... they at best could take over the "Administrator of all Evil".
Actually that won't quite work since OS.X is a dialect of UNIX and it's super user is actually called 'root', not 'administrator'.
All the while Linux and Mac users enjoy all the bundled software that comes for free with their OSs.
All I have to do on an OS.X boxen to get rid of Safari is to move the app to the trash can. Internet Exporer for Windows is wired into the OS in such a way as to make it very hard to remove. The same apparently applies to Media Player 10. Some of the bundled software on a Mac is provided by other companies than Apple. You do have a point in that Apple provides programs like iDVD, iMovie and iPhoto but at least none of them is hard wired into the OS.
But what gives the government the right to squash any private business just because they believe they can do the job better?
True enough but there are two sides to that coin. Why do I have to be deprived of this service because I happen to live in a less populated area which caused some some corporate beancounter to conclude that putting in the requiered infrastructure would not be profitable enough to bother with it? I'd rather have a municipal network than none at all. The idea that Businesses should be in the position to ban local governments from constructing their own network infrastructure when nobody else wants to is just as disturbing as govenment squasing private business.
'A new Wintel prototype that openly apes Apple Computer's popular Mac mini is due out this week, giving Intel a showcase to prove its chips are a match for anyone when it comes to tiny PC designs.
Few dobut that Intel's chips have the same potential for minturization as Apple's chips. Yet somehow it seems that 90% of all mini PC's and PC laptops out there still look like concrete slabs when compared with the Mac mini and the PowerBooks which has caused a not inconsiderable number of consumers to begin regarding the PC's as clumsy. Apple concluded that style and ultra compactness matters to some consumers more than raw computing power and apparently they were not entirely wrong. For a Mac user it is certainly satisfying to see Intel finally acknowledging that.
That is so true. It points up the obvious that Bush people are neocons and an insult to true conservatives. Bush backers are more fascist than conservative but fascist is a tough label to sell in Oklahoma. So they call themselves conservative.
They are well on their way towards making Conservative synonomous with Fascist wich is not good. I may be rather liberal myself but I share some of the same beleifs as conservatives such as a the preference for a free market system over the government controlled economy preferred by the left. Similarly there are conservatives who share some of my own beleifs, such as concern for the state of the enviroment (Yes, that's righ you dont have to be a tree hugging pot smoking hippie to be concerned about pollution, extinction and climate change). There are more brands of Conservativism than the one sold by the current White House.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this article - at least as far as Windows porting is concerned.
I second that. The first thing I do on a freshly installed Windows 2003 machine after hardening it for security is to install the GNU tools and vim. That may seem like a silly thing to do but I am familiar with the GNU tools and I think Microsoft made native commandline utilities really suck so it makes life on Windows a little bit more bearable.
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... they at best could take over the "Administrator of all Evil". Actually that won't quite work since OS.X is a dialect of UNIX and it's super user is actually called 'root', not 'administrator'.
All the while Linux and Mac users enjoy all the bundled software that comes for free with their OSs.
All I have to do on an OS.X boxen to get rid of Safari is to move the app to the trash can. Internet Exporer for Windows is wired into the OS in such a way as to make it very hard to remove. The same apparently applies to Media Player 10. Some of the bundled software on a Mac is provided by other companies than Apple. You do have a point in that Apple provides programs like iDVD, iMovie and iPhoto but at least none of them is hard wired into the OS.
But what gives the government the right to squash any private business just because they believe they can do the job better?
True enough but there are two sides to that coin. Why do I have to be deprived of this service because I happen to live in a less populated area which caused some some corporate beancounter to conclude that putting in the requiered infrastructure would not be profitable enough to bother with it? I'd rather have a municipal network than none at all. The idea that Businesses should be in the position to ban local governments from constructing their own network infrastructure when nobody else wants to is just as disturbing as govenment squasing private business.
'A new Wintel prototype that openly apes Apple Computer's popular Mac mini is due out this week, giving Intel a showcase to prove its chips are a match for anyone when it comes to tiny PC designs.
Few dobut that Intel's chips have the same potential for minturization as Apple's chips. Yet somehow it seems that 90% of all mini PC's and PC laptops out there still look like concrete slabs when compared with the Mac mini and the PowerBooks which has caused a not inconsiderable number of consumers to begin regarding the PC's as clumsy. Apple concluded that style and ultra compactness matters to some consumers more than raw computing power and apparently they were not entirely wrong. For a Mac user it is certainly satisfying to see Intel finally acknowledging that.
That is so true. It points up the obvious that Bush people are neocons and an insult to true conservatives. Bush backers are more fascist than conservative but fascist is a tough label to sell in Oklahoma. So they call themselves conservative.
They are well on their way towards making Conservative synonomous with Fascist wich is not good. I may be rather liberal myself but I share some of the same beleifs as conservatives such as a the preference for a free market system over the government controlled economy preferred by the left. Similarly there are conservatives who share some of my own beleifs, such as concern for the state of the enviroment (Yes, that's righ you dont have to be a tree hugging pot smoking hippie to be concerned about pollution, extinction and climate change). There are more brands of Conservativism than the one sold by the current White House.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this article - at least as far as Windows porting is concerned.
I second that. The first thing I do on a freshly installed Windows 2003 machine after hardening it for security is to install the GNU tools and vim. That may seem like a silly thing to do but I am familiar with the GNU tools and I think Microsoft made native commandline utilities really suck so it makes life on Windows a little bit more bearable.