Wait a second... Companies can be scared into saying 'coffee is hot' but they are trying to scare consumers into saying 'copying from CD to tape so that I can listen to it in my old-fashioned car is stealing'? And they've got it both ways?
Something isn't right here. In fact, it's just plain wrong.
Anyway, my favourite bash.org quote for this scenario:
#4753
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Or maybe it is just some get-rich-quick scheme by people who obviously can't be bothered to work. Think about it, it is simplicity itself: 1. Get involved in an "accident". 2. Sue company for "accident". 3. Overstate "damages". 4. "Profit"! (Damned lawyer fees...)
1. Demand separation of church and state. (The fundamentalists might fight back with anti-hate arguments and demand not to be insulted, at which point, you point out, vegetarians are not offended by the fact that meat is produced and sold, they avoid it; likewise, they can avoid the fruits of stem-cell (well, the issue at hand is cloning and embrionic stem-cell) research.)
2. Marketing for research projects. Sounds silly, but hype up potential end-results. Shareholders understand marketingspeak.
3. And now... Demand seperation of science and state.
4. Likewise for (2). Modify claim to show that the administration is likely to get elected again if this goes through.
5. China wants to go to space. There's your Russia/Sputnik II. We need similiar countries/projects for: * Medicine/Healthcare * Electrical Engineering * Software Engineering (OSS? Is a international phenomenon, so maybe not) * Computer Engineering * Entertainment (?!)
The average person probably won't notice a change in plot style, minor style changes or anything that would result in those staff being replaced. But they would recognise the change in voices. Likewise for live-action movies/shows: they would probably not realise the change in writing/plot style, nor style, nor special effects, but changing the actor would stick out like a sore thumb.
Then again, Dumbledore in Harry Potter was replaced recently, we'll see how people react to that...
Yes, I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but...
My sister, who has not been exposed to Photoshop at all, was able to use GIMP... version 1.2. All I had to do was to set it up and show her how to start it.
Then again, she was only 12. A child can learn or unlearn preconceptions easily enough..
"CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films." -- CinePaint
Firefox is the biggest XUL demo you can get, aside from Mozilla Seamonkey Suite, which I'm not entire ly sure whether or not is completely XUL based...
In any case, standalone XUL is unlikely, because it is built on Gecko for use with Gecko-embedding browsers and applications. XAML will be no different, it will be built into Windows for use by Windows applications.
The probable reason why XUL doesn't recieve the same hype as XAML? XUL is just a solution designed for a problem. Whereas, XAML is a solution looking for a problem -- it is just one of the bells and whistles to make Longhorn attractive.
Quicktime is an integral part of OS X and iTunes, and it has already been ported. The only thing left concievably would be the GUI, and if they could port the Quicktime GUI, they can port the iTunes GUI.
GNUStep isn't aiming for the OS X look anyway... (Hint, OS X predecessor is OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP)
I think a killer Open Source project would be port Java over to the CLR. To be really evil and fun, make it a JVM->CLR rewriter. Of course, Sun will sue you like mad, but that not why it wouldn't happen (it helps MS too much), but it would break Sun's hold on Java a bit more. Especially with Mono in the mix.
Why not the other way? Especially since Java is on more platforms?
XAML is nicely balanced and really seems like the first truly usable markup-based GUI language (XUL was close, but not close enough. I think it'd be much more popular otherwise).
XAML: Catalogueware, hyped. XUL: Realware, not hyped.
Conclusion: XAML wins popularity contests. You can't compare it to anything real, and you don't have to show much for it... yet, so you can always one-up your competitors.
Avalon is nice, not totally groundbreaking, but it does kill bitmap-based windowing, and I haven't seen anything that suggest that Linux world is pulling that trigger yet. (X being a obstacle in the way) Apple did, and the results speak for themselves I think.
Apple has not moved to vector graphics windowing. It is still bitmaps there. What makes you think otherwise?
There are many things that don't translate well into vector graphics. Photographs, for instance. Pre-existing bitmaps, for another.
Finally, WinFS is very, very cool stuff, even as vaporware. I'm not surprised they had to scale it back, because what there are doing is nothing short of rethinking the file system from the ground up. This is a bold thought to take seriously. The notion of extensible metadata alone is powerful. (Before, file metadata was fixed.) Add in searching, extensible relationships, etc and you have something worth paying attention too.
An alpha implementation of some of those ideas: GNOME storage.
But, I'm sure, if we dig deeper, we'll find that neither Microsoft nor Free/Open Source really invented any of these. Just that we invented it again.
Genesis 7: (2) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. (3) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
HOWEVER:
Genesis 6: (19) And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 7: (8) Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, (9) There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
(14) They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Well... there are numerous problems involved in making software components Just Work(TM)... You'd have to get the programming infrastructure there first. C++ is not up to the challenge, from what I've experienced -- having to add on extra syntactical constructs (Qt MOC (well, not really, but you get the point)) or heaps of macros (Mozilla XPCOM). Objective-C seems better, but I think it is probably best suited for Smalltalk, where the concept probably originated from.
While true, it still isn't really Haiku. High-grade Haiku is usually composed of two separate parts, with the final line linking together the two. For instance:
An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
the sound of water.
(This is a translation. Don't expect it to retain the original syllable count)
Slashdot Mirror
Something isn't right here. In fact, it's just plain wrong.
Anyway, my favourite bash.org quote for this scenario:
Or maybe it is just some get-rich-quick scheme by people who obviously can't be bothered to work. Think about it, it is simplicity itself:
1. Get involved in an "accident".
2. Sue company for "accident".
3. Overstate "damages".
4. "Profit"! (Damned lawyer fees...)
1. Demand separation of church and state. (The fundamentalists might fight back with anti-hate arguments and demand not to be insulted, at which point, you point out, vegetarians are not offended by the fact that meat is produced and sold, they avoid it; likewise, they can avoid the fruits of stem-cell (well, the issue at hand is cloning and embrionic stem-cell) research.)
2. Marketing for research projects. Sounds silly, but hype up potential end-results. Shareholders understand marketingspeak.
3. And now... Demand seperation of science and state.
4. Likewise for (2). Modify claim to show that the administration is likely to get elected again if this goes through.
5. China wants to go to space. There's your Russia/Sputnik II. We need similiar countries/projects for:
* Medicine/Healthcare
* Electrical Engineering
* Software Engineering (OSS? Is a international phenomenon, so maybe not)
* Computer Engineering
* Entertainment (?!)
Pinstripe will use the OS to render widgets and backgrounds and such, so it will match the OS. Therefore, you will get garish pinstripes in OS X 10.3.
And here's the worst part:
The average person probably won't notice a change in plot style, minor style changes or anything that would result in those staff being replaced. But they would recognise the change in voices. Likewise for live-action movies/shows: they would probably not realise the change in writing/plot style, nor style, nor special effects, but changing the actor would stick out like a sore thumb.
Then again, Dumbledore in Harry Potter was replaced recently, we'll see how people react to that...
Yes, I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but...
My sister, who has not been exposed to Photoshop at all, was able to use GIMP... version 1.2. All I had to do was to set it up and show her how to start it.
Then again, she was only 12. A child can learn or unlearn preconceptions easily enough..
I've never heard a greater lie.
rm -rf / will proceed without asking a question.
chmod 000 ~ will do so without squeaking.
It'll even let you do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=4k without asking if you're sure.
It is Windows that will try to protect users from their stupidity... zealously. MacOS and OS X too, but I think it isn't as bad.
"CinePaint is a free open source painting and image retouching program designed to work best with 35mm film and other high resolution high dynamic range images. It is the most popular open source tool in the motion picture industry -- used in 2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films." -- CinePaint
Gr. I prove myself wrong again. I just found some non-Gecko XUL implementations.
Portal to XUL -- link repository for XUL and XUL-like things.
Firefox is the biggest XUL demo you can get, aside from Mozilla Seamonkey Suite, which I'm not entire ly sure whether or not is completely XUL based...
In any case, standalone XUL is unlikely, because it is built on Gecko for use with Gecko-embedding browsers and applications. XAML will be no different, it will be built into Windows for use by Windows applications.
But if you want to learn about XUL: XUL on Mozilla.org
XUL 1.0 specification
XULPlanet, a big non-Mozilla XUL resource (See also XULPlanet at mozdev.org for the time being)
Joy of XUL -- an overview of XUL.
The probable reason why XUL doesn't recieve the same hype as XAML? XUL is just a solution designed for a problem. Whereas, XAML is a solution looking for a problem -- it is just one of the bells and whistles to make Longhorn attractive.
Quicktime is an integral part of OS X and iTunes, and it has already been ported. The only thing left concievably would be the GUI, and if they could port the Quicktime GUI, they can port the iTunes GUI.
GNUStep isn't aiming for the OS X look anyway... (Hint, OS X predecessor is OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP)
Why not the other way? Especially since Java is on more platforms?
XAML: Catalogueware, hyped.
XUL: Realware, not hyped.
Conclusion: XAML wins popularity contests. You can't compare it to anything real, and you don't have to show much for it... yet, so you can always one-up your competitors.
Apple has not moved to vector graphics windowing. It is still bitmaps there. What makes you think otherwise?
There are many things that don't translate well into vector graphics. Photographs, for instance. Pre-existing bitmaps, for another.
An alpha implementation of some of those ideas: GNOME storage.
But, I'm sure, if we dig deeper, we'll find that neither Microsoft nor Free/Open Source really invented any of these. Just that we invented it again.
Which makes it more akin to the .nib files of NeXT/ OS X Interface Builder fame.
In any case, if you can break out of a chroot jail, you can break out of a sandbox. Truly malicious people will not be deterred by it.
Genesis 7:
(2) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. (3) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
HOWEVER:
Genesis 6:
(19) And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 7:
(8) Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, (9) There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
(14) They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Indeed, they may even find the cover of the Torah:
(Translated)
"Moses's Bedtime Stories for Hebrew Children"
With a statement like that, it will be highly unlikely you'll ever get lasting peace.
Embracing software component -oriented programming are we?
Well... there are numerous problems involved in making software components Just Work(TM)... You'd have to get the programming infrastructure there first. C++ is not up to the challenge, from what I've experienced -- having to add on extra syntactical constructs (Qt MOC (well, not really, but you get the point)) or heaps of macros (Mozilla XPCOM). Objective-C seems better, but I think it is probably best suited for Smalltalk, where the concept probably originated from.
And, as a side effect of documenting the file format in many languages, you'll also get a Rosetta stone (book?).
So... what would be the point of living? Isn't that what's life about, to make more of itself?
I suppose, since most animals/plants have a purpose [to us] beyond reproduction, it could become useful...
Microwave power transmission. Network wirelessly, cook you[r food], transmit power -- is there anything Microwaves can't do?
There is only one protocol for this: RFC 3251 -- Electricity over IP.
Ah, Microwave power transmission... You can get electricity and get cooked (almost) at the same time...
On 0 punch cards.
Javascript provides glue, and logic if so wanted. If not, you can write it as a server-side logic.
Send in Apple trademark lawyers in
3...
2...
(This is a translation. Don't expect it to retain the original syllable count)
Deprecate Haiku for Limerick -- it has some good information about what a Haiku is supposed to be.