A mini Tower with 2x more space so they won't be bothering with 5400 RPM HD, integrated Gfx card. I am speaking about a bigger Mac Mini.
Hmmm... Not sure it is gonna happen. Apple supports only limited range of hardware to ensure hardware really works stable. Allowing user to add some more hardware, which could be extremely poor -- this situation will dramatically increase phonecalls to Apple and you probably will not be very happy if Apple will turn to be non-responsive company, like Microsoft...
I've found unable to test Opera 9.5b on WebKit's SunRise test. Thus I've tested using this one: http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/javascript/speed-test.html and it appears that standard Safari from Leopard (version 3.0.4, build 5523.10.6) in some places same as Opera 9.50b, in some places bit faster and in some places as twice as faster than Opera. Also, Opera fails lots of tests with traceback errors.
Here, foks, here (http://catb.org/~esr/html-hell.html):
masturbation with Javascript
There is a large class of Javascript annoyances perpetrated by people whose ability to do cutting and pasting exceeds their negligible sense of taste. Of these, one of the most common is the script that scrolls text in the Netscape status line. To all the disadvantages of this one adds the fact that you can't see where links go any more. Better than that, pages with 25K of Javascript followed by
There is also http://www.reportlab.org/ and open-source incarnations of RML (OpenRML and TinyRML). This is Python library, but works with Java via Jython.
I had read the article. *Yaaaaaaaawnnn*... Hey, pcmag dude, I own three Macs at home and bunch of PCs, one of it Microsoft-dedicated and at the company infrastructure heavily mixed with Apple stuff. Usually, Apple OS release at the beginning is a plain crap and mostly at the edge of impossibility to use. Thus from my admin practice:
Leopard upgrade from Tiger was easiest and painful-less upgrade I saw ever. It just freakin works, as freakin advertised. I was that surprised...
So far it works much more stable as even Tiger 10.4.3 on its release.
I never had any BSOD even with Developer Preview builds. Yes, I had troubles with wireless long time ago, but no BSODs.
I had never any troubles with any software installed after upgrade. It all works and launches just fine. A bunch of third-party software I just use daily...
Upgrades from Apple -- != service packs from Microsoft and happens much often than MS Windows OS. Here PCMag says a plain bullshit which actually drives me nuts (/. folks, please forgive me these fucking swearwords).
You complain for you can't set up Time Machine from within Time Machine? Scattered across UI settings like a shit hits a fan sounds better to you, huh?
Complains overall looks kinda lame to me: better find any similarities between Apple and Vista of hardware greediness and performance. Leopard works fucking faster than Tiger on the fucking same hardware.
I don't care about block-level backups. If Apple would do this stupid thing once, I would probably move all my ~ homefolder to Subversion over again. Hard links rocks, but chunked changed bytes equals to no backup, if your proprietary software dead.
I've just tried the same with Jython 2.2.1 and I can confirm, that CPython 2.5.1 is slower around 10% than Java 1.6 + Jython 2.2.1 on my Leopard machine. Damn weird...
I find that the KDE apps (k3b, kate, etc.) are more full-featured, but the Gnome desktop seems much cleaner to me. So I'm just glad they can peacefully coexist.
Actually they are don't: developers from both kingdoms hate each other, slashdotters modding down their opposers and applications on any Linux distribution looks different, not integrated at all because of overall incompatibility.
Unfortunately, Gnome and KDE guys will always reject the true fact that they ALREADY won on Unix desktop, that it is time to be together. Instead, they will never unite together to be one heart, they will never try to develop common protocol for UI (which is essentially a documents) and they will continue their damn Holy Jihad.
We, as users, will never see in Linux desktop integrity between applications to let system dialogs be similar (OK/Cancel at one standard place, "Apply" button for everything or apply automatically etc), common shortcuts same, same usability feeling, keyboard navigation, theming, icons etc. IOW, indistinguishable from each other for end-user.
Instead, we will have forever two different things, like "GUI No One Might Enjoy" and "Kids DesKtop Environment due to Khildish looK", where both will be replaced by an ascetic FluxBox with 20 xterms running... Done! Others, who need decent desktop like Beagle with small CPU/Mem usage, fast F-Spot, tightly integrated environment which can run fast on old G3/256M RAM with all eyecandy which OSX had implemented number of years long time ago -- all of them are just lame lus0rz!:-)
And yes, do not ever mention devil's OSX as an abstract example of a technology forever ever. Otherwise you will be shot as troll immediately. Like me just now.;-)
Unfortunately, it is still true. On old software it looks still crappy and we still are going to use old software for long time (some companies are using Perl 4x and Solaris 2.x for instance). And Vista is not so popular here in Japan too.
On mac no difference between old and new software, except one supports i18n, another does not.
All these command-line fixes just show how Mac OS X is not yet ready for the desktop, and how Linux is superior because "it just works.";)
Well, Russian proverb says: "Drunk person will be sober and OK next day, but woman with short crooked legs will be like this forever.". So just wait for OSX's next day...:-P
I to buy that exactly, to type this short text, and from Japanese from English
You tried in order to translate. As for that you see rather in me
It is good, don't you think? so is?
I agree. But anyway you will be enforced to do it later. Well, OK, not *you*:-). M$ is pushing users towards Vista you want it or not. Once XP will be stopped in support, or support will be twice or triple more sh!tty.
IMHO Vista is a sh!t. But, IMHO, you are doomed to use it anyway.
Below is all my IMHO, folks. Be friendly, don't take me as troll. But you still doomed to see Vista, no matter how shitty Vista is. Because:
Microsoft Office on MS Windows is still a winner for daily business. It is tragic, it is incompatible between its versions, it is unstylish, it is horribly looking. But winner. Why? Because people is using it for so long time and Excel there is fastest among competitors and has lots of features. And Excel is stupid fucking format, which all users in business companies usually stupidly fucking using it. Either you shall do something better or give up. Look at the newest Apple thingy: Numbers from iWork '08. It just does not works like Excel does. It is different thing. People, who already working -- they won't change in their mind. They want simply continue their work and go beer at the evening.
Linux Desktop is just plain sucks and disappointing thing.:-( Yes, it works. Yes, it DOES works. Yes, it has that stunning XGL things (despite of it is completely useless CPU waste, yet I still love it). Yes, you can install Enlightenment and feel like inside Unreal Tournament. Yes, KMail is brilliant, Evolution is really nice, with OpenOffice.org you can do very complex usefull business ugly documents, yes you can listen the music, radio, watch the video and even eventually semi-sync your iPod (still no iTunes Store available). But all this is not a Desktop yet. The *integration of the software* is just plain sucks simply everywhere -- no matter Gnome or KDE or in between. Well, there are NO integration at all. You have dozen different pop-up dialogs for "Open file", you have extrenely stupid Nautilus with total absense of user-friendly (e.g: take pencil and paper and enumerate steps required to enable Trash Bin on desktop?) and so on... X11 desktop which is available today is that *wacky* and painfull.
"Grey mass" syndrome of simply users. They think in chain way, like: John use Windows, Steve use Windows, therefore I have to use Windows.
You would say what is the proposal? Let's try to think.;-) In my opinion:
Desktop integration. Take a look at OSX and simply copy the principle. The first step would be making the fucking holy standard for developing the applications, no matter this is GTK or QT or whatever you want.
Killer application. I have to admit that Firefox and OpenOffice are much better their predecessors (Mozilla and StarOffice). But we need something killing for DAILY boring office worker desktop usage. It should be fast, nifty, compatible and easy (to learn and to launch too).
Do something with those glibc/libc incompatibilities between distros. I am sure vendor wants to release a software, the binary of which could work on any Ubuntu, any RHEL, any Fedora, any SuSE, any Gentoo and any other things you can imagine. Just take it, drop it to the installer thingy and zip-zop! -- it is installed, no matter distro you have. This perfectly works for OSX and works for Windows. Well, almost perfectly.;-) I am not talking about apt-get or yum things (infrastructure). I am talking about compatibility of them.
Stop ridicule and underestimate Microsoft but start respect them as a competitor and usually BETTER software writer. They generate brilliant ideas -- that's their strong side. But they implement them usually shitty and never think more practically about their ideas -- that's weakness we can exploit.
P.S. I am MacOSX, Solaris, Linux and BSD advanced power user and developer of software for more than 10 years. Don't tell me soap stories about "nice Linux Desktop", please. Just fucking please.
A microphone. VOIP with WIFI is kinda useless without a mic...
Well. You still have that wiide connector at the bottom. I am not sure, but this might be the way you can get it, since that new iPod is on top of the OSX. So just matter of hacking?:)
And this is might be one of the reasons why did they drop prices down for iPhone: is like "don't hack it yourself, better get iPhone as it is"
Finally it happend. XFree died but we've got X.Org fork. Looks like this "SQL interface to the filesystem" will die as same, but maybe even with no fork. Well, I am much happier on PostgreSQL for years already.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm... Not sure it is gonna happen. Apple supports only limited range of hardware to ensure hardware really works stable. Allowing user to add some more hardware, which could be extremely poor -- this situation will dramatically increase phonecalls to Apple and you probably will not be very happy if Apple will turn to be non-responsive company, like Microsoft...
I've found unable to test Opera 9.5b on WebKit's SunRise test. Thus I've tested using this one: http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/javascript/speed-test.html and it appears that standard Safari from Leopard (version 3.0.4, build 5523.10.6) in some places same as Opera 9.50b, in some places bit faster and in some places as twice as faster than Opera. Also, Opera fails lots of tests with traceback errors.
Check it out yourself.
There is also http://www.reportlab.org/ and open-source incarnations of RML (OpenRML and TinyRML). This is Python library, but works with Java via Jython.
I had read the article. *Yaaaaaaaawnnn*... Hey, pcmag dude, I own three Macs at home and bunch of PCs, one of it Microsoft-dedicated and at the company infrastructure heavily mixed with Apple stuff. Usually, Apple OS release at the beginning is a plain crap and mostly at the edge of impossibility to use. Thus from my admin practice:
PCMag: yawn.
I've just tried the same with Jython 2.2.1 and I can confirm, that CPython 2.5.1 is slower around 10% than Java 1.6 + Jython 2.2.1 on my Leopard machine. Damn weird...
Actually they are don't: developers from both kingdoms hate each other, slashdotters modding down their opposers and applications on any Linux distribution looks different, not integrated at all because of overall incompatibility.
Unfortunately, Gnome and KDE guys will always reject the true fact that they ALREADY won on Unix desktop, that it is time to be together. Instead, they will never unite together to be one heart, they will never try to develop common protocol for UI (which is essentially a documents) and they will continue their damn Holy Jihad.
We, as users, will never see in Linux desktop integrity between applications to let system dialogs be similar (OK/Cancel at one standard place, "Apply" button for everything or apply automatically etc), common shortcuts same, same usability feeling, keyboard navigation, theming, icons etc. IOW, indistinguishable from each other for end-user.
Instead, we will have forever two different things, like "GUI No One Might Enjoy" and "Kids DesKtop Environment due to Khildish looK", where both will be replaced by an ascetic FluxBox with 20 xterms running... Done! Others, who need decent desktop like Beagle with small CPU/Mem usage, fast F-Spot, tightly integrated environment which can run fast on old G3/256M RAM with all eyecandy which OSX had implemented number of years long time ago -- all of them are just lame lus0rz! :-)
And yes, do not ever mention devil's OSX as an abstract example of a technology forever ever. Otherwise you will be shot as troll immediately. Like me just now. ;-)
Hang on... where I saw this logo already... Ah, it is a ID Software's first Quake! ;-)
Unfortunately, it is still true. On old software it looks still crappy and we still are going to use old software for long time (some companies are using Perl 4x and Solaris 2.x for instance). And Vista is not so popular here in Japan too.
On mac no difference between old and new software, except one supports i18n, another does not.
Great! Now let us wait for last machine with Windows 3.1 ...
Hmm... Something very similar... Where I did saw it already?.. Ah, Microsoft Vista from Wall-Martosoft cloning Apple MacOSX...
And Finder now finally Cocoa application with iTunes-like interface and cover flow. :)
Anyone tried it so far?.....
Look at this one. If you see more clearly for "true similarity" on the red pipe (?), then you will notice slightly a bullshit. :)
I to buy that exactly, to type this short text, and from Japanese from English
You tried in order to translate. As for that you see rather in me
It is good, don't you think? so is?
*yaaaawn*
I agree. But anyway you will be enforced to do it later. Well, OK, not *you* :-). M$ is pushing users towards Vista you want it or not. Once XP will be stopped in support, or support will be twice or triple more sh!tty.
IMHO Vista is a sh!t. But, IMHO, you are doomed to use it anyway.
Below is all my IMHO, folks. Be friendly, don't take me as troll. But you still doomed to see Vista, no matter how shitty Vista is. Because:You would say what is the proposal? Let's try to think. ;-) In my opinion:
P.S. I am MacOSX, Solaris, Linux and BSD advanced power user and developer of software for more than 10 years. Don't tell me soap stories about "nice Linux Desktop", please. Just fucking please.
Well. You still have that wiide connector at the bottom. I am not sure, but this might be the way you can get it, since that new iPod is on top of the OSX. So just matter of hacking? :)
And this is might be one of the reasons why did they drop prices down for iPhone: is like "don't hack it yourself, better get iPhone as it is"
Finally it happend. XFree died but we've got X.Org fork. Looks like this "SQL interface to the filesystem" will die as same, but maybe even with no fork. Well, I am much happier on PostgreSQL for years already.