No. Linus' quote is ambiguous. He says " by just reverse-engineering what he did".
So Linus could either be against reverse engineering of code or file formats. It's not clear which, becauase it is not clear which approach Tridge took.
Presumably they'll just explain that the 12 incarnations business is traditionally counted in the Gallifreyan (sp?) numbering system - base 46 or some-such.
Most mainstream software stores severely under represent the Mac software base. This is a vicious cycle in my opinion - they don't stock it because they don't believe there is demand and there is no demand because they don't stock it.
When I go into my local PC software store to buy the Mac software I'm after they very rarely have it, and I'm sure they don't capture the fact that I asked about it.
So I tend to use specialist stores or buy online. Amazon or the online AppleStore are not bad.
To get an idea of the amount of software out there, here's Amazon's 30 pages of Mac games - probably the Mac's weakest category.
Or look here to get an idea of the shareware/freeware available.
Indeed. I would think that 80% of all zipping is done in the background, with another app in the foreground. Likewise for listening to music, DVD encoding-burning. Not to mention all those Web pages in the background with animated banners.
I have a vague recollection that support for classic VBA is scheduled to be discontinued in forthcoming versions of Office apps. Not sure when though. VBA will be replaced by VB.Net, I think.
I the quality of the CGi in the fanflick trailer looks really rather good, the amateur acting and the dialogue seems wretched. I thought it was an excellent attempt to make the fanflick match the authentic films.
Some can be user derived, certainly, but the smart thing is to get the application to generate as much of metadata as possible - exposure and picture date for photos, bit-rate, composer etc for music.
I agree; no-one currently saves additional metadata with their Word files, but then again - any metadata is pretty useless. If WinFS arrives, there may be a *reason* to manually add metadata
Apple does contribute open source improvements back to the community - plenty of them. What are the open source elements in iTunes, specifically that you are complaining about?
Or are you suggesting that any company that uses any open source code anywhere in its product-set should ensure that all of its software products run on all open source OSs as recompense?
The weasel word in your post there is 'most'. As in "most of the people wouldn't have bought the music".
I presume by most you didn't mean 51%, let's assume 0.5% shall we? (Too high? well, let's assume that filesharers only compete with online legal downloads (clearly falacious) and that the iTunes store is the only legal download site).
Apple's daily sales are about 1.39m tracks. Which works out at a daily loss of revenue of around $7,000.
That alone is probably worth paying a lawyer for, no? Just to make people think twice. And that's assuming zero impact on CD sales.
Yes these figure are speculative, but then so is your "most".
Moreover, I actually think that the earth's biosphere, including humanity is wonderful and that human kind, for all its faults has made some amazing accomplishments in both the arts and the sciences in its long, rich history. So yes, a mass extinction *would* be a bad thing, it would remove some complexity and interest from the universe.
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No. Linus' quote is ambiguous. He says " by just reverse-engineering what he did".
So Linus could either be against reverse engineering of code or file formats. It's not clear which, becauase it is not clear which approach Tridge took.
"inclusion of .doc capabilities isnt the main reason for it "
.doc capabilities (and all the rest - .xls etc) would kill it STONE DEAD in terms of corporate adoption.
But the exclusion of
The 'Doctor What?' joke is actually done by Rose in the first episode of the new series. Very droll?
Presumably they'll just explain that the 12 incarnations business is traditionally counted in the Gallifreyan (sp?) numbering system - base 46 or some-such.
"Did I say twelve?"
"significantly less pages"
No, NO! It's "fewer pages, boy, FEWER".
Insightful, my man. Way back when 'nanotechnology' was a useful word describing a novel method of building mechanisms atom-by-atom.
Now it is used by every marketeer as a way of describing things built out of atoms i.e. everything.
Most mainstream software stores severely under represent the Mac software base. This is a vicious cycle in my opinion - they don't stock it because they don't believe there is demand and there is no demand because they don't stock it.
When I go into my local PC software store to buy the Mac software I'm after they very rarely have it, and I'm sure they don't capture the fact that I asked about it.
So I tend to use specialist stores or buy online. Amazon or the online AppleStore are not bad.
To get an idea of the amount of software out there, here's Amazon's 30 pages of Mac games - probably the Mac's weakest category.
Or look here to get an idea of the shareware/freeware available.
Indeed. I would think that 80% of all zipping is done in the background, with another app in the foreground. Likewise for listening to music, DVD encoding-burning. Not to mention all those Web pages in the background with animated banners.
It's NEVER necessary to use graphics.
However...
Jobs has said that he expects OS X revisions to slow down a bit after Tiger.
So perhaps all Slashdot stories should simply read 'Interesting stuff here' on the grounds that all will be obvious once you've clicked the link.
I'm quite impressed that it even works
Insightful!
I have a vague recollection that support for classic VBA is scheduled to be discontinued in forthcoming versions of Office apps. Not sure when though. VBA will be replaced by VB.Net, I think.
Interesting tip on tapping Option with a menu exposed. Didn't know about it.
Mind you, I've only been using Macs since about '89.
Hmmm, interesting point.
I the quality of the CGi in the fanflick trailer looks really rather good, the amateur acting and the dialogue seems wretched. I thought it was an excellent attempt to make the fanflick match the authentic films.
I think you meant to say that they are 'allegedly' enemy combatants.
So not an oversight. more a political-driven kludge. That's OK then
Some can be user derived, certainly, but the smart thing is to get the application to generate as much of metadata as possible - exposure and picture date for photos, bit-rate, composer etc for music.
I agree; no-one currently saves additional metadata with their Word files, but then again - any metadata is pretty useless. If WinFS arrives, there may be a *reason* to manually add metadata
The gentleman who was responsible for much of the fine work in BeFS is now at Apple.
Apple's WinFS-esque meta-data driven filesystem will be launched in the next few months as part of Tiger (10.4) and is called Spotlight.
The PDF linked to on that page gives a half decent explanation of its technical architecture.
Apple does contribute open source improvements back to the community - plenty of them. What are the open source elements in iTunes, specifically that you are complaining about?
Or are you suggesting that any company that uses any open source code anywhere in its product-set should ensure that all of its software products run on all open source OSs as recompense?
Just wondering exactly what you are arguing here.
The weasel word in your post there is 'most'. As in "most of the people wouldn't have bought the music".
I presume by most you didn't mean 51%, let's assume 0.5% shall we? (Too high? well, let's assume that filesharers only compete with online legal downloads (clearly falacious) and that the iTunes store is the only legal download site).
Apple's daily sales are about 1.39m tracks. Which works out at a daily loss of revenue of around $7,000.
That alone is probably worth paying a lawyer for, no? Just to make people think twice. And that's assuming zero impact on CD sales.
Yes these figure are speculative, but then so is your "most".
The review instantly made me think of 1984. "Strange Earth Commissioner" as O'Brien. anyone?
Because humanity is comprised of specific humans?
Moreover, I actually think that the earth's biosphere, including humanity is wonderful and that human kind, for all its faults has made some amazing accomplishments in both the arts and the sciences in its long, rich history. So yes, a mass extinction *would* be a bad thing, it would remove some complexity and interest from the universe.