Haha, I was about to post something like that. For the vast majority of users it isn't that bad, but there does seem to be a certain acceptance among devs of the idea that something that worked before may not work now, which I think is a really odd way of thinking.
I think a lot of the problems people are seeing can be traced to one of two things:
1. The new Humanity theme. They changed a lot, and it looks like they didn't test it nearly enough with third party applications.
2. The introduction of Firefox 3.5. It's actually a fairly big change; more akin to the switch from FF 2 to 3 than a subversion change. It's apparently not using the Gnome font configuration by default (causing some ugly fonts without changes), and any major upgrade to Firefox leads to extensions not quite working correctly.
I've managed to fix the issues I had with the upgrade (including the obnoxious change of removing the application icon from the upper-left of windows, which can be reverted by changing the Metacity theme file in/usr/share/themes), but it wasn't as clean as previous upgrades have been.
People are taking my argument far too generally. It doesn't make sense for Apple. Of course a company can make money off of software, but Apple is in a unique position in that their hardware is the far more lucrative market given their customer base.
That said, I feel that selling licenses to software will ultimately die out in the next ten to fifteen years, followed by a shift to software as a service for another decade or so, followed by the abandonment of copyright altogether. But that's neither here nor there.:^)
You go ahead and think that if it makes you feel better about your purchase.
I'll keep using Ubuntu Linux and observing the OS battle from my nice, comfortable, productive, working, shiny, 3D desktop-enabled position, which I ultimately got for free.
Microsoft's business is very, very different from Apple's. They've always been in software, so they don't have to worry about alienating a customer base that expects a certain level of exclusivity, or risking their hardware division by licensing the OS individually, like Apple does.
What I'm wondering about all of this is what happens when you edit one of the files? Does it "reduplicate" them? And if so, isn't that inefficient in terms of the time needed to update a large file (in that it would need to recopy the file over to another section of the disk in order to maintain the fact that there are two now-different copies)?
Apple makes its money from its (vastly overpriced) hardware. To do this, it creates nice, shiny software, and then deadbolts it as much as it can to the hardware, so people will pay the extra price for the hardware in order to get the software.
Selling the software individually would allow their competition to massively undercut them, and would enable customers to (rightly) ask why they should bother to pay extra for Apple's shiny hardware when X Hackintosh does exactly the same thing for much much less.
It's not exactly rocket science here. Apple knows where the money is, and individually licensing the software isn't it.
One Christian community's behaviour does not necessarily indicate how others will act, especially given the incredibly wide variety of "flavours" of Christianity.
The world was shocked today when the World Cyber Games championship was taken from fragu4life, champion for the last several years, by a newcomer, sirsqueaksalot. Information is sketchy as to the newcomer's origins, but it has been stated that he greatly enjoys cheese.
Further, chances are that those distributions of software that aren't bound by the license are likely copyright infringement by default as they are not licensed to be distributed.
Isn't the GPL copyrighted? It lets you add "special exceptions", but my understanding was that you couldn't just take what they had written and change it to suit your needs.
Plus the whole concept of the observable universe stops having any bearing when you consider the sci-fi scenario of travelling faster than light, so likely their observable universe depends entirely on the top speed of that ship.
Are you stating that non-citizens should have no right to:
- free speech - free religion - protection against unlawful search and seizure - trial by a jury of their peers - protection against cruel and unusual punishment
And many others given in the Bill of Rights? Are you really going to say that whenever a "person" or "people" are listed in the US Constitution that it only ever applies to citizens? Because frankly, hundreds of years of caselaw disagree with you.
I agree with everything you're saying here, and I'm likely going to become a citizen as soon as I can (which in my case is three years after I get the green card).
Oh, how I wish I could be done with USCIS already...
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Haha, I was about to post something like that. For the vast majority of users it isn't that bad, but there does seem to be a certain acceptance among devs of the idea that something that worked before may not work now, which I think is a really odd way of thinking.
And if you think that telling people to access a command line application will win you users, you are incorrect.
I think a lot of the problems people are seeing can be traced to one of two things:
1. The new Humanity theme. They changed a lot, and it looks like they didn't test it nearly enough with third party applications.
2. The introduction of Firefox 3.5. It's actually a fairly big change; more akin to the switch from FF 2 to 3 than a subversion change. It's apparently not using the Gnome font configuration by default (causing some ugly fonts without changes), and any major upgrade to Firefox leads to extensions not quite working correctly.
I've managed to fix the issues I had with the upgrade (including the obnoxious change of removing the application icon from the upper-left of windows, which can be reverted by changing the Metacity theme file in /usr/share/themes), but it wasn't as clean as previous upgrades have been.
People are taking my argument far too generally. It doesn't make sense for Apple. Of course a company can make money off of software, but Apple is in a unique position in that their hardware is the far more lucrative market given their customer base.
That said, I feel that selling licenses to software will ultimately die out in the next ten to fifteen years, followed by a shift to software as a service for another decade or so, followed by the abandonment of copyright altogether. But that's neither here nor there. :^)
You go ahead and think that if it makes you feel better about your purchase.
I'll keep using Ubuntu Linux and observing the OS battle from my nice, comfortable, productive, working, shiny, 3D desktop-enabled position, which I ultimately got for free.
Microsoft's business is very, very different from Apple's. They've always been in software, so they don't have to worry about alienating a customer base that expects a certain level of exclusivity, or risking their hardware division by licensing the OS individually, like Apple does.
What I'm wondering about all of this is what happens when you edit one of the files? Does it "reduplicate" them? And if so, isn't that inefficient in terms of the time needed to update a large file (in that it would need to recopy the file over to another section of the disk in order to maintain the fact that there are two now-different copies)?
Apple makes its money from its (vastly overpriced) hardware. To do this, it creates nice, shiny software, and then deadbolts it as much as it can to the hardware, so people will pay the extra price for the hardware in order to get the software.
Selling the software individually would allow their competition to massively undercut them, and would enable customers to (rightly) ask why they should bother to pay extra for Apple's shiny hardware when X Hackintosh does exactly the same thing for much much less.
It's not exactly rocket science here. Apple knows where the money is, and individually licensing the software isn't it.
He's a straight-edge, no nonsense cop who does everything by the book.
She's a vicious, bloodthirsty alien queen responsible for the deaths of thousands.
Together, they fight crime!
I guess one of us...
*puts on sunglasses*
is better than one of them.
FYI, MythBusters do use controls and multiple data points, at least nowadays.
Besides, it's understood that the ultimate goal of any episode of MythBusters is one or more large explosions, regardless of the outcome of the myth.
I'd hate to think what would happen if over 50% couldn't tell.
One Christian community's behaviour does not necessarily indicate how others will act, especially given the incredibly wide variety of "flavours" of Christianity.
I will never play Blackjack in a casino environment, unless it's for negligible amounts of money.
"How dare you attempt to win one of our games!"
The world was shocked today when the World Cyber Games championship was taken from fragu4life, champion for the last several years, by a newcomer, sirsqueaksalot. Information is sketchy as to the newcomer's origins, but it has been stated that he greatly enjoys cheese.
News at eleven.
Further, chances are that those distributions of software that aren't bound by the license are likely copyright infringement by default as they are not licensed to be distributed.
Isn't the GPL copyrighted? It lets you add "special exceptions", but my understanding was that you couldn't just take what they had written and change it to suit your needs.
The GPL isn't GPL'd, AFAIK.
I need a 3D laptop.
Someone buy it for me.
A little too lengthy for my tastes.
Meh. As long as he's not slandering or libeling anyone, or breaking case confidentiality, I say freedom of speech is more important.
Plus the whole concept of the observable universe stops having any bearing when you consider the sci-fi scenario of travelling faster than light, so likely their observable universe depends entirely on the top speed of that ship.
Are you stating that non-citizens should have no right to:
- free speech
- free religion
- protection against unlawful search and seizure
- trial by a jury of their peers
- protection against cruel and unusual punishment
And many others given in the Bill of Rights? Are you really going to say that whenever a "person" or "people" are listed in the US Constitution that it only ever applies to citizens? Because frankly, hundreds of years of caselaw disagree with you.
If you're buying used games from Gamestop, you're being fleeced anyway and completely missing the point of the true used games market.
I agree with everything you're saying here, and I'm likely going to become a citizen as soon as I can (which in my case is three years after I get the green card).
Oh, how I wish I could be done with USCIS already...