I'm just saying, on a scale of 0 to 100 (0 being kittens rolling around, 100 being Vader running hell), not releasing Chrome for Linux is somewhere around 70. That's all. Fell free to disagree.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
You know, this isn't cool - its just damn annoying to anyone who actually *needs* to use the genius bars. This will just cause the general public to hate the FSF.
True, but I've said this before and I'll say it again - the more you try to lock users down, the more they realize that they hate the prison they're being put in.
You know, its about time this happened - I've been wandering how the RIAA's actions up to this point were any different from Mafia tactics. Pay us "protection money" or we'll sue. Good on 'em.
Of course, there'd be no way for them to *know* the slashdot meltdown was coming. (And yes I got the joke, just trying to help some poor, unfortunate Martian webmasters)
You are 100% on target. The major carriers in the USA have gotten so incredibly bad it boggles the mind. I am now in Australia, and what a difference. Real competition! You can take your phone *with* you. Its a huge difference. Oh, and the phones tend to be better. Man, the FCC really needs to require unlocking of phones.
Umm, how about cp -R myapp.app/Applications ? If you really want, I could include steps like the wget, diskutil mount but really, if you want command line, its just as doable. My point is that for the 95% of users who *don't* want to use the command line, satisfy dependencies, compile applications, etc, OS X style applications bundles are the go.
When you say "OS X style bloat" - I'm not sure what you mean at all. I have about a bazillion (metric) applications running right now on a machine without a ton of RAM and it performs beautifully. I haven't ever seen it swapping in fact. OO.org is the single biggest RAM hog, and on linux its even worse.
I'm sorry but no one who says that OS X is bloated while implying that linux is not is sane. Sure, it is *possible* to run a lean-and-mean linux desktop but standard distros are *not* lean-and-mean and the software is just crap (in terms of bloat). Compare OO.org to Office and see. Also your suggestion of statically compiling would just lead to MORE bloat as every piece of software would come with a different version of a library linked in - defeating the purpose of having standard libraries.
The trouble is, its *true*. I don't believe that this is inaccurate or irrelevant. The largest problem linux has is that there is no defined standard base. If I'm writing an application, I have no way to know that all target computers will have the correct libraries. Sure, dependencies exist and can be satisfied - if you want to go through dependency hell.
What I'm trying to say is that Linux needs a standard library base that is cross-distro. That way a distro can claim to be "Linux Standard 12 Compatible" - and the user knows that it will work. Linux Standard 12 would of course mean you have to include certain libraries. This means drag and drop installation WOULD work.
You know, first posts are definitely a dying art. Whatever happened to someone just scribbling down "frist psot" and hitting submit? Where are the GNAA activists? The parent poster actually put together a coherent, rational post *relating* to the article (hell, he even quotes from it).
Can someone explain to him the way things work around here - a misspelled rant about Natalie Portman and some grits would have gone a lot further, thats all I can say.
Does this seem like a little bit of zealotry? I mean, why not use a nice, EASY*TO*USE OS instead of something the under-priviledged people using this machine will have to struggle to learn?
I know this may look like a really dumb comment in about 4 hrs but I don't see video being THAT useful. You can store a ton of low-res video on the ipod if you just want to watch it there, but the real advantage would be to take it with you to friends' houses for viewing on their TVs. Well, in that case, you want hi-res video, video that will take up quite a bit of room. Hmmm.... Wonder how those geniuses will solve THAT little problem...
Hmmm, *looks at powerbook*, that seems a bit silly doesn't it? OS X gui "crap" is what makes it usable (and I don't mean in the strict, literal sense). Why would I ever buy a powerbook and use kde with it? And, if I did want to do that - wouldn't I just install a linux distro on it in the first place?
Does the poster even realize this is simply the X server with KDE running as a client app? its not like they've replaced the nice, flashy GUI with KDE. They've just compiled and run it! Look, I can run Ethereal on OS X. Look, I can run *name unix app* on OS X. Good grief.
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I'm just saying, on a scale of 0 to 100 (0 being kittens rolling around, 100 being Vader running hell), not releasing Chrome for Linux is somewhere around 70. That's all. Fell free to disagree. Discuss amongst yourselves.
It'd be nice if a company that prided itself on not being evil released the browser for more than one platform (dare I say, the evil one?)....
You know, this isn't cool - its just damn annoying to anyone who actually *needs* to use the genius bars. This will just cause the general public to hate the FSF.
That is probably the funniest take on an old joke I've ever seen. Maybe I'm just tired, but well done good sir. Well done indeed.
True, but I've said this before and I'll say it again - the more you try to lock users down, the more they realize that they hate the prison they're being put in.
This is so something Verizon would do too. Why is it that the large telcos feel the need to not let users do what they want with their own devices....
just for the record.... AHHH MY EYES!
Gosh, you mean watching Tv with 1/2 second shots changing quickly will shorten my attention span? What's next, water that gets you wet?
Bloody whingeing Pom.
You know, its about time this happened - I've been wandering how the RIAA's actions up to this point were any different from Mafia tactics. Pay us "protection money" or we'll sue. Good on 'em.
Of course, there'd be no way for them to *know* the slashdot meltdown was coming. (And yes I got the joke, just trying to help some poor, unfortunate Martian webmasters)
You are 100% on target. The major carriers in the USA have gotten so incredibly bad it boggles the mind. I am now in Australia, and what a difference. Real competition! You can take your phone *with* you. Its a huge difference. Oh, and the phones tend to be better. Man, the FCC really needs to require unlocking of phones.
Umm, how about cp -R myapp.app /Applications ? If you really want, I could include steps like the wget, diskutil mount but really, if you want command line, its just as doable. My point is that for the 95% of users who *don't* want to use the command line, satisfy dependencies, compile applications, etc, OS X style applications bundles are the go.
I'm sorry but no one who says that OS X is bloated while implying that linux is not is sane. Sure, it is *possible* to run a lean-and-mean linux desktop but standard distros are *not* lean-and-mean and the software is just crap (in terms of bloat). Compare OO.org to Office and see. Also your suggestion of statically compiling would just lead to MORE bloat as every piece of software would come with a different version of a library linked in - defeating the purpose of having standard libraries.
It was pseudo-subtle troll combined with an attempt at humour which (clearly) failed.
What I'm trying to say is that Linux needs a standard library base that is cross-distro. That way a distro can claim to be "Linux Standard 12 Compatible" - and the user knows that it will work. Linux Standard 12 would of course mean you have to include certain libraries. This means drag and drop installation WOULD work.
Seriously, drag-n-drop installation rocks.
Can someone explain to him the way things work around here - a misspelled rant about Natalie Portman and some grits would have gone a lot further, thats all I can say.
Why nanotech? Power infrastructure isn't exactly tiny. Why not just normal wireless sensors? Buzzword much...?
This is definitely getting ridiculous. The first line of the article talks about 2002 sales! Do the editors not even READ the articles?
Ahhh, if only I still had some mod points. That is one of the funniest posts I've read in a *long* time.
Does this seem like a little bit of zealotry? I mean, why not use a nice, EASY*TO*USE OS instead of something the under-priviledged people using this machine will have to struggle to learn?
I know this may look like a really dumb comment in about 4 hrs but I don't see video being THAT useful. You can store a ton of low-res video on the ipod if you just want to watch it there, but the real advantage would be to take it with you to friends' houses for viewing on their TVs. Well, in that case, you want hi-res video, video that will take up quite a bit of room. Hmmm.... Wonder how those geniuses will solve THAT little problem...
Hmmm, *looks at powerbook*, that seems a bit silly doesn't it? OS X gui "crap" is what makes it usable (and I don't mean in the strict, literal sense). Why would I ever buy a powerbook and use kde with it? And, if I did want to do that - wouldn't I just install a linux distro on it in the first place?
Does the poster even realize this is simply the X server with KDE running as a client app? its not like they've replaced the nice, flashy GUI with KDE. They've just compiled and run it! Look, I can run Ethereal on OS X. Look, I can run *name unix app* on OS X. Good grief.