Most people have no trouble with service pack upgrades, as they've been tested a long time before getting released.
Actually, I think Vista SP1 seem to have had a longer testing period than usual.
Ummm, were you off-world last month when enough people had trouble with Vista SP1 MS recalled it?
I know you're just a troll, but what the heck, here are three differences: (1) No-one is forced to adopt the latest kernel by the desperate desire to just get the OS to do what it's supposed to do. (2) It takes a very special degree of buffoonery to have the money MS has to throw at problems and come up with a solution like Vista. The kernel is thriving on a tiny fraction of that budget. (3) If I want to fix Vista myself I can't because it's proprietary.
If your Vista experience is so trouble-free then why are you even thinking about file transfer speeds (a well-known trouble point for Vista)? I certainly never think about that, haven't needed to in years...
My home desktop is a G4 eMac, 1.25 GHz with 1 GB RAM, running OS X Tiger and it plays flash perfectly. Most codecs perfectly in fact, except certain avi files -- not sure why, but I suspect some windows media player chicanery (because I've experienced that same "some avi files" problem in *nix).
Well I don't blame you for withholding mod points, karma whoring is kind of ugly. But when I feel compelled to express what is most likely an unpopular opinion, I do hope to soften the blow a bit -- gets the message across better.:)
I agree you can't beat Linux or BSD for programming and they really are a lot of fun. In fact the bit of programming I do is *nix-oriented rather than OS X-oriented, because I do look forward to the day I no longer need any proprietary software.
I get so sick of reading ignorant comments like that, why are you so angry at Apple users anyway?
Here's a clue for you: A lot of us use Macs because they actually work best for what we do, not because we think Jobs is a saint or we want to be his sex slaves. Many of us are well aware that Jobs is a bit of an asshole, but he's a conscientious asshole with enough ego to do his best to put out a great product. And there lies the big difference between Jobs and Gates -- Gates is happy to charge exorbitant prices for something he knows sucks, Jobs won't sell it to you until he's sure it rocks.
If I had to do my multitrack recording and mixing in Linux, BSD (other than OS X), or Windows I'd just go back to recording on tape. I happen to love FBSD especially, but just try using jack, OSS, or ALSA to do any serious multimedia production and it is truly fucking horrible. I tried it for literally years (and still do give it a whirl every few months to see if it's ready yet) but in the end I gave up and bought a Mac. Now I am aware that some of that is because of the difficulty of writing drivers for hardware which is undocumented, but still -- I need results. So the next time you feel the need to abuse someone just because they use a Mac, ask yourself instead why you hate that they use the Mac. What difference does it make to you?
Are you just envious, or are you displacing anger over something else?
Oh screw it, I'll just say it in terms you can understand: If all you Linux fanbois spent half the energy fixing things like ALSA drivers and Xorg you spend to bitch about users of other OSs Linux would be the only choice by now. But that would require you to actually admit that Linux still sucks for some things (ooh there goes my karma...).
In a nutshell, why don't you pull your head out of Torvald's ass long enough to get a clue about why everyone doesn't use Linux for everything?
DISCLAIMER: I do use FBSD and several Linux distros on a daily basis, but they aren't ready yet for professional multimedia production.
whats the opera extension (o wait you dont have any:P) that makes it as fast as FF3 ?
Safari. At least on OS X (Tiger), Safari is way faster than Opera or FF2.
I tried a beta of FF3 on FreeBSD, and it was wicked quick. Buggy as heck, though -- wonder how fast it'll really be after all the bug fixes? I guess it's the windows version that really matters to Moz now, after all the Linux users are pretty much automatic FF customers anyway. And really, GTK apps on OS X are a tough sell -- looks too ugly next to the rest of the desktop (yes, I know about Camino -- it's no better).
Actually the classic pattern is this: First we get the Republicans, who spread paranoia and make war with everyone they can while using the resulting "security threats" as an excuse to fleece us all of rights and assets at every turn. Then, just when the populace is nearly ready to actually protest something we get the Democrats, who try to convince us we will rebuild now, while talking a lot about things that really matter (universal health care, ending poverty). The economy heals a bit, people have a bit more cash, some optimism returns and now the stage is set for the Republicans to come back and reap the riches from the people again. Lather, rinse, repeat ad nauseum. That's the way it's worked all my life...
Democrats and Republicans are just two sides of the same evil coin, and the divisions are deliberately illogical (i.e. "pro life" people are generally pro death penalty and don't want to pay a dime for the well-being of kids unless it is to censor the media "for them", etc). Any sane, rational person will quickly become frustrated and resigned with our "democracy", seeing it for the fraud that it is. Everyone else will accuse that person of tin foil hattery, and voila! Our way of life is"still safe". Yesterday it was communists, today it's Al Qaida, tomorrow maybe it will be Jews or left-handed people or people with haxxor 5k1llz... The only constant is this New Feudal system masquerading as a "free country".
Indeed they do. Furthermore, a doctor's education in an AMA-approved med school is almost completely controlled by Big Pharma, so between the profit motive and the brainwash your odds of finding a truly good doctor are roughly equivalent to the odds that MS is sincere about interoperability.
Where the heck have you been? We've come a long way since those days -- now we have classic poop, diet poop, cherry poop, new poop, and of course salty lemonade!
Porting Aqua apps to QT or GTK isn't that hard. But to answer my own stupid question, PS is proprietary and therefore no-one but Adobe can legally port it, which is why the focus is on WINE rather than PS itself. I just wasn't thinking when I posted.
Since PS already runs fine on the Mac, wouldn't it be a lot easier to port that version to linux? It's my experience that nearly anything that runs on linux can be easily built to run on OS X...
I wish I had mod points for you, you deserve a +5 insightful for that one. So many linux users just want *everyone* to use it, but if that ever happens we will see pre-installed linux dumbed-down and tarted-up just like windows is now. We'd have thousands of pointless, idiotic programs available from third parties in binary only form causing innumerable security and performance issues, plus of course all the pre-installed crapware that is now on most new windows computers.
Sure, it's a bit of a PITA dealing with the occasional compatibility problems which arise from using linux and BSD in a windows world, but darn it I like the fact that my OSs of choice are not the prime targets for every sleazy company trying to get rich off the stupidity of end users.
That actually made me laugh out loud, and I'm only awake reading this because I am in too much pain to sleep tonight. So thanks, I really needed that laugh.
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Ummm, were you off-world last month when enough people had trouble with Vista SP1 MS recalled it?
I see the MS trolls are out in force...
I know you're just a troll, but what the heck, here are three differences:
(1) No-one is forced to adopt the latest kernel by the desperate desire to just get the OS to do what it's supposed to do.
(2) It takes a very special degree of buffoonery to have the money MS has to throw at problems and come up with a solution like Vista. The kernel is thriving on a tiny fraction of that budget.
(3) If I want to fix Vista myself I can't because it's proprietary.
Looks like you fail.
If your Vista experience is so trouble-free then why are you even thinking about file transfer speeds (a well-known trouble point for Vista)? I certainly never think about that, haven't needed to in years...
My home desktop is a G4 eMac, 1.25 GHz with 1 GB RAM, running OS X Tiger and it plays flash perfectly. Most codecs perfectly in fact, except certain avi files -- not sure why, but I suspect some windows media player chicanery (because I've experienced that same "some avi files" problem in *nix).
No silly, this is a troll:
:)
Easier to mod me down than to prove me wrong.
Well I don't blame you for withholding mod points, karma whoring is kind of ugly. But when I feel compelled to express what is most likely an unpopular opinion, I do hope to soften the blow a bit -- gets the message across better. :)
I agree you can't beat Linux or BSD for programming and they really are a lot of fun. In fact the bit of programming I do is *nix-oriented rather than OS X-oriented, because I do look forward to the day I no longer need any proprietary software.
I get so sick of reading ignorant comments like that, why are you so angry at Apple users anyway? Here's a clue for you: A lot of us use Macs because they actually work best for what we do, not because we think Jobs is a saint or we want to be his sex slaves. Many of us are well aware that Jobs is a bit of an asshole, but he's a conscientious asshole with enough ego to do his best to put out a great product. And there lies the big difference between Jobs and Gates -- Gates is happy to charge exorbitant prices for something he knows sucks, Jobs won't sell it to you until he's sure it rocks.
If I had to do my multitrack recording and mixing in Linux, BSD (other than OS X), or Windows I'd just go back to recording on tape. I happen to love FBSD especially, but just try using jack, OSS, or ALSA to do any serious multimedia production and it is truly fucking horrible. I tried it for literally years (and still do give it a whirl every few months to see if it's ready yet) but in the end I gave up and bought a Mac. Now I am aware that some of that is because of the difficulty of writing drivers for hardware which is undocumented, but still -- I need results. So the next time you feel the need to abuse someone just because they use a Mac, ask yourself instead why you hate that they use the Mac. What difference does it make to you?
Are you just envious, or are you displacing anger over something else?
Oh screw it, I'll just say it in terms you can understand:
If all you Linux fanbois spent half the energy fixing things like ALSA drivers and Xorg you spend to bitch about users of other OSs Linux would be the only choice by now. But that would require you to actually admit that Linux still sucks for some things (ooh there goes my karma...).
In a nutshell, why don't you pull your head out of Torvald's ass long enough to get a clue about why everyone doesn't use Linux for everything?
DISCLAIMER: I do use FBSD and several Linux distros on a daily basis, but they aren't ready yet for professional multimedia production.
Safari. At least on OS X (Tiger), Safari is way faster than Opera or FF2. I tried a beta of FF3 on FreeBSD, and it was wicked quick. Buggy as heck, though -- wonder how fast it'll really be after all the bug fixes? I guess it's the windows version that really matters to Moz now, after all the Linux users are pretty much automatic FF customers anyway. And really, GTK apps on OS X are a tough sell -- looks too ugly next to the rest of the desktop (yes, I know about Camino -- it's no better).
Hopefully the "store owner" will be astute enough to find a non-obsolete business model then. That's progress, y'know...
Actually the classic pattern is this: First we get the Republicans, who spread paranoia and make war with everyone they can while using the resulting "security threats" as an excuse to fleece us all of rights and assets at every turn. Then, just when the populace is nearly ready to actually protest something we get the Democrats, who try to convince us we will rebuild now, while talking a lot about things that really matter (universal health care, ending poverty). The economy heals a bit, people have a bit more cash, some optimism returns and now the stage is set for the Republicans to come back and reap the riches from the people again. Lather, rinse, repeat ad nauseum. That's the way it's worked all my life...
Democrats and Republicans are just two sides of the same evil coin, and the divisions are deliberately illogical (i.e. "pro life" people are generally pro death penalty and don't want to pay a dime for the well-being of kids unless it is to censor the media "for them", etc). Any sane, rational person will quickly become frustrated and resigned with our "democracy", seeing it for the fraud that it is. Everyone else will accuse that person of tin foil hattery, and voila! Our way of life is"still safe". Yesterday it was communists, today it's Al Qaida, tomorrow maybe it will be Jews or left-handed people or people with haxxor 5k1llz... The only constant is this New Feudal system masquerading as a "free country".
Indeed they do. Furthermore, a doctor's education in an AMA-approved med school is almost completely controlled by Big Pharma, so between the profit motive and the brainwash your odds of finding a truly good doctor are roughly equivalent to the odds that MS is sincere about interoperability.
Where the heck have you been? We've come a long way since those days -- now we have classic poop, diet poop, cherry poop, new poop, and of course salty lemonade!
It's "would have jumped"!
DeGoogle. Removes all traces of you from Google.
...we were being patent-trolled by Balmer. One would have to be insane to buy this.
Electorial, orientate, nucular... It's all gud, according to my PHB.
That is really odd. Why would they have a port for IRIX and not Linux? Economically that makes no sense at all.
Porting Aqua apps to QT or GTK isn't that hard. But to answer my own stupid question, PS is proprietary and therefore no-one but Adobe can legally port it, which is why the focus is on WINE rather than PS itself. I just wasn't thinking when I posted.
Since PS already runs fine on the Mac, wouldn't it be a lot easier to port that version to linux? It's my experience that nearly anything that runs on linux can be easily built to run on OS X...
That one' s easy -- GTKpod. True no iTunes access yet, but then there are so many sources for mp3s now...
I wish I had mod points for you, you deserve a +5 insightful for that one. So many linux users just want *everyone* to use it, but if that ever happens we will see pre-installed linux dumbed-down and tarted-up just like windows is now. We'd have thousands of pointless, idiotic programs available from third parties in binary only form causing innumerable security and performance issues, plus of course all the pre-installed crapware that is now on most new windows computers.
Sure, it's a bit of a PITA dealing with the occasional compatibility problems which arise from using linux and BSD in a windows world, but darn it I like the fact that my OSs of choice are not the prime targets for every sleazy company trying to get rich off the stupidity of end users.
That actually made me laugh out loud, and I'm only awake reading this because I am in too much pain to sleep tonight. So thanks, I really needed that laugh.
According to TFA it's the number of free software packages that's "up 26%", not business use of free software.
Bad submitter, bad!!!.
Bad editors, bad! Bad!
Not only is the summary is extremely misleading, it links to an equally misleading blog post with no direct link to TFA, which I found here