I like that I installed dapper and everything worked. I don't mean "it booted to a desktop and I needed minimal fiddling to get my camera working, oh and sometimes sound drops out but I got that fixed in half an hour... and I can't use my music player yet cos it won't mount", I mean I can install it and there's everything working and working well.
Well, except for zeroconf's daemon, codec support for the examples in the Examples folder, fully enabled repositories, a Firefox which has enough privileges to permit 1.5.0.2 to load itself, rhythmbox being actually able to play MP3s, and a wider choice of fonts besides the DejaVu/Bitstream families and Gurbhunktivar mud-hut glyphset, yeah, Dapper Flight 6's right out of the box, it is.
An entire room filled with bright, cheerful Microserfs wearing shirt padding and plastic bald caps greet me as I enter the Fucking Kill You Lab in Redmond's well-lit East Campus. Before I can say a word, chairs fly across the room in all directions as each vows to Fucking Kill (TM) Google, Apple, Sun, Linus Torvalds, and inexplicably, Olestra.
Fucking Kill You Lab director Thaul Purrott tells me that this is "the future of Windows innovation" and not surprisingly, customer support just as an airborne chair caster nearly decapitates him.
In all seriousness: I bet there are at least twice as many 18-34's that spend an 4 hours/week in the bar as there are that spend 14 hours/week on WoW. Care to guess how much it costs to spend 3 hours/week in the bar? Hint: Substantially more than a WoW subscription.
Yes, but the ROI on my peener getting to be moistened by something other than vaseline at the end of the night speaks for itself.
Pay attention to the fact that Apple didn't invent podcasting, they just integrated it better into iTunes. They didn't get video on a color iPod screen first, they just rewrote the firmware to do what iPodLinux had shown proofs of concept. Boot Camp follows the $13K prize winner. Final Cut Studio and iDVD were ports of acquired Windows apps.
Apple is substantially shrewder about timing and the zeitgeist than Microsoft or any other computer company. They aren't innovators so much as they the most efficient in the product-to-market process and quickly refining a product. This can't be overstated.
Every version and variant of OOo I've tried to use to read Word for Mac documents prior to 6.0 fails miserably. This would be trivial except for the fact that Word 6 was received so poorly by the Mac community that most Mac users never switched until the OS X version came out.
The current versions of Office for OS X can correctly read 5.x files but no open source app I've found so far can. Its file format is different from the Windows version.
12 years' worth backsupport sounds good until you realize the application's 20 years old. Are you going to do what OOo won't?
While I don't agree with everything the parent poster said, he makes a useful point. Snapper is now essentially a division of the company that makes its engines, and a friend of mine who repairs lawn mowers is quick to point out there are only two manufacturers of lawn mower engines in North America. The pressure they ducked from Wal-Mart could easily come back from Briggs & Stratton.
The parent poster deserves to be modded up Insightful, not down as Troll because you don't like what he has to say or he disagrees with the premise of the article.
Mail Paul, Ringo and Yoko a simple statement reading:
There is no ambiguity here. Unlike Apple Records, Apple Computer actually does something and is largely composed of individuals not serving as fertilizer. Either form a band or fuck off, you ineffectual cunts.
For those of you who don't get the reference above, "Radioland Murders" was another film farmed out to Wilmington North Carolina's 1990s nonunion paradise before the industry turned to Vancouver.
The dailies were so awful that Lucas flew out to NC and reshot most of the scenes himself but left the original director's name on the credits. [I was doing theatrical resumes for a living there at the time and this comes from people who were in the production.]
What Dracos said.
Then again, we're talking about the man who sold Pixar for a tenth of his asking price because he couldn't remember to plug his wife every now and then.
4) The "I'm manager because I can everybody's job better than they could" manager. Hardly bears description. On the flip side, if you're honest with yourself, you'll admit that as an engineer, deep in your heart of hearts, this is you. The obviously awesom weapons of the engineering paradigm can slay any dragon. Management? Pfft. You just take the pot of potential objectives on one hand, and the pot of resources and capabilities you have on the other, build a set of alternative frameworks connecting them, crunch the numbers and pick the best.
You understand why they picked Carter and not McKay for SG-1, right?
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Well, except for zeroconf's daemon, codec support for the examples in the Examples folder, fully enabled repositories, a Firefox which has enough privileges to permit 1.5.0.2 to load itself, rhythmbox being actually able to play MP3s, and a wider choice of fonts besides the DejaVu/Bitstream families and Gurbhunktivar mud-hut glyphset, yeah, Dapper Flight 6's right out of the box, it is.
An entire room filled with bright, cheerful Microserfs wearing shirt padding and plastic bald caps greet me as I enter the Fucking Kill You Lab in Redmond's well-lit East Campus. Before I can say a word, chairs fly across the room in all directions as each vows to Fucking Kill (TM) Google, Apple, Sun, Linus Torvalds, and inexplicably, Olestra.
Fucking Kill You Lab director Thaul Purrott tells me that this is "the future of Windows innovation" and not surprisingly, customer support just as an airborne chair caster nearly decapitates him.
Dear god, I'm sorry I wrote that.
Yes, but the ROI on my peener getting to be moistened by something other than vaseline at the end of the night speaks for itself.
Improve your credibility next time by encheferizing your text first.
Pay attention to the fact that Apple didn't invent podcasting, they just integrated it better into iTunes. They didn't get video on a color iPod screen first, they just rewrote the firmware to do what iPodLinux had shown proofs of concept. Boot Camp follows the $13K prize winner. Final Cut Studio and iDVD were ports of acquired Windows apps.
Apple is substantially shrewder about timing and the zeitgeist than Microsoft or any other computer company. They aren't innovators so much as they the most efficient in the product-to-market process and quickly refining a product. This can't be overstated.
Here's my answer to your argument.
Fark - Tits = Slashdot.
Best. Prom. Ever.
Every version and variant of OOo I've tried to use to read Word for Mac documents prior to 6.0 fails miserably. This would be trivial except for the fact that Word 6 was received so poorly by the Mac community that most Mac users never switched until the OS X version came out.
The current versions of Office for OS X can correctly read 5.x files but no open source app I've found so far can. Its file format is different from the Windows version.
12 years' worth backsupport sounds good until you realize the application's 20 years old. Are you going to do what OOo won't?
Pros: flexible, infinitely applicable to differing settings to create potentially combinable Western-cyberpunk-cartoon campaigns.
Cons: "Granola, Raisins, PeanutS" no longer as popular with target demographic. Suggest renaming system to "CHaracter EnginE/TOurnament System."
Wait. You're implying Quark was run by shitheads incapable of keeping up with technology? Are you sure?
The troll is weak with this one.
"Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying, 'I'm gonna fuckin' kill(R) Europe!' It's the final countdown!"
Zoom in, Einstein.
While I don't agree with everything the parent poster said, he makes a useful point. Snapper is now essentially a division of the company that makes its engines, and a friend of mine who repairs lawn mowers is quick to point out there are only two manufacturers of lawn mower engines in North America. The pressure they ducked from Wal-Mart could easily come back from Briggs & Stratton.
The parent poster deserves to be modded up Insightful, not down as Troll because you don't like what he has to say or he disagrees with the premise of the article.
INTERVIEWER: Deputy minister, what do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
HELPMANN: Bad sportsmanship.
For those of you who don't get the reference above, "Radioland Murders" was another film farmed out to Wilmington North Carolina's 1990s nonunion paradise before the industry turned to Vancouver.
The dailies were so awful that Lucas flew out to NC and reshot most of the scenes himself but left the original director's name on the credits. [I was doing theatrical resumes for a living there at the time and this comes from people who were in the production.]
I hold the patent on "From the Article" satirical summaries, so you'll be hearing from my lawyer and the O'Reilly Fox News Security team.
What Dracos said. Then again, we're talking about the man who sold Pixar for a tenth of his asking price because he couldn't remember to plug his wife every now and then.
"Trashmos." TFC should be required reading.
"Slashes should have been backwards as well, you tea-smoking Vance-Baggers."
Dan Brown must be jizzing his pants "adapting" this news story for his next book.