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I forgot the magic of Apple, where Launchbar and Applespell do not use processor time at all, and are done by the System Resources fairy dressed in a hot pink turtleneck.
*chokes*
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I forgot the magic of Apple, where Launchbar and Applespell do not use processor time at all, and are done by the System Resources fairy dressed in a hot pink turtleneck.
*chokes*
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Don't know anything about XServe. The Newton wasn't under Jobs was it? I don't remember when he left. The Macintosh has many barriers to overcome and does well to maintain it's market share in the current environment. The Imac was marketed quite well. The product itself doesn't appeal enough to the mainstream. I can't blame marketing for that.
The Ipod has been very succesfully targeted at the mainstream. As where the original computers.Accidently left my signature in this post.Comment
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Yeah right! Circumstances say otherwise: IBM is trying to compete with Microsoft and has been doing so for years by backing Linux. And Microsoft hates Linux.Originally posted by Asher
Actually, they haven't. Their big "linux" push has dick-all to do with defeating Microsoft, it has to do with competing with the upcoming low-cost servers. Microsoft doesn't even compete in the markets where IBM pushes Linux, usually.
HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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IBM does not back Linux on the desktop, Mr. Nice Guy.Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
Yeah right! Circumstances say otherwise: IBM is trying to compete with Microsoft and has been doing so for years by backing Linux.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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I never said a word about the desktop, Asher!Originally posted by Asher
IBM does not back Linux on the desktop, Mr. Nice Guy.HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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It was implied, seeing as that's where Microsoft makes 95% of their money...Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
I never said a word about the desktop, Asher!"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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It was never implied.Originally posted by Asher
It was implied, seeing as that's where Microsoft makes 95% of their money...HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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It would be if you had any idea what you were talking about.
If IBM were to seriously compete with Microsoft, it'd have to be in the same primary market (ie, desktop operating systems and office productivity software).
It is not."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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You're a conspiracy theorist, plain and simple. Pathetic.Originally posted by Asher
It would be if you had any idea what you were talking about.
If IBM were to seriously compete with Microsoft, it'd have to be in the same primary market (ie, desktop operating systems and office productivity software).
It is not.HAVE A DAY.
<--- Quote by Former U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
"And there will be strange events in the skies--signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And down here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. The courage of many people will falter because of the fearful fate they see coming upon the earth, because the stability of the very heavens will be broken up. Then everyone will see the Son of Man arrive on the clouds with power and great glory. So when all these things begin to happen, stand straight and look up, for your salvation is near!" --Luke 21:25-28
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. --1 Thessalonians 4:16-17Comment
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Has Apple devised some kind of intellectual black hole?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by Mr. Nice Guy
You're a conspiracy theorist, plain and simple. Pathetic.
That's what you are. You're the one talking about a plot of IBM to buy Apple's PC business so it can drive Microsoft out of business 
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Jobs was (maybe still is) a nutcase. He wanted to kill the Mac and push the Lisa. It was fortunate for Apple that he did not succeed.Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Don't know anything about XServe. The Newton wasn't under Jobs was it? I don't remember when he left. The Macintosh has many barriers to overcome and does well to maintain it's market share in the current environment.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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It seems to be that IBM is taking an oblique approach at getting back at Microsoft:Originally posted by Asher
If IBM were to seriously compete with Microsoft, it'd have to be in the same primary market (ie, desktop operating systems and office productivity software).
- Making mincemeat out of SCO, which received indirect financial help from Microsoft
- Protecting Linux users with its huge portfolio of patents
- Getting rid of stuff that has something to do with Microsoft
- Pushing Free Software, esp. Linux, in a very big way
Buying Apple fits in there perfectly.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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Allright, you got me there. Actually I did believe that XUL back-ends on the native widgets of the platform it's running on... but I couldn't find any conclusive information about that by either poking around in the source or Googling. Some say that XUL draws with native widgets, some say it doesn't, some say it draws only some stuff with native widgets but not everything. The source has a lot of references to things like gtk_entry_new (GTK+ function for creating a textbox - I used that as an example to look for since GTK+ is the only interface toolkit I've ever coded anything on) but most of them are in the installer... and I couldn't find any code that calls the functions in gfx/src/gtk/gtk2drawing.c, the file using native (well, "native") widgets that looked the most promising to me.Originally posted by Asher
Just what universal text input widgets exist?
You do realize that games do not use the OS input widgets, right? You do realize that XUL-based apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla) do not use the OS input widgets? you do realize that Java-based apps do not use the OS input widgets (SWT being the exception)?
Yes, it would be inefficient, but you'd be hard-pressed to actually notice the effect. Really, typing is *slow* - the last place where I remember actually seeing the screen lag behind keyboard input was in the DOS window of a WinXP laptopTo have it globally like Aggie described would require an inefficient implementation to intercept keystrokes and put them in a buffer, then spellcheck them.
. In the environment I'm using, a keypress goes through the X server to an application and is returned to the X server as a graphical glyph. That seems to work quite well for me. Some Slashdot trolls who don't understand that your $modern_processor is there to be *used* might disagree...
This is a good point, and... it made me think about some further problems with the daemon approach. Never mind the fact that creating any sort of a usable interface for it would be impossible (I'd hate a computer that beeps at me when I misspell something (even though I rarely do - I learned English by writing it, not speaking itFurther, how does this even WORK on non-standard input boxes? Do you randomly draw red lines where you THINK the text is?)), it'd also have problems with localisation (how do you know what language the user is supposed to be using?), with figuring out any sort of movement in textboxes other than going left or right one character at a time (where do you hop to if the user presses the up arrow in a textbox whose width you don't know? How do you *know* it's a textbox to begin with?).
Because of all of these reasons... I'm starting to doubt whether anyone really uses the daemon-intercepting-keypresses approach. If someone does, well, it's pretty likely to be just an ugly kluge that breaks when you actually try to do something with your computer. Very likely the sort of thing that breaks so quickly that some users would think it doesn't do anything useful at all...This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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IIRC, there was a version of Firefox that's compiled with Gtk. Anyway, if standard widgets were available, GDI could be just a wrapper or stump for them.Originally posted by Asher
Er. What? Just what do you think the GDI is?(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
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