Completely agree.
Apple was open the same way with Xcode and developer tools for Mac platform - free IDE, SDK and no restrictions on nature of applications you can create. May be due to commercial interests, they are being very closed in the iphone ecosystem. Initial reluctance to open up the sdk, arbitrary selections on the apps you can distribute ( Considering Appstore is the only "legal" and future proof way to get apps on to iphone, I consider this very monopolistic*)
To add to this, Microsoft has licensed active sync to Apple and Google for iphone and android respectively.
OT,but being a long term apple user, I am currently having an identity crisis. The special hardware, quality of software and openness no longer applies. Does RDF wear-off with age or is it due to Steve's departure?:)
* I know what monopolistic actually means, thank you!
I thought MPL was more of a developer's license than an EULA. I don't remember having accepted any EULA for firefox on mac or windows.
Or maybe there should be one license to rule them all.
How do we identify the active window on that desktop. Is it the light gray one? Which is like, all of them? Also the blue highlighter is available on both dolphin and K-menu. Bad UI.
OS X leopard made it bad by making the contrast on two extremes between active and inactive windows, but this is much worse.
No. "Or any future version" clause means the code can be forked and "the later version" license assigned. Existing code is never automatically license-upgraded ( I know it is not a word)
I do not think anybody will be interested in forking big projects unless they have the backing of a large group/any company.
That said, I think it is a non issue in this case as long as they do not intend to change Samba or KDE code in anyway.
Thanks.. I'm trying out digiKam currently.. It recognises my Nikon but does not identify the older fuji pro, though I could load photos as a flash drive after connecting my camera.. Unfortunately it does not measure up to aperture/iphoto or even what I've seen of picasa.. It could not convert my Fuji RAW format..again surprisingly snaps on Nikon with RAW worked..
Never used Fspot, so will surely try that..
to be fair, I need something like aperture to manage my snaps..even if that means spending 2K on a new mac..
I am currently dual booting Kubuntu on my G4 iBook - cannot shell the dough for a leopard upgrade for this and mini..will get an MBP once 10.5 comes in..
It really surprises me with the usability.. It has been quite a while since I have used Linux. Coming from mac world, I can say that (K)ubuntu is really ready for prime time.. All my hardware supported.. Most of the apps work well.. Importantly for me, configuring for java and eclipse needed very less tinkering.. Just need a good photo management app.. Can't use picassa as wine is not available..
it is very unfortunate though that PPC version is only going to be community supported now.
This is a good idea..but the kids should not start with neooffice code.. It is the most convoluted mess I have ever seen. No particular fault of the developers though.. Think open office code with lot more additional java layers and cocoa.. You could get lost in one of them and never be back..
It is still possible,at least theoretically, to arrive at that figure if you consider the count of contractors with IBM at any given point.
That said, I still think he grabbed the figures from thin air...
[rant:begin] I find bugzilla lacking in polish..Been using the test director for quite a long time at work and it seems very slick. I have used bugzilla only a few times [have raised some of the early ubuntu-vmware issues ]. Interestingly, feature by feature, it holds ground against the more [very] expensive counterpart. Bugzilla works well with firefox and safari - which I guess Test director may not due to few activex dependencies.
The reason why I felt this was I suggested bugzilla to a colleague in a different organisation and they were far from satisfied. A more intuitive gui and some pleasing css works would have saved the day for bugzilla.
Come to think of it, I could say that against many of the projects(FOSS in particular)... A bit more effort on UX could make a world of difference. Been testing office 2007 last few weeks and I'm very impressed. Just one of the apps in recent times whose UI made me feel why didn't I think of it. Just a pity that the guys who made Office 2007 were not more involved with Vista. Now off to some much needed sleep.... [/rant:end] PS - Most of the comments above are subjective and anecdotal - Your experience and opinions might differ and I can live with it.
My ibook updated iTunes to 7.0.1. I have not faced any probs with version 7 but this might be the update ppl are looking for for firewire issues and other crashes.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download
Okie, this is bad. You can't let the standards of education drop so low. How will the rest 55% survive in this big bad world. Damn it guys, you cant just start your job one fine day - you have to cultivate the habits earlier on from the university.
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Undoing wrong moderation.
Completely agree.
:)
Apple was open the same way with Xcode and developer tools for Mac platform - free IDE, SDK and no restrictions on nature of applications you can create. May be due to commercial interests, they are being very closed in the iphone ecosystem. Initial reluctance to open up the sdk, arbitrary selections on the apps you can distribute ( Considering Appstore is the only "legal" and future proof way to get apps on to iphone, I consider this very monopolistic*)
To add to this, Microsoft has licensed active sync to Apple and Google for iphone and android respectively.
OT,but being a long term apple user, I am currently having an identity crisis. The special hardware, quality of software and openness no longer applies. Does RDF wear-off with age or is it due to Steve's departure?
* I know what monopolistic actually means, thank you!
I thought MPL was more of a developer's license than an EULA. I don't remember having accepted any EULA for firefox on mac or windows. Or maybe there should be one license to rule them all.
Flamebait? It's plain experience, though anecdotal. Get a grip mods.
It is not silly. But it is not "just works" either. The person seems to be extremely lucky. I never saw anyone get it to work outside Apple Store
How do we identify the active window on that desktop. Is it the light gray one? Which is like, all of them? Also the blue highlighter is available on both dolphin and K-menu. Bad UI.
OS X leopard made it bad by making the contrast on two extremes between active and inactive windows, but this is much worse.
They have DB2 and DWE for enterprises.
Informix for certain niche areas.
Cloudscape for Websphere applications
They use Derby in Rational suite.
Not even counting the different versions for each of these.
No.
"Or any future version" clause means the code can be forked and "the later version" license assigned. Existing code is never automatically license-upgraded ( I know it is not a word)
I do not think anybody will be interested in forking big projects unless they have the backing of a large group/any company.
That said, I think it is a non issue in this case as long as they do not intend to change Samba or KDE code in anyway.
I am on safari and I am able to access Google docs. This is on Safari 3 Beta for mac.. no changes to user agent.
Emacs is not an operating system????
I think he should have targeted those tubes which carry the data. Turn in all the ethernet cables.
Thanks..
I'm trying out digiKam currently.. It recognises my Nikon but does not identify the older fuji pro, though I could load photos as a flash drive after connecting my camera..
Unfortunately it does not measure up to aperture/iphoto or even what I've seen of picasa.. It could not convert my Fuji RAW format..again surprisingly snaps on Nikon with RAW worked..
Never used Fspot, so will surely try that..
to be fair, I need something like aperture to manage my snaps..even if that means spending 2K on a new mac..
Picasa is not an option as I'm using a PPC machine..
Google is bundling the normal windows version on wine for linux (with few changes). Since wine is an X86 only emulator, I can't use picasa.
I am currently dual booting Kubuntu on my G4 iBook - cannot shell the dough for a leopard upgrade for this and mini..will get an MBP once 10.5 comes in.. It really surprises me with the usability.. It has been quite a while since I have used Linux. Coming from mac world, I can say that (K)ubuntu is really ready for prime time.. All my hardware supported.. Most of the apps work well.. Importantly for me, configuring for java and eclipse needed very less tinkering.. Just need a good photo management app.. Can't use picassa as wine is not available.. it is very unfortunate though that PPC version is only going to be community supported now.
First story I've seen in /. in which majority sides with Microsoft. It is a sad day...
This is a good idea..but the kids should not start with neooffice code.. It is the most convoluted mess I have ever seen. No particular fault of the developers though.. Think open office code with lot more additional java layers and cocoa.. You could get lost in one of them and never be back..
This bug is reportedly fixed : http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2006/0 7/31/684327.aspx
:)
I play with speech recognition on my mac and it is pretty cool...but cannot say productive...possibly because I am not a native english speaker..
Love to impress my mates with the knock-knock jokes feature in mac speech recognition..
It is still possible,at least theoretically, to arrive at that figure if you consider the count of contractors with IBM at any given point.
That said, I still think he grabbed the figures from thin air...
[rant:begin]
I find bugzilla lacking in polish..Been using the test director for quite a long time at work and it seems very slick. I have used bugzilla only a few times [have raised some of the early ubuntu-vmware issues ]. Interestingly, feature by feature, it holds ground against the more [very] expensive counterpart. Bugzilla works well with firefox and safari - which I guess Test director may not due to few activex dependencies.
The reason why I felt this was I suggested bugzilla to a colleague in a different organisation and they were far from satisfied. A more intuitive gui and some pleasing css works would have saved the day for bugzilla.
Come to think of it, I could say that against many of the projects(FOSS in particular)... A bit more effort on UX could make a world of difference. Been testing office 2007 last few weeks and I'm very impressed. Just one of the apps in recent times whose UI made me feel why didn't I think of it. Just a pity that the guys who made Office 2007 were not more involved with Vista.
Now off to some much needed sleep....
[/rant:end]
PS - Most of the comments above are subjective and anecdotal - Your experience and opinions might differ and I can live with it.
I thought they are transitioning off from cde to gnome. All our dev and production boxes already run on gnome as default wm(we are on Solaris 9).
but I cannot find instances of any rude mails. Looks like somebody has tried to make it more sensational in the summary.
My ibook updated iTunes to 7.0.1. I have not faced any probs with version 7 but this might be the update ppl are looking for for firewire issues and other crashes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/download
Okie, this is bad. You can't let the standards of education drop so low. How will the rest 55% survive in this big bad world. Damn it guys, you cant just start your job one fine day - you have to cultivate the habits earlier on from the university.
and irons my trousers when it lets down some steam