using a Mac, see that icon that says Terminal? If you don't see it, you can find it in Applications, Utilities and drag it somewhere where you can see it. Got it? Click it. There you are. Advanced UI at the click of a button.
"DLL hell was a product of different versions of libraries having the same name and path."
It wasn't quite the same problem, but manually resolving gazillions of dependencies, some of which had conflicting version requirements, was as much or more of a PITA.
Customers are their product. They're not going to get much more product. That's even worse than not being able to find new customers.
ONLY 125? I didn't realize Facebook had such high revenue.
It's kind of hard to figure out where the growth to justify that P/E is going to come from though.
Quantum computers are sort of the ultimate parallel systems. That does mean they only work well on really parallel problems though. "Cracking encryption" means factoring large numbers - it goes much faster if you can try all the possibilities at the same time. Quantum computing may well remain a niche thing though, good for physical simulations and things like factoring (until everyone quits using that kind of encryption). Or maybe we'll think of entirely new uses.
I wonder what he does when he gets a new computer.
People finally figure it out and stop coming to your multi-billion dollar casino?
I hope you mean expectation in the statistical sense, rather than the emotional one.
I will stipulate that you at least are an exception. Happy?