Hehe yes, it's not as simple as that. Apparently there are eighteen languages officially recognised by the constitution, and over 1600 minor languages and dialects. A veritable tower of Babel. There's an attempt to make Hindi the dominant language (a good language to learn), in order to phase out any dependence on English - a cultural vestige of Britain's colonial legacy. However the Hindi language is more predominant in the north and has very little similarity with Dravidian languages of the south.
Why are the supposedly free and democratic nations bending over backwards to strike deals with a dictatorship which not only oppresses its own people but also holds its neighbouring peoples occupation?
America actively and openly funds Israel's geo-strategic holy war against Palestine, is the only country to use nuclear weapons with genocidal intent, continues to be the country with the largest budget for development of massively destructive weapons, invaded Iraq, tendered off (to US companies) control of the Qamar ports, and control of the nation's primary economy after an international and vocal majority found it's grounds for doing so unjust.. all in the name of Freedom Fries.
Frankly I'm surprised at your suprise.
America is best thought of as a Corporation, and one with an unnegotiable apetite that cannot rationally afford Loyalty or Ethic in pursuit of it's gluttonous apetite.
Having been surrounded by water all this time you probably haven't noticed the documentation your boss writes for it's export customers comes across as similarly ridiculous. Try asking any Indian person about the legibility of M$ Windows 98 documentation for instance.. It's time to learn Chinese, Spanish and then Indian in that order.
P.S your URL appears to be a grammatically troubled conjugation of two verbs, where are you from?
Yes I realise this. Darwin however is platform specific - and this is quite a turn off; Linux however is everywhere and runs on just about anything. Having used Linux for a long time there is comfort in this familiarity; I can move from machine to machine and feel at home and productive.
Also worth noting, Linux on the PPC is set for very good years ahead - with alot of investment by the architects of the PPC chip (IBM) and the fact Torvalds himself develops for the Linux kernel on an Apple machine. For better or worse we'll see PPC laptops sold with Linux pre-installed in the coming years.
I think Darwin was a great move by Apple, however having poked around with a few Apple/OSX machines recently I can say I'm only interested in IBM's PPC architecture itself.
Hmm. I would say largely because it's not free, vendor dependant, comparably inflexible and the superglued interface is, from my perspective, horrible to use.
Several varieties of Linux can be setup on a PPC machine in under half-and-hour. All you'll miss out on is the Apple Airport; that said, I like to choose who I fly with anyway..
.. IBM has a vested interest in encouraging interest among Linux developers for their PPC architecture.
If there's anything to the rumours, we'll be seeing Linux PPC desktops/laptops sometime soon. Wonder if they'll use their Thinkpad offshore, or the Taiwanese company already making the Mac Mini's, FoxConn http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html
On topic I'd be interested to know if Apple has any exclusionary rights over the market for PPC desktop machines. I'd sure buy a PPC laptop if it came without the sugared fruit..
Actually it's not the manufacturer that install the OS, it's the vendor/distributor. For the most part Asus do however sell laptops with Windows on them, though there are those that intercept the food-chain (like Agear Notebooks) and sell them blank.
'Alanis', what's that? Ahah, you mean 'Atlantis'. Nope, never been there.
"So, now what? Well, you'll no doubt tell me that we have the freedom to switch to Linux, but how free is it? Neither Dell nor the other PC manufacturers will sell me a computer with an empty hard drive at the same price as the bundled version, let alone cheaper."
FYI if you're thinking of a laptop, this Asus M6N came without Microsoft tax and makes an excellent Linux machine.
the whole OSS ( GPL ) philosophy is something I don't want to compromise on ( assuming I would be running OS X, and not Linux on the Mac ).
Hear here. It's a mistake to think that OSX and Linux are in competition, it's simply false. That said Linux has two assets that are unbeatable, portability and openness. Apple clings to a tired and dying corporate model prioritising customer lock-in. Even if I did like OSX (and could enjoy the flexibility of Linux therein) I would never 'switch' - Linux is the first truly Public Operating System; it's on a long and fortuitous roll.
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I use OSX but reluctantly and don't use an iPod, so I'm not the best person to ask on such things. I use wireless and devices with hotplug-ability, switching networks with a wifi browser - I doubt much is missed there. As far as the DVD players are concerned I just use Xine/Mplayer or VLC and doubt they are any more 'illegal' than anything you run on OSX. Objectively speaking I see no real advantage in running a proprietary OSX machine, other than for some intermittent cross-compiling. That said I like IBM/Asustek's offerings, so an iBook would interest me as a Linux machine.
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-support for sleep mode and power management at least as good as Apple's
I don't know, ACPI and sleep mode works well on this laptop, friends have it up and running on their PB's. Interestingly this laptop is made by the same Taiwanese companey that make the Apple iBooks, Asustek.
-support for iPod shuffle
'gtkpod' supports the iPod, and I'd assume the shuffle.
-support for Airport Express with Airtunes
No. Apple has locked this down to allow only OSX and 9.2 machines use of such services. That said I know no Linux users that would expect such Apple specific services to work.
-support for iTMS
I don't know what that is
-support for Apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse
If it's using an open bluetooth protocol, then yes. Apple however prefer the vendor lock model, so I cannot answer that successfully.
-support for bluetooth phone remote control and sync
Refer above
-support for keynote
Isn't that an OSX feature?
If so, of course not.
-DVD player
Yes and without all the annoying region problems that proprietary platforms have. Ripping and burning DVD's is excellent in Linux.
-voice recognition
I've never used it, though I see that there are many Voice Recognition projects for Linux, some of them derived from many years of scientific research into the feild.
It sounds like your dishwasher is an Apple too; you're already a committed customer;) Try Mepis or Ubuntu out on your MacMini, get some real bang for your buck. [OT]Torvalds himself runs Linux on a PB, you can be fairly sure that Linux will always run well on IBM's PPC architecture. Apple services themselves? Not unless Apple take off the old badge that says 'Sheriff'
I came to Apple with open eyes, however as I have to use it at work from time to time I've come to find this Finder a right pain in the arse. For this reason I'm pleased with the author's sensible comments on the matter.
As for Explorer, I don't and haven't used Windows in years so I can't comment on it's ineptitudes (I'm sure they are prevalent).
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..(I'm not fighting to get linux to half-work)
You'd be right a few years ago, now not so however. Many good desktop distributions (like Mepis or Ubuntu) work out of the box on portables, and frankly they outperform OSX even on it's own hardware in areas like 3D applications. This seems to be due to OSX hogging the card for fast 2D blitting. I see alot of this as I teach in this feild.
I notice here in Europe increasing numbers of students are buying Linux pre-installed on their lappies anyway, just as your machine came with OSX preinstalled.
Where I've seen OSX really pick up is in areas relating to DSP, hardly eating into Linux mindshare in CS and Science departments but strong in media-arts circles - esp Video Processing/Editing. The PPC architecture is especially good at this.
Personally I'm looking forward to IBM shipping Linux honed PPC laptops; there's every indication they intend to do precisely this.
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"..and why Mac OS X's Finder should be killed off."
Precisely, one of the reason I find OSX so annoying to use; this 'Finder' assumes software is somehow lost already. A debilitating metaphor to say the least..
Horrible! Tied to a chair in a UI concentration camp forced to use dselect while the rest of us forgot that both the camp and dselect even existed. You're right, it is horrible, however why would anyone ever use it I don't know. I doubt it's even in the base install these days.
Interesting things to point out - I think.app/.dmg is an interesting approach to the problem of software installation and see it as a good influence. At first I was very skeptical as I come across many OSX users totally confused by the system and came to me with complaints.
Reclaimer: I'm an occassional OSX user (I teach on OSX from time to time). Personally I dislike the interface and it's hardware dependency. Debian's apt has served me wonderfully over the years and continues to satisfy migrants from other operating systems through friendly frontends like KPackage (QT) and Synaptic (GTK).
In order to integrate with the web, MacOS X has some pretty awful hacks: self mounting disk images spring to mind. A DMG file is basically like a disk image that can be mounted as a loopback device: the web browser is responsible for downloading this, mounting it, extracting the appfolders if any are present then unmounting the disk image again. The end result is that clicking a link in a web page can silently place software on your desktop, sometimes with no notification that this has occurred.
Autopackage looks excellent and will make it easy for all developers to roll out one package for all distros. Another system also interests me alot however...
With the Zero Install system, applications aren't actually installed (as the name errm suggests), instead they run from a cache immediately after download. You click to download and then it runs - all dependencies grabbed from the package host. The next time you run it it loads immediately as it's already cached. Quite innovative.
.. The French Language is under investigation by the English Language on the grounds of it's allegedly unconsented appropriation of the word 'Rendezvous', now widely in use by French Speakers worldwide.
Webster Dictionary Inc, consultants to the Plaintiff, claim the word was in fact first used by English soldiers in 1455 to describe a 'place and time for meeting' on the battlefield.
stipulates in employee contracts that they are NOT ALLOWED to work on OSS projects while they work for the company
Errm wrong. I think you mean that Apple coders aren't allowed to work on their own OSS projects - which I read somwhere (others may be able to verify). Apple do extend a few existing OSS projects, I think they even initiated one or two or their own.
There's been some debate however whether they've done KHTML any good though, developed so fast that the KDE team couldn't merge the (poorly documented) patches. Some see it as the beginning of a fork or a slow death for the project for the very ironic reason of too much development to fast..
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Hehe yes, it's not as simple as that. Apparently there are eighteen languages officially recognised by the constitution, and over 1600 minor languages and dialects. A veritable tower of Babel. There's an attempt to make Hindi the dominant language (a good language to learn), in order to phase out any dependence on English - a cultural vestige of Britain's colonial legacy. However the Hindi language is more predominant in the north and has very little similarity with Dravidian languages of the south.
Eh?
Why are the supposedly free and democratic nations bending over backwards to strike deals with a dictatorship which not only oppresses its own people but also holds its neighbouring peoples occupation?
America actively and openly funds Israel's geo-strategic holy war against Palestine, is the only country to use nuclear weapons with genocidal intent, continues to be the country with the largest budget for development of massively destructive weapons, invaded Iraq, tendered off (to US companies) control of the Qamar ports, and control of the nation's primary economy after an international and vocal majority found it's grounds for doing so unjust.. all in the name of Freedom Fries.
Frankly I'm surprised at your suprise.
America is best thought of as a Corporation, and one with an unnegotiable apetite that cannot rationally afford Loyalty or Ethic in pursuit of it's gluttonous apetite.
Who do you work for?
Har Har
Having been surrounded by water all this time you probably haven't noticed the documentation your boss writes for it's export customers comes across as similarly ridiculous. Try asking any Indian person about the legibility of M$ Windows 98 documentation for instance.. It's time to learn Chinese, Spanish and then Indian in that order.
P.S your URL appears to be a grammatically troubled conjugation of two verbs, where are you from?
Why? What does a Power PC get you?
.. better performance in digital signal processing applications..
Yes I realise this. Darwin however is platform specific - and this is quite a turn off; Linux however is everywhere and runs on just about anything. Having used Linux for a long time there is comfort in this familiarity; I can move from machine to machine and feel at home and productive.
Also worth noting, Linux on the PPC is set for very good years ahead - with alot of investment by the architects of the PPC chip (IBM) and the fact Torvalds himself develops for the Linux kernel on an Apple machine. For better or worse we'll see PPC laptops sold with Linux pre-installed in the coming years.
I think Darwin was a great move by Apple, however having poked around with a few Apple/OSX machines recently I can say I'm only interested in IBM's PPC architecture itself.
Hmm. I would say largely because it's not free, vendor dependant, comparably inflexible and the superglued interface is, from my perspective, horrible to use.
Several varieties of Linux can be setup on a PPC machine in under half-and-hour. All you'll miss out on is the Apple Airport; that said, I like to choose who I fly with anyway..
.. IBM has a vested interest in encouraging interest among Linux developers for their PPC architecture.
If there's anything to the rumours, we'll be seeing Linux PPC desktops/laptops sometime soon. Wonder if they'll use their Thinkpad offshore, or the Taiwanese company already making the Mac Mini's, FoxConn http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20050114A7040.html
On topic I'd be interested to know if Apple has any exclusionary rights over the market for PPC desktop machines. I'd sure buy a PPC laptop if it came without the sugared fruit..
Actually it's not the manufacturer that install the OS, it's the vendor/distributor. For the most part Asus do however sell laptops with Windows on them, though there are those that intercept the food-chain (like Agear Notebooks) and sell them blank.
'Alanis', what's that? Ahah, you mean 'Atlantis'. Nope, never been there.
"So, now what? Well, you'll no doubt tell me that we have the freedom to switch to Linux, but how free is it? Neither Dell nor the other PC manufacturers will sell me a computer with an empty hard drive at the same price as the bundled version, let alone cheaper."
FYI if you're thinking of a laptop, this Asus M6N came without Microsoft tax and makes an excellent Linux machine.
http://store.agearnotebooks.com/asusm6n.html
Ironically the same company, Asustek, make the Apple iBook Line.
Hear here. It's a mistake to think that OSX and Linux are in competition, it's simply false. That said Linux has two assets that are unbeatable, portability and openness. Apple clings to a tired and dying corporate model prioritising customer lock-in. Even if I did like OSX (and could enjoy the flexibility of Linux therein) I would never 'switch' - Linux is the first truly Public Operating System; it's on a long and fortuitous roll.
I use OSX but reluctantly and don't use an iPod, so I'm not the best person to ask on such things. I use wireless and devices with hotplug-ability, switching networks with a wifi browser - I doubt much is missed there. As far as the DVD players are concerned I just use Xine/Mplayer or VLC and doubt they are any more 'illegal' than anything you run on OSX. Objectively speaking I see no real advantage in running a proprietary OSX machine, other than for some intermittent cross-compiling. That said I like IBM/Asustek's offerings, so an iBook would interest me as a Linux machine.
-support for sleep mode and power management at least as good as Apple's
I don't know, ACPI and sleep mode works well on this laptop, friends have it up and running on their PB's. Interestingly this laptop is made by the same Taiwanese companey that make the Apple iBooks, Asustek.
-support for iPod shuffle
'gtkpod' supports the iPod, and I'd assume the shuffle.
-support for Airport Express with Airtunes
No. Apple has locked this down to allow only OSX and 9.2 machines use of such services. That said I know no Linux users that would expect such Apple specific services to work.
-support for iTMS
I don't know what that is
-support for Apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse
If it's using an open bluetooth protocol, then yes. Apple however prefer the vendor lock model, so I cannot answer that successfully.
-support for bluetooth phone remote control and sync
Refer above
-support for keynote
Isn't that an OSX feature?
If so, of course not.
-DVD player
Yes and without all the annoying region problems that proprietary platforms have. Ripping and burning DVD's is excellent in Linux.
-voice recognition
I've never used it, though I see that there are many Voice Recognition projects for Linux, some of them derived from many years of scientific research into the feild.
It sounds like your dishwasher is an Apple too; you're already a committed customer
I came to Apple with open eyes, however as I have to use it at work from time to time I've come to find this Finder a right pain in the arse. For this reason I'm pleased with the author's sensible comments on the matter.
As for Explorer, I don't and haven't used Windows in years so I can't comment on it's ineptitudes (I'm sure they are prevalent).
You'd be right a few years ago, now not so however. Many good desktop distributions (like Mepis or Ubuntu) work out of the box on portables, and frankly they outperform OSX even on it's own hardware in areas like 3D applications. This seems to be due to OSX hogging the card for fast 2D blitting. I see alot of this as I teach in this feild.
I notice here in Europe increasing numbers of students are buying Linux pre-installed on their lappies anyway, just as your machine came with OSX preinstalled.
Where I've seen OSX really pick up is in areas relating to DSP, hardly eating into Linux mindshare in CS and Science departments but strong in media-arts circles - esp Video Processing/Editing. The PPC architecture is especially good at this.
Personally I'm looking forward to IBM shipping Linux honed PPC laptops; there's every indication they intend to do precisely this.
"..and why Mac OS X's Finder should be killed off."
Precisely, one of the reason I find OSX so annoying to use; this 'Finder' assumes software is somehow lost already. A debilitating metaphor to say the least..
hehe 'Interest'. Always loved used that word where massive amounts of money are being swindled. Of course, they're very 'interested' ;)
Have you looked at 0install.net? If so what do you think?
Horrible! Tied to a chair in a UI concentration camp forced to use dselect while the rest of us forgot that both the camp and dselect even existed. You're right, it is horrible, however why would anyone ever use it I don't know. I doubt it's even in the base install these days.
I wonder where the extra 8.7M fits it?
m ments
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1771212788933190/#co
Interesting things to point out - I think .app/.dmg is an interesting approach to the problem of software installation and see it as a good influence. At first I was very skeptical as I come across many OSX users totally confused by the system and came to me with complaints.
Reclaimer: I'm an occassional OSX user (I teach on OSX from time to time). Personally I dislike the interface and it's hardware dependency. Debian's apt has served me wonderfully over the years and continues to satisfy migrants from other operating systems through friendly frontends like KPackage (QT) and Synaptic (GTK).
again, see http://0install.net/ for a good solution to this. Quite brilliant.
From the maker of Autopackage:
In order to integrate with the web, MacOS X has some pretty awful hacks: self mounting disk images spring to mind. A DMG file is basically like a disk image that can be mounted as a loopback device: the web browser is responsible for downloading this, mounting it, extracting the appfolders if any are present then unmounting the disk image again. The end result is that clicking a link in a web page can silently place software on your desktop, sometimes with no notification that this has occurred.
Here http://bylands.dur.ac.uk/~mh/autopackage.org/ui-v
Autopackage looks excellent and will make it easy for all developers to roll out one package for all distros. Another system also interests me alot however...
With the Zero Install system, applications aren't actually installed (as the name errm suggests), instead they run from a cache immediately after download. You click to download and then it runs - all dependencies grabbed from the package host. The next time you run it it loads immediately as it's already cached. Quite innovative.
http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/
.. The French Language is under investigation by the English Language on the grounds of it's allegedly unconsented appropriation of the word 'Rendezvous', now widely in use by French Speakers worldwide.
Webster Dictionary Inc, consultants to the Plaintiff, claim the word was in fact first used by English soldiers in 1455 to describe a 'place and time for meeting' on the battlefield.
Errm wrong. I think you mean that Apple coders aren't allowed to work on their own OSS projects - which I read somwhere (others may be able to verify). Apple do extend a few existing OSS projects, I think they even initiated one or two or their own.
There's been some debate however whether they've done KHTML any good though, developed so fast that the KDE team couldn't merge the (poorly documented) patches. Some see it as the beginning of a fork or a slow death for the project for the very ironic reason of too much development to fast..