The parent was moderated -1, Funny . Does this not suggest that the moderators are against humor? I guess the moderators could be saying that that the post was -1 because it was offtopic and funny because it was funny, but shouldn't the moderation number correspond to the reason? Added to this someone who posted the exact same thing after this got modded 4, Funny . Will this be modded 5, Offtopic?
How do you charge for developing it other than charging for the application? I can understand charging for support, and that is a very good idea for major things like an enterprise linux solution that needs a lot of support. But for a lot of things (like small shareware applications) it doesn't work. Mac OS X itself is an example of combining open source and proprietary software. It's based on BSD but has a proprietary (and great) GUI.
This should be -1 offtopic. But I'll answer it anyway from my point of view. I don't think Microsoft is the devil and I don't think Apple is perfect. But I do believe Mac OS X is far better than Windows. I know Mac OS X isn't open source, but I don't mind. I don't think that software should all be free or open source. I prefer the idea of people who develop software being compensated for it. Open source is fine, though. I think it is better for things like file formats or other standards. As far as forcing you to buy their hardware, I like Apple hardware, and am willing to pay more to have it, and a better OS.
Judging from the.org at the end of slashdot, I assumed it was nonprofit. It's also not nearly as ad filled as Weblogs Inc. I like both of these, but slashdot has far better commentary.
How about keeping all your money until you pay for services you choose to pay for? Now there will always need to be some taxes, but many government provided services should be left to individuals and private companies.
Safari does this. When you are at a site with RSS you just click on RSS. It will show you the feed, and if you want to use it, you just bookmark it. I use NetNewsWire (a dedicated RSS reader), though, as I prefer how it works to Safari.
Well, to be honest, far it's more reasonable and intelligent. Not to mention the fact that it's written in grammatically correct English r4+3|-|r +|-|4n 1337 $|>33(|-|. (The last part was written using a "1337" translator. it can also translate from "1337" to English, useful if you read Slashdot commentary.
I clicked reply to comment on the parents "funny" moderation, and it has now been changed to "interesting". Must have been under a minute since I started reading this article. Wow.
Generally, people spend time inventing something to make money. Patents help them to get that money. The patent system is abused by companies like this though. I feel that after a patent is taken out the person with it should be required to have it in production within a certain period of time (appropriate to what is patented) and if they do not do so they lose the patent.
Name a computer currently in production that looks better than any of Apple's made by a major manufacturer. A monitor?
As for what you're saying about old Macs, some of them weren't great looking, but the first Mac (and others designed like it) was. Certainly a lot nicer than the older computers you linked to.
To be honest, most of the PCs that are supposed to look good are worse looking than the old beige boxes.
Of course, this is my opinion.
I'm sure firefox would run fine on such an eMac. It runs very well on my 1.25 GHz 1GB RAM iMac and runs fine on my 400 MHz 340MB RAM iBook. (This is Safari 2 on Tiger for both). Safari runs even faster. There is also a G4 optimized Firefox (and a G5 one). Internet Explorer is much slower than Safari or Firefox on both of these computers, but it isn't unbearable. I see no reason for I.E. Mac to be open sourced; the interface is horrid and I'm sure most Mac developers would rather use webkit or gecko than whatever the foundation of I.E. is.
On Macs email is Mail, word processing is Pages, slideshows is Keynote, address book is Address Book, terminal is Terminal, browser is Safari and on various other applications the name is i+(what the app is or does). And, in response to what someone said about unique names being easier to search, searching Mail.app will get results for the application, but the name is still quite clear.
But the "crap" that they won't tolerate is free speech. The people who were fined have every right to make a podcast supporting a racist political party. It's stupid and I'd certainly not want to be a member of that party or subscribe to the podcast, but they do have the right to do it. The only thing that anyone else should be able to do about it is not listen to the podcast or give an opposing viewpoint (Through broadcasting or protest).
I just looked at your screenshot of Opera on Windows (2000?). It was extremely ugly.
Here is a quicktime video showing safari. It's hard to say that Opera looks anywhere near as good as that. http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/safari.html
Right now, I'm using the browser built into netnewswire. http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ . It's a better RSS reader than safari, but the browser isn't as good, so I only use it for reading the comments to articles in my RSS feeds. Still, the application looks very good.
I agree with the original post that it's ugly, but thats probably because I'm used to the really nice Mac OS X cocoa applications such as Safari. It's not much/any worse than Windows IE, I guess. Still, it's interface is horrid compared to firefox, camino, safari, shiira, etc so I've never considered using it. As for bloated, I don't like having an email client built in, but it doesn't seem to get in the way. And the skins for Opera don't seem to do much.
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Oh, now I understand. He has really bad karma. And he's been modded up.
The parent was moderated -1, Funny . Does this not suggest that the moderators are against humor? I guess the moderators could be saying that that the post was -1 because it was offtopic and funny because it was funny, but shouldn't the moderation number correspond to the reason? Added to this someone who posted the exact same thing after this got modded 4, Funny . Will this be modded 5, Offtopic?
10.4.4 doesn't exist. The last release was 10.4.3 .
I think I'm funny.
You can do this with email too.
Um...what do you mean?
How do you charge for developing it other than charging for the application? I can understand charging for support, and that is a very good idea for major things like an enterprise linux solution that needs a lot of support. But for a lot of things (like small shareware applications) it doesn't work. Mac OS X itself is an example of combining open source and proprietary software. It's based on BSD but has a proprietary (and great) GUI.
This should be -1 offtopic. But I'll answer it anyway from my point of view. I don't think Microsoft is the devil and I don't think Apple is perfect. But I do believe Mac OS X is far better than Windows. I know Mac OS X isn't open source, but I don't mind. I don't think that software should all be free or open source. I prefer the idea of people who develop software being compensated for it. Open source is fine, though. I think it is better for things like file formats or other standards. As far as forcing you to buy their hardware, I like Apple hardware, and am willing to pay more to have it, and a better OS.
Judging from the .org at the end of slashdot, I assumed it was nonprofit. It's also not nearly as ad filled as Weblogs Inc. I like both of these, but slashdot has far better commentary.
I would think anyone with a cellphone has access to a library or a coffee shop with computers.
How about keeping all your money until you pay for services you choose to pay for? Now there will always need to be some taxes, but many government provided services should be left to individuals and private companies.
Safari does this. When you are at a site with RSS you just click on RSS. It will show you the feed, and if you want to use it, you just bookmark it. I use NetNewsWire (a dedicated RSS reader), though, as I prefer how it works to Safari.
Well, to be honest, far it's more reasonable and intelligent. Not to mention the fact that it's written in grammatically correct English r4+3|-|r +|-|4n 1337 $|>33(|-|. (The last part was written using a "1337" translator. it can also translate from "1337" to English, useful if you read Slashdot commentary.
I'm not sure. Safari works fine with wordpress.
I clicked reply to comment on the parents "funny" moderation, and it has now been changed to "interesting". Must have been under a minute since I started reading this article. Wow.
Generally, people spend time inventing something to make money. Patents help them to get that money. The patent system is abused by companies like this though. I feel that after a patent is taken out the person with it should be required to have it in production within a certain period of time (appropriate to what is patented) and if they do not do so they lose the patent.
That post was made using a complaint generator.
Name a computer currently in production that looks better than any of Apple's made by a major manufacturer. A monitor? As for what you're saying about old Macs, some of them weren't great looking, but the first Mac (and others designed like it) was. Certainly a lot nicer than the older computers you linked to. To be honest, most of the PCs that are supposed to look good are worse looking than the old beige boxes. Of course, this is my opinion.
Doesn't the protective plastic say "Don't steal music" all over it? Isn't it hard to navigate around that?
I'm sure firefox would run fine on such an eMac. It runs very well on my 1.25 GHz 1GB RAM iMac and runs fine on my 400 MHz 340MB RAM iBook. (This is Safari 2 on Tiger for both). Safari runs even faster. There is also a G4 optimized Firefox (and a G5 one). Internet Explorer is much slower than Safari or Firefox on both of these computers, but it isn't unbearable. I see no reason for I.E. Mac to be open sourced; the interface is horrid and I'm sure most Mac developers would rather use webkit or gecko than whatever the foundation of I.E. is.
On Macs email is Mail, word processing is Pages, slideshows is Keynote, address book is Address Book, terminal is Terminal, browser is Safari and on various other applications the name is i+(what the app is or does). And, in response to what someone said about unique names being easier to search, searching Mail.app will get results for the application, but the name is still quite clear.
But the "crap" that they won't tolerate is free speech. The people who were fined have every right to make a podcast supporting a racist political party. It's stupid and I'd certainly not want to be a member of that party or subscribe to the podcast, but they do have the right to do it. The only thing that anyone else should be able to do about it is not listen to the podcast or give an opposing viewpoint (Through broadcasting or protest).
I just looked at your screenshot of Opera on Windows (2000?). It was extremely ugly. Here is a quicktime video showing safari. It's hard to say that Opera looks anywhere near as good as that. http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/safari.html Right now, I'm using the browser built into netnewswire. http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ . It's a better RSS reader than safari, but the browser isn't as good, so I only use it for reading the comments to articles in my RSS feeds. Still, the application looks very good.
I agree with the original post that it's ugly, but thats probably because I'm used to the really nice Mac OS X cocoa applications such as Safari. It's not much/any worse than Windows IE, I guess. Still, it's interface is horrid compared to firefox, camino, safari, shiira, etc so I've never considered using it. As for bloated, I don't like having an email client built in, but it doesn't seem to get in the way. And the skins for Opera don't seem to do much.