Yes, running the Windows version of iTunes under OS X is pure idiocy, but I can think of at least two reasons for running the Windows version of Office:
1) You already have a Windows version license and don't want to fork another $100+ for the Mac version. 2) You want to run complex VBA macros (speaking of which, I don't think the Mac version of Office has Access).
KDE has awful multiple wallpaper support though. When you switch workspaces there is sometimes a delay (about one second) before the wallpaper gets updated, which completely ruins the illusion that every workspace has its own wallpaper. I really hate that.
I'm REALLY hoping that Apple will soon upgrade the MacBook to a Core 2 Duo CPU and 965 graphics. That would make the ULTIMATE dual-booting Mac/Linux box. (64 bit + decent video with open drivers = SWEET)
In Doom, you had to have keys set to look up, look down, and center your view.
No, actually DOOM (including DOOM 2 and Final DOOM) did not have any vertical view control at all. It is Heretic and Hexen (both based on the DOOM engine) that added look up/down/center keys (and possibly also Strife, but I never played it).
No, it's never advertised that you need a 500$ card, but still, for some reason that's what most people seem to think. I'm sure you've also heard a lot of console-biased people say retarded things like "computers gaming sucks because the video card alone costs more than a console", which is only true if you buy one of those higher-end cards that are way overkill for playing any game currently on the market, and that would all run fine on a middle-class card that most likely costs less than most consoles.
You seem to be using a broken keyboard. Here, let me fix that comment for you:
I'd like to thank the motherfucking Academy for this god-damn award. I'd also like to thank my motherfucking wife, my motherfucking agent, and the motherfucking director.
You know the proverb "two wrongs don't make a right", right? Well, the thing is, one wrong and one right STILL doesn't make a right. And those sacked employees were lucky, because Apple is quite the lawsuit-trigger-happy company. It could've been worse.
Uh, saying 'common API' and putting both GTK and Qt in the same example is a joke: GTK and Qt does the same thing and have a 4/6 repartition of users so this is not a common API, more like a fragmented API with average interoperability..
And this is a problem to the end user because....? Any decent distro should have both installed on the system from day one, so I fail to see the problem. I also fail to see any significant interoperability issues that can prevent the user from doing its work.
In the real Linux world it's even worse: try copy/paste with: NEdit (a very good editor but based on Lesstif I think), Mozilla, a KDE app, a Gnome app, this is very likely that some copy/paste fails in the process: I know this happens to me from time to time..:-(
Except for NEdit which is based on some archaic toolkit nobody cares about anymore, I call bullshit on what you're saying. It's been at least 3 years that copy-pasting works without problems between different apps.
I use Linux at home and Windows at work. Under Linux I do make use of virtual desktops and like them a lot, but when I'm under Windows I don't miss them too much. Sure my taskbar gets crowded when 10 or so windows are open, but at that point memory usage becomes an issue anyway (1 GB of RAM on both computers). I'm guessing you have some ridiculous amount of memory available to run those "40 to 60 apps" or so...
I'm currently waiting for a Merom MacBook, but knowing Apple it most likely won't happen. They'll probably upgrade only the MacBook Pro and iMac lineups, giving them an excuse to increase the gap between their models so they won't cannibalize each other's sale figures. Sigh...
You're partly right. The iPod needs to have its iTunes database maintained and music has to put in a specific location, but otherwise it's still a plain USB mass storage device with a FAT32 filesystem that can be accessed by any OS.
There are plenty of alternatives to iTunes that support the iPod (including under Linux, for example Amarok has kick ass iPod integration), so you're not really locked in. It's not like those devices that use a proprietary Microsoft protocol and are therefore completely unusable out of Windows.
Your forum signature is not long and/or retarded enough. You need to add more stupid details nobody gives a shit about, like the brand of your RAM. Your e-penis depends on it!
Has the original poster complained that Apple didn't give back much? No. He was just stating facts, and explaining that this is unfortunate. He even said "At the end of the day Apple does what immediately benefits Apple". No need for that idiotic plumber analogy. Don't defend Apple when there's nothing to defend it against. Please shut up, zealot.
You're talking out of your ass. Transfering music on an iPod does not magically add DRM to it. Only music purchased from the online store is DRM'ed. Everything else is stored as regular files in/iPod_Control/Music so it's no rocket science to manually extract them (the filenames are lost, I'll admit, but who cares as long as you have correct metainfo tags, which you should have since the iPod needs them).
Haha, I keep hearing that "OS X is based on Linux" nonsense too. It also used to annoy me, but then I realized that people make that mistake because Linux is now THE most significant Unix clone in the world. They don't know about Unix, and use the term "Linux" like we geeks use the term "Unix" to refer to that vague category of operating systems that are either forked from or inspired by the original AT&T Unix.
Makes you think about how well Linux is going these days, doesn't it?
Gentoo on OS X (actually "Portage on OS X" is a more appropriate name, because it's not a full Gentoo system, just the package manager) is pretty much dead, sadly. I think there are still a few devs working on it, but at this point it's still not quite usable. A shame, really.
OTOH the Gentoo on FreeBSD effort appears to be making significant progress. Doesn't seem as exciting though, at least for me.
There was also talk of a Gentoo on Cygwin, which would've been similar the OS X project but for Windows, but I don't think it ever got past early planning stages.
I think wireless mice are nice because your damn cable will never get stuck somewhere on your desk and cripple your movements. I've yet to own one myself but every time I have to pull my mouse's cable because it's too far down the desk and creates resistance, I'm thinking about it.
Don't ask me about wireless keyboards though. I fully agree with you on this one, it's just retarded.
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Yes, running the Windows version of iTunes under OS X is pure idiocy, but I can think of at least two reasons for running the Windows version of Office:
1) You already have a Windows version license and don't want to fork another $100+ for the Mac version.
2) You want to run complex VBA macros (speaking of which, I don't think the Mac version of Office has Access).
KDE has awful multiple wallpaper support though. When you switch workspaces there is sometimes a delay (about one second) before the wallpaper gets updated, which completely ruins the illusion that every workspace has its own wallpaper. I really hate that.
I'm REALLY hoping that Apple will soon upgrade the MacBook to a Core 2 Duo CPU and 965 graphics. That would make the ULTIMATE dual-booting Mac/Linux box. (64 bit + decent video with open drivers = SWEET)
... but... but it's freakin' GOLD PLATED and shit! And shiny! And... oh I give up.
In Doom, you had to have keys set to look up, look down, and center your view.
No, actually DOOM (including DOOM 2 and Final DOOM) did not have any vertical view control at all. It is Heretic and Hexen (both based on the DOOM engine) that added look up/down/center keys (and possibly also Strife, but I never played it).
No, it's never advertised that you need a 500$ card, but still, for some reason that's what most people seem to think. I'm sure you've also heard a lot of console-biased people say retarded things like "computers gaming sucks because the video card alone costs more than a console", which is only true if you buy one of those higher-end cards that are way overkill for playing any game currently on the market, and that would all run fine on a middle-class card that most likely costs less than most consoles.
You seem to be using a broken keyboard. Here, let me fix that comment for you:
I'd like to thank the motherfucking Academy for this god-damn award. I'd also like to thank my motherfucking wife, my motherfucking agent, and the motherfucking director.
It's already been done. Darwinia is distributed on Windows through Steam, and the Linux version is standalone.
You know the proverb "two wrongs don't make a right", right? Well, the thing is, one wrong and one right STILL doesn't make a right. And those sacked employees were lucky, because Apple is quite the lawsuit-trigger-happy company. It could've been worse.
During the Cold War it was proposed that a live chicken placed inside of nuclear bomb would be sufficient to keep things from freezing up.
But they canned the idea when they realized that the chicken would have full access to the warhead's controls.
Uh, saying 'common API' and putting both GTK and Qt in the same example is a joke: GTK and Qt does the same thing and have a 4/6 repartition of users so this is not a common API, more like a fragmented API with average interoperability..
:-(
And this is a problem to the end user because....? Any decent distro should have both installed on the system from day one, so I fail to see the problem. I also fail to see any significant interoperability issues that can prevent the user from doing its work.
In the real Linux world it's even worse: try copy/paste with: NEdit (a very good editor but based on Lesstif I think), Mozilla, a KDE app, a Gnome app, this is very likely that some copy/paste fails in the process: I know this happens to me from time to time..
Except for NEdit which is based on some archaic toolkit nobody cares about anymore, I call bullshit on what you're saying. It's been at least 3 years that copy-pasting works without problems between different apps.
Please don't self-censor your postings on slashdot. That's just lame. You can say "fuck" here.
I use Linux at home and Windows at work. Under Linux I do make use of virtual desktops and like them a lot, but when I'm under Windows I don't miss them too much. Sure my taskbar gets crowded when 10 or so windows are open, but at that point memory usage becomes an issue anyway (1 GB of RAM on both computers). I'm guessing you have some ridiculous amount of memory available to run those "40 to 60 apps" or so...
I'm currently waiting for a Merom MacBook, but knowing Apple it most likely won't happen. They'll probably upgrade only the MacBook Pro and iMac lineups, giving them an excuse to increase the gap between their models so they won't cannibalize each other's sale figures. Sigh...
Meanwhile in Linux land, full x86-64 desktop computing is a reality for more than 2 years now. Hell, even most proprietary drivers support it.
Congratulations on ruining all the chances you had of being taken seriously, Mr. State.
You're partly right. The iPod needs to have its iTunes database maintained and music has to put in a specific location, but otherwise it's still a plain USB mass storage device with a FAT32 filesystem that can be accessed by any OS.
There are plenty of alternatives to iTunes that support the iPod (including under Linux, for example Amarok has kick ass iPod integration), so you're not really locked in. It's not like those devices that use a proprietary Microsoft protocol and are therefore completely unusable out of Windows.
Your forum signature is not long and/or retarded enough. You need to add more stupid details nobody gives a shit about, like the brand of your RAM. Your e-penis depends on it!
Personally, the proprietary connector is one reason I got an archos - every system just recognizes it as a fat-formatted mass storage device.
The iPod is also "a fat-formatted mass storage device". I don't see what the proprietary connector has to do with that anyway.
Has the original poster complained that Apple didn't give back much? No. He was just stating facts, and explaining that this is unfortunate. He even said "At the end of the day Apple does what immediately benefits Apple". No need for that idiotic plumber analogy. Don't defend Apple when there's nothing to defend it against. Please shut up, zealot.
I agree. Some people seem to think use of iTunes and/or iPod forces you to use the online store. For fuck's sake, iTunes even has built-in CD ripping.
You're talking out of your ass. Transfering music on an iPod does not magically add DRM to it. Only music purchased from the online store is DRM'ed. Everything else is stored as regular files in /iPod_Control/Music so it's no rocket science to manually extract them (the filenames are lost, I'll admit, but who cares as long as you have correct metainfo tags, which you should have since the iPod needs them).
Haha, I keep hearing that "OS X is based on Linux" nonsense too. It also used to annoy me, but then I realized that people make that mistake because Linux is now THE most significant Unix clone in the world. They don't know about Unix, and use the term "Linux" like we geeks use the term "Unix" to refer to that vague category of operating systems that are either forked from or inspired by the original AT&T Unix.
Makes you think about how well Linux is going these days, doesn't it?
Gentoo on OS X (actually "Portage on OS X" is a more appropriate name, because it's not a full Gentoo system, just the package manager) is pretty much dead, sadly. I think there are still a few devs working on it, but at this point it's still not quite usable. A shame, really.
OTOH the Gentoo on FreeBSD effort appears to be making significant progress. Doesn't seem as exciting though, at least for me.
There was also talk of a Gentoo on Cygwin, which would've been similar the OS X project but for Windows, but I don't think it ever got past early planning stages.
I think wireless mice are nice because your damn cable will never get stuck somewhere on your desk and cripple your movements. I've yet to own one myself but every time I have to pull my mouse's cable because it's too far down the desk and creates resistance, I'm thinking about it.
Don't ask me about wireless keyboards though. I fully agree with you on this one, it's just retarded.