Most of those "funny" search results (like go to hell) were the result of googlebombing, one of the very few loopholes in Google's spider. That loophole has now been closed, and I personally don't give a crap. Remember that Scientology was using it to inflate their Google rank too.
You make about as convincing an argument as Homer Simpsons putting his hands over his eyes and shouting "If I don't see it it's not illegal!", and the course of action you suggest will have about the same consequences as Homer's too.
Your programs are already being multithreaded at a very, very low level: Out-of-order execution, nonblocking fetch, superscalar design, and so on cause your processor to be performing more than one instruction simultaneously, and I guess you can call that multithreading. A good compiler (especially on a RISC platform) can design for this automatically to a certain extent.
Apple has always tried to maintain control of the GUI; they publish the HI guidelines and provide standard controls to keep the UI uniform, standardized, and consistent across apps and machines. Of course they aren't happy about utilities that change this interface around. Remember, one of the biggest pieces of criticism leveled at Linux and one of the biggest reasons commercial development hasn't taken off is that the GUI is a moving target: There are too many different window managers, versions of window managers, and theme options to present a stable platform for interface design. Apple knows that have exactly ONE gui is a very good thing; look especially at the mention of tech support issues. You may not care about that but Apple's target audience does and therefore Apple has to.
And besides, we're making mountains out of molehills here. Apple gives you a built-in shell and a free IDE, and you bitch about not being able to put icons in the menu bar?
Where were the lunch boxes and McDonald's Happy Meals featuring Chihiro, Yubaba, Rin, Haku, or the Twin Witches? Do they think that American children are too stupid to appreciate Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi plush toys? Where are the coloring books and t-shirts and and all of the rest of the product placement that this film deserved
You realize that if Disney really had produced all of those items, people would instead be raising hell about commercialization, exploitation, and corruption of art.
I'm just glad that a "real" anime has finally made its way beyond the Miscellaneous section of the video store and will now appear in showbiz magazines and movie critics' columns.
None of the above. Epic had already planned to convert the engine to OpenGL for the Mac version, and they had enough spare time to port it to Linux too.
Hundreds of papers have been written about the bandwidth-efficiency of various P2P networks
I beg to differ. Hundreds of papers have been written on the bandwidth-inefficiency of P2P networks, and the fact that they are still being written is evidence that they are still inefficient.
The ones that depend on something that will never be updated to X and doesn't work in classic. Usually these are drivers for old or custom hardware. Not much that can be done about this.
The ones that hate Aqua. Mac users are historically stubborn as hell, and nearly immune to reason when it comes to their custom configurations (such as the guy I talked to who was appalled that he could not move Sherlock out of/Applications). OS X requires you to change some things about your computer use and some Mac users are not willing to make those changes.
As for the people too dumb to boot back to OS 9, I don't think they can be relied upon to make a sound and informed choice about which OS they want in the first place.
A) No, but this story has already been discovered, posted, and argued into the ground within the Macintosh community, and this is the general consensus.
b) The latest dual G4s are not fully compatible: The ATA-100 bus cannot be used under 9. And what happens when Apple adds buses (gigawire, USB 2, Airport 2) that replace the old 9-supported buses completely? And what about when they finally overhaul the motherboard and OS 9 doesn't have drivers for that? I don't know enough about OS 9's internals to give a complete technical answer, but there's no reason for Apple to take OS 9 compatibility into consideration for anything these days.
Apple is not explicitly doing anything to the hardware to prevent OS 9 booting that could otherwise occur. They are simply not bothering to update OS 9 to boot on the new hardware, since it is legacy code.
Damn right you haven't used a Mac in 5 years. Find an OS X box, go into Preferences, Keyboard section, and turn on Full Keyboard Access. You can now manipulate all standard interface elements with the keyboard. Admittedly this feature is not perfect and doesn't work everywhere (try it out in the Preferences app itself if nowhere else), but it's a hell of a lot closer to what you describe than OS 9 ever was.
No government owns the moon. There is an international treaty/pact/something which states that no country may place a claim on any celestial body (scroll down to article 2). This has, however, not stopped private enterprise from placing such claims.
ZIF socket - 7. More pins than the rest of the plugs put together, and they still fit perfectly. But alignment is tougher than usual and you have to get through all the crap piled on top of the CPU first.
PCI slots - 4. Those things require a LOT of force to seat properly, so much that I thought at first I would have to lean on it and break it. And virtually every card I've installed had alignment problems (granted, I didn't have a proper screwdriver, and they were ATI cards, but still...)
Apple ADC - 9. Snap on, snap off, reduces clutter, what's not to like? You can only get it on high-end Macs and Apple's LCD displays, perhaps.
SDRAM slot - 7. About the only slot that seems designed to have its contents removed on a regular basis.
There is a ((slightly) more) acceptable compromise featured on the Excel Saga DVDs. ADV calls them "vid-notes", and what they are is pop-up-video-style notes that explain the nuances that got left out. When Excel pulls some gag that makes absolutely NO sense in English I can at least read the note that says "This is a hilarious pun in Japanese" and know what I'm missing.
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Have it your way, but when you get run over by some guy with a few outstanding tickets don't come crying to me.
You think that's impressive, wait until they figure out how to send mud over the Internet.
Some of those names are obvious, but who are STV and LNS? (and should BIL have 2 Ls, or is that yet another name I don't know?)
On Mac OS X it would have been even easier, since it included print-to-PDF in the standard printing library. There's no step 3 :P
Most of those "funny" search results (like go to hell) were the result of googlebombing, one of the very few loopholes in Google's spider. That loophole has now been closed, and I personally don't give a crap. Remember that Scientology was using it to inflate their Google rank too.
You make about as convincing an argument as Homer Simpsons putting his hands over his eyes and shouting "If I don't see it it's not illegal!", and the course of action you suggest will have about the same consequences as Homer's too.
So now do we start demanding that all our software be JPLed?
Your programs are already being multithreaded at a very, very low level: Out-of-order execution, nonblocking fetch, superscalar design, and so on cause your processor to be performing more than one instruction simultaneously, and I guess you can call that multithreading. A good compiler (especially on a RISC platform) can design for this automatically to a certain extent.
This is more like manufacturing radar jammers, and I believe that really is illegal.
Apple has always tried to maintain control of the GUI; they publish the HI guidelines and provide standard controls to keep the UI uniform, standardized, and consistent across apps and machines. Of course they aren't happy about utilities that change this interface around. Remember, one of the biggest pieces of criticism leveled at Linux and one of the biggest reasons commercial development hasn't taken off is that the GUI is a moving target: There are too many different window managers, versions of window managers, and theme options to present a stable platform for interface design. Apple knows that have exactly ONE gui is a very good thing; look especially at the mention of tech support issues. You may not care about that but Apple's target audience does and therefore Apple has to.
And besides, we're making mountains out of molehills here. Apple gives you a built-in shell and a free IDE, and you bitch about not being able to put icons in the menu bar?
I'm just glad that a "real" anime has finally made its way beyond the Miscellaneous section of the video store and will now appear in showbiz magazines and movie critics' columns.
I'll start my own business registering cell phones in California and selling them nationwide! Oh, and I've also patented this idea.
None of the above. Epic had already planned to convert the engine to OpenGL for the Mac version, and they had enough spare time to port it to Linux too.
Apple's new spam detector works amazingly well for me. After some initial jitters it pretty much never gets false positives these days.
- The ones that depend on something that will never be updated to X and doesn't work in classic. Usually these are drivers for old or custom hardware. Not much that can be done about this.
- The ones that hate Aqua. Mac users are historically stubborn as hell, and nearly immune to reason when it comes to their custom configurations (such as the guy I talked to who was appalled that he could not move Sherlock out of
/Applications). OS X requires you to change some things about your computer use and some Mac users are not willing to make those changes.
As for the people too dumb to boot back to OS 9, I don't think they can be relied upon to make a sound and informed choice about which OS they want in the first place.A) No, but this story has already been discovered, posted, and argued into the ground within the Macintosh community, and this is the general consensus.
b) The latest dual G4s are not fully compatible: The ATA-100 bus cannot be used under 9. And what happens when Apple adds buses (gigawire, USB 2, Airport 2) that replace the old 9-supported buses completely? And what about when they finally overhaul the motherboard and OS 9 doesn't have drivers for that? I don't know enough about OS 9's internals to give a complete technical answer, but there's no reason for Apple to take OS 9 compatibility into consideration for anything these days.
Apple is not explicitly doing anything to the hardware to prevent OS 9 booting that could otherwise occur. They are simply not bothering to update OS 9 to boot on the new hardware, since it is legacy code.
OS X does support right-clicking natively. It also supports scroll wheels (in Cocoa).
For the record, apps were faking contextual menus on the Mac long before they were an OS service.
Damn right you haven't used a Mac in 5 years. Find an OS X box, go into Preferences, Keyboard section, and turn on Full Keyboard Access. You can now manipulate all standard interface elements with the keyboard. Admittedly this feature is not perfect and doesn't work everywhere (try it out in the Preferences app itself if nowhere else), but it's a hell of a lot closer to what you describe than OS 9 ever was.
No government owns the moon. There is an international treaty/pact/something which states that no country may place a claim on any celestial body (scroll down to article 2). This has, however, not stopped private enterprise from placing such claims.
Because they are incorporated in the US and therefore bound by its laws and regulatory agencies, I assume.
There is a ((slightly) more) acceptable compromise featured on the Excel Saga DVDs. ADV calls them "vid-notes", and what they are is pop-up-video-style notes that explain the nuances that got left out. When Excel pulls some gag that makes absolutely NO sense in English I can at least read the note that says "This is a hilarious pun in Japanese" and know what I'm missing.