No. Because you can boot back into OS X. So it's quite different from any other x86 machine, becuase you can't do that on them (OSX86 does not count...it's far behind Apple's updates and doesn't run correctly).
Windows is just the toy OS I keep installed to play The Sims 2 and Oblivion. I do my real work in OS X.
I notice you still didn't address the super-thin form factor, the built-in features like Firewire, Blutooth, 802.11g, a camera, and more. The super-quiet noise level is just one of many features I listed. You ignored the rest.
If all you've for a retort is "Well, uh, today's PCs are getting quiet too," then it's your argument that's the lamest around. 10 years from now, all PCs will look like iMacs with the computers in the screens as people get sick of the 1992 relic that is the tower. The iMac is clearly the superior design in nearly every way when sat next to a noisy Dell.
If you do all the videoconferencing my office does, yes, a webcam. Oh, I forgot, you don't actually have any counterpoint to offer because the super-thin iMac is light years ahead of the crappy PC competition. 15 years from now, all PCs will look like the iMac, which will have been there first.
Next.
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It's because it's a trojan horse. It will get a ton of Windows kids to buy Macs to dual-boot OS X and Windows, forcing them to see Windows XP and OS X side-by-side (and we know who wins that shootout). Not to mention it sells more Macs. It's good news all around. The "lack of games" argument has just been disintegrated forever.
What a total load of crap! Total MS fanboy defensiveness.
What "Helvetica"? If you're referring to Arial, then it's by no means a stolen Helvetica
Uh, yes, it absolutely is. It's a third-rate clone of Helvetica done by a company called Monotype so Microsoft didn't have to pay license fees. I guess you have no idea of history, so here, I'll educate you--read this called The Scourge of Arial where its dubious history is discussed. It's a "shameless imposter" of Helvetica thrust upon the world.
; they're totally different designs,
No, unless you think "totally different" means very minor differences.
and anyone who knows anything about type can tell them apart at a glance.
Because experienced designers know what goofy little changes exist in the ugly clone of Helvetica.
People get annoyed about Arial because it's ugly, not because it's "stolen".
Wrong, they're annoyed because it's stolen, and NOT ONLY is it a clone, but it's a bad, ugly one.
And what "Palatino"? Book Antiqua? Ancient history. Microsoft more than made up for it when they actually licensed the genuine Palatino from Linotype -- it's been bundled with Windows since Win2k.
Haha, no it's NOT "ancient history," and to claim Microsoft magically made up for their evil ways after they were forced to license the real font after everyone made a stink about it is total fanboyism.
By the way, this is nothing to do with "settling", "stealing", or "opening themselves up". This is a case of them being denied a trademark. There has been no lawsuit and no claim of damages or illegal activity: the only claim Linotype made was that Segoe was not an original design.
I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the populace would either disagree with the assertion that Apple provides the best hardware or not have a clue either way.
Well, take that 90% and sit them in front of an ugly black tower (a relic of an early 90s trend) with loud fans, or a super-thin, super-quiet computer that packs the entire machine into the screen (including a webcam!) so that you get your desk space back, and ask yourself which one you think they'll consider the more advanced hardware.
Bombing Bosnia is small scale stuff? Pardoning rich friends is small scale stuff? At least we had a legal right to go into Iraq using force based on the wording of the treaty Saddam violated.
all while turning your country closer and closer to fascism.
Ah, the classic liberal fallback. Avoid facts and just use emotive phrases like "fascism" (also don't forget "Nazi" and "Hitler"). You don't know what a fascist government is, and you've never lived under one, so you insult the suffering of societies who do live under real fascist governments.
There's nothing fascist about Bush. You just don't like Republicans, and despite all their preaching about tolerance, liberals are unable to tolerate opposing opinions. So if there's someone they disagree with, they call them a "fascist" because they can't debate anything.
Thanks for illustrating my point. I bring up Democrat crimes, and you completely ignore them and start rattling on about Republicans.
This is what Democrats do all the time; act as though the entire Republican party is some criminal cabal while ignoring all the ridiculous criminal behavior of their own party. The media is in bed with them and perpetuates the image. Notice that nobody's mentioning that a Democratic senator punched a police officer. But Cheney's hunting trip gets two weeks of press coverage, even when public polls show that nobody cares about it.
God, even Carlos Mencia ragged on it. "They asked his friend, and he said he was okay. That's it, right? Why are we covering it? They asked the guy who got shot, and he said he's fine. So who the fuck cares? I don't. His friend said he's okay. It's not news!"
how many died as a result from that? How many terrorist attacks did that give reason to?
How many died in the Clinton-ordered bombings that took place without UN approval? How many died because he didn't go after Bin Laden when he had the chance? See, you rail on Bush for that but ignore that Clinton did crazy things. You also ignore that he pardoned people in the last hours (literally) of his presidency who donated to him and his library. If Bush did this, you would be ALL OVER IT and so would places like Daily Kos.
How many greiving mothers that he refused to meet did that cause?
Uh, Bush met with Cindy Sheehan. In fact, she praised him after the meeting.
Maybe you forgot the little nugget of truth where Casey Sheenan VOLUNTARILY JOINED THE ARMY AND EVEN RENEWED HIS SERVICE AFTER BEING IN IRAQ. The media will never report that Casey chose to be there. They want to pretend it's still Vietnam where there's a draft. There's not. It's a volunteer army of adults who made the choice.
Please, for the love of god, stop believing in either side and recognize that they're just two opposing gangs on a child's playground, throwing spitwads at each other, and that you shouldn't take part because it promotes groupthink. Thanks.
According to developer interviews, the game supports both Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0, with 3.0 only being used to increase performance by doing things like lighting in a single pass.
Correlation does not equal causation. Furthermore, the Democrats let wonderful legislature like the DMCA go into effect while Clinton was busy pardoning his criminal friends who happened to make donations.
I'm so sick of hearing Democrats portray Republicans as this big corrupt evil as though they're pure and innocent. Just recently, a Democrat was convicted of illegally obtaining credit records on a Republican candidate, and another Democrat is being charged for actually punching a police officer who dared chase her down when she didn't pass through the metal detector.
But you will hear absolute total silence about anything Democrats do, especially from the overwhelmingly liberal media. Instead, you'll continue to hear about the Republican "criminals."
Because it is irrelevant. For the EU to find out if the documentation is enough, they have to, you know, contact the people wanting to use the documentation.
Microsoft wants to go on a fishing expedition with the documents, find something and take it out of context, and stall the trial even further.
Now they are threatening to fix their own holes and that industry is mad at them?
How do you equate providing antivirus/antispyware with fixing the holes that caused the need for antivirus/antispyware in the first place? Providing antispyware isn't fixing the holes; it's covering them up with another layer of software.
Maybe it is the switch between 3 languages to run 'Hello World'. Seems a tad overwrought. But I am wasting my time.
Running "Hello world" on the console calls several different APIs, some in different languages based on the platform you're using. Displaying a "Hello world" dialog in Windows will go through several layers. Displaying "Hello, world" on a cross-platform framework for client browsers will also go through several initial application layers. These are just things you need to accept as a newbie programmer (which you clearly are).
Get back to your Visual Basic.
Clearly, you have absolutely no counterargument, and I acknowledge that.
Maybe because Microsoft's announcements always run along the lines of "Here's something we're vaguely 'working on' that will be available 'within the next 12 months,' complete with cluttered PowerPoint slides to make it look like we know what we're doing."
Apple's announcements run along the lines of "Here it is, and it's available today. Check it out at the Apple Store a few blocks away."
Of course we judge books by their cover. You have to. If there's a bald guy at a party with a teardrop tattoo and a knife on his belt, you're going to stand away from him. You're not going to go, "Golly, gee, I shouldn't judge, he might be a chef!"
Someone dressed in a suit is showing a level of devotion. That's why it's appealing to companies. OSS people should get over it and accept that.
Steve Jobs dresses for the consumer. That pretty much describes Apple in a nutshell. So no stuffy suit or bland button-up shirt. More importantly, he wears those black shirts on stage so as not to distract from the slides (they have dark backgrounds) or the products he has on display (which contrast well since they're white plastic). It's a bonus that black looks cool.
Someone like Steve Ballmer has to dress like a corporate guy during important presentations (like roadmaps or product previews) because Microsoft's top customers are corporations who expect a look of professionalism and stability. If he's talking to an audience of developers, however, he knows he can jump around like a monkey because it's a different audience.
Aaaaaand how is that different from desktop development? Actually, how is that different from any other development?
Yeah, shocker, APIs call other APIs to call other APIs. That's how software works.
All you did was describe the basic model of server code delivering client code. Which is the future.
Re:Javascript is insecure - AJAX is security hole
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Or, use respond_to and deliver content through AJAX or non-AJAX through the same action.
Despite that, I think it's time to get over it--scripting is a part of the World Wide Web. The whining about JavaScript reminds me of the whining about PDFs that always occurred on Slashdot a few years ago, which thankfully has mostly disappeared. Everyone stupidly assumed because Acrobat was slow, PDF was slow. Nope, Acrobat was slow because it loaded all its plugins on every startup, which Adobe stopped doing in the latest version.
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That depends on the developer. Rails is just a framework of APIs. Using respond_to, you can give a response based on what's enabled in the browser.
What the hell are you talking about?.NET has been out for years, as have applications written for the.NET platform. What does this have to do with Vista? Some bozos thought Vista was going to be written in C# or some nonsense like that, which may be the crap you're hearing.
He's talking about how the PDC 2003 build of Longhorn had a shell implemented in managed code, as well as two services, and how today's Vista has dropped that.NET code in favor of a native code shell and no managed code services. There was a well-known analysis by Richard Grimes posted to Slashdot recently that explained how Microsoft has silently scaled back the amount of.NET managed code used in each build of Vista, even though they had previously made public claims that Longhorn would be very.NET-based, and that they were "betting the company" on it. That is no longer their policy, starting with the 2004 reset. The.NET code turned out to be far too slow and performance-intensive, so Vista is the same old native code you've come to know and love from Microsoft over the years.
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No. Because you can boot back into OS X. So it's quite different from any other x86 machine, becuase you can't do that on them (OSX86 does not count...it's far behind Apple's updates and doesn't run correctly).
Windows is just the toy OS I keep installed to play The Sims 2 and Oblivion. I do my real work in OS X.
Oh, it is?
I notice you still didn't address the super-thin form factor, the built-in features like Firewire, Blutooth, 802.11g, a camera, and more. The super-quiet noise level is just one of many features I listed. You ignored the rest.
If all you've for a retort is "Well, uh, today's PCs are getting quiet too," then it's your argument that's the lamest around. 10 years from now, all PCs will look like iMacs with the computers in the screens as people get sick of the 1992 relic that is the tower. The iMac is clearly the superior design in nearly every way when sat next to a noisy Dell.
If you do all the videoconferencing my office does, yes, a webcam. Oh, I forgot, you don't actually have any counterpoint to offer because the super-thin iMac is light years ahead of the crappy PC competition. 15 years from now, all PCs will look like the iMac, which will have been there first.
Next.
It's because it's a trojan horse. It will get a ton of Windows kids to buy Macs to dual-boot OS X and Windows, forcing them to see Windows XP and OS X side-by-side (and we know who wins that shootout). Not to mention it sells more Macs. It's good news all around. The "lack of games" argument has just been disintegrated forever.
What a total load of crap! Total MS fanboy defensiveness.
What "Helvetica"? If you're referring to Arial, then it's by no means a stolen Helvetica
Uh, yes, it absolutely is. It's a third-rate clone of Helvetica done by a company called Monotype so Microsoft didn't have to pay license fees. I guess you have no idea of history, so here, I'll educate you--read this called The Scourge of Arial where its dubious history is discussed. It's a "shameless imposter" of Helvetica thrust upon the world.
; they're totally different designs,
No, unless you think "totally different" means very minor differences.
and anyone who knows anything about type can tell them apart at a glance.
Because experienced designers know what goofy little changes exist in the ugly clone of Helvetica.
People get annoyed about Arial because it's ugly, not because it's "stolen".
Wrong, they're annoyed because it's stolen, and NOT ONLY is it a clone, but it's a bad, ugly one.
And what "Palatino"? Book Antiqua? Ancient history. Microsoft more than made up for it when they actually licensed the genuine Palatino from Linotype -- it's been bundled with Windows since Win2k.
Haha, no it's NOT "ancient history," and to claim Microsoft magically made up for their evil ways after they were forced to license the real font after everyone made a stink about it is total fanboyism.
By the way, this is nothing to do with "settling", "stealing", or "opening themselves up". This is a case of them being denied a trademark. There has been no lawsuit and no claim of damages or illegal activity: the only claim Linotype made was that Segoe was not an original design.
And as par for the course at Microsoft, it's not.
Take off the blinders. Next.
I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the populace would either disagree with the assertion that Apple provides the best hardware or not have a clue either way.
Well, take that 90% and sit them in front of an ugly black tower (a relic of an early 90s trend) with loud fans, or a super-thin, super-quiet computer that packs the entire machine into the screen (including a webcam!) so that you get your desk space back, and ask yourself which one you think they'll consider the more advanced hardware.
Bombing Bosnia is small scale stuff? Pardoning rich friends is small scale stuff? At least we had a legal right to go into Iraq using force based on the wording of the treaty Saddam violated.
all while turning your country closer and closer to fascism.
Ah, the classic liberal fallback. Avoid facts and just use emotive phrases like "fascism" (also don't forget "Nazi" and "Hitler"). You don't know what a fascist government is, and you've never lived under one, so you insult the suffering of societies who do live under real fascist governments.
There's nothing fascist about Bush. You just don't like Republicans, and despite all their preaching about tolerance, liberals are unable to tolerate opposing opinions. So if there's someone they disagree with, they call them a "fascist" because they can't debate anything.
Next.
Thanks for illustrating my point. I bring up Democrat crimes, and you completely ignore them and start rattling on about Republicans.
This is what Democrats do all the time; act as though the entire Republican party is some criminal cabal while ignoring all the ridiculous criminal behavior of their own party. The media is in bed with them and perpetuates the image. Notice that nobody's mentioning that a Democratic senator punched a police officer. But Cheney's hunting trip gets two weeks of press coverage, even when public polls show that nobody cares about it.
God, even Carlos Mencia ragged on it. "They asked his friend, and he said he was okay. That's it, right? Why are we covering it? They asked the guy who got shot, and he said he's fine. So who the fuck cares? I don't. His friend said he's okay. It's not news!"
how many died as a result from that? How many terrorist attacks did that give reason to?
How many died in the Clinton-ordered bombings that took place without UN approval? How many died because he didn't go after Bin Laden when he had the chance? See, you rail on Bush for that but ignore that Clinton did crazy things. You also ignore that he pardoned people in the last hours (literally) of his presidency who donated to him and his library. If Bush did this, you would be ALL OVER IT and so would places like Daily Kos.
How many greiving mothers that he refused to meet did that cause?
Uh, Bush met with Cindy Sheehan. In fact, she praised him after the meeting.
Maybe you forgot the little nugget of truth where Casey Sheenan VOLUNTARILY JOINED THE ARMY AND EVEN RENEWED HIS SERVICE AFTER BEING IN IRAQ. The media will never report that Casey chose to be there. They want to pretend it's still Vietnam where there's a draft. There's not. It's a volunteer army of adults who made the choice.
Please, for the love of god, stop believing in either side and recognize that they're just two opposing gangs on a child's playground, throwing spitwads at each other, and that you shouldn't take part because it promotes groupthink. Thanks.
Oh, come on mods, lighten up; it made me laugh out loud.
According to developer interviews, the game supports both Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0, with 3.0 only being used to increase performance by doing things like lighting in a single pass.
Correlation does not equal causation. Furthermore, the Democrats let wonderful legislature like the DMCA go into effect while Clinton was busy pardoning his criminal friends who happened to make donations.
I'm so sick of hearing Democrats portray Republicans as this big corrupt evil as though they're pure and innocent. Just recently, a Democrat was convicted of illegally obtaining credit records on a Republican candidate, and another Democrat is being charged for actually punching a police officer who dared chase her down when she didn't pass through the metal detector.
But you will hear absolute total silence about anything Democrats do, especially from the overwhelmingly liberal media. Instead, you'll continue to hear about the Republican "criminals."
Because it is irrelevant. For the EU to find out if the documentation is enough, they have to, you know, contact the people wanting to use the documentation.
Microsoft wants to go on a fishing expedition with the documents, find something and take it out of context, and stall the trial even further.
This thing has been going on for TWO YEARS.
But they're not fixing the holes. If they fixed the holes, there wouldn't BE a need for antispyware software.
What they're offering is another layer of software to cover up the holes, in a market where there are already people who do that.
Now they are threatening to fix their own holes and that industry is mad at them?
How do you equate providing antivirus/antispyware with fixing the holes that caused the need for antivirus/antispyware in the first place? Providing antispyware isn't fixing the holes; it's covering them up with another layer of software.
What's OS/X? I've never heard of this. I know of OS X, but not OS/X.
Maybe it is the switch between 3 languages to run 'Hello World'. Seems a tad overwrought. But I am wasting my time.
Running "Hello world" on the console calls several different APIs, some in different languages based on the platform you're using. Displaying a "Hello world" dialog in Windows will go through several layers. Displaying "Hello, world" on a cross-platform framework for client browsers will also go through several initial application layers. These are just things you need to accept as a newbie programmer (which you clearly are).
Get back to your Visual Basic.
Clearly, you have absolutely no counterargument, and I acknowledge that.
Next.
Maybe because Microsoft's announcements always run along the lines of "Here's something we're vaguely 'working on' that will be available 'within the next 12 months,' complete with cluttered PowerPoint slides to make it look like we know what we're doing."
Apple's announcements run along the lines of "Here it is, and it's available today. Check it out at the Apple Store a few blocks away."
According to Eolas, they're only interested in suing Microsoft and are OSS supporters.
Of course we judge books by their cover. You have to. If there's a bald guy at a party with a teardrop tattoo and a knife on his belt, you're going to stand away from him. You're not going to go, "Golly, gee, I shouldn't judge, he might be a chef!"
Someone dressed in a suit is showing a level of devotion. That's why it's appealing to companies. OSS people should get over it and accept that.
Steve Jobs dresses for the consumer. That pretty much describes Apple in a nutshell. So no stuffy suit or bland button-up shirt. More importantly, he wears those black shirts on stage so as not to distract from the slides (they have dark backgrounds) or the products he has on display (which contrast well since they're white plastic). It's a bonus that black looks cool.
Someone like Steve Ballmer has to dress like a corporate guy during important presentations (like roadmaps or product previews) because Microsoft's top customers are corporations who expect a look of professionalism and stability. If he's talking to an audience of developers, however, he knows he can jump around like a monkey because it's a different audience.
Aaaaaand how is that different from desktop development? Actually, how is that different from any other development?
Yeah, shocker, APIs call other APIs to call other APIs. That's how software works.
All you did was describe the basic model of server code delivering client code. Which is the future.
Or, use respond_to and deliver content through AJAX or non-AJAX through the same action.
Despite that, I think it's time to get over it--scripting is a part of the World Wide Web. The whining about JavaScript reminds me of the whining about PDFs that always occurred on Slashdot a few years ago, which thankfully has mostly disappeared. Everyone stupidly assumed because Acrobat was slow, PDF was slow. Nope, Acrobat was slow because it loaded all its plugins on every startup, which Adobe stopped doing in the latest version.
That depends on the developer. Rails is just a framework of APIs. Using respond_to, you can give a response based on what's enabled in the browser.
What the hell are you talking about? .NET has been out for years, as have applications written for the .NET platform. What does this have to do with Vista? Some bozos thought Vista was going to be written in C# or some nonsense like that, which may be the crap you're hearing.
.NET code in favor of a native code shell and no managed code services. There was a well-known analysis by Richard Grimes posted to Slashdot recently that explained how Microsoft has silently scaled back the amount of .NET managed code used in each build of Vista, even though they had previously made public claims that Longhorn would be very .NET-based, and that they were "betting the company" on it. That is no longer their policy, starting with the 2004 reset. The .NET code turned out to be far too slow and performance-intensive, so Vista is the same old native code you've come to know and love from Microsoft over the years.
He's talking about how the PDC 2003 build of Longhorn had a shell implemented in managed code, as well as two services, and how today's Vista has dropped that