In all the fighting, has anyone noticed the beauty of Leopard not putting.DS_Store files in every samba share directory it comes across? I still see one in the root, but that's so much better than every directory!
Mac developers have a fine solution - I've talked with hardcore Mac people who bought a copy of Windows that they run on their Mac with Parallels to test their work in IE. For other developers, I've seen some very clever solutions like BrowserCam that should help.
"Brain-washing" seems like way too harsh of a word to use in this situation, but that's kind of what's happening here. The question asked had nothing to do with licensing or Windows. The questioner specifically wanted to take IE away from Windows, and we were led down this whole licensing rabbit trail. Since Steve Jobs has his distortion field, maybe MS needs one too.:-)
In response to Q8:
I read somewhere that Vista's license prohibits its use on VM's, like Parallels. That will be a problem in the near-future. Now, this may not apply to all Vista editions. (I would love to be able to cite my source, but I can't remember where I saw this) Unfortunately, neither of these solutions are free, although BrowserCam is more affordable.
I also read an interview with a former MS employee, and they said that sometimes people there loose touch with what users really want. (i.e. forgetting that not everyone has broadband internet) Anyway, I personally think that when each MS department steps back and looks at its own product, they say well, there's a licensing restriction (Vista transfer limit) here or an annoyance there (WGA), but that's all. When an outsider (me ) looks, they see the whole picture, and I feel that they have finally crossed the line with what's happening with IE7 and Vista in general. As a C# programmer, who really prefers Visual Studio over any other IDE, I still feel that they've gone farther than the users, in this case, web-developers, are willing to follow. The small migration to Apple or Linux of developers / users / etc that *may* take place at the Vista launch could snowball. More developers = more users = more developers = more users... bigger and bigger... time will tell
They also gave credit in 7.5-7.6 (I think) to the creator of SuperClock. That's the first thing think of when I think of Apple absorbing 3rd party apps. I always thought they paid for the rights to all the obvious apps they encorporated into their OS either with money or just recognition. I would be very supprised to find they gave no credit to the makers of Watson. I remember when Apple had this big promo on their software page saying how wonderful Watson is; that's how I found it in the first place.
Let's see:
Helium -> hierarchal Apple menu
Kaleidoscope -> OS 8.6-9 themes
Watson -> Sherlock 3
Lite Switch -> OS 10.3
Any others?
We can't forget the biggest one!:-)
Longhorn -> Mac OS 0.1a
I seem to rememeber Apple (I think) saying that Premiere for Mac has issues that significantly slow it down compaired to the PC version. Wasn't there actually a story on Adobe's site not long ago that said how much faster Premiere ran on some new P4 than on Apple's latest hardware? I remember some big issue about that...
Even with the polls, I'll bet many Kaaza users don't read/. or any news site for that matter. Some may have school and full-time jobs and never watch the news. They may have never heard anything about lawsuits. That girl in New York thought she was fine by paying the Kaaza Pro fee or whatever. Where did she get that idea? Now, they'll make Kaaza put a warning on their pro version if it doesn't have one already. Even people that hear about it may ignore it or think it doesn't apply to them. What I'm trying to say is most people see this, think, "Wow, it's free!", and never think twice. I know I wouldn't if I didn't read/.
- Quick 'n Dirty = v1.0
- Correct and Proper = v2.0
By cleaning the code, you can improve speed and make a more robust program, both great reasons to have a pay-for 2.0 upgrade.
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Well, since the iPhone is running a scaled-down OSX, maybe they could go all the way and port J2SE to it...
In all the fighting, has anyone noticed the beauty of Leopard not putting .DS_Store files in every samba share directory it comes across? I still see one in the root, but that's so much better than every directory!
Maybe a pie chart of server uptime, scheduled maintenance, and downtime might work...
"Brain-washing" seems like way too harsh of a word to use in this situation, but that's kind of what's happening here. The question asked had nothing to do with licensing or Windows. The questioner specifically wanted to take IE away from Windows, and we were led down this whole licensing rabbit trail. Since Steve Jobs has his distortion field, maybe MS needs one too.
In response to Q8: I read somewhere that Vista's license prohibits its use on VM's, like Parallels. That will be a problem in the near-future. Now, this may not apply to all Vista editions. (I would love to be able to cite my source, but I can't remember where I saw this) Unfortunately, neither of these solutions are free, although BrowserCam is more affordable.
I also read an interview with a former MS employee, and they said that sometimes people there loose touch with what users really want. (i.e. forgetting that not everyone has broadband internet) Anyway, I personally think that when each MS department steps back and looks at its own product, they say well, there's a licensing restriction (Vista transfer limit) here or an annoyance there (WGA), but that's all. When an outsider (me ) looks, they see the whole picture, and I feel that they have finally crossed the line with what's happening with IE7 and Vista in general. As a C# programmer, who really prefers Visual Studio over any other IDE, I still feel that they've gone farther than the users, in this case, web-developers, are willing to follow. The small migration to Apple or Linux of developers / users / etc that *may* take place at the Vista launch could snowball. More developers = more users = more developers = more users
My brain fused with my computer years ago; why do you think I spend all day sitting in front of it?
They also gave credit in 7.5-7.6 (I think) to the creator of SuperClock. That's the first thing think of when I think of Apple absorbing 3rd party apps. I always thought they paid for the rights to all the obvious apps they encorporated into their OS either with money or just recognition. I would be very supprised to find they gave no credit to the makers of Watson. I remember when Apple had this big promo on their software page saying how wonderful Watson is; that's how I found it in the first place.
Let's see:
Helium -> hierarchal Apple menuKaleidoscope -> OS 8.6-9 themes
Watson -> Sherlock 3
Lite Switch -> OS 10.3
Any others?
We can't forget the biggest one!
Longhorn -> Mac OS 0.1a
I seem to rememeber Apple (I think) saying that Premiere for Mac has issues that significantly slow it down compaired to the PC version. Wasn't there actually a story on Adobe's site not long ago that said how much faster Premiere ran on some new P4 than on Apple's latest hardware? I remember some big issue about that...
Even with the polls, I'll bet many Kaaza users don't read /. or any news site for that matter. Some may have school and full-time jobs and never watch the news. They may have never heard anything about lawsuits. That girl in New York thought she was fine by paying the Kaaza Pro fee or whatever. Where did she get that idea? Now, they'll make Kaaza put a warning on their pro version if it doesn't have one already. Even people that hear about it may ignore it or think it doesn't apply to them. What I'm trying to say is most people see this, think, "Wow, it's free!", and never think twice. I know I wouldn't if I didn't read /.
- Quick 'n Dirty = v1.0 - Correct and Proper = v2.0 By cleaning the code, you can improve speed and make a more robust program, both great reasons to have a pay-for 2.0 upgrade.
Umm, go to the Apple / Mac section...