"I command my recruiters to ignore any resumées with "Linux", "GTK" or "Qt" in it."
Which makes you the same kind of person you despise. You turn down potentially perfectly good applicants just because they may be able to program in.NET and GTK or QT? That sounds like a plus not a negative.
"Does Ubuntu not include Apache which is presumably under the same license?"
The older v1.3.x version of Apache is under a different license. And IIRC, Ubuntu has that version in their main repository. Similarly with OpenBSD. They ship what they call the "free" version of Apache.
"Umm, in the system preferences maybe you need to adjust your mouse tracking speed."
It's maxed out
"but I think anyone who really tries both types of interfaces and compares them impartially will conclude Apple's way is significantly better."
That's why there should be a choice because it's not better for me. I've been using computers for 24 years. So, yeah, I've used both interfaces and then some. I've had OSX for the last three years and still don't like it and I will never like the shared menu bar.
"On a 19" [monitor], the available screen space is used more efficiently - the shared menu bar and the dock being the main reasons."
Yeah, but on a Apple's 30" monitor it sucks. When you have a window open and positioned, say, in the lower RH corner and you need to access the menu bar, it is a long drag to move the mouse to the upper LH corner. And often you can accidentally click on the desktop or other window along the way and lose focus of the application's menu bar causing you to go back and repeat the procedure.
I like OSX but this design feature should be a user's choice.
"The things Apple continually receives praise for and advertises about, included applications and higher security, Microsoft gets sued over. Yeah, that's fair"
When you are deemed a monopoly, you have to play by different legal rules.
"it usually comes from people that have never tried using it... Then make your judgements."
I suspect that won't do any good. The ones yelling the loudest most likely only see computers/operating systems as a comsumer desktops. Though OBSD can be used as a desktop, I don't think they would find it meets their expectations. And if any Window's user did, they'd experience culture shock. Thus, all the bad-mouthing.
However, there are other uses for an operating system and in this area OBSD has value. But I don't think many of these critics will be building routers, bridges, wireless AP's and writing filtering rules enough to make a judgment tempered with experience. But to each his own. OBSD continues to improve and that is a plus.
"But, really...as far as Linux installs go...Gentoo is about as easy as any I've tried."
I can't say how easy Gentoo is today. But I ran it some years ago on a Powerbook when the choices for Linux on the powerbook were few. But the latest Ubuntu install I did for someone was as easy as it can get. I can't imagine Gentoo being that easy. But maybe someone with recent experience on both can elaborate.
"I am simply saying that this [developing softare for Linux platform with built-in GUI widgets/libs] is the barrier that we find stops us..."
No, it stops you. As valid as your perspective is, I see plenty of GUI apps for Gonome and KDE. So some developer's are successful. What's their secret? Perseverance?
Maybe but I'd say the DVD players in Linux (once libdvdcss'ed) are better than commercial versions! Why? Because your DVD player will honor your commands (like it's suppose to). When you click, next chapter or fast-forward, it does it! No "Opereation not permitted" BS at all like you get in commercial versions.
No doubt. But maybe it's free as in beer? I mean, the artical and the website are both short on details but it did say:
"...'Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.'"
So what does it take, energy/cost wise, to get it going, I wonder? And even though it may not actually defy the first law of thermodynamics, it's practical use could make it a moot point if someone else paid for the beer we are drinking. Time will tell.
Create an icon that is the "Blue E" for IE and have it point to FF instead. If she doesn't know how to find IE after that, she is at your mercy! Hum, but, on the other hand, if she gets pissed then the old Chinese proverb may bear more truth than fiction: Man who fight with wife during day has no piece at night!
"... Duchmann said in an interview here. However, the software [Linux version] won't support digital rights management available with Windows, he added."
How come only the Windows version gets all the good features?
"They have a web authoring tool. It is called iWeb."
iWeb is so specialized that it's not a good authoring tool for a web developer at all!. It's fine for your mom who never wants to see or edit the source and only posts to a.Mac account.
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"Soon they will be changing it to 'Goodbye from Seattle'"
If you are Matt Jubelirer, product manager for the Zune project, you are probably Sleepless in Seattle right about now.
"I command my recruiters to ignore any resumées with "Linux", "GTK" or "Qt" in it."
.NET and GTK or QT? That sounds like a plus not a negative.
Which makes you the same kind of person you despise. You turn down potentially perfectly good applicants just because they may be able to program in
"I think the name 'Kimp' sucks"
Yes, it would given that there is no "K" in the GNU Image Manipulation Program
"Why it's a good idea to embed the type of a variable in its name has forever been lost on me."
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"Does Ubuntu not include Apache which is presumably under the same license?"
The older v1.3.x version of Apache is under a different license. And IIRC, Ubuntu has that version in their main repository. Similarly with OpenBSD. They ship what they call the "free" version of Apache.
"...bears crap in the woods..."
Uh, Polar Bears don't.
"Umm, in the system preferences maybe you need to adjust your mouse tracking speed."
It's maxed out
"but I think anyone who really tries both types of interfaces and compares them impartially will conclude Apple's way is significantly better."
That's why there should be a choice because it's not better for me. I've been using computers for 24 years. So, yeah, I've used both interfaces and then some. I've had OSX for the last three years and still don't like it and I will never like the shared menu bar.
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"On a 19" [monitor], the available screen space is used more efficiently - the shared menu bar and the dock being the main reasons."
Yeah, but on a Apple's 30" monitor it sucks. When you have a window open and positioned, say, in the lower RH corner and you need to access the menu bar, it is a long drag to move the mouse to the upper LH corner. And often you can accidentally click on the desktop or other window along the way and lose focus of the application's menu bar causing you to go back and repeat the procedure.
I like OSX but this design feature should be a user's choice.
I wonder if Heinrich Hemme's calculations take into account the 10 missing days in the Gregorian calander between 4 October and 15 October 1582?
"I love my old-school, IBM Model M"
I second that! I've been using them for years. Great keyboard. I have a stash of them in case one goes belly-up.
"...new DVD protection that makes it impossible to play it at all"
Nah, the protection won't kick in until the main feature. You'll always be abe to see the trailers and commercials, no doubt.
"...we'd have a one-shot amazing piece of software that would set a new standard for useability and reliability."
But I doubt we'd have any interoperability.
"The things Apple continually receives praise for and advertises about, included applications and higher security, Microsoft gets sued over. Yeah, that's fair"
When you are deemed a monopoly, you have to play by different legal rules.
"it usually comes from people that have never tried using it... Then make your judgements."
I suspect that won't do any good. The ones yelling the loudest most likely only see computers/operating systems as a comsumer desktops. Though OBSD can be used as a desktop, I don't think they would find it meets their expectations. And if any Window's user did, they'd experience culture shock. Thus, all the bad-mouthing.
However, there are other uses for an operating system and in this area OBSD has value. But I don't think many of these critics will be building routers, bridges, wireless AP's and writing filtering rules enough to make a judgment tempered with experience. But to each his own. OBSD continues to improve and that is a plus.
"Nobody can name a single benifit of Vista for Internet usage, playing music or watching movies."
I bet the RIAA and MPAA could name a few.
"But, really...as far as Linux installs go...Gentoo is about as easy as any I've tried."
I can't say how easy Gentoo is today. But I ran it some years ago on a Powerbook when the choices for Linux on the powerbook were few. But the latest Ubuntu install I did for someone was as easy as it can get. I can't imagine Gentoo being that easy. But maybe someone with recent experience on both can elaborate.
"I am simply saying that this [developing softare for Linux platform with built-in GUI widgets/libs] is the barrier that we find stops us..."
No, it stops you. As valid as your perspective is, I see plenty of GUI apps for Gonome and KDE. So some developer's are successful. What's their secret? Perseverance?
LOL. +2 Funny
"Linux comes up short in all of the above..."
Maybe but I'd say the DVD players in Linux (once libdvdcss'ed) are better than commercial versions! Why? Because your DVD player will honor your commands (like it's suppose to). When you click, next chapter or fast-forward, it does it! No "Opereation not permitted" BS at all like you get in commercial versions.
"There is no such thing as "free" energy."
No doubt. But maybe it's free as in beer? I mean, the artical and the website are both short on details but it did say:
"...'Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.'"
So what does it take, energy/cost wise, to get it going, I wonder? And even though it may not actually defy the first law of thermodynamics, it's practical use could make it a moot point if someone else paid for the beer we are drinking. Time will tell.
Create an icon that is the "Blue E" for IE and have it point to FF instead. If she doesn't know how to find IE after that, she is at your mercy! Hum, but, on the other hand, if she gets pissed then the old Chinese proverb may bear more truth than fiction: Man who fight with wife during day has no piece at night!
FTA
"... Duchmann said in an interview here. However, the software [Linux version] won't support digital rights management available with Windows, he added."
How come only the Windows version gets all the good features?
"your pages will still mostly work on other browsers (or get their users to switch back temporarily to IE) anyway."
But some can't switch back because it was never there to begin with.
"They have a web authoring tool. It is called iWeb."
.Mac account.
iWeb is so specialized that it's not a good authoring tool for a web developer at all!. It's fine for your mom who never wants to see or edit the source and only posts to a
Better yet, How about we get in line and call in McBrige's offer to take our best shot! You do remember is famous words:
"We're either right or we're not. If we're wrong, we deserve people throwing rocks at us."
Okay big-mouth Darl McBride. I'm ready! I'm waiting! It's time!