Sure, they sell "expensive hardware" which include the OS worth a few $. But they only sell it to a few percent of all computer users. And also they make lots of other software for their OS since the market is so small not many others companies make software for it.
Now imagine they let others make computers for it and sell their OS, they would still cash in on the OS (sure there would exist pirated versions, but anyway). They would also cash in on all their software. Hopefully other companies would make more software for their OS, so it would grow even more, and also Apple could start to focus on the OS/whatever instead of makeing apps for their OS.
I'm not sure "clones" would be bad economically for Apple.
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I agree, just look how stupid the Swedish keysetting is compared to the english one: here.
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Agreed, I'm from Sweden, say I want to use dvorak, I would also need ÅÄÖ.
So where is dvorak for me? Well, it's here, here and here. And that's only the first google hits, there might be more ones.
The first ones uses regular dvorak keys + grouped åäö + regular swedish "special keys"(letters,!"#%..) setup. I prefer the middle ones (sv_dvorak) thought since it uses english type special keys setup, which makes it far easier to type ()[]{} among others.
I would indeed buy some nice looking Net(any-)BSD t-shirts if available. But just logo on white shirt? No thanks. OpenBSD has decent shirts, and stickers! Case badges, mouse mats, bags, would also be ok =P
Yesterday I had mod points, today I haven't. If I had I would have modded you up.
However things are becoming better in the OSS world, now it's more of an hardware than a software issue.
But sure, there are lots to do for gnome and KDE.
You mean chances are larger people will care about whatever RIAA and similair thinks when they "values" your bunch of 10.000 mp3s as 500-600 albums worth around $12.800 in my local currency? Instead of seeing it as the thing it is, a radio without advertisment;)
Wrong, Win XP/2003 is better than 2000. Just turn of all those animations, themes and stuff if you don't want them. I quite easily got Win XP after-boot-memory-usage down to 50MB once, and then I didn't even used any of those light installer kits (just turned of a bunch of services).
Also I can easily make Linux + X + KDE/gnome use more ram..
Well.. try a Canon photo inkjet printer and an ATI graphics card, tell me when you get good photo prints (with the open-source alternatives, I know it can be done with turboprint) and good 3D performance native and with Cedega. Also remember to tell me how you did.
Difference, diverge(?) and choice is more important. Portable code is to.
I can almost only see good things in it, sure it might consume some time from some developers, but we will have a much richer future, Linux might be good but hopefully it's not all there is.
Well, ok, I don't use gnome I just know 2.10 is newest so 2.8 isn't top of the line now either but probably ok if you want to follow something stable. Anyway, my point was just that Debian will always have old packages, doesn't matter if it's not that old at this moment, in a year or two it will be.
Damn that looks stupid, I still hope it's just a misstake they typed IA-32. Isn't Intel moving all P4s over to Amd64? Just seems retarded not to use it.
The will-only-run-on-macs-part is what scares me thought, since it will probably just be a more expensive PC, probably with crap hardware at the beginners level (Apple seems to always do that, but crap in the cheapest modell so you have to get a more expensive one to get something decent, but the extra they have added costs 2-3 times more than what it's worth or cost them).
Guess this ends my considerations of getting an iMac/PowerBook right now and reconsider Linux/BSD on Amd64 again.
Looked at the GP32? I don't know how large it is in the world, but it has/had decent hardware and a homebrew scene. Console done right. GP32 xtreme got news. GBAX sells it. Emuholic got emus. GP32 devrs got the tools.
On the other hand i think they talked about "Cell storage" in a recent story, a place where you store your music, movies and whatever content, and the cell "improves the quality" of it. I can understand that for a rendered game, however not for a movie. Sure you can interpolate the whole thing, but I don't know if I would call that an improvement.
Althought fruit are quite high on nutrition fructose aren't all that great so maybe one shouldn't base a whole breakfast on fruit, even thought one or two is ok. Also wheat, whole or not, is rather empty of nutrition, so make that rye bread or oat porridge and a whole fruit like an orange or so (no juice).
(fructose have low gi but is belived to be one of the reason people get lower insulin response and easier get fat)
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Sure, they sell "expensive hardware" which include the OS worth a few $. But they only sell it to a few percent of all computer users. And also they make lots of other software for their OS since the market is so small not many others companies make software for it.
Now imagine they let others make computers for it and sell their OS, they would still cash in on the OS (sure there would exist pirated versions, but anyway). They would also cash in on all their software. Hopefully other companies would make more software for their OS, so it would grow even more, and also Apple could start to focus on the OS/whatever instead of makeing apps for their OS.
I'm not sure "clones" would be bad economically for Apple.
I agree, just look how stupid the Swedish keysetting is compared to the english one: here.
Agreed, I'm from Sweden, say I want to use dvorak, I would also need ÅÄÖ.
So where is dvorak for me? Well, it's here, here and here. And that's only the first google hits, there might be more ones.
The first ones uses regular dvorak keys + grouped åäö + regular swedish "special keys"(letters,!"#%..) setup. I prefer the middle ones (sv_dvorak) thought since it uses english type special keys setup, which makes it far easier to type ()[]{} among others.
BSD mall has some items but it seems they don't have that shirt.
I would indeed buy some nice looking Net(any-)BSD t-shirts if available. But just logo on white shirt? No thanks. OpenBSD has decent shirts, and stickers!
Case badges, mouse mats, bags, would also be ok =P
Yesterday I had mod points, today I haven't. If I had I would have modded you up. However things are becoming better in the OSS world, now it's more of an hardware than a software issue. But sure, there are lots to do for gnome and KDE.
You mean chances are larger people will care about whatever RIAA and similair thinks when they "values" your bunch of 10.000 mp3s as 500-600 albums worth around $12.800 in my local currency? Instead of seeing it as the thing it is, a radio without advertisment ;)
A much better TCP/IP-stack for once.
Wrong, Win XP/2003 is better than 2000. Just turn of all those animations, themes and stuff if you don't want them. I quite easily got Win XP after-boot-memory-usage down to 50MB once, and then I didn't even used any of those light installer kits (just turned of a bunch of services). Also I can easily make Linux + X + KDE/gnome use more ram..
Well.. try a Canon photo inkjet printer and an ATI graphics card, tell me when you get good photo prints (with the open-source alternatives, I know it can be done with turboprint) and good 3D performance native and with Cedega. Also remember to tell me how you did.
Difference, diverge(?) and choice is more important. Portable code is to. I can almost only see good things in it, sure it might consume some time from some developers, but we will have a much richer future, Linux might be good but hopefully it's not all there is.
Well, ok, I don't use gnome I just know 2.10 is newest so 2.8 isn't top of the line now either but probably ok if you want to follow something stable. Anyway, my point was just that Debian will always have old packages, doesn't matter if it's not that old at this moment, in a year or two it will be.
Swedes burning their own flag on their national day.. here. Morons.
Damn that looks stupid, I still hope it's just a misstake they typed IA-32. Isn't Intel moving all P4s over to Amd64? Just seems retarded not to use it. The will-only-run-on-macs-part is what scares me thought, since it will probably just be a more expensive PC, probably with crap hardware at the beginners level (Apple seems to always do that, but crap in the cheapest modell so you have to get a more expensive one to get something decent, but the extra they have added costs 2-3 times more than what it's worth or cost them). Guess this ends my considerations of getting an iMac/PowerBook right now and reconsider Linux/BSD on Amd64 again.
I'll say in one year Gnome 2.8 is outdated.
Yeah, compared to cockroaches ;)
Uhm, hacker doesn't have to mean "evil Internet user".
Except what is lost is lost, so the amount of water molecules, oxygen, hydrogen and so on will become less all the time.
Looked at the GP32? I don't know how large it is in the world, but it has/had decent hardware and a homebrew scene. Console done right.
GP32 xtreme got news.
GBAX sells it.
Emuholic got emus.
GP32 devrs got the tools.
I don't think they block unencrypted binaries to kill the homebrew games & apps scene, I rather think they do it to stop piracy.
But that's not because people don't want a mac or prefer windows for macos x, I hope. (gamers excluded)
Yeah, and also, why do you need more than 640kB of ram? really? ;)
(on topic: there will be released even more advanced games)
On the other hand i think they talked about "Cell storage" in a recent story, a place where you store your music, movies and whatever content, and the cell "improves the quality" of it. I can understand that for a rendered game, however not for a movie. Sure you can interpolate the whole thing, but I don't know if I would call that an improvement.
Probably because linux is as much or MORE work and troubles than Windows. The mac works.
Althought fruit are quite high on nutrition fructose aren't all that great so maybe one shouldn't base a whole breakfast on fruit, even thought one or two is ok. Also wheat, whole or not, is rather empty of nutrition, so make that rye bread or oat porridge and a whole fruit like an orange or so (no juice).
(fructose have low gi but is belived to be one of the reason people get lower insulin response and easier get fat)