You've got it wrong, this is just a visual hack to "merge" the virtual Windows desktop into the real OS X desktop. It's still full-blown virtualization, with the entire Windows OS loaded, shitty graphical capabilities, and the usual virtualization overhead.
If you want something to worry on, Codeweavers are porting the commercial Wine distribution, Crossover Office, to OS X. Wine is nowhere near perfect, but apps really run natively, unlike virtualization.
Normal people don't read or care about employees suing their employers, or exclusive rights contracts. They just want to play games, and as long as EA provides them what they want, EA won't get lower sales.
You're stuck in Slashdot's reality distortion field, where people give a damn about game companies doing unethical things.
I fully agree with you, in fact I was ranting to a friend of mine about this the other day; I was thinking of upgrading my two and a half years old computer lately, but every single fucking thing inside it is now obsolete! The only things I can keep are my case and my DVD burner, which would be pointless because I'm better off buying new ones and therefore end up with two seperate computers so I can either sell the old one or use it as a server.
BTW You forgot the hard disks. Good ol' IDE lasted a while, but now they're at the second freaking version of SATA. Sigh.
The Core 2 Duo Macbooks are out since last week, yet there is still no slashdot headline? What gives? And yes, I tried submitting one and it got rejected.
After 10 years of Java, all we get is AWT, Swing and GridBagLayout; what makes you think that Sun will ever be able to deliver a decent GUI toolkit?
It doesn't matter, anyone serious about making Java GUIs is using SWT now.
Gtk# is a better toolkit after barely 2 years than Sun has managed to produce in 10.
Please correct me if things have improved now, but last time I checked, GTK on non-X11 platforms was just awful. (Anyway I never liked GTK, it's a joke compared to Qt, but that's another subject and I won't elaborate any further)
OK, not everyone hates them (bad wording from my part), but those who already hate it are usually left with a sour taste from those ads.
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
One that doesn't glorify the Mac with strawmen arguments, like saying Macs are more fun because you can make fucking picture albums with them (as if anyone cared), which you can't easily do on a PC (a questionable statement). Seriously, that's just dumb on so many levels...
By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
I'm sorry to break it to you but those aren't old clichés. Lack of games and productivity applications is a reality on the Mac platform (or any non-Windows platform for that matter). "All the business software you need", you say? On the top of my head, Visio comes to mind as something many people I know want to use. Of course as a Linux user I'm used to a limited game library and a lack of mainstream applications, but most of those people I just pseudo-quoted are hardcore Windows users who always expect to have everything immediately (OTOH the fellow Linux users I know usually don't hate Macs, they're just unimpressed or uninterested by them).
And there's one other kind of people I forgot to mention, it's those who automatically ignore Macs because of their low market share. To them, anything positive about Macs can be countered with "If Macs are so good then why do they have such a low market share? Those arguments are false, it's the only logical explanation." Those people make me sad, it's like they enjoy being trapped under Microsoft's monoculture.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy? Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
Justin Long looks like one of those stereotypical annoying "artistic types" Mac users. He never says anything arrogant in the ads, but most people subconsciously sees him as an elitist asshole because he looks so much like the kind of elitist Mac user everyone has met at least once in their lives. OTOH John Hodgeman is a good, funny comedian, which despite his nerdy looks is someone people would prefer to associate themselves with.
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
The usual responses I hear: "PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!" "Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!" "That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why. The PC guy looks friendlier though. Hey, in fact he looks a lot like that guy on that Jon Stewart show. Now THAT'S a funny guy."
Now tell me slashdot, am I living in some bizzaro world or are Apple really shooting themselves in the foot?
(Disclaimer: Not a Mac hater myself. Long time Linux user who's seriously thinking of buying one of those nice Core 2 Duo MacBooks real soon...)
My advice: you should choose whatever you're most comfortable with, because it's an investment into your future. Others will say, "but, a good CS student can program in any language/environment". It's true, but that's NOT how most people see it who might have to employ you.
I couldn't agree more. Back in college I was constantly being told that knowledge of individual languages is irrelevant because it's all the same and a good programmer can quickly learn it on the go. That's completely wrong, because it ALWAYS takes a considerable amount of time to become productive, no matter how proficient you are to programming in general. Every time there's a whole new core API to learn, and having to get used to not having X or Y feature that some other language has is sometimes very frustrating, which slows down the learning process.
Anyway, the first thing potentional employers look in your résumé is your experience. Most of them don't think outside the box when it comes to programming skills.
Those aren't small updates, they're just as significant as the 2000->XP update. There's lots of new apps added, and some pretty important "under the hood" changes.
Besides: Windows 2000 was NT 5.0, Windows XP was NT 5.1. Notice a pattern?
Go read any Apple promotional pamphlet (including the "Switch" section of their official site, and also one of their first "I'm a PC. I'm a Mac" ads): Microsoft Office is always one of the first things they mention.
A Microsoft product is the only thing Apple has to show the general public that OS X is not a toy. It's pretty sad... If Microsoft ever kills their OS X version, they're fucking screwed.
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You still need a Windows license to run Windows under Parallels you know.
You've got it wrong, this is just a visual hack to "merge" the virtual Windows desktop into the real OS X desktop. It's still full-blown virtualization, with the entire Windows OS loaded, shitty graphical capabilities, and the usual virtualization overhead.
If you want something to worry on, Codeweavers are porting the commercial Wine distribution, Crossover Office, to OS X. Wine is nowhere near perfect, but apps really run natively, unlike virtualization.
Normal people don't read or care about employees suing their employers, or exclusive rights contracts. They just want to play games, and as long as EA provides them what they want, EA won't get lower sales.
You're stuck in Slashdot's reality distortion field, where people give a damn about game companies doing unethical things.
...that Macs are like email in Korea?
I never used iTunes to transfer songs to my iPod.
I fully agree with you, in fact I was ranting to a friend of mine about this the other day; I was thinking of upgrading my two and a half years old computer lately, but every single fucking thing inside it is now obsolete! The only things I can keep are my case and my DVD burner, which would be pointless because I'm better off buying new ones and therefore end up with two seperate computers so I can either sell the old one or use it as a server.
BTW You forgot the hard disks. Good ol' IDE lasted a while, but now they're at the second freaking version of SATA. Sigh.
The Core 2 Duo Macbooks are out since last week, yet there is still no slashdot headline? What gives? And yes, I tried submitting one and it got rejected.
After 10 years of Java, all we get is AWT, Swing and GridBagLayout; what makes you think that Sun will ever be able to deliver a decent GUI toolkit?
It doesn't matter, anyone serious about making Java GUIs is using SWT now.
Gtk# is a better toolkit after barely 2 years than Sun has managed to produce in 10.
Please correct me if things have improved now, but last time I checked, GTK on non-X11 platforms was just awful. (Anyway I never liked GTK, it's a joke compared to Qt, but that's another subject and I won't elaborate any further)
You mean 170 USD.
How come everyone you know hates macs?
OK, not everyone hates them (bad wording from my part), but those who already hate it are usually left with a sour taste from those ads.
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
One that doesn't glorify the Mac with strawmen arguments, like saying Macs are more fun because you can make fucking picture albums with them (as if anyone cared), which you can't easily do on a PC (a questionable statement). Seriously, that's just dumb on so many levels...
By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
I'm sorry to break it to you but those aren't old clichés. Lack of games and productivity applications is a reality on the Mac platform (or any non-Windows platform for that matter). "All the business software you need", you say? On the top of my head, Visio comes to mind as something many people I know want to use. Of course as a Linux user I'm used to a limited game library and a lack of mainstream applications, but most of those people I just pseudo-quoted are hardcore Windows users who always expect to have everything immediately (OTOH the fellow Linux users I know usually don't hate Macs, they're just unimpressed or uninterested by them).
And there's one other kind of people I forgot to mention, it's those who automatically ignore Macs because of their low market share. To them, anything positive about Macs can be countered with "If Macs are so good then why do they have such a low market share? Those arguments are false, it's the only logical explanation." Those people make me sad, it's like they enjoy being trapped under Microsoft's monoculture.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy?
Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
Justin Long looks like one of those stereotypical annoying "artistic types" Mac users. He never says anything arrogant in the ads, but most people subconsciously sees him as an elitist asshole because he looks so much like the kind of elitist Mac user everyone has met at least once in their lives. OTOH John Hodgeman is a good, funny comedian, which despite his nerdy looks is someone people would prefer to associate themselves with.
Ice Hockey? Count me in. Best. Hockey game. Ever.
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
The usual responses I hear:
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why. The PC guy looks friendlier though. Hey, in fact he looks a lot like that guy on that Jon Stewart show. Now THAT'S a funny guy."
Now tell me slashdot, am I living in some bizzaro world or are Apple really shooting themselves in the foot?
(Disclaimer: Not a Mac hater myself. Long time Linux user who's seriously thinking of buying one of those nice Core 2 Duo MacBooks real soon...)
There are some parody clips on youtube. Some of those clips include a third character: linux.
Don't bother. Most of them end up with Linux being the one that gets bashed on.
Seanbaby was right!
As in apt-get?
Shhh! You'll wake up Debian Troll's Best!
So basically it's SCO all over again, only Microsoft are now doing it themselves?
My advice: you should choose whatever you're most comfortable with, because it's an investment into your future. Others will say, "but, a good CS student can program in any language/environment". It's true, but that's NOT how most people see it who might have to employ you.
I couldn't agree more. Back in college I was constantly being told that knowledge of individual languages is irrelevant because it's all the same and a good programmer can quickly learn it on the go. That's completely wrong, because it ALWAYS takes a considerable amount of time to become productive, no matter how proficient you are to programming in general. Every time there's a whole new core API to learn, and having to get used to not having X or Y feature that some other language has is sometimes very frustrating, which slows down the learning process.
Anyway, the first thing potentional employers look in your résumé is your experience. Most of them don't think outside the box when it comes to programming skills.
And just like COBOL, most Perl projects are unmaintainable garbage that nobody can understand! Yay!
Why are we freaking out? Apparently you've never heard of something called "embrace and extend".
I liked the themed but unbranded sets, like Space, Castle, Arctic, Pirates, Undersea, etc. Hell, even the "Town" bricks were good.
For a second there I thought you were saying there was an Hell-themed set.
Now that would've been awesome.
Those aren't small updates, they're just as significant as the 2000->XP update. There's lots of new apps added, and some pretty important "under the hood" changes.
Besides: Windows 2000 was NT 5.0, Windows XP was NT 5.1. Notice a pattern?
Uh? All three articles mention Cringely making shit up.
Besides that's completely unrealistic.
Now what I'm really looking forward to in Leopard are the Windows APIs in it so Windows apps can run in Leopard without using virtualization.
What?? Where the hell did you get that from?
Go read any Apple promotional pamphlet (including the "Switch" section of their official site, and also one of their first "I'm a PC. I'm a Mac" ads): Microsoft Office is always one of the first things they mention.
A Microsoft product is the only thing Apple has to show the general public that OS X is not a toy. It's pretty sad... If Microsoft ever kills their OS X version, they're fucking screwed.
Besides, TPM itself isn't evil; it's only a tool. It can be used for good or evil, just like a hammer, debugger, or decss.
But unlike a hammer, a debugger, or DeCSS, TPM cannot be used for good. At all. So yes, it really is evil.