Your tag line is great. I assume you are trying to say if you want to regulate business and guns, and provide healthcare that you are a Nazi?
Here let me try.
The Nazi Party: Militaristic, anti-Immigrant, anti-Gay, anti-Minority, aggressive and resentful of how history has treated our kind. Make Germany Great Again!
OK I will tell you that wasn't paid for by Apple. Fun fact, paid product placement in a TV show is considered an ad and not allowed by the FCC. Paid placement in movies is quite common (looking at you Michael Bay). I don't know for sure that Apple doesn't pay for movie placement, but I remember a few years back reading about how they didn't have to because people used their products in films anyway.
So the morons who wanted to move fast and break things suddenly realize they broke everything. No shit. You broke democracy through one social network that is a spying platform and another that has never made a dime.
This is in response to an AC comment with an obnoxious thread title, so I am starting a new one. But it made the claim that these sort of moves are "bastardizing the word freedom". Here's my response
Freedom means different things to different people, that's why there are different licenses. From the earliest days of the open source movement there have been arguments as to what "free" should mean. The BSD/GNU approaches are an example of that early division. Licenses are designed to reflect the intentions of the developers who choose them. The developer is free to choose whatever license they believe best achieves that. And to suggest that all code should be released only under one license, that only reflects one viewpoint, would ironically end up taking away the freedom of the developer to make that choice.
Open sourcing code is done for many reasons. Some people want to change the world. Some corporations do it for strategic reasons. And all the reasons in-between. But overall the world is better off because the idea of open sourcing took over, and that would not have happened if the GPL3 was the only license allowed. In fact having so many licenses is one of the features that allowed open source to take over. It could fill so many roles because there were so many approaches.
As a life long Apple user and someone who once thought MS was evil, I am actually going to defend MS a bit here. Microsoft has changed for the better under Nadella and done things I never thought I would see MS do. They have embraced open source in a real way, they have moved away from trying to lock everything to Windows to a platform agnostic strategy. Having Balmer leave (he was a founder) was the best thing that ever happened to MS.
I actually am excited for this tech because I play around with 3D modeling and animation. Many renderers are available only for Nvidia solutions, which are now going to able to support the Mac. Additional video cards could come in handy for video as well as scientific tasks as well. Gaming is just a side benefit for me.
This, a million times this. It seems so many open source projects have a contempt for the normal user. Almost no care is put into UI/UX and documentation. Which is self defeating since they want everyone to see the genius of their solution and use it. I have been involved in open source for over a decade, and this observation has never changed.
Bingo. Everyone dismissed it while it simply worked incredibly well. They say it had a "simple" interface not knowing how configurable it was under the hood. I had custom port forwards, IP assignment, DMZ, everything you'd think you'd want on a home router. Then they EOL'd it.
"There is not even a remote chance that OpenGL will be displaced by Vulkan in the big dollar engineering sector"
Don't be so sure. Open standards thrive when large orgs get a benefit from them, not just a community. There always has to be a business behind the standard.
They are not "fucking" with standards, they are dropping support for one. And an outdated one at that. Apple tried to rally the industry around the open standards, and the industry moved a different direction. Now they are too. Every decision has pros and cons. Keeping the current OpenGL and OpenCL probably has a bunch of pros. But also a lot of cons, and for whatever internal reason they decided the benefits outweighed the costs when deciding to go this direction. Companies do not have an infinite amount of time to work on every possible permeation of their project. MS got bogged like hell trying to do that, and are still recovering. Apple has chosen a different approach and has been consistent with that approach for decades. You can like it or not, but they are obviously doing something right.
And btw, is this something that actually affects your work? Or is this more of a "I am going to rag on Apple based on incomplete knowledge" sort of rant? I know people who port games to the Mac. They aren't complaining.
Yeah, I doubt this is a surprise to Adobe. They have been talking about working with Metal for a couple of years. Don't assume they aren't happy about the change. Who knows, maybe Metal works better for them?
There is that rub about Apple, they force you into the future whether you like it or not. For me the benefits outweigh the costs. Shit changes, adapt.
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I think Knowledge Wants To Be Free, not information. Does your web browser history really want to be free?
Ever hear the expression "1 size does not fit all"?
I am happy with the purchase and it has served me admirably. So I bought a MacBook, I am not a fool.
You think they are overpriced and you can get a better deal. You are not a fool.
Agreed, it's time to get tough on suicide. Might I suggest a no tolerance policy? Or at least a 3 strikes and you are out?
I've been following Apple since the 80s, when did they have a privacy scandal? Honest question, I don't remember one.
Your tag line is great. I assume you are trying to say if you want to regulate business and guns, and provide healthcare that you are a Nazi?
Here let me try.
The Nazi Party: Militaristic, anti-Immigrant, anti-Gay, anti-Minority, aggressive and resentful of how history has treated our kind. Make Germany Great Again!
As a liberal, thank you for saying that for me.
OK I will tell you that wasn't paid for by Apple. Fun fact, paid product placement in a TV show is considered an ad and not allowed by the FCC. Paid placement in movies is quite common (looking at you Michael Bay). I don't know for sure that Apple doesn't pay for movie placement, but I remember a few years back reading about how they didn't have to because people used their products in films anyway.
So the morons who wanted to move fast and break things suddenly realize they broke everything. No shit. You broke democracy through one social network that is a spying platform and another that has never made a dime.
Says the person on a site with a voting system
This is in response to an AC comment with an obnoxious thread title, so I am starting a new one. But it made the claim that these sort of moves are "bastardizing the word freedom". Here's my response
Freedom means different things to different people, that's why there are different licenses. From the earliest days of the open source movement there have been arguments as to what "free" should mean. The BSD/GNU approaches are an example of that early division. Licenses are designed to reflect the intentions of the developers who choose them. The developer is free to choose whatever license they believe best achieves that. And to suggest that all code should be released only under one license, that only reflects one viewpoint, would ironically end up taking away the freedom of the developer to make that choice.
Open sourcing code is done for many reasons. Some people want to change the world. Some corporations do it for strategic reasons. And all the reasons in-between. But overall the world is better off because the idea of open sourcing took over, and that would not have happened if the GPL3 was the only license allowed. In fact having so many licenses is one of the features that allowed open source to take over. It could fill so many roles because there were so many approaches.
Oh I don't hate MS anymore. I did in the 90s though. I was just lamely trying to Ackbar the situation
I think you are looking for "IT'S A TRAP"
As a life long Apple user and someone who once thought MS was evil, I am actually going to defend MS a bit here. Microsoft has changed for the better under Nadella and done things I never thought I would see MS do. They have embraced open source in a real way, they have moved away from trying to lock everything to Windows to a platform agnostic strategy. Having Balmer leave (he was a founder) was the best thing that ever happened to MS.
I am not a coward, I forgot to log in. Responses will appear from this account
I can hold it in my hand
Hello Wurld
Funny thing is in reality employees prefer Macs
https://www.macrumors.com/2018...
Sorry to ruin your joke.
I actually am excited for this tech because I play around with 3D modeling and animation. Many renderers are available only for Nvidia solutions, which are now going to able to support the Mac. Additional video cards could come in handy for video as well as scientific tasks as well. Gaming is just a side benefit for me.
No, it's not
This, a million times this. It seems so many open source projects have a contempt for the normal user. Almost no care is put into UI/UX and documentation. Which is self defeating since they want everyone to see the genius of their solution and use it. I have been involved in open source for over a decade, and this observation has never changed.
Bingo. Everyone dismissed it while it simply worked incredibly well. They say it had a "simple" interface not knowing how configurable it was under the hood. I had custom port forwards, IP assignment, DMZ, everything you'd think you'd want on a home router. Then they EOL'd it.
I assume you are joking, but there is some truth in there. If you knew how to use it the Airport made a great home router
"There is not even a remote chance that OpenGL will be displaced by Vulkan in the big dollar engineering sector"
Don't be so sure. Open standards thrive when large orgs get a benefit from them, not just a community. There always has to be a business behind the standard.
They are not "fucking" with standards, they are dropping support for one. And an outdated one at that. Apple tried to rally the industry around the open standards, and the industry moved a different direction. Now they are too. Every decision has pros and cons. Keeping the current OpenGL and OpenCL probably has a bunch of pros. But also a lot of cons, and for whatever internal reason they decided the benefits outweighed the costs when deciding to go this direction. Companies do not have an infinite amount of time to work on every possible permeation of their project. MS got bogged like hell trying to do that, and are still recovering. Apple has chosen a different approach and has been consistent with that approach for decades. You can like it or not, but they are obviously doing something right.
And btw, is this something that actually affects your work? Or is this more of a "I am going to rag on Apple based on incomplete knowledge" sort of rant? I know people who port games to the Mac. They aren't complaining.
Yeah, I doubt this is a surprise to Adobe. They have been talking about working with Metal for a couple of years. Don't assume they aren't happy about the change. Who knows, maybe Metal works better for them?
There is that rub about Apple, they force you into the future whether you like it or not. For me the benefits outweigh the costs. Shit changes, adapt.