People will just go back to publishing their novels and books in serial format in monthly publications. This is how many of the classic books of the last 300 years were published.
"That was cool, but fairly niche. I am disappointed that computer generated speech as not come further, the MacOSX voices sound only marginally better than the old Amiga voice from 25 years ago."
This is just not true. There are a lot of legacy voices included with OS X, but the Alex voice is quite natural sounding.
"Pure 100% distilled fanboy bullcrap. Posix. Go read up on it. Java might be a nice follow up read - Linux runs that just fine too. I'll leave it up to you to determine their industry impact."
Where's Photoshop? Final Cut Pro or Premiere? Cubase?
Sure Linux *theoretically* has a commercial application library. It has Matlab at least. But it doesn't really have much that users outside the engineering and software development fields run.
And sure, there's OpenOffice, Rosegarden, the Gimp, and various video editing applications. And sure, they have all been used in a business setting. But, you will come off sounding like a rabid fanboy if you claim they are actually suitable for everyday use by most people in those fields!
Linux's POSIX implementation is mostly complete but they are still lacking in certain areas.
Many people are capable of thinking for themselves, and in fact you are advocating a new priesthood.
People who don't wear the white collar that is awarded to scientists are not all morons, and many of them have serious problems, grounded in both logic and mathematics, with the so-called science that has been revealed as of late regarding global warming. The economic solutions appear even worse.
So, adjust your attitude or prepare for a wave of Calvanism.
Don't be naïve. The foundation gets to buy private jets and vacation homes and fly Gates and his family around tax free, and their children will be on the board with a permanent income, which does will not be taxed when Bill and Melinda die.
I thought everybody knew why the ultra rich started foundations - so they can advance their own plans, instead of the government doing it.
And sure, curing poor people of disease is a noble goal, but is it the ONLY goal?
You get to have the foundation own mansions, jets, and fly you all over the world to decide how to spend the money. You get to use that money to advance your own schemes, instead of having to pay into the scheme Uncle Sam has going.
The term "well regulated" does not mean what you think it does. Regulated, is in the "regular army" and "regulated militia" means they have certain common use calibers and equipment for the purpose of simplifying the supply chain.
Please look this up - regulation in the sense of the 2nd amendment does not mean "red tape."
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, and the last time I tried to run Logic Pro 8 on Windows or Linux, it wouldn't even start up.
It can script GUI actions in much the same way. Granted it's not a very nice environment for more complicated work, but still.
Probably not. The only folks I hear complaining about the cost of a Mac are the folks who haven't ever bought one.
The laws of war are stupid if you are fighting the most powerful military machine of all time with mostly hand weapons and ingenuity.
What do you expect, should the Taliban line up and charge our fortifications?
You're full of shit.
People will just go back to publishing their novels and books in serial format in monthly publications. This is how many of the classic books of the last 300 years were published.
"That was cool, but fairly niche. I am disappointed that computer generated speech as not come further, the MacOSX voices sound only marginally better than the old Amiga voice from 25 years ago."
This is just not true. There are a lot of legacy voices included with OS X, but the Alex voice is quite natural sounding.
"Pure 100% distilled fanboy bullcrap. Posix. Go read up on it. Java might be a nice follow up read - Linux runs that just fine too. I'll leave it up to you to determine their industry impact."
Where's Photoshop? Final Cut Pro or Premiere? Cubase?
Sure Linux *theoretically* has a commercial application library. It has Matlab at least. But it doesn't really have much that users outside the engineering and software development fields run.
And sure, there's OpenOffice, Rosegarden, the Gimp, and various video editing applications. And sure, they have all been used in a business setting. But, you will come off sounding like a rabid fanboy if you claim they are actually suitable for everyday use by most people in those fields!
Linux's POSIX implementation is mostly complete but they are still lacking in certain areas.
Well I am with you on that one.
Most people would rather save the $0.30 or so on a tub of whatever, than buy American or from another country that is more closely aligned with us.
The Democrats and the Republicans are both equally guilty on free trade.
Looks like you fell for the trap.
China can do what it likes. Who are you or I to say that China shouldn't create a monopoly?
We got ourselves into this mess with China. We shouldn't go whining to China to get us out.
So all these guys who aren't looking at a couple hundred one-liners every day are clearly amateurs.
Or maybe they are actually getting shit done because they aren't trying to follow a couple hundred disjointed thoughts at once.
Forgive me, but color me and probably the rest of Slashdot unimpressed.
Do you think Silverlight will somehow be free is it succeeds on pushing out Flash?
Well they must not be too concerned with their reputation if they publish garbage like this.
So people start using one of the literally dozens of mature, well proven alternatives.
Open source software can route around the damage. If he was so concerned with the future of humanity, he could have kept the IP rights, no?
This is about ego and nothing more.
Many people are capable of thinking for themselves, and in fact you are advocating a new priesthood.
People who don't wear the white collar that is awarded to scientists are not all morons, and many of them have serious problems, grounded in both logic and mathematics, with the so-called science that has been revealed as of late regarding global warming. The economic solutions appear even worse.
So, adjust your attitude or prepare for a wave of Calvanism.
Fork it and rename it. These guys are more interested in "their" brand than the actual code.
He got moderated down because now that the cat's out of the bag, climatologists and their lackeys are attempting damage control.
They are clearly more inept at damage control than they are with writing code, though.
Don't be naïve. The foundation gets to buy private jets and vacation homes and fly Gates and his family around tax free, and their children will be on the board with a permanent income, which does will not be taxed when Bill and Melinda die.
I thought everybody knew why the ultra rich started foundations - so they can advance their own plans, instead of the government doing it.
And sure, curing poor people of disease is a noble goal, but is it the ONLY goal?
You get to have the foundation own mansions, jets, and fly you all over the world to decide how to spend the money. You get to use that money to advance your own schemes, instead of having to pay into the scheme Uncle Sam has going.
Should be obvious.
Bill Gates contributed this money to a foundation, so instead of paying taxes he gets to direct the foundation to do what he likes with it.
This is a trick that almost all the super-rich use, and it has nothing to do with charity. It's tax avoision under a different name.
The term "well regulated" does not mean what you think it does. Regulated, is in the "regular army" and "regulated militia" means they have certain common use calibers and equipment for the purpose of simplifying the supply chain.
Please look this up - regulation in the sense of the 2nd amendment does not mean "red tape."
Oh come on now.
The commonwealth is the English Empire.
It's not about what's harder, it's about what's informative.
I got OS X because it combined the best of Macintosh and Openstep, and left Windows completely out of the design process.
No, it doesn't mean anything. It should, that's something I would argue, but it doesn't.