The beauty of open source is... if the GIMP team doesn't want to make a Photoshop-clone interface, you can fork GIMP, and make a version with a Photoshop-clone interface.
Sometimes, actually, yes, the OEM tires included on cars are excellent for the job - for example, on a lot of high MPG cars, people love the low rolling resistance of the OEM tires (often Michelin Energy MVX4s in OEM applications.)
(Then again, sometimes the OEM tires are the crappiest tires ever.)
Sounds like Windows, at times. Sometimes it's the best thing for the job, sometimes it's dreadful.
I just made your car analogy work, while making a completely different point than what you made.:)
The Apple ][ family was MOS/WDC. There might have been 1 or 2 Intel chips on some of the motherboards, but the CPU was an MOS 6502 (or a second-source clone, usually Synertek or Rockwell,) WDC 65C02 (actually, an NCR second-source clone,) or WDC 65C816 (a VLSI second-source clone.)
Actually, in those cases, what would happen is nobody would update to IE8, and they'd just keep running IE7.
The cost of moving to a browser that doesn't support ActiveX (read: rewriting all ActiveX-dependent applications) has got to be higher than the cost of running IE7.
Pretend for a second that Microsoft would release a product with no official support, and some stuff broken. (Pretend for a second that Microsoft would release a product with official support, and most stuff working, for that matter.)
Now, pretend it's 2004.
Microsoft wants to update Windows XP. So, they release XP Service Pack 2. That's fully supported, and everything is expected to work.
At the same time, there's major demand for all the shiny features in Longhorn. So, in this hypothetical scenario, they'd release Longhorn as a community-supported version. Nothing's guaranteed to work, it's in alpha. That's what Kubuntu's doing with this KDE4 release.
Heck, I tried to download the drivers for VISTA for an HPaq I was working on, and they weren't on the HP site either! If you wiped the drive, the only way to get all the drivers was to pay for a restore CD!
But, I'll note that you can still get a ThinkPad or a Dell with XP.
I'll note that I'm a car enthusiast, and my car is 16 years old - and it's the newest car I've ever owned.
And, yes, I can afford something newer. But why? My car handles very well (which is its job, being a sports car - and that's with 16 year old suspension components, with 174k miles on them,) gets good gas mileage, meets my needs, is very easy to work on (much easier than many modern cars,) and is reliable. Why should I get something newer?
OK, realize that an iPhone that would be powerful enough to run Flash... would look more like this, and would [b]STILL[/b] be too slow - even if it were running it in IE on Windows, which is the fastest Flash Player:
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Of course, sometimes even when they DO know to drop better hints, we still don't get it.
Unfortunately, that's why my best friend is just my best friend now. (She's now got a kid, and is engaged - I didn't make a move quickly enough.)
Oh, and not all of us like DDs. Some of us like As and Bs.
Funny, except we're not innocent in the whole giving off ambiguous signals thing...
Of course, we only do it because being obvious about it is considered a turnoff, or sometimes because of fear of rejection...
However, that does bring up an interesting point.
Nowadays, with all the taxes on landline phones, it's often cheaper to get a cell phone and cable internet than it is a landline and dialup.
The beauty of open source is... if the GIMP team doesn't want to make a Photoshop-clone interface, you can fork GIMP, and make a version with a Photoshop-clone interface.
I would say Microsoft Excel.
I do believe VBA macros aren't supported in OOo, and that's a HUGE omission for many existing Excel files.
Sometimes, actually, yes, the OEM tires included on cars are excellent for the job - for example, on a lot of high MPG cars, people love the low rolling resistance of the OEM tires (often Michelin Energy MVX4s in OEM applications.)
:)
(Then again, sometimes the OEM tires are the crappiest tires ever.)
Sounds like Windows, at times. Sometimes it's the best thing for the job, sometimes it's dreadful.
I just made your car analogy work, while making a completely different point than what you made.
Um, what?
The Apple ][ family was MOS/WDC. There might have been 1 or 2 Intel chips on some of the motherboards, but the CPU was an MOS 6502 (or a second-source clone, usually Synertek or Rockwell,) WDC 65C02 (actually, an NCR second-source clone,) or WDC 65C816 (a VLSI second-source clone.)
Actually, in those cases, what would happen is nobody would update to IE8, and they'd just keep running IE7.
The cost of moving to a browser that doesn't support ActiveX (read: rewriting all ActiveX-dependent applications) has got to be higher than the cost of running IE7.
That's not at all what they're meaning.
Pretend for a second that Microsoft would release a product with no official support, and some stuff broken. (Pretend for a second that Microsoft would release a product with official support, and most stuff working, for that matter.)
Now, pretend it's 2004.
Microsoft wants to update Windows XP. So, they release XP Service Pack 2. That's fully supported, and everything is expected to work.
At the same time, there's major demand for all the shiny features in Longhorn. So, in this hypothetical scenario, they'd release Longhorn as a community-supported version. Nothing's guaranteed to work, it's in alpha. That's what Kubuntu's doing with this KDE4 release.
IIRC, this is different from UMSDOS.
UMSDOS still used the host file system to manage the individual files.
This is storing the Linux filesystem as a loopback file on the NTFS partition.
And, that's actually true for HPaqs.
Heck, I tried to download the drivers for VISTA for an HPaq I was working on, and they weren't on the HP site either! If you wiped the drive, the only way to get all the drivers was to pay for a restore CD!
But, I'll note that you can still get a ThinkPad or a Dell with XP.
Well, there are HID bulbs, which, if they're OEM, should be more white than blue, and should be properly aimed.
Then there's the aftermarket HID kits, which are often blue. And, there's the blue-coated bulbs, to make people think you've got HIDs when you don't.
http://www.preater.com/modelm/images/model-m-label-small.jpg
The copycat groups won't follow the pacifist policies of Anonymous.
Or, rather, copycat individuals (who are actually Scienos) trying to blend in won't follow them.
I think someone made a CPU that natively runs Brainfuck code, so... maybe a sissy CPU with 7 instructions?
I'll note that I don't have to do emissions testing here, so even OBD-II is fine for me.
And, my car is also RWD and a 5-spd. (But, I could get that in a brand new Miata, too. For $21k.)
As for application of this real-world car analogy, I have one word for you. Vista.
I'll note that I'm a car enthusiast, and my car is 16 years old - and it's the newest car I've ever owned.
And, yes, I can afford something newer. But why? My car handles very well (which is its job, being a sports car - and that's with 16 year old suspension components, with 174k miles on them,) gets good gas mileage, meets my needs, is very easy to work on (much easier than many modern cars,) and is reliable. Why should I get something newer?
However, I present to you a technology that's been around, oh, only since 1963.
;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette
That made it INCREDIBLY easy to save music off the radio.
The other option is to refuse to business in Kentucky.
GeoIP to prevent anyone from Kentucky from buying a subscription, anyone?
To be fair, Flash is horribly slow.
I find it horribly slow on anything other than IE on Windows, given ANY hardware. Modern dual core processors, multiple gigabytes of RAM? Still slow.
OK, realize that an iPhone that would be powerful enough to run Flash... would look more like this, and would [b]STILL[/b] be too slow - even if it were running it in IE on Windows, which is the fastest Flash Player:
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=computersperipherals&type=ultramobilepc&subtype=ultramobilepc&model_cd=NP-Q1U/000/SEA
That's Flash Lite, the mobile version of Flash that Jobs was referring to.
It, in a nutshell, is worthless.
Because the iPhone is downloading the H.264 vids direct from YouTube's site, rather than playing them in a flash-based player. ;)
Once you bring more than one auction into it, someone else's actions (say, winning another auction) can cause your maximum to go up.
I would've preferred Windows 2000 in that situation...
(Generally, with less than 512MB RAM, I find Win2K's lower memory footprint makes up for it being not nearly as optimized as XP.)