"Python Tools for Visual Studio turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. It's a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division."
WP7 aint the full framework. It's trimmed down to the bare essentials needed to run Silverlight. It doesn't even have System.Timers, or System.Net.IWebProxy for frig sake.
Yes. Consumer editions of Windows always shipped as a CD full of 1.7MB CAB archives. A special utility which shipped with Windows 98 even allowed you to copy that to 38 1.44MB floppies (formatted as 1.7MB DMF).
You mean "the good news is that they finally got it past legal and made the requisite compensation payouts to all the vendors currently making software to do it".
You know, I've never seen the "Zoom" feature in Mac OS ever actually maximize a window, so no I'm going to say that Mac OS has not had "maximize windows" for ages. Near as I can tell, "Full Screen Apps" is just what Windows calls Maximize.
One of these companies left you the option of burning the audio to disc.
Actually, two of those companies do.
One of these companies lets you buy software from its online store once, and install it on all of your computers/devices.
Actually, neither of those companies do.
One of these companies actually charges significantly less when you buy software by download
And the other doesn't charge $40 for a Service Pack.
One of these companies has told the Blu Ray consortium to go fish (I know somone with a BluRay player in their PC - after one year it refused to play newly released discs unless you bought an upgrade to the player software).
And the other gives you the choice as to whether you want to play by the consortium's rules and play their discs.
Given the history of "music on the Mac" I think it was intentional.
We had "Rip, Mix, Burn" on the iMac, we had the weakest possible DRM (with a built in removal method in iTunes itself) when the store launched, we had Steve's open letter talking about how music should be (no DRM), and we have their choice of format - AAC (over something proprietary that only Apple devices can read).
I'd say they were firmly in the "ok, we'll accept DRM to get the store going, but seriously guys you'll sell much more without it" camp.
I don't know how you can say that with a straight face. Microsoft had Windows Media Player with the "Rip" and "Burn" functions built into it long before iTunes Music Store, and you could burn DRM encumbered WMA files to non-DRMed CDs - from Windows Media Player - long before FairPlay was a twinkle in Steve's eye (caveat: stores could disable the ability to burn to CD, but noone ever did). And I very much doubt Microsoft was in the "ok, we'll accept DRM to get the store going, but seriously guys you'll sell much more without it" camp.
For 30% of small purchases (< $5) sure. But for larger purchases, for example Photoshop Elements, Apple's 30% is significantly expensive (30% of $100? I'm sure Adobe doesn't need Apple's promotional support and 30% for payment processing and hosting is way too much). Also, the most expensive app on the iTunes App Store is $1000. How, pray tell, is Apple taking $300 per purchase for the payment processing (2%), Hosting ($5/month), advertising (surely not more than roughly $50 per purchaser amortised?) a good deal?
Your timeline misses the fact that the "series of competitors to the iPod/iTMS duopoly" existed before iTunes. In some cases by up to ten years - usually using Microsoft's "PlaysForNotSure".
I hear people claim this sort of stuff, but anecdote != proof. In my experience, which is also an anecdote, I've tested my mother with each of these common claims. First of all, the "Linux is so easy if you install it on everyone's computers they'll gush over it and you won't hear from them again" claim: actually, she looked at it, declared it too confusing, and said she wouldn't be able to work it out. Second, the "iPhone is so intuitive" claim: actually, between my Windows Phone 7 device, Android device, and iPhone, she found the WP7 one easiest followed by Android with iPhone in last place (or "hardest to use").
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong. The real reason Android took off is because it's free to manufacturers so they can stick it on cheap devices. YOU might have bought an Android device because it's "Open", but Average Joe bought it because "it looks like that iPhone thing but it's only $200 instead of $500".
Real choices? Bull-fucking-shit. All it does it create private monopolies - even worse than government monopolies in that you don't elect the people in charge of those, and their goal isn't to have power it's to extract money. Every country that's ever privatised its water has suffered a minimum of ten-fold increase in charges, and it's the poor that suffer. But hey, you're not poor so why do you give a shit about those scum right? Screw the poor. Power to the rich people!
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Did you just call PHP a "small player"? Zend/PHP is freaking gigantic in OSS land!
Especially Dalvik. Eclipse makes me want to hurl.
"Python Tools for Visual Studio turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. It's a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division."
That, and the submitter is an MS employee.
WP7 aint the full framework. It's trimmed down to the bare essentials needed to run Silverlight. It doesn't even have System.Timers, or System.Net.IWebProxy for frig sake.
Actually, something does compare - Visual Studio with JetBrains ReSharper ;)
It's not pirating if you have a license.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that TPB gets nowhere near the hits of tracker.worldofwarcraft.com. That BT tracker gets the mega-usage.
You remember wrong. Sounds like you had some third party software installed, potentially a Virtual Filesystem Driver.
Yes. Consumer editions of Windows always shipped as a CD full of 1.7MB CAB archives. A special utility which shipped with Windows 98 even allowed you to copy that to 38 1.44MB floppies (formatted as 1.7MB DMF).
That product was actually created by Elaborate Bytes way back in the day. Credit where credit is due.
You could patch out that check using the Orca editor which ships with the Windows Platform SDK.
In all fairness though, Thunderbird is craptastically difficult to use for normal users.
Useful ACL support? It's better than Linux's...
You mean "the good news is that they finally got it past legal and made the requisite compensation payouts to all the vendors currently making software to do it".
You know, I've never seen the "Zoom" feature in Mac OS ever actually maximize a window, so no I'm going to say that Mac OS has not had "maximize windows" for ages. Near as I can tell, "Full Screen Apps" is just what Windows calls Maximize.
One of these companies left you the option of burning the audio to disc.
Actually, two of those companies do.
One of these companies lets you buy software from its online store once, and install it on all of your computers/devices.
Actually, neither of those companies do.
One of these companies actually charges significantly less when you buy software by download
And the other doesn't charge $40 for a Service Pack.
One of these companies has told the Blu Ray consortium to go fish (I know somone with a BluRay player in their PC - after one year it refused to play newly released discs unless you bought an upgrade to the player software).
And the other gives you the choice as to whether you want to play by the consortium's rules and play their discs.
Given the history of "music on the Mac" I think it was intentional.
We had "Rip, Mix, Burn" on the iMac, we had the weakest possible DRM (with a built in removal method in iTunes itself) when the store launched, we had Steve's open letter talking about how music should be (no DRM), and we have their choice of format - AAC (over something proprietary that only Apple devices can read).
I'd say they were firmly in the "ok, we'll accept DRM to get the store going, but seriously guys you'll sell much more without it" camp.
I don't know how you can say that with a straight face. Microsoft had Windows Media Player with the "Rip" and "Burn" functions built into it long before iTunes Music Store, and you could burn DRM encumbered WMA files to non-DRMed CDs - from Windows Media Player - long before FairPlay was a twinkle in Steve's eye (caveat: stores could disable the ability to burn to CD, but noone ever did). And I very much doubt Microsoft was in the "ok, we'll accept DRM to get the store going, but seriously guys you'll sell much more without it" camp.
For 30% of small purchases (< $5) sure. But for larger purchases, for example Photoshop Elements, Apple's 30% is significantly expensive (30% of $100? I'm sure Adobe doesn't need Apple's promotional support and 30% for payment processing and hosting is way too much). Also, the most expensive app on the iTunes App Store is $1000. How, pray tell, is Apple taking $300 per purchase for the payment processing (2%), Hosting ($5/month), advertising (surely not more than roughly $50 per purchaser amortised?) a good deal?
Windows 7 can, yeah - except FairPlay encumbered files. In fact, it will even import your iTunes library.
Your timeline misses the fact that the "series of competitors to the iPod/iTMS duopoly" existed before iTunes. In some cases by up to ten years - usually using Microsoft's "PlaysForNotSure".
I hear people claim this sort of stuff, but anecdote != proof. In my experience, which is also an anecdote, I've tested my mother with each of these common claims. First of all, the "Linux is so easy if you install it on everyone's computers they'll gush over it and you won't hear from them again" claim: actually, she looked at it, declared it too confusing, and said she wouldn't be able to work it out. Second, the "iPhone is so intuitive" claim: actually, between my Windows Phone 7 device, Android device, and iPhone, she found the WP7 one easiest followed by Android with iPhone in last place (or "hardest to use").
Oooh! Ghetto Regedit!
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong. The real reason Android took off is because it's free to manufacturers so they can stick it on cheap devices. YOU might have bought an Android device because it's "Open", but Average Joe bought it because "it looks like that iPhone thing but it's only $200 instead of $500".
Chrome on Windows also uses the Windows Certificate Store.
Real choices? Bull-fucking-shit. All it does it create private monopolies - even worse than government monopolies in that you don't elect the people in charge of those, and their goal isn't to have power it's to extract money. Every country that's ever privatised its water has suffered a minimum of ten-fold increase in charges, and it's the poor that suffer. But hey, you're not poor so why do you give a shit about those scum right? Screw the poor. Power to the rich people!