His eyes are green. We think he is a genetically white cat, not just a 'spotted cat with one big white spot.' But we know nothing about his genetic history.
The Slashdot editors only browse the web using an early version of Mozilla running on their Dreamcasts which run NetBSD. So they've got no way to verify such things.
Unfortunately for me, I tend to prefer Microsoft Office over OpenOffice. Agreed. Unfortunately for you.
but there's no true color calibration system for Linux
Whoops! There goes the 2% of the Photoshop userbase for which that matters.
I would never like to go back to traditional UNIX desktops.
You've never 'resided' on a traditional UNIX desktop. That would be MWM, or CDE. You mentioned 'Debian' which didn't even exist in the 'traditional UNIX' era.
I don't have the time, nor the energy, to care anymore. OS X is for the practical inside of me. OS X is for the artist inside of me. OS X is for the lazy inside of me.
Sounds like you're parroting Apple Marketing slogans, now.
Anybody who says anything negative in a apple.slashdot.org thread is automatically a troll. And the phenomena is spreading, as Apple Product hype slowly melds out into offtopic areas of the site like hardware.slashdot.org.
I am queueing up in my mind all the 'warm your coffee on your pentium' jokes presented by Macnuts a decade ago. Which reminds me of all the bluster that 'RISC is the future' and 'the Pentium is a joke' etc. etc.
Sun is 'mainly a hardware manufacturer' who offer their Solaris operating system for free download. They even make it relatively easy to install Solaris on any machine you own that is capable. And there are a LOT of clone boxes capable of running Solaris.
So what gives? Apple is cheaper and more tightfisted than Sun?
Sure, but Apple will 'exchange' your laptop for one they have 'reconditioned' that has some hip-hop artist's name etched in the cover. And you'll get five more region changes.
It's my understanding that you have to wedge a toothpick into the fan grille to get that 'level of performance.' Plus you have to wait several minutes.
I don't really understand the significance of this news story.
It's important to any of the, er, 'consumers' who pre-ordered one without seeing anything at all physical to show them what they would be getting. Apparently there are enough said 'consumers' here on Slashdot (or one or two editors, or Apple Banner Revenue to harvest) to evoke that level of interest.
I know that if *I* pre-ordered a piece of expensive hardware without much info at all what it was going to be when it arrived, I would be anxious, too. Unless I was a moonie and it was some cherished relic from Sun Myung Moon or something.... Then I'd KNOW I had made the right choice by ordering it blindly.
So you're saying that with a 'Resolution Independent' display, that wide shiney brushed aluminum frame when I play a quicktime video will hog the same amount of screen no matter what resolution my display is set to?
As a scholar, I would like to point out that 'Redneck' is a term that can describe stereotypical behavior which members of all races engage in. Particularly, modern 'ghetto culture' has it's roots in redneck culture. (Sowell himself is Black)
Maybe he's referring to 'Jackson State' though, the student massacre that happened shortly after 'Kent State' but which is commonly ignored. It was black students at Jackson, ya know. Less useful for 'stirring up sentiment' I guess. Supposedly 'enlightened progressives' are always playing the 'Kent State' card in what has to be considered a racist gesture.
The 'Windows Refund Day' you link to happened before Windows 2000 was out, let alone XP.
(and it was widely seen as an embarassing incident by many in the OSS community. I mean, Eric Raymond dressed up as Darth Vader and went into full rant mode.)
I haven't downloaded and run it for awhile, but is Darwin released under the GPL? I was of the impression it was a different 'Open Source' license. It's not derived on Linux, so the license has more of a BSD flavor, if I am remembering correctly.
Not necessarily. I could have bought a new Apple x86 system to run NetBSD on, or to make a Darwin server out of. I might prefer Sony laptops, and be using the OSX media that was bundled with the Apple hardware on a Sony laptop.
Hell, I might be somebody who likes OSX but hates Apple hardware, who happens to be rich. I might have hollowed out the Mac and be using it as a wastebasket.
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His eyes are green. We think he is a genetically white cat, not just a 'spotted cat with one big white spot.' But we know nothing about his genetic history.
The Slashdot editors only browse the web using an early version of Mozilla running on their Dreamcasts which run NetBSD. So they've got no way to verify such things.
combined with the fact that I wanted to tinker with Unix,
You read that phrase on a marketing brochure somewhere, correct?
There's also all the Adobe stuff.
If you want a fifteen second delay before it displays your PDF file, you want to use an Adobe viewer. The rest of us use xpdf.
Unfortunately for me, I tend to prefer Microsoft Office over OpenOffice.
Agreed. Unfortunately for you.
but there's no true color calibration system for Linux
Whoops! There goes the 2% of the Photoshop userbase for which that matters.
I would never like to go back to traditional UNIX desktops.
You've never 'resided' on a traditional UNIX desktop. That would be MWM, or CDE. You mentioned 'Debian' which didn't even exist in the 'traditional UNIX' era.
I don't have the time, nor the energy, to care anymore. OS X is for the practical inside of me. OS X is for the artist inside of me. OS X is for the lazy inside of me.
Sounds like you're parroting Apple Marketing slogans, now.
Which 'UNIX' have you used? You've used Linux and once loaded SFU on Windows NT??
I wouldn't mind so much that this article was posted if it was on apple.slashdot.com where it belongs.
Me, I want an $2800 24-bit graphics card that can do 800x600. And it has to be NuBus!
Anybody who says anything negative in a apple.slashdot.org thread is automatically a troll. And the phenomena is spreading, as Apple Product hype slowly melds out into offtopic areas of the site like hardware.slashdot.org.
I am queueing up in my mind all the 'warm your coffee on your pentium' jokes presented by Macnuts a decade ago. Which reminds me of all the bluster that 'RISC is the future' and 'the Pentium is a joke' etc. etc.
Enjoy your Pixar cartoons, kiddies!
Kids buy them while they're in school and get the heavy educational discount.
Then they graduate, start paying their student loans, and 'sidegrade' (not upgrade or downgrade) to a Dell.
Sun is 'mainly a hardware manufacturer' who offer their Solaris operating system for free download. They even make it relatively easy to install Solaris on any machine you own that is capable. And there are a LOT of clone boxes capable of running Solaris.
So what gives? Apple is cheaper and more tightfisted than Sun?
Sure, but Apple will 'exchange' your laptop for one they have 'reconditioned' that has some hip-hop artist's name etched in the cover. And you'll get five more region changes.
and absolutely smokin'.
It's my understanding that you have to wedge a toothpick into the fan grille to get that 'level of performance.' Plus you have to wait several minutes.
I don't really understand the significance of this news story.
It's important to any of the, er, 'consumers' who pre-ordered one without seeing anything at all physical to show them what they would be getting. Apparently there are enough said 'consumers' here on Slashdot (or one or two editors, or Apple Banner Revenue to harvest) to evoke that level of interest.
I know that if *I* pre-ordered a piece of expensive hardware without much info at all what it was going to be when it arrived, I would be anxious, too. Unless I was a moonie and it was some cherished relic from Sun Myung Moon or something.... Then I'd KNOW I had made the right choice by ordering it blindly.
So you're saying that with a 'Resolution Independent' display, that wide shiney brushed aluminum frame when I play a quicktime video will hog the same amount of screen no matter what resolution my display is set to?
Viva la Apple UI Wizards!
Our newest kitten is completely white, male, and stone deaf. Not an uncommon thing in male white cats.
A noisy MacBook wouldn't be a problem for him, either.
As a scholar, I would like to point out that 'Redneck' is a term that can describe stereotypical behavior which members of all races engage in. Particularly, modern 'ghetto culture' has it's roots in redneck culture. (Sowell himself is Black)
Maybe he's referring to 'Jackson State' though, the student massacre that happened shortly after 'Kent State' but which is commonly ignored. It was black students at Jackson, ya know. Less useful for 'stirring up sentiment' I guess. Supposedly 'enlightened progressives' are always playing the 'Kent State' card in what has to be considered a racist gesture.
They know it's their buddies who would be 'throwing them in gitmo' and that those guys will think twice, too.
The 'Windows Refund Day' you link to happened before Windows 2000 was out, let alone XP.
(and it was widely seen as an embarassing incident by many in the OSS community. I mean, Eric Raymond dressed up as Darth Vader and went into full rant mode.)
I have a Motorola PPC computer. It's even designed to run MacOS. I think I have a few others in storage, too.
I haven't downloaded and run it for awhile, but is Darwin released under the GPL? I was of the impression it was a different 'Open Source' license. It's not derived on Linux, so the license has more of a BSD flavor, if I am remembering correctly.
Not necessarily. I could have bought a new Apple x86 system to run NetBSD on, or to make a Darwin server out of. I might prefer Sony laptops, and be using the OSX media that was bundled with the Apple hardware on a Sony laptop.
Hell, I might be somebody who likes OSX but hates Apple hardware, who happens to be rich. I might have hollowed out the Mac and be using it as a wastebasket.
People have privledges like that, you know...
daily Apple users are not going to commit themselves to a platform that is just one software update away from suddenly not functioning
'Daily Apple users' have been doing that for decades, simply by buying Macintosh computers.