> Of course, this time it's not "2. ???", but "how the fsck do we do 2.???"
That's where all the closed-source stuff in OSX comes in. Quartz, Quicktime, the Apple apps, etc. Also there's the fact that you can't update developer releases via Software Update.
I don't have the link any more (backups are your friend), but I saw a web page with links to all sorts of terrorist web spaces, and over half of them actually were Yahoo groups.
From one AMD fanboy to another: Puh-leez. I'm actually glad they went with Intel. Intel is actually getting cheaper than AMD, and they don't have the chip yield problems of AMD. Also, and I may be unique in this, but my AMD chips run hotter than the Intel chips I've seen. Not a whole lot, but enough to justify AMD being passed over by a computer maker that wants an entire computer in the space of a 10-disc CD changer cartridge. AMD historically has very poor (as in nonexistant) thermal management.
Also, if the Mac really is what video editors use most of the time, Intel is a good choice. The P4 regularly beats AMD chips in video and audio encoding. The thing AMD chips really excel at is gaming, a testament to the great on-die memory controller of the A64. As I've seen several million times repeated on Slashdot, Macs aren't sold by their FarCry timedemo speeds.
No, guns are designed to kill. Waving a gun around to scare somebody is not using it for its intended purpose. You are threatening to use it for its intended purpose. Thost bullets don't have "fear me" written on them, they're made of soft lead designed to leave a large exit wound. The gun does not care what it shoots. It is a tool. Point it at what you want to kill, and pull the trigger.
Bittorrent was designed to download. The analogy to the gun is stupid ad best. You can't threaten a download with azureus. "I MIGHT USE SOMEBODY ELSE'S BANDWIDTH TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FILE! FEAR ME!"... just doesn't work. The bittorrent client doesn't care what it downloads. It is a tool. Feed it a torrent file, and point it to a directory.
Then again, I could be completely wrong, because, as I recall, sport utility vehicles were designed for offroad driving, not taking up 4 parking spaces at the fucking Krogers, you fucking asshole. How are those keytip-sized scratches looking?
Ya know, I had a long, thoughtful, and insightful reply to your post. But then I realized that you don't have a fucking clue, and you won't read it anyway.
Except for the fact that Spotlight isn't limited to PDF files only, and it doesn't require a plugin to read any file format. Also, if I remember the demo right, Spotlight can search for any text that's onscreen or in any open document.
Oh, god. If you don't need the features of OSX, then please, for fuck's sake, use Linux. Hate to break it to ya, but advanced hardware graphics features like pixel shaders are available to less than 20% of the computer market as a whole. I highly doubt that the Intel 810 chipset (With up to 32 MB integrated memory!!) featured in so many budget computers has PS support. Call it a hunch. Just because you expect a 3D workstation with a 256 MB graphics card for $500, doesn't mean those lowest-end of the low-end computers are going to actually have that. Feel lucky that there's a $500 Mac out there, period. Not to mention the fact that it has real, actual, honest-to-goodness dedicated video RAM.
Installing software from a non-administrator account.
In Windows, you have to either log in as an administrator, or use "Run as..." that 95% of the world doesn't know about but wouldn't use anyways becuase it's easier to just run an admin account. If already on an admin account, it just installs.
In Mac OS X, the installer simply asks you for the administrator user name and password. If on an admin account, it still asks for the password. They even ask for the password while root. If root is even enabled, which is superfluous with sudo.
Per-user preferences for all user apps
This isn't the case with Windows. Certain apps write to the global registry and save preferences in sytem folders. Bad coders, bad. This probably has something to do with the fact that there's no one single spot for preferences to go in Windows. It could be %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings, it could be in the app's folder, it could be %HOMEPATH%\Application Data. It could even be stored in the fucking Windows system folder. You just never know. The problem with the Windows model is that you never really know if you have to be an administrator to even run certain apps. Example: Until recently, the minimum group to run Yahoo! Messenger was Power User. Running an IM client as an administrator? Baaad. It's also just a general pain to run as a non-admin in Windows.
In OSX, it's ~/Library/Preferences./Library/Preferences is read-only to normal accounts, and only used for system-wide preferences (display resolution, network config, etc). Sure, there will be the odd app that uses an ini file, but those are always apps ported from Windows, bad behaviors and all. One that comes to mind is Unreal Tournament. In OSX, running as a non-admin is practically transparent.
And now a message for those of you that had the mental, ocular, and intestinal fortitude to read this entire comment, "What is wrong with you?"
I love slashdot. If a company you don't like were to use a law (software patents) for their own benefit, you'd find the biggest soapbox you could find. If a company you like uses it, it's for the protection of their INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY that they own. If they don't use it, it was a gracious act by a good natured person.
The whole idea of software patents is screwed up anyways, and I'm not sure I understand it. From my understanding, a patent is for the process, not the product.
I'm sometimes amazed at the weird shit I see on slashdot. A PCI slot in a console? Setting aside the fact that that's the stupidest idea since the 32X, it'd be expensive, both in terms of cost and size. More often than not, it's cheaper to replace the few machines that die, than to separate the individual components of the system.
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Yeah? Well my dick is TWELVE inches long! ...Oh, were we being subtle?
> Of course, this time it's not "2. ???", but "how the fsck do we do 2.???"
That's where all the closed-source stuff in OSX comes in. Quartz, Quicktime, the Apple apps, etc. Also there's the fact that you can't update developer releases via Software Update.
OSX also includes a built-in spell checker!
I don't have the link any more (backups are your friend), but I saw a web page with links to all sorts of terrorist web spaces, and over half of them actually were Yahoo groups.
Yeah, because users compiling software on Linux is so uncommon.
Steve, this drone is malfunctioning. Please make it re-view the 2005 WWDC keynote for a RDF upgrade.
From one AMD fanboy to another: Puh-leez. I'm actually glad they went with Intel. Intel is actually getting cheaper than AMD, and they don't have the chip yield problems of AMD. Also, and I may be unique in this, but my AMD chips run hotter than the Intel chips I've seen. Not a whole lot, but enough to justify AMD being passed over by a computer maker that wants an entire computer in the space of a 10-disc CD changer cartridge. AMD historically has very poor (as in nonexistant) thermal management.
Also, if the Mac really is what video editors use most of the time, Intel is a good choice. The P4 regularly beats AMD chips in video and audio encoding. The thing AMD chips really excel at is gaming, a testament to the great on-die memory controller of the A64. As I've seen several million times repeated on Slashdot, Macs aren't sold by their FarCry timedemo speeds.
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Yeah, making a child an administrator of a Windows computer works out great every time.
Maybe I'm just an anti American rebel, but I'd go for the local place. 9 times out of 10, a local place is better at everything they do.
With an LCD?
What better than woman!
TWO WOMAN!
What better than two woman!
FIVE! FIVE WOMAN!
Grob funny!
No, guns are designed to kill. Waving a gun around to scare somebody is not using it for its intended purpose. You are threatening to use it for its intended purpose. Thost bullets don't have "fear me" written on them, they're made of soft lead designed to leave a large exit wound. The gun does not care what it shoots. It is a tool. Point it at what you want to kill, and pull the trigger.
... just doesn't work. The bittorrent client doesn't care what it downloads. It is a tool. Feed it a torrent file, and point it to a directory.
Bittorrent was designed to download. The analogy to the gun is stupid ad best. You can't threaten a download with azureus. "I MIGHT USE SOMEBODY ELSE'S BANDWIDTH TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FILE! FEAR ME!"
Then again, I could be completely wrong, because, as I recall, sport utility vehicles were designed for offroad driving, not taking up 4 parking spaces at the fucking Krogers, you fucking asshole. How are those keytip-sized scratches looking?
At least I know what kind of camera to avoid.
Ya know, I had a long, thoughtful, and insightful reply to your post. But then I realized that you don't have a fucking clue, and you won't read it anyway.
Except for the fact that Spotlight isn't limited to PDF files only, and it doesn't require a plugin to read any file format. Also, if I remember the demo right, Spotlight can search for any text that's onscreen or in any open document.
So dude, do you mean like, real valve stems, or like, metaphysical ones, dude?
I just patented that statement. The royalty is $500 per letter. Pay up, bitch.
Latency, maybe?
Oh, god. If you don't need the features of OSX, then please, for fuck's sake, use Linux. Hate to break it to ya, but advanced hardware graphics features like pixel shaders are available to less than 20% of the computer market as a whole. I highly doubt that the Intel 810 chipset (With up to 32 MB integrated memory!!) featured in so many budget computers has PS support. Call it a hunch. Just because you expect a 3D workstation with a 256 MB graphics card for $500, doesn't mean those lowest-end of the low-end computers are going to actually have that. Feel lucky that there's a $500 Mac out there, period. Not to mention the fact that it has real, actual, honest-to-goodness dedicated video RAM.
Installing software from a non-administrator account.
/Library/Preferences is read-only to normal accounts, and only used for system-wide preferences (display resolution, network config, etc). Sure, there will be the odd app that uses an ini file, but those are always apps ported from Windows, bad behaviors and all. One that comes to mind is Unreal Tournament. In OSX, running as a non-admin is practically transparent.
In Windows, you have to either log in as an administrator, or use "Run as..." that 95% of the world doesn't know about but wouldn't use anyways becuase it's easier to just run an admin account. If already on an admin account, it just installs.
In Mac OS X, the installer simply asks you for the administrator user name and password. If on an admin account, it still asks for the password. They even ask for the password while root. If root is even enabled, which is superfluous with sudo.
Per-user preferences for all user apps
This isn't the case with Windows. Certain apps write to the global registry and save preferences in sytem folders. Bad coders, bad. This probably has something to do with the fact that there's no one single spot for preferences to go in Windows. It could be %HOMEPATH%\Local Settings, it could be in the app's folder, it could be %HOMEPATH%\Application Data. It could even be stored in the fucking Windows system folder. You just never know. The problem with the Windows model is that you never really know if you have to be an administrator to even run certain apps. Example: Until recently, the minimum group to run Yahoo! Messenger was Power User. Running an IM client as an administrator? Baaad. It's also just a general pain to run as a non-admin in Windows.
In OSX, it's ~/Library/Preferences.
And now a message for those of you that had the mental, ocular, and intestinal fortitude to read this entire comment, "What is wrong with you?"
How progressive of them. In keeping with that philosophy, maybe they should stop censoring the internet.
The instant you start to control people's actions, you also take blame for those actions.
I love slashdot. If a company you don't like were to use a law (software patents) for their own benefit, you'd find the biggest soapbox you could find. If a company you like uses it, it's for the protection of their INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY that they own. If they don't use it, it was a gracious act by a good natured person.
The whole idea of software patents is screwed up anyways, and I'm not sure I understand it. From my understanding, a patent is for the process, not the product.
The same could be said for the Pentium4 or the Athlon 64. That hasn't stopped them.
I'm sometimes amazed at the weird shit I see on slashdot. A PCI slot in a console? Setting aside the fact that that's the stupidest idea since the 32X, it'd be expensive, both in terms of cost and size. More often than not, it's cheaper to replace the few machines that die, than to separate the individual components of the system.