Its not the theme but the graphics. The second I looked at your screen shot I knew it was Linux. The fonts look horrible compared to the Quartz rendered fonts in MacOS X.
But then again, that is not the default for GNOME or KDE but an aftermarket, trade dress infringing theme.
Pure. I am doing the same in my company. I am about to present the most radical idea ever to management. Dump Microsoft. With the press lately, Gates is helping me out with my business plan. Thank God for Microsoft arrogance.
In less than one year since its release, Apple has smashed the years of KDE and GNOME on the UNIX desktop frontier with MacOS X. Frankly, KDE/GNOME look like redheaded stepchildren compared to MacOS X -- looks too much like Windows (YUCK!). Darwin + Quartz + Aqua is such a beautiful combination. Practically anything you can run on Linux (outside of network IP specific apps) can be compiled in MacOS X. Plus MacOS X has the "killer" productivity application, Micro$oft Office and the ultimate graphics app, Photoshop (GIMP is no where close--sorry). Your X Windows applications will run on MacOS X for the most part. About the only valid argument Linux users have against MacOS X is the cost of hardware, but that is just a short term cost.
Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Linux. Its a daily part of my life...as a server OS that maximizes my old i386 hardware. I won't be using MacOS X Server either. The PPC hardware is too nice to stuff in a closet. It begs to be used by human hands.
I think its time for hard core Linux zealots to really examine what a beauty MacOS X is. Pop over to CompUSA or an Apple Store, shove the crowd in front of the new iMac to the side, click on the Terminal icon and see what a pure UNIX experience is really like. After that, I think your fear of Steve Jobs and his magical black turtleneck will go away.
Note to CmdrTaco: If I hear another mouse button joke and Mac from you, I am going to hand Ms. Fent an original iMac hockey puck mouse so she can beat you into submission. The PowerBook G4 has USB, take some of that dowry and buy one.
It was interesting but I still wouldn't know what to do with them. Check out the History Channel web page to find times of broadcast. I really like the History Channel, Discovery and TLC (except for the Maternity Ward - ick!). Its like PBS without the losers begging for money so I can watch Bert Wolf cook something I can't pronounce.
Guess so. All the "women" on TV and in the Music Industry are starting to look like jailbait -- or maybe they all are. I am now a "Thirty-Something" and no one in Hollywood and TV Land gives a damn if I am entertained anymore.
Would you be "flattered" if I stole your wallet? Same concept, different medium. Get real.
Please explain how copying a TV Show is the same as someone hitting me on the back of the head and stealing my wallet? I don't open my wallet up to everyone that walks by and show them the content within it. I keep it inside my coat pocket so it is protected from prying eyes. TV Networks are sending an unencrypted signal through the air and are begging me to pick it up and view it. There is no disclaimer or contract before the show that requires me to view the commercials. If they don't want you to copy the show, the should either encrpyt it or sell it on a media they can control.
Also, does a TV network have a right to control my memory of the show so they can make sure I remember the commercials along with the plot line?
You're willfully missing the point. It's not popularity that makes money for the networks, it's advertising, which online pirates strip out, or VHS/DVD purchases, which *probably* aren't being made.
How is this any different than me hitting the fast forward button on my VCR? Anyways the only commercials that seem to be on TV are drugs that cure one disease but end up with so many side effects that the commercial spends most of the time listing those. The worst part, they don't even tell you what the drug fixes.
Take Diapamil and wake up to life! Diapamil may cause bloodshot eyes, irritable bowel syndrome, sleeplessness, cancer of the sphincter and in some cases death. If you breath an oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere, please consult a Doctor before taking Diapamil. Diapamil is not recommended for those already awake to life. Diapamil should not be used by people that are abusing dihydrogen oxide.
WTF does that mean? Could someone explain to us non-Americans.
It refers to the expanding waist lines of women that watch too much network television in America. We are getting too fat and that line is just a obscene, negative way to refer to these obese women.
The TV networks should be flattered that anyone would want to "pirate" their crap. It seems that as I get more channels on my cable system, the less quality I get. I can honestly say I do not watch one network show during PrimeTime outside of Enterprise and the Simpsons.
Its gotten so bad, I actually watched a History Channel show on the history of hand tools over the shows that were on CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC and I wouldn't even know what to use those hand tools for! Once the Olympics go off the air, I most likely won't be watching NBC anytime soon.
Yes but how many OSX users are there that actually know that BSD is there and/or take advantage of OSX's *NIX comapatibility?
Does it matter as long as they are using BSD/UNIX? It shows UNIX or UNIX-like OSes can make it into grandma's CPU. I think its great they don't know. Its not Windows, so in the end, thats what counts.
What? Dont you know that BSD is dying? I read all about it here on Slashdot.
Yea, I read that all the time. But then again, Apple has been dying since they released the first Mac back in 1984. Every year, I hear "Apple can no longer survive with a 5% market share". They fail to understand that Apple has $4 billion cash in the bank.
I was surprised when I read this article on Wired yesterday. I thought I was the only one doing this. About two years ago, I cut off all of China from my mailserver at work -- we don't do business there. We were being flooded my SPAM on Chinese open relay servers. It got to the point where some users were getting more SPAM than legit mail. Once China was cut-off, the SPAM dropped off to a trickle. Then Korea became the next SPAM hot spot for us and I cut them off as well. Granted its some of the SPAM is from "white folk" that are using these open relays to SPAM Americans. If I could track them down and actually do something legal to them as opposed to beating them with a 2 by 4, I would. So far, the US Government has been pro-SPAM with the only legislation being introduced as "opt-out" systems.
The Asian nations would not be in this situation if they understood the proper way to run a mailserver and dropped the insane cultural notion that obnoxiously shoving a business card in someone's face is courteous and expected. I worked in Asia during the early 90s (mainly Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and from my experience of working with Asian businesses, this problem will not go away. Unless it's not hurting their bottom line, it doesn't matter if its hurting ours.
cheerleaders were "a urine stain on the toilet seat of America."
Would that make JonKatz, "the urine stain on the toliet seat of Slashdot"? Or would that be his choice of topics to write about? Wasn't there a poll to end the stupidity that is JonKatz on Slashdot. I want news for nerds, not essays from some clueless dork that would his dot com from his backslash.
I asked my fiancé at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse in Grand Central Station. I was able to pick a time of day (4:20 pm on a Saturday) where we would be alone in a booth in one of the most busy places on earth. We had a view of all Grand Central Station with noone withing 15 feet of us. Pretty cool to alone in a busy place.
Please, for the love that is all Holy, do not accept this marriage proposal!!! Its about time that someone put their foot down and stop these silly, public marriage proposals. Make him act like a man, get down on one knee, profess his love for you and present you with a ring. The only reason a man asks a woman to marry him in front of a crowd is because he is a sniveling, little coward that is afraid of rejection. Make him face his fears!!!
SAY NO!!!
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KDE has been rated more simple than windows xp, and gnome is a lot nicer.
Sorry I can't finish my post, got to play Quake...
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Why go to the bother of running a dual boot on a Mac? With Mac OS X you already have a UNIX system available for you even capable of running X Windows. Most of the time I want some that is Linux-specific, I can't get it to run on Linux PPC. VPC + RH i386 takes care of the problem.
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But then again, that is not the default for GNOME or KDE but an aftermarket, trade dress infringing theme.
Pure. I am doing the same in my company. I am about to present the most radical idea ever to management. Dump Microsoft. With the press lately, Gates is helping me out with my business plan. Thank God for Microsoft arrogance.
Don't get me wrong. I don't hate Linux. Its a daily part of my life...as a server OS that maximizes my old i386 hardware. I won't be using MacOS X Server either. The PPC hardware is too nice to stuff in a closet. It begs to be used by human hands.
I think its time for hard core Linux zealots to really examine what a beauty MacOS X is. Pop over to CompUSA or an Apple Store, shove the crowd in front of the new iMac to the side, click on the Terminal icon and see what a pure UNIX experience is really like. After that, I think your fear of Steve Jobs and his magical black turtleneck will go away.
Note to CmdrTaco: If I hear another mouse button joke and Mac from you, I am going to hand Ms. Fent an original iMac hockey puck mouse so she can beat you into submission. The PowerBook G4 has USB, take some of that dowry and buy one.
It was interesting but I still wouldn't know what to do with them. Check out the History Channel web page to find times of broadcast. I really like the History Channel, Discovery and TLC (except for the Maternity Ward - ick!). Its like PBS without the losers begging for money so I can watch Bert Wolf cook something I can't pronounce.
Guess so. All the "women" on TV and in the Music Industry are starting to look like jailbait -- or maybe they all are. I am now a "Thirty-Something" and no one in Hollywood and TV Land gives a damn if I am entertained anymore.
Please explain how copying a TV Show is the same as someone hitting me on the back of the head and stealing my wallet? I don't open my wallet up to everyone that walks by and show them the content within it. I keep it inside my coat pocket so it is protected from prying eyes. TV Networks are sending an unencrypted signal through the air and are begging me to pick it up and view it. There is no disclaimer or contract before the show that requires me to view the commercials. If they don't want you to copy the show, the should either encrpyt it or sell it on a media they can control.
Also, does a TV network have a right to control my memory of the show so they can make sure I remember the commercials along with the plot line?
Then why don't you remove the fast forward button off your VCR?
How is this any different than me hitting the fast forward button on my VCR? Anyways the only commercials that seem to be on TV are drugs that cure one disease but end up with so many side effects that the commercial spends most of the time listing those. The worst part, they don't even tell you what the drug fixes.
Take Diapamil and wake up to life! Diapamil may cause bloodshot eyes, irritable bowel syndrome, sleeplessness, cancer of the sphincter and in some cases death. If you breath an oxygen and nitrogen atmosphere, please consult a Doctor before taking Diapamil. Diapamil is not recommended for those already awake to life. Diapamil should not be used by people that are abusing dihydrogen oxide.
It refers to the expanding waist lines of women that watch too much network television in America. We are getting too fat and that line is just a obscene, negative way to refer to these obese women.
Its gotten so bad, I actually watched a History Channel show on the history of hand tools over the shows that were on CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC and I wouldn't even know what to use those hand tools for! Once the Olympics go off the air, I most likely won't be watching NBC anytime soon.
Does it matter as long as they are using BSD/UNIX? It shows UNIX or UNIX-like OSes can make it into grandma's CPU. I think its great they don't know. Its not Windows, so in the end, thats what counts.
This didn't work in Windows XP! What am I doing wrong?
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Yea, I read that all the time. But then again, Apple has been dying since they released the first Mac back in 1984. Every year, I hear "Apple can no longer survive with a 5% market share". They fail to understand that Apple has $4 billion cash in the bank.
I think it is a cool idea since now, because of Apple, BSD has a 3 to 1 lead over Linux on the Desktop. Take that Tux!
Same here. My portsentry logs are filled with wandaoo.fr. What is up with that?
The Asian nations would not be in this situation if they understood the proper way to run a mailserver and dropped the insane cultural notion that obnoxiously shoving a business card in someone's face is courteous and expected. I worked in Asia during the early 90s (mainly Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and from my experience of working with Asian businesses, this problem will not go away. Unless it's not hurting their bottom line, it doesn't matter if its hurting ours.
Would that make JonKatz, "the urine stain on the toliet seat of Slashdot"? Or would that be his choice of topics to write about? Wasn't there a poll to end the stupidity that is JonKatz on Slashdot. I want news for nerds, not essays from some clueless dork that would his dot com from his backslash.
I asked my fiancé at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse in Grand Central Station. I was able to pick a time of day (4:20 pm on a Saturday) where we would be alone in a booth in one of the most busy places on earth. We had a view of all Grand Central Station with noone withing 15 feet of us. Pretty cool to alone in a busy place.
They cloned the wrong Pussy!!!
SAY NO!!!
And MacOS X's Aqua kicks all their butts!
toupsie lights match and flees...
Sorry I can't finish my post, got to play Quake...
Why go to the bother of running a dual boot on a Mac? With Mac OS X you already have a UNIX system available for you even capable of running X Windows. Most of the time I want some that is Linux-specific, I can't get it to run on Linux PPC. VPC + RH i386 takes care of the problem.
Connectix Virtual PC for MacOS X and Redhat Linux running together is a better a choice for linux on Mac. The PowerPC Linux project is best suited for the non-Mac PPC boxen.
I have some karma to burn as well...
Plus aren't we all happy that he has been reduced to wearing a beard and wearing earth tones.