In other words, Apple is jacking up the profit margin. I'll be interested when Apple releases a Mac Mini with an integrated Cablecard tuner for under 1 grand.
You haven't stopped to think about how much more it costs to MILL a case from a solid block of Aluminum, have you? I guarantee that the new 'mini's case costs a lot more than the old one; even it if can be used as a heatsink.
Digital reception is so bad here in North Little Rock that after spending up to $60, $70 dollars for increasingly weird looking antennas, I just gave up and got cable.
I never liked analog static, but digital distortion is far - far worse... and that's assuming you can get any kind of digital signal at all.
Yeah, I'm with you. Reception went down considerably, and I live in a large metro area (Indianapolis). The few channels I do get are riddled with artifacts, freezes, drop-outs, you-name-it.
I find that "12% got worse reception" figure to be highly suspicious. I haven't talked with one single person who doesn't have reception problems with DTV.
This technique will probably require much tighter control over some figures of merit (specs) that are traditionally not that tightly controlled. For example, junction capacitance and resistance, as well as the thickness of the junctions themselves, will have to be elevated to a level of process-control precision that will likely make this a laboratory curiosity for a while.
testing process for app approval will be at least partially automated
Yeah, because that process has proven to produce bug-free OS code for Windows. BTW, Vista's testing was an exercise in Automated Testing...
And, BTW, who says that "Automated" testing "remove[s] the POSSIBILITY for an angry or prudish" rule-set? The testing is only as good (and as open-minded) as those writing the test-vector scripts. Over time, those scripts would naturally begin to resemble the re-flash of Robocop's "Rule-set" in Robocop 2, where he went from about 3 simple "Rules" to dozens of overlapping and even self-conflicting rules. Systems NEVER get more simple over time.
That is completely unacceptable from a business perspective; unfortunately, I am prohibited from gambling with company money, which is exactly what this is -- a poor draw of the cards can result in a total loss before the sales chain even enters the equation.
I guess you haven't done any real product R&D. ALL new product development (even contract development where the customer has given you the specs for 'exactly what they want') is a "gamble with the company's money". It OFTEN requires "buying new equipment, purchasing SDKs (Apple SDKs are free, after the $99 dev. license, btw)", and "bringing the team up to speed". And sometimes, even on a "sure fire" project, things just don't pan out. This happens to big companies and small alike. This is one of the reasons why everyone isn't walking around as a millionaire, and every business isn't as successful as Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
Even if your hypothetical app is approved, or even if you develop for a platform without any restrictions, there is ZERO GUARANTEE that you won't "result in a total loss".
So, where is this ideal world you live in, where "If you build it, they will come"?
Seems to me that you want a guarantee. Sorry, life (and business!) just don't work that way.
The market in general is much more open, but if you want an iPhone you're stuck with iPhone OS
Sez WHO?
Please tell me who is preventing you from doing the following with your "iOS device":
1. Wiping the device and writing your own OS from scratch. Apple did it. Why can't you?
2. Forking Android to run on iOS hardware (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). C'mon, what're you waiting for?
So, it seems like it is only your own limitations, not the device's, that is making you BELIEVE that you are "stuck" with iOS on your iPhone (assuming you had one).
By getting all hot under their e-collars about this ad-ban thing on iOS4 devices, Google management has made a tacit admission that they don't expect the Android market to make a significant dent in the iOS-device marketshare.
Think about it: If Google actually had faith in its own platform, they'd simply shrug off the ban.
Yep, Google, you just showed your hand... Very bad strategy on their part, methinks.
How are you supposed to know whatever you where expected to access that page or not?
I've got a simple test for you that may help: If you have to write a fucking SCRIPT to access something (100,000 times!) that the owner of the website expects you to access with a hypertext LINK (once or twice), then I'd say you MIGHT be a hax0r.
You REALLY wouldn't be pissed-off if this was YOUR email address that was published?
I think it's more like you walk into the store, no ones around, and a customer list is laying on the counter, open to see and easy to read.
Are you REALLY saying that what they did is NOT "unauthorized access"?
No, the real analogy is that you walk into our hypothetical "unattended" store, and the cashier's POS terminal says "Enter Account Number". And you do... 100,000 times. Then you write down the names and addresses of each of the account holders and PUBLISH THAT LIST IN THE NEWSPAPER.
So, you wouldn't mind if that happened to YOUR information?
'Although the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers, Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads.'
Just HOW does APPLE "bear responsibility" for AT&T's bad website coding practices?
I'd be much happier getting a picture of an event with my phone's camera - even if it wasn't optimal - than not getting it at all because I didn't have my DSLR with me...
That's why the REAL answer to the question "What is the best camera in the world?" is "The one you have WITH you!"
Yeah, because everyone knows that T-Mobile's 3G coverage in the US is SO much better than AT&T's.
I do agree, however, that everyone's 3G coverage is pretty abysmal, except Verizon's. Too bad they REJECTED the iPhone, eh? That has to go down in history as one of the most boneheaded, short-sighted business decisions of all time.
Speaking of which, where's my useable laptop-style keyboard?
Did you even watch the Keynote? There were some spectacular (and incidental) examples of Crackberry-style two-thumbed typing on the iPhone in portrait mode by some of the people doing the software demos. I was quite impressed at how fast (and accurately!) those people were entering text.
I'd say that the evidence is clear; if you are having a problem with on-screen keyboards, you might want to take a look at your meatspace I/O servo drivers, rather than the iPhone's keyboard design.
But then again, I make $texas (relative to my normal income) in giving sites ways to detect Adblock and ban you, or serve up less content, or just not display anything to you at all. "But adblock filters will find a way!" Mmmhmm, and I'll be given more money to get around the fixes.
And it is YOU (and others just as despicable as you) that are clogging the tubes and our inboxes with unwanted, unwarranted, and ILLEGAL crap! FUCKING STOP IT!!!!
Thanks for your help in making the internet HELL for the rest of us, while you line your pockets, you disgusting fucker!
I think I speak for most of the internet-using population in saying EAT SHIT AND DIE A HORRIBLE, PAINFUL DEATH YOU DISGUSTING, GREEDY, ANONYMOUS LITTLE COWARDLY SLIMEBALL!!! WHY DON'T YOU POST UNDER YOUR REAL NAME SO WE CAN DDOS YOUR ASS INTO SUBMISSION. YOUR KIND GIVES ALL OF GEEKDOM A BAD NAME, YOU FUCKING LITTLE COWARDLY BITCH!!!
Especially once the 2.2 update comes out in a month, Android will be significantly superior to the iPhone OS.
Better in what way(s), specifically? Especially since "better" is often a purely subjective term. And don't just fall back on that tired, old "Because it's open" argument. Open Source stuff has yet to storm ANY market, and it's had NINETEEN YEARS to do so.
You are assuming this is inherently a bad thing. Unless you'd like my behavior to not be artificially limited by laws and authority. Because if you don't want anything to be artificially limited, you won't mind me coming over there to strangle your stupid short-sighted ass for making dumb assumptions.
I tip my hat to you, sir! That was one FINE analogy, and directly on-point!
Does anyone know what the "Retina display" means?
Is it just a marketing term (a la "Powerglide transmission") or does it actually describe some innovation in the display?
And can we please pitch in and buy Steve Jobs a sandwich? Even Kate Moss says he's too skinny.
I believe that Jobs more or less explained that term in the Keynote. It refers to the fact that, at 10 to 12 inches, the display actually has more resolution than a human retina (and lens). So yes, it is a marketing term; and yes, it actually describes an innovation (326ppi) in the (Apple designed) display.
In case you have been offworld for the past year; Mssr. Jobs had a liver transplant, you insensitive clod. That means he gets to LIVE; but it doesn't mean he isn't still sick.
For one thing, he has to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life. That basically gives him chemically-induced AIDS (no jokes, please!). And, since you obviously know absolutely nothing about human anatomy and the functions of the various organs (like the liver), one of the liver's MANY functions (besides that whole chemical-processing thing it does!) is to help regulate insulin/glucose levels in the bloodstream. When those go whacky, you can either eat nearly nothing and gain weight, or eat everything in sight and remain gaunt.
And if you look at Steve's physique, he isn't THAT much skinnier than he was in pictures from 30+ years ago. He's always been pretty thin.
I was flipping channels yesterday afternoon, and saw a live demo of this stuff on CNN. It was very impressive. The output water wasn't crystal-clear, but it was pretty close to it.
What I hate is OS X's interface. I gave it a try for a couple of months. It really gets in my way and takes away a lot of power. Sure it's got some decent ideas but it's fundamentally broken. I want to alt-tab between windows, not apps. Even with third-party apps I never found a way of doing so.
...blah, blah, blah, can't be bothered to look for blah, blah, blah
My machine is a MacBookPro from last year and I gave OS X a decent chance for 2-3 months. Now I run Debian on it.
Yeah, you gave it a BEGRUDGING chance, you mean. Here's what I found in 500 milliseconds (really!) of Googling:
So, to crib from the list, You can "Alt-Tab" between either every single window in every single application (Ctrl-F4), or only in the frontmost application (Command-`). For fuck's sake, I dare say there are enough keyboard shortcuts in OS X that it begins to resemble emacs (;-) ). In fact, I DARE you to remember all these. Quite frankly, I was amazed that there were some of these. FFS, OS X has defined keyboard commands to do stuff I've never even thought of doing, like "Decrease the size of the selected item" (!!!), or "Copy the formatting settings of the selected item and store on the Clipboard" (!!!!!). You see, much like the old DEC terminals, Apple has an additional modifier key (Command), and so can actually (and apparently does) have more keyboard shortcuts than most OSes.
Oh, and as far as your "Keep running while lid is closed", what you mean is "Clamshell mode", and can be invoked with a simple keypress on startup (if attached to an external display). And if you wish to disable the lid "sleep" sensor, you don't have to "install a damn third-party app", you simply have to enter "sudo pmset -a lidwake 0" (if you want to do it on any power), or "sudo pmset -b lidwake 0" (if you want it to only do that when on batteries).
BTW, I don't even own a MacBook or MacBook Pro and I Googled both answers about "lid closed" operation in 2 seconds. Literally the first and second hit on the first search page.
(OS X really gets in my way and I hate it even though it has acceptable underlying tools.)
Why? What "gets in the way" about being able to have your GUI and CLI, too.
I do understand why certain tasks MIGHT be easier or even possible in CLI-world than in GUI-world (mostly due to the GUI designer making tradeoffs between having a clean, consistent GUI vs. having every single knob and switch exposed). But I simply cannot understand why most, if not all, Linux geeks would be so actively hostile toward an OS (OS X) that, while not completely F/OSS, is at least created by a company that actively participates in the F/OSS community.
Do you feel like OS X "gets in [your] way" because certain System directories are normally "invisible" to the Finder? You DO know that you can reach ANY folder with the Finder's "Go" command, right? And there is a simple preference change to make it so that, not only does the Finder show ALL files (with extensions), but you can see/navigate to all the scary bits that Apple normally hides from "dumb users". I have found that those two changes make most Linux users a lot happier with OS X, because every single Linux user thinks they will DIE if they don't do two things: 1) Run as root (usually needlessly; 2) Poke around (needlessly) in the depths of the System directories.
So, why wouldn't you like an OS (OS X) that has Unix underpinnings and a bitchin' CLI, but still lets you run Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, VectorWorks, Logic/ProTools, et cetera, NONE of which has a REASONABLE Linux counterpart, and NONE of which would be ANY fun to (try to) manipulate from a Command Line. I mean, can you imagine drawing a 3D model of your house using a CLI? As I said, some tasks lend themselves to a CLI. OS X has that. And some tasks lend themselves to a GUI. OS X has that (and arguably better than Linux), AS WELL AS THE ACCESS TO BEST-OF-BREED APPLICATIONS that use that GUI (which Linux does NOT).
I'm really not trying to fan the flames of war, just curious as to why all the hate of an OS that really does pull off the best of both worlds. And please don't start that tired "It's a proprietary OS" stuff; because your arguments were USABILITY-based (CLI vs. GUI), not PHILOSOPHY-based (Open vs. Closed).
Ubuntu is actually hurting the open source industry. Most fedora users refer to ubuntu users as dumb people or the uburdumb people.
And THAT is EXACTLY why Linux is doomed. Because Linux users are too busy patting themselves on the back for being 1337, while usability continues to be neglected.
Wake up, idiot! Only about.0005% of the computer-using populace gives a SHIT about a CLI, or any of the other things self-styled ub3r 1337 hAx0rs cream their jeans over.
Doesn't make them "dumb" or "uburdumb"[sic], it makes them people for which a computer is a TOOL, not a reason-to-live.
Fedora 13 has just been released. It includes some major features like automatic print driver installation, automatic language pack installation, redesigned user account tool, color management to calibrate monitors and scanners, experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards, and more."
So, in other words, it's getting around to competing with OS X 10.2, right?
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that everything except the NVidia 3D support was available in OS X 10.0, which is over 10 years old.
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In other words, Apple is jacking up the profit margin. I'll be interested when Apple releases a Mac Mini with an integrated Cablecard tuner for under 1 grand.
You haven't stopped to think about how much more it costs to MILL a case from a solid block of Aluminum, have you? I guarantee that the new 'mini's case costs a lot more than the old one; even it if can be used as a heatsink.
Digital reception is so bad here in North Little Rock that after spending up to $60, $70 dollars for increasingly weird looking antennas, I just gave up and got cable.
I never liked analog static, but digital distortion is far - far worse... and that's assuming you can get any kind of digital signal at all.
Yeah, I'm with you. Reception went down considerably, and I live in a large metro area (Indianapolis). The few channels I do get are riddled with artifacts, freezes, drop-outs, you-name-it.
I find that "12% got worse reception" figure to be highly suspicious. I haven't talked with one single person who doesn't have reception problems with DTV.
This technique will probably require much tighter control over some figures of merit (specs) that are traditionally not that tightly controlled. For example, junction capacitance and resistance, as well as the thickness of the junctions themselves, will have to be elevated to a level of process-control precision that will likely make this a laboratory curiosity for a while.
testing process for app approval will be at least partially automated
Yeah, because that process has proven to produce bug-free OS code for Windows. BTW, Vista's testing was an exercise in Automated Testing...
And, BTW, who says that "Automated" testing "remove[s] the POSSIBILITY for an angry or prudish" rule-set? The testing is only as good (and as open-minded) as those writing the test-vector scripts. Over time, those scripts would naturally begin to resemble the re-flash of Robocop's "Rule-set" in Robocop 2, where he went from about 3 simple "Rules" to dozens of overlapping and even self-conflicting rules. Systems NEVER get more simple over time.
That is completely unacceptable from a business perspective; unfortunately, I am prohibited from gambling with company money, which is exactly what this is -- a poor draw of the cards can result in a total loss before the sales chain even enters the equation.
I guess you haven't done any real product R&D. ALL new product development (even contract development where the customer has given you the specs for 'exactly what they want') is a "gamble with the company's money". It OFTEN requires "buying new equipment, purchasing SDKs (Apple SDKs are free, after the $99 dev. license, btw)", and "bringing the team up to speed". And sometimes, even on a "sure fire" project, things just don't pan out. This happens to big companies and small alike. This is one of the reasons why everyone isn't walking around as a millionaire, and every business isn't as successful as Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
Even if your hypothetical app is approved, or even if you develop for a platform without any restrictions, there is ZERO GUARANTEE that you won't "result in a total loss".
So, where is this ideal world you live in, where "If you build it, they will come"?
Seems to me that you want a guarantee. Sorry, life (and business!) just don't work that way.
Stuff even attempting to develop on this platform.
Just more room on the App Store for everyone else!
NOW who's the REAL loser?
The market in general is much more open, but if you want an iPhone you're stuck with iPhone OS
Sez WHO?
Please tell me who is preventing you from doing the following with your "iOS device":
1. Wiping the device and writing your own OS from scratch. Apple did it. Why can't you?
2. Forking Android to run on iOS hardware (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). C'mon, what're you waiting for?
So, it seems like it is only your own limitations, not the device's, that is making you BELIEVE that you are "stuck" with iOS on your iPhone (assuming you had one).
By getting all hot under their e-collars about this ad-ban thing on iOS4 devices, Google management has made a tacit admission that they don't expect the Android market to make a significant dent in the iOS-device marketshare.
Think about it: If Google actually had faith in its own platform, they'd simply shrug off the ban.
Yep, Google, you just showed your hand... Very bad strategy on their part, methinks.
How are you supposed to know whatever you where expected to access that page or not?
I've got a simple test for you that may help: If you have to write a fucking SCRIPT to access something (100,000 times!) that the owner of the website expects you to access with a hypertext LINK (once or twice), then I'd say you MIGHT be a hax0r.
You REALLY wouldn't be pissed-off if this was YOUR email address that was published?
Really?
I think it's more like you walk into the store, no ones around, and a customer list is laying on the counter, open to see and easy to read.
Are you REALLY saying that what they did is NOT "unauthorized access"?
No, the real analogy is that you walk into our hypothetical "unattended" store, and the cashier's POS terminal says "Enter Account Number". And you do... 100,000 times. Then you write down the names and addresses of each of the account holders and PUBLISH THAT LIST IN THE NEWSPAPER.
So, you wouldn't mind if that happened to YOUR information?
Gimme a break, fucktard!
'Although the security vulnerability was confined to AT&T servers, Apple bears responsibility for ensuring the privacy of its users, who must provide the company with their email addresses to activate their iPads.'
Just HOW does APPLE "bear responsibility" for AT&T's bad website coding practices?
Talk about yellow journalism!!!
I'd be much happier getting a picture of an event with my phone's camera - even if it wasn't optimal - than not getting it at all because I didn't have my DSLR with me...
That's why the REAL answer to the question "What is the best camera in the world?" is "The one you have WITH you!"
Yeah, because everyone knows that T-Mobile's 3G coverage in the US is SO much better than AT&T's.
I do agree, however, that everyone's 3G coverage is pretty abysmal, except Verizon's. Too bad they REJECTED the iPhone, eh? That has to go down in history as one of the most boneheaded, short-sighted business decisions of all time.
Speaking of which, where's my useable laptop-style keyboard?
Did you even watch the Keynote? There were some spectacular (and incidental) examples of Crackberry-style two-thumbed typing on the iPhone in portrait mode by some of the people doing the software demos. I was quite impressed at how fast (and accurately!) those people were entering text.
I'd say that the evidence is clear; if you are having a problem with on-screen keyboards, you might want to take a look at your meatspace I/O servo drivers, rather than the iPhone's keyboard design.
But then again, I make $texas (relative to my normal income) in giving sites ways to detect Adblock and ban you, or serve up less content, or just not display anything to you at all. "But adblock filters will find a way!" Mmmhmm, and I'll be given more money to get around the fixes.
And it is YOU (and others just as despicable as you) that are clogging the tubes and our inboxes with unwanted, unwarranted, and ILLEGAL crap! FUCKING STOP IT!!!!
Thanks for your help in making the internet HELL for the rest of us, while you line your pockets, you disgusting fucker!
I think I speak for most of the internet-using population in saying EAT SHIT AND DIE A HORRIBLE, PAINFUL DEATH YOU DISGUSTING, GREEDY, ANONYMOUS LITTLE COWARDLY SLIMEBALL!!! WHY DON'T YOU POST UNDER YOUR REAL NAME SO WE CAN DDOS YOUR ASS INTO SUBMISSION. YOUR KIND GIVES ALL OF GEEKDOM A BAD NAME, YOU FUCKING LITTLE COWARDLY BITCH!!!
Oh man that's horrible. The ad takes up the whole screen. If I had a ton of apps that did that it'd really annoy the hell out of me.
It only takes up the whole screen if you ASK it to.
Moron.
Especially once the 2.2 update comes out in a month, Android will be significantly superior to the iPhone OS.
Better in what way(s), specifically? Especially since "better" is often a purely subjective term. And don't just fall back on that tired, old "Because it's open" argument. Open Source stuff has yet to storm ANY market, and it's had NINETEEN YEARS to do so.
"artificially limited"
You are assuming this is inherently a bad thing. Unless you'd like my behavior to not be artificially limited by laws and authority. Because if you don't want anything to be artificially limited, you won't mind me coming over there to strangle your stupid short-sighted ass for making dumb assumptions.
I tip my hat to you, sir! That was one FINE analogy, and directly on-point!
Does anyone know what the "Retina display" means? Is it just a marketing term (a la "Powerglide transmission") or does it actually describe some innovation in the display? And can we please pitch in and buy Steve Jobs a sandwich? Even Kate Moss says he's too skinny.
I believe that Jobs more or less explained that term in the Keynote. It refers to the fact that, at 10 to 12 inches, the display actually has more resolution than a human retina (and lens). So yes, it is a marketing term; and yes, it actually describes an innovation (326ppi) in the (Apple designed) display.
In case you have been offworld for the past year; Mssr. Jobs had a liver transplant, you insensitive clod. That means he gets to LIVE; but it doesn't mean he isn't still sick.
For one thing, he has to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of his life. That basically gives him chemically-induced AIDS (no jokes, please!). And, since you obviously know absolutely nothing about human anatomy and the functions of the various organs (like the liver), one of the liver's MANY functions (besides that whole chemical-processing thing it does!) is to help regulate insulin/glucose levels in the bloodstream. When those go whacky, you can either eat nearly nothing and gain weight, or eat everything in sight and remain gaunt.
And if you look at Steve's physique, he isn't THAT much skinnier than he was in pictures from 30+ years ago. He's always been pretty thin.
I was flipping channels yesterday afternoon, and saw a live demo of this stuff on CNN. It was very impressive. The output water wasn't crystal-clear, but it was pretty close to it.
What I hate is OS X's interface. I gave it a try for a couple of months. It really gets in my way and takes away a lot of power. Sure it's got some decent ideas but it's fundamentally broken. I want to alt-tab between windows, not apps. Even with third-party apps I never found a way of doing so.
...blah, blah, blah, can't be bothered to look for blah, blah, blah
My machine is a MacBookPro from last year and I gave OS X a decent chance for 2-3 months. Now I run Debian on it.
Yeah, you gave it a BEGRUDGING chance, you mean. Here's what I found in 500 milliseconds (really!) of Googling:
;-) ). In fact, I DARE you to remember all these. Quite frankly, I was amazed that there were some of these. FFS, OS X has defined keyboard commands to do stuff I've never even thought of doing, like "Decrease the size of the selected item" (!!!), or "Copy the formatting settings of the selected item and store on the Clipboard" (!!!!!). You see, much like the old DEC terminals, Apple has an additional modifier key (Command), and so can actually (and apparently does) have more keyboard shortcuts than most OSes.
So, to crib from the list, You can "Alt-Tab" between either every single window in every single application (Ctrl-F4), or only in the frontmost application (Command-`). For fuck's sake, I dare say there are enough keyboard shortcuts in OS X that it begins to resemble emacs (
Oh, and as far as your "Keep running while lid is closed", what you mean is "Clamshell mode", and can be invoked with a simple keypress on startup (if attached to an external display). And if you wish to disable the lid "sleep" sensor, you don't have to "install a damn third-party app", you simply have to enter "sudo pmset -a lidwake 0" (if you want to do it on any power), or "sudo pmset -b lidwake 0" (if you want it to only do that when on batteries).
BTW, I don't even own a MacBook or MacBook Pro and I Googled both answers about "lid closed" operation in 2 seconds. Literally the first and second hit on the first search page.
So, it seems like YOU are the problem, not OS X.
(OS X really gets in my way and I hate it even though it has acceptable underlying tools.)
Why? What "gets in the way" about being able to have your GUI and CLI, too.
I do understand why certain tasks MIGHT be easier or even possible in CLI-world than in GUI-world (mostly due to the GUI designer making tradeoffs between having a clean, consistent GUI vs. having every single knob and switch exposed). But I simply cannot understand why most, if not all, Linux geeks would be so actively hostile toward an OS (OS X) that, while not completely F/OSS, is at least created by a company that actively participates in the F/OSS community.
Do you feel like OS X "gets in [your] way" because certain System directories are normally "invisible" to the Finder? You DO know that you can reach ANY folder with the Finder's "Go" command, right? And there is a simple preference change to make it so that, not only does the Finder show ALL files (with extensions), but you can see/navigate to all the scary bits that Apple normally hides from "dumb users". I have found that those two changes make most Linux users a lot happier with OS X, because every single Linux user thinks they will DIE if they don't do two things: 1) Run as root (usually needlessly; 2) Poke around (needlessly) in the depths of the System directories.
So, why wouldn't you like an OS (OS X) that has Unix underpinnings and a bitchin' CLI, but still lets you run Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, VectorWorks, Logic/ProTools, et cetera, NONE of which has a REASONABLE Linux counterpart, and NONE of which would be ANY fun to (try to) manipulate from a Command Line. I mean, can you imagine drawing a 3D model of your house using a CLI? As I said, some tasks lend themselves to a CLI. OS X has that. And some tasks lend themselves to a GUI. OS X has that (and arguably better than Linux), AS WELL AS THE ACCESS TO BEST-OF-BREED APPLICATIONS that use that GUI (which Linux does NOT).
I'm really not trying to fan the flames of war, just curious as to why all the hate of an OS that really does pull off the best of both worlds. And please don't start that tired "It's a proprietary OS" stuff; because your arguments were USABILITY-based (CLI vs. GUI), not PHILOSOPHY-based (Open vs. Closed).
Ubuntu is actually hurting the open source industry. Most fedora users refer to ubuntu users as dumb people or the uburdumb people.
And THAT is EXACTLY why Linux is doomed. Because Linux users are too busy patting themselves on the back for being 1337, while usability continues to be neglected.
.0005% of the computer-using populace gives a SHIT about a CLI, or any of the other things self-styled ub3r 1337 hAx0rs cream their jeans over.
Wake up, idiot! Only about
Doesn't make them "dumb" or "uburdumb"[sic], it makes them people for which a computer is a TOOL, not a reason-to-live.
Fedora 13 has just been released. It includes some major features like automatic print driver installation, automatic language pack installation, redesigned user account tool, color management to calibrate monitors and scanners, experimental 3D support for NVIDIA video cards, and more."
So, in other words, it's getting around to competing with OS X 10.2, right?
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that everything except the NVidia 3D support was available in OS X 10.0, which is over 10 years old.
Go ahead and mod me down; but dems da facts...
It seems likely Google did look some stuff up before they decided to transcode their entire YouTube library to VP8.
Did they actually DO that already? Citation, please.