for example I have a netbook and a 3g dongle that costs 20 for 15gb of data. I have skype installed and if I want I could have skype out or a sip phone.
I have a 3skypephone which is capable of doing skype calls on the regular voice network on 2g and 3g netwroks, Skype calls don't cost me anything at all, nor do I even have a data plan.
actually it would save me a lot of money each month if i was to do this.
Certainly saves me tonne, I don't need a netbook to do it though.
Just because I need to go via a gateway doesn't mean I can't largely have the same functionality as a mobile.
My console was banned for being modded. The thing is, it was modded because the DVD drive died and I replaced it... the only way I could do this "legitimately" was to buy a whole new console, since MS claimed it was no longer under warranty.
Seems like a perfectly valid reason to me for Microsoft to ban you from xbox live. They did say no unauthorized modifications.
So by banning me, they've lost a continual revenue stream that has exceeded the purchase price of a console.
Problem is, most people are not like you, they will just buy a new xbox. So the fact you didn't buy a new one causes very little difference to Microsoft's profit margins.
Unilaterally cut off your customers who pay you money regularly and prevent them from being able to pay you any more money.
They were smart enough to keep people's xbox accounts still subscribed and paying. Either way, you're not the standard, you're the exception, most people would just buy a new xbox. Just checkout the various forums where people rage on about getting banned, few of them change consoles, but many of them buy a new xbox again.
I don't really see how this is a troll. Why would you waste your time on investing in a country that generally pirates everything constantly? Where past attempts for investment lead to nothing? It would be a waste of money for Infinity Ward.
Gmail and Dropbox are free. Where can I find these backup services that pay you to use them?
I find gmail and dropbox more expensive for backups actually. Just look how much you need to pay for upgraded accounts from gmail (which you need to use google apps to get access to) or the costs per extra GB from dropbox, it's far more than places like rsync.net.
But most users are installing the non-server non-phone-home version of the OS.
I recall an annoying registration window popping up in the regular OS X installer that did not offer a 'skip' button. So, I disagree on the 'non-phone-home' non-sense you've come up with.
Ignoring a country with 150 million people and a project to bring internet connectivity to every home in a couple of years is a really good plan.
I don't think they really care about a nation that pirates the majority of software products regardless. Pirates tend to justify piracy any way they can just to feel better about it.
Your family and friends never want to plug their camera into the computer and download photos?
I would say a good chunk of my friends and family don't actually want to download pictures to their computer, but to upload it to flickr, facebook or e-mail. Which, Chrome OS in theory could support just fine.
Or upload music to their iPod?
In theory, if Chrome OS let you upload from external devices, don't see why it wouldn't let you save to most devices. That said, likely wouldn't work with an iPod because Apple doesn't appear to like making devices where simple features like dragging and dropping files actually work (compared to any other player on the market where it does).
I have no idea what you're talking about or how it relates to my question.
It's pretty well spelled out how it relates. Developing the application in Microsoft's tools does not have the issues Java does and that includes not having some of the issues you get with java on OS X. My entire response did not refer to OS X.
Once again, I ask what wet dream I'm missing out on as a Java developer that all these developers at Microsoft seem to have?
I already gave three points to that without really giving much thought, read the response I gave again.
The main issue for OSX GUI apps vs. GUI apps on other platforms is that apps tend to be laid out differently on OSX. So while you can reuse your layouts from other platforms, they look out of place.
The main issue I found, was that the display stuff is broken. Just check out my slashdot link, http://scorch.quickfox.org/ - On older versions of OS X, it flickers to hell (hence the epilepsy warning), on newer versions of OS X the scroll bars are missing, on some versions of OS X server it will cause the system to kernel panic (all 100% reproducible). The only solution I am aware of, to get around it, is to add platform specific code, which I have absolutely no interest in doing.
The application in question even works on kaffe, msjava and plenty of other java runtimes.
Oh.. How could I have grown up for 30 odd years and never knew this!
This is why they should make RFCs required reading for Internet usage (can't remember which RFC now had the note about there being only males online, otherwise I'd link it).
The Internet is designed to be inherently incompatible with females to prevent their other half from being discovered to be looking at porn.
I really thought I was a female all these years..
Funny enough, I spent many years trying to convince other people I wasn't female online - My real life name is 'Ashley' (which I used to use online) and thus, many automatically assume that I am female, just trying to hide my true sex. There have been a few hilarious moments where people I had known for years online actually were shocked I was telling truth.
I'm a Java developer. Please explain to me the wet dream I'm missing out on.
Off the top of my head, your applications will run on OS X without having to add Aqua specific extensions, people won't ignore your application just because it's "java" and you won't get a plethora of users moaning that it's "slow".
I choose the best tool for the job, as do most consumers.
Most consumers don't even investigate their options between which bank they should open a bank account in, and you want me to believe they attempt to choose the best tool for the job?
Seriously, what?
Microsoft has historically made a crappy product, while Apple's products over the past decade or so have been technically, ergonomically, and aesthetically superior
Well, let's consider this statement. I'll talk about operating systems since that is what I am most familiar with, with Apple and Microsoft and I have done extensive development, both high level and low level on both.
Technically, well...
I'm going to skip talking about Mac OS classic, because honestly, if I start comparing the fact classic had such horrible development APIs, broken in so many places, no true multitasking capabilities against Windows which had stuff like true multi-tasking far long before, I won't be finished typing tonight.
The OpenGL implementation is truly multithreaded, however it is buggy and non-compliant to specifications (and this is ignoring all the graphics driver bugs that cause numerous other issues in OGL), meanwhile Windows has pioneered their own specification 'DirectX' and the compliant-to-specifications OpenGL.
The 'UNIX' base Apple keeps spouting out as superior is really just a BSD subsystem that runs under the XNU kernel, unfortunately the way Apple modified the Mach kernel removes the majority of advantages the Mach kernel had with regards to various schedular and security options. The sad thing is that even though OS X some how managed to pass UNIX certification (I assume they didn't have enough tests to find all the 'bad' things I found in OS X), it is not POSIX compliant. Numerous examples of this are how posix threading is screwed up with various events getting fired off in the wrong order, or how doing a fork() without exec() (completely POSIX compliant) cannot guarantee that the libraries in use are 'async-signal-safe', this will cause the main thread of your application to crash in most cases. I could go on with a few other examples, but you start getting the idea of what I am getting at with it's UNIX support. So, where does Windows come into this? Since Windows NT, Windows has come with POSIX support in a POSIX subsystem, which, not only is certified, but is actually compliant to doing things the way UNIX/POSIX does.
Now, there has been some recent things going on with the fact that OSes are now moving towards 64bit, but even here, I am not impressed by what people seem to deem Apple as doing far better than Windows. On Windows, all the Windows 32bit APIs with the exception of Virtual 8086 provided by NTVDM is available on 64bit applications, on OS X... You have Cocoa, objective c.. And.. That's about it for GUI support. The amazing thing for me is that I can almost recompile the majority of Windows 32bit applications out there as 64bit without any trouble, on OS X, where Apple claims it's easy... If you didn't write your GUI in objective-c, you're screwed (hence why there is no 64bit photoshop).
So, I've brought up some low level stuff here, and, I have to say, I can't agree to your statements blankly... But, let's go with some more high level stuff. Let's say... Java. Java which is supposed to be cross platform, universal binaries etc. Well, except for OS X of course. My own experiences have shown me that from simple java applications, I can cause the system to kernel panic, the GUIs can be immensely incompatible with OS X and Apple's suggestion is to make the application OS X only by using special Aqua extensions for Java... I'm not very impressed.
Well, let's take a look at Apple's own claims about needing to restart. I've had to restart for many things on OS X. Including, Java updates, Quicktime updates, Safari updates, iTunes updates, certain codec updates (not all, but some) etc. Compared to Windows, where I am on
It's personal experience, but every Power Computing and UMAX machine I ever had to deal with needed a new PSU within a year.
That's sounds far better than the majority of genuine Macs I've owned. I don't think I've had a single one that didn't have a "logic board failure", even right up to when I owned a Macbook Pro (which had so many other issues, including high pitch whistling, floppy wireless, graphics chip failing etc).
I'm not protecting the clones as such, but I am pointing out that Apple's hardware is not exactly the most reliable, especially in my experience. Unfortunately, the quality of their hardware hasn't changed that significantly either, in my opinion.
Of course, this data is somewhat anecdotal, but it's quite hard to make statistics when Apple silently delete these problems from discussions.apple.com, refuse to acknowledge problems until there is an overwhelming amount of people complaining and have a rather ravage fan base who will defend anything about Apple.
Also, no matter what you call it, It's still totally reliant on the graphics libraries, kludge and rubbish code that is X-Windows, or X11, or whatever that underlying monstrosity of a graphical desktop server is called or was forked into these days. Fix that whole stack, then call yourself "new". But not before.
What's wrong with it? I find my Windows games perform better (get better FPS, graphics quality still excellent) running under Wine (not running entirely natively on top of that, d3d calls getting translated to ogl), x11, Linux than they do running under natively Windows. This is where the graphics system under Windows is running under ring-0 while on Linux it's running under ring-3... Where ring-0 is supposed to be so much faster.
I mean, x11 is designed to be extremely extendable and not locked into any one way of doing things to allow for future innovation. The current implementation supports features like GEM, which go beyond certain features Windows and OS X has... Perhaps I'm missing something. Could you explain exactly what in detail x11 lacking?
And see how they conquered the market as a result? Oh wait...
Actually, they died because of releasing their Amiga CD32 console in the States. A company in the States owned the XOR patent and got an injunction against Commodore (Commodore had full intentions to pay from the profits of sales they made on the CD32) from selling their console in the States because it used XOR until they paid the patent fee. Because Amiga couldn't make back the money they just spent to produce all these CD32s, the money couldn't be made back and keeping these Amiga CD32s in storage essentially killed Commodore off.
So, said company never got the money for their patent licensing thing - Smart move I guess?
The American corporations, legal and patent system is what killed Commodore, not Commodore's marketing department.
Adobe has had years and plenty of notice about the 64 bit API and languages.
Yeah, I don't think Adobe wants to rewrite the entire Photoshop interface from scratch (which requires rewriting a bunch of graphical functions that do all the drawing too) nor do most other graphical utility developers some how and even if they did, with the amount of functionality Photoshop has, I would expect that to take years.
Personally, I feel it's Apple's fault, Apple should provide the same APIs they provide to 32bit applications to 64bit, they fact they don't makes me feel that OS X isn't quite a true 64bit capable operating system -- It isn't just simply recompiling applications like Apple claim.
Inkscape on Snow Leopard has been hideously broken for months now.
If you want to do any serious graphics work, I'd recommend using Windows instead, the majority of graphics applications "just work" on it and there is not as many backwards compatibility issues forcing you to upgrade constantly in Windows as there is in OS X. There isn't even a 64bit version of most graphics applications for OS X (this includes Photoshop) due to Apple's policies on what APIs and languages you can use to make 64bit GUIs.
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I have a 3skypephone which is capable of doing skype calls on the regular voice network on 2g and 3g netwroks, Skype calls don't cost me anything at all, nor do I even have a data plan.
Certainly saves me tonne, I don't need a netbook to do it though.
If you say so.
As compared to who? Americans?
Wikimedia agreed to cooperate with the UK courts, so, in theory, yes they can in this instance.
Sure there are, see team fortress 2.
Seems like a perfectly valid reason to me for Microsoft to ban you from xbox live. They did say no unauthorized modifications.
Problem is, most people are not like you, they will just buy a new xbox. So the fact you didn't buy a new one causes very little difference to Microsoft's profit margins.
They were smart enough to keep people's xbox accounts still subscribed and paying. Either way, you're not the standard, you're the exception, most people would just buy a new xbox. Just checkout the various forums where people rage on about getting banned, few of them change consoles, but many of them buy a new xbox again.
Just like every other country. This is nothing special.
Wikipedia voluntarily agreed to cooperate in the court cases.
I don't really see how this is a troll. Why would you waste your time on investing in a country that generally pirates everything constantly? Where past attempts for investment lead to nothing? It would be a waste of money for Infinity Ward.
Note: I am not the grandfather poster.
I find gmail and dropbox more expensive for backups actually. Just look how much you need to pay for upgraded accounts from gmail (which you need to use google apps to get access to) or the costs per extra GB from dropbox, it's far more than places like rsync.net.
I recall an annoying registration window popping up in the regular OS X installer that did not offer a 'skip' button. So, I disagree on the 'non-phone-home' non-sense you've come up with.
I don't think they really care about a nation that pirates the majority of software products regardless. Pirates tend to justify piracy any way they can just to feel better about it.
Note: I am not the grandfather poster.
I would say a good chunk of my friends and family don't actually want to download pictures to their computer, but to upload it to flickr, facebook or e-mail. Which, Chrome OS in theory could support just fine.
In theory, if Chrome OS let you upload from external devices, don't see why it wouldn't let you save to most devices. That said, likely wouldn't work with an iPod because Apple doesn't appear to like making devices where simple features like dragging and dropping files actually work (compared to any other player on the market where it does).
It's pretty well spelled out how it relates. Developing the application in Microsoft's tools does not have the issues Java does and that includes not having some of the issues you get with java on OS X. My entire response did not refer to OS X.
I already gave three points to that without really giving much thought, read the response I gave again.
The main issue I found, was that the display stuff is broken. Just check out my slashdot link, http://scorch.quickfox.org/ - On older versions of OS X, it flickers to hell (hence the epilepsy warning), on newer versions of OS X the scroll bars are missing, on some versions of OS X server it will cause the system to kernel panic (all 100% reproducible). The only solution I am aware of, to get around it, is to add platform specific code, which I have absolutely no interest in doing.
The application in question even works on kaffe, msjava and plenty of other java runtimes.
This is why they should make RFCs required reading for Internet usage (can't remember which RFC now had the note about there being only males online, otherwise I'd link it).
The Internet is designed to be inherently incompatible with females to prevent their other half from being discovered to be looking at porn.
Funny enough, I spent many years trying to convince other people I wasn't female online - My real life name is 'Ashley' (which I used to use online) and thus, many automatically assume that I am female, just trying to hide my true sex. There have been a few hilarious moments where people I had known for years online actually were shocked I was telling truth.
Non-sense! There are no females on the Internet.
Off the top of my head, your applications will run on OS X without having to add Aqua specific extensions, people won't ignore your application just because it's "java" and you won't get a plethora of users moaning that it's "slow".
Using wp.pl's data: 193/501
This has nothing to do with my previous comment. You might want to tell that to the other commenters before me.
Most consumers don't even investigate their options between which bank they should open a bank account in, and you want me to believe they attempt to choose the best tool for the job?
Seriously, what?
Well, let's consider this statement. I'll talk about operating systems since that is what I am most familiar with, with Apple and Microsoft and I have done extensive development, both high level and low level on both.
Technically, well...
I'm going to skip talking about Mac OS classic, because honestly, if I start comparing the fact classic had such horrible development APIs, broken in so many places, no true multitasking capabilities against Windows which had stuff like true multi-tasking far long before, I won't be finished typing tonight.
The OpenGL implementation is truly multithreaded, however it is buggy and non-compliant to specifications (and this is ignoring all the graphics driver bugs that cause numerous other issues in OGL), meanwhile Windows has pioneered their own specification 'DirectX' and the compliant-to-specifications OpenGL.
The 'UNIX' base Apple keeps spouting out as superior is really just a BSD subsystem that runs under the XNU kernel, unfortunately the way Apple modified the Mach kernel removes the majority of advantages the Mach kernel had with regards to various schedular and security options. The sad thing is that even though OS X some how managed to pass UNIX certification (I assume they didn't have enough tests to find all the 'bad' things I found in OS X), it is not POSIX compliant. Numerous examples of this are how posix threading is screwed up with various events getting fired off in the wrong order, or how doing a fork() without exec() (completely POSIX compliant) cannot guarantee that the libraries in use are 'async-signal-safe', this will cause the main thread of your application to crash in most cases. I could go on with a few other examples, but you start getting the idea of what I am getting at with it's UNIX support. So, where does Windows come into this? Since Windows NT, Windows has come with POSIX support in a POSIX subsystem, which, not only is certified, but is actually compliant to doing things the way UNIX/POSIX does.
Now, there has been some recent things going on with the fact that OSes are now moving towards 64bit, but even here, I am not impressed by what people seem to deem Apple as doing far better than Windows. On Windows, all the Windows 32bit APIs with the exception of Virtual 8086 provided by NTVDM is available on 64bit applications, on OS X... You have Cocoa, objective c.. And.. That's about it for GUI support. The amazing thing for me is that I can almost recompile the majority of Windows 32bit applications out there as 64bit without any trouble, on OS X, where Apple claims it's easy... If you didn't write your GUI in objective-c, you're screwed (hence why there is no 64bit photoshop).
So, I've brought up some low level stuff here, and, I have to say, I can't agree to your statements blankly... But, let's go with some more high level stuff. Let's say... Java. Java which is supposed to be cross platform, universal binaries etc. Well, except for OS X of course. My own experiences have shown me that from simple java applications, I can cause the system to kernel panic, the GUIs can be immensely incompatible with OS X and Apple's suggestion is to make the application OS X only by using special Aqua extensions for Java... I'm not very impressed.
Well, let's take a look at Apple's own claims about needing to restart. I've had to restart for many things on OS X. Including, Java updates, Quicktime updates, Safari updates, iTunes updates, certain codec updates (not all, but some) etc. Compared to Windows, where I am on
Note: I am not the GP poster.
That's sounds far better than the majority of genuine Macs I've owned. I don't think I've had a single one that didn't have a "logic board failure", even right up to when I owned a Macbook Pro (which had so many other issues, including high pitch whistling, floppy wireless, graphics chip failing etc).
I'm not protecting the clones as such, but I am pointing out that Apple's hardware is not exactly the most reliable, especially in my experience. Unfortunately, the quality of their hardware hasn't changed that significantly either, in my opinion.
Of course, this data is somewhat anecdotal, but it's quite hard to make statistics when Apple silently delete these problems from discussions.apple.com, refuse to acknowledge problems until there is an overwhelming amount of people complaining and have a rather ravage fan base who will defend anything about Apple.
And my point is, your point is invalid, because their failure had nothing to do with that.
What does Sony have to do with this? They aren't cool.
You must be new here...
What's wrong with it? I find my Windows games perform better (get better FPS, graphics quality still excellent) running under Wine (not running entirely natively on top of that, d3d calls getting translated to ogl), x11, Linux than they do running under natively Windows. This is where the graphics system under Windows is running under ring-0 while on Linux it's running under ring-3... Where ring-0 is supposed to be so much faster.
I mean, x11 is designed to be extremely extendable and not locked into any one way of doing things to allow for future innovation. The current implementation supports features like GEM, which go beyond certain features Windows and OS X has... Perhaps I'm missing something. Could you explain exactly what in detail x11 lacking?
Actually, they died because of releasing their Amiga CD32 console in the States. A company in the States owned the XOR patent and got an injunction against Commodore (Commodore had full intentions to pay from the profits of sales they made on the CD32) from selling their console in the States because it used XOR until they paid the patent fee. Because Amiga couldn't make back the money they just spent to produce all these CD32s, the money couldn't be made back and keeping these Amiga CD32s in storage essentially killed Commodore off.
So, said company never got the money for their patent licensing thing - Smart move I guess?
The American corporations, legal and patent system is what killed Commodore, not Commodore's marketing department.
I just want it to be as fast as KDE3.5. Even disabling the effects and such does not give me the same performance. :(
Yeah, I don't think Adobe wants to rewrite the entire Photoshop interface from scratch (which requires rewriting a bunch of graphical functions that do all the drawing too) nor do most other graphical utility developers some how and even if they did, with the amount of functionality Photoshop has, I would expect that to take years.
Personally, I feel it's Apple's fault, Apple should provide the same APIs they provide to 32bit applications to 64bit, they fact they don't makes me feel that OS X isn't quite a true 64bit capable operating system -- It isn't just simply recompiling applications like Apple claim.
If you want to do any serious graphics work, I'd recommend using Windows instead, the majority of graphics applications "just work" on it and there is not as many backwards compatibility issues forcing you to upgrade constantly in Windows as there is in OS X. There isn't even a 64bit version of most graphics applications for OS X (this includes Photoshop) due to Apple's policies on what APIs and languages you can use to make 64bit GUIs.