Do you work for Microsoft or are you just an unfunny troll? I've read some of your post history and it's almost constantly about praising Microsoft for this and that. And now you're saying we don't talk about Microsoft often enough. Sigh... why am I even bothering... any retard can see that you have an agenda going here.
I hear that broad band sucks in New York City which has more people than ALL of Canada
What? No, New York City is much bigger than any canadian city, but the province of Ontario alone has more people than New York City (unless you include the whole metropolitan area).
Most likely because it didn't bring enough sales to justify keeping it going. When you're the biggest sugar water company in the world, it makes no financial sense to bring yourself the additionnal overhead of having multiple similar products when you already make plenty of dough with the flagship product alone. And they know very well that changing their flagship product would cause mass hysteria since it already happened once.
I never understood why UMSDOS was discontinued. It was a good idea. FAT sucks, but when you're stuck with it for some reason (usually cross-OS portability), UMSDOS was mighty useful.
On any non-HFS+ (or AFS) filesystem, OS X uses hidden files to store all file metadata (special flags, permissions, ressource forks, etc), so you can use any special file magic on any filesystem. At the cost of leaving lots of crap in every directory, though, which is annoying.
No it's not. eBay won because they're a huge corporation. In the US law system it's the only thing that counts. If it were a small company or a lowly (non-rich) individual that was the prey of that patent troll, he/it would've been screwed up.
Personally I have a golden rule I always keep in mind when dealing with cross-OS file system usage: Never trust write support on foreign filesystem drivers. FAT12/16/32 is the only exception, since it's so old and primitive that anyone should have fully mastered the support of it by now. But apart from that, I'll never believe a filesystem driver to reliably write on ext2/3 outside of Linux, or HFS+ outside of OS X, or NTFS outside of Windows.
Modern filesystems are complicated beasts. One tiny error can have catastrophic results. Native filesystem drivers are the results of many years of real-life testing by millions of users. Can you really believe a third-party filesystem driver to be solid enough to write on a foreign filesystem?
Read-only support is OK because it's a magnitude easier to implement, though.
The only viable solution to cross-OS filesystem usage (without crippling yourself to FAT32) is networking.
In the "Classic" MacOS days, there was a fair amount of Mac malware -- never as much as in the PC world, of course, but plenty of it running around. Since OS X became the standard, this hasn't happened. The "vulnerability through popularity" argument just doesn't hold up to this fact.
But back in the days, Macs had like 10-15% market share, didn't they? I don't think OS X ever had that.
I agree. Whether a corporation invented the language should be the deciding factor in whether it's used for OpenGL. That's why I would never use C or C++ for calling OpenGL, but Perl would be a perfectly good choice.
Say that again? C and C++ are standards-based languages with no official working implementation. That's definitely not "corporate-made", in the sense of Java (or C# for that matter).
Saying people are "forced" to use a decade old filesystem is pretty retarded. Of all things, filesystems are better when they're old. They've been through more reallife usage and so we know we can depend on them. There's a reason why ext2* still reigns as king in the Linux world even though many "superior" filesystems are now available: it's older!
As nifty as ZFS sounds, HFS+ has proven to be reliable, and Apple would be idiots for abandonning it for some (relatively) newfangled filesystem-of-the-week.
* ext3 is nothing more than ext2 with a journal strapped on to it and therefore counted in as ext2
I second that. When my last DVD player broke I was thinking of buying an XBox recently so I can make myself a cheap media center, but the XBox hacking community is mostly made of warez monkeys and developers who pirate the official XBox SDK instead of making free legal solutions.
In the end I bought a PS2 instead, which has a pretty good built-in DVD player, and games that don't suck. I may buy an ATV in the future if the costs go down, because it really seems like the perfect hackable media center appliance.
The problem isn't necessarily the money. It's the culture and attitude toward IP in China. I know a bunch of rich kids in China and most of them have never bought a DVD in their life. They download all their software, movies, etc.
That's in no way a China thing. I live in Canada and know plenty of people who never buy anything and are proud of it.
I am not living in the US. Apple have just delayed a product I was interested in buying in favor of another that not only am I not interested in (I hate cellphones), but I won't be able buy anyway because it will be US-only at launch.
Sounds suspiciously like a 'Mac penalty' cost that Microsoft is trying to justify.
No, it sounds suspiciously like a Mac zealot is under the impression that people only use virtualisation on Macs, and wrote up a misleading propaganda article about it that somehow got accepted.
Sadly, the wireless on Intel Macs is an Atheros chipset, and support for this particular chipset by the Atheros driver for Linux is still experimental, so you'll probably get stuck with fucking ndiswrapper...
I've yet to install Linux on my MacBook (but thinking about it) so I can't confirm, but apart from wireless I've heard that everything else is pretty dandy.
Why are we still at a point when we're writing code against a particular database?
Because all databases are their quirks and various different ways of doing a bunch of little things. Writing fully DB-agnostic code is an utopia. Just like there's no "perfect" framework out there to write cross-platform desktop applications that look and feel right on any given platform.
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Do you work for Microsoft or are you just an unfunny troll? I've read some of your post history and it's almost constantly about praising Microsoft for this and that. And now you're saying we don't talk about Microsoft often enough. Sigh... why am I even bothering... any retard can see that you have an agenda going here.
I hear that broad band sucks in New York City which has more people than ALL of Canada
What? No, New York City is much bigger than any canadian city, but the province of Ontario alone has more people than New York City (unless you include the whole metropolitan area).
Indeed, that sugar is more specifically corn sugar.
Most likely because it didn't bring enough sales to justify keeping it going. When you're the biggest sugar water company in the world, it makes no financial sense to bring yourself the additionnal overhead of having multiple similar products when you already make plenty of dough with the flagship product alone. And they know very well that changing their flagship product would cause mass hysteria since it already happened once.
(BTW I liked it too)
I never understood why UMSDOS was discontinued. It was a good idea. FAT sucks, but when you're stuck with it for some reason (usually cross-OS portability), UMSDOS was mighty useful.
On any non-HFS+ (or AFS) filesystem, OS X uses hidden files to store all file metadata (special flags, permissions, ressource forks, etc), so you can use any special file magic on any filesystem. At the cost of leaving lots of crap in every directory, though, which is annoying.
No it's not. eBay won because they're a huge corporation. In the US law system it's the only thing that counts. If it were a small company or a lowly (non-rich) individual that was the prey of that patent troll, he/it would've been screwed up.
It's the other way around. Diet Coke pre-dated (New) Coke. (New) Coke was the Diet Coke formula with sugar instead of aspartame.
Interestingly, the new Coca Cola Zero is the complete opposite of (New) Coke: it's the Coca-Cola Classic formula with aspartame instead of sugar.
Personally I have a golden rule I always keep in mind when dealing with cross-OS file system usage: Never trust write support on foreign filesystem drivers. FAT12/16/32 is the only exception, since it's so old and primitive that anyone should have fully mastered the support of it by now. But apart from that, I'll never believe a filesystem driver to reliably write on ext2/3 outside of Linux, or HFS+ outside of OS X, or NTFS outside of Windows.
Modern filesystems are complicated beasts. One tiny error can have catastrophic results. Native filesystem drivers are the results of many years of real-life testing by millions of users. Can you really believe a third-party filesystem driver to be solid enough to write on a foreign filesystem?
Read-only support is OK because it's a magnitude easier to implement, though.
The only viable solution to cross-OS filesystem usage (without crippling yourself to FAT32) is networking.
In the "Classic" MacOS days, there was a fair amount of Mac malware -- never as much as in the PC world, of course, but plenty of it running around. Since OS X became the standard, this hasn't happened. The "vulnerability through popularity" argument just doesn't hold up to this fact.
But back in the days, Macs had like 10-15% market share, didn't they? I don't think OS X ever had that.
My KDE desktop burns less RAM than XP, much less Vista. Your point is...?
I agree. Whether a corporation invented the language should be the deciding factor in whether it's used for OpenGL. That's why I would never use C or C++ for calling OpenGL, but Perl would be a perfectly good choice.
Say that again? C and C++ are standards-based languages with no official working implementation. That's definitely not "corporate-made", in the sense of Java (or C# for that matter).
From the consumer perspective, TF2 is the actual game being released, and portal and EP2 are just tech demos.
Speak for yourself. Of all 3 features, TF2 is the only one I don't give a flying shit about.
There's a QuickTime standalone download you know.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Saying people are "forced" to use a decade old filesystem is pretty retarded. Of all things, filesystems are better when they're old. They've been through more reallife usage and so we know we can depend on them. There's a reason why ext2* still reigns as king in the Linux world even though many "superior" filesystems are now available: it's older!
As nifty as ZFS sounds, HFS+ has proven to be reliable, and Apple would be idiots for abandonning it for some (relatively) newfangled filesystem-of-the-week.
* ext3 is nothing more than ext2 with a journal strapped on to it and therefore counted in as ext2
I second that. When my last DVD player broke I was thinking of buying an XBox recently so I can make myself a cheap media center, but the XBox hacking community is mostly made of warez monkeys and developers who pirate the official XBox SDK instead of making free legal solutions.
In the end I bought a PS2 instead, which has a pretty good built-in DVD player, and games that don't suck. I may buy an ATV in the future if the costs go down, because it really seems like the perfect hackable media center appliance.
The problem isn't necessarily the money. It's the culture and attitude toward IP in China. I know a bunch of rich kids in China and most of them have never bought a DVD in their life. They download all their software, movies, etc.
That's in no way a China thing. I live in Canada and know plenty of people who never buy anything and are proud of it.
Shouldn't that be 655,360 Zunes?
I am not living in the US. Apple have just delayed a product I was interested in buying in favor of another that not only am I not interested in (I hate cellphones), but I won't be able buy anyway because it will be US-only at launch.
That's just fucking brilliant, Apple.
Maybe when the Australian internet infrastructure improves beyond ping times of 500ms and dial-up bandwidth they might consider it.
That's irrelevant. Many countries have superior broadband infrastructures than the US, yet the movies are still US-only.
Europe? Here in Canada we share the same freaking DVD region code as the USA, yet we still have jack and shit.
Seriously, that's just retarded.
Sounds suspiciously like a 'Mac penalty' cost that Microsoft is trying to justify.
No, it sounds suspiciously like a Mac zealot is under the impression that people only use virtualisation on Macs, and wrote up a misleading propaganda article about it that somehow got accepted.
The next version of OS X is being delayed because of a fucking cellphone. That's only going to be released in the fucking USA.
And people ask me why I hate cellphones...
Runs Linux(Intel Wireless, suspend, sound, video)
Sadly, the wireless on Intel Macs is an Atheros chipset, and support for this particular chipset by the Atheros driver for Linux is still experimental, so you'll probably get stuck with fucking ndiswrapper...
I've yet to install Linux on my MacBook (but thinking about it) so I can't confirm, but apart from wireless I've heard that everything else is pretty dandy.
Why are we still at a point when we're writing code against a particular database?
Because all databases are their quirks and various different ways of doing a bunch of little things. Writing fully DB-agnostic code is an utopia. Just like there's no "perfect" framework out there to write cross-platform desktop applications that look and feel right on any given platform.