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Comment Re:Sounds like a better upgrade than Windows 8... (Score 1) 424

I feel like a support person or something, when all i do is take less than a minute to search for answers.

That is not the point Mr. Wiseguy who is apparently much to smart for the rest of us idiots.

I quickly found out that git, gcc and make are now located in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin With XCode 4.4. in fact, this had been the case since version 4.3. What _was_ a problem is the fact that in upgrading to 4.4 they for some reason

A) removed these tools from the path
B) neglected to properly make the command line tools, copatible with ML _and_ xcode 4.4 available... Check your console when you try and install command line tools from xcode directly... The embedded link to the install package is wrong and still refers to an old gm version.

All these issues are quickly fixed by hand with some quick edits of bash_profile or a link file here and there...

The point of parent seemed to be that osx is much more geared to make console jockeys and devs happy, being flexible and all whereas my point is that they

1) just as MS _often_ fumble releases with oversights such as the above
2) often have the arrogance to just omit things, like x11, without much warning (release notes for us regular joes that tell us about
The omissions beforehand maybe and not just buried 5 levels down on some part of the dev website?

Apple is trying just as hard to dumb things down as MS apparently is with 8

No go and revel in your own genius some more nerd boy!

Comment Re:Sounds like a better upgrade than Windows 8... (Score 0) 424

Hold on there cowboy... i use both platforms daily and AFICT VS2010 or 2012 absolutely trumps Xcode in every department. windows will still allow you tonstill load non store apps and as far as your claim on command line wizardry goes: after i upgraded to OSX 10.8 today I noticed Apple removed X11, necessary to run my LaTeX workflow. Also, git, make end gcc were somehow unavailable after the obligatory upgrade to Xcode 4.4. As I write this and after repeated emaild to Apple dev support this is still not entirely fixed. Turns out they put the links to the command line tools download wrong in Xcode...

I could go on all day.

Both platforms are nice fornvery diferent reasons but as far as development goes I would dare tonsay MS has the edge right now...

Comment Re:I do not condone violence nor stealing... (Score 0, Flamebait) 1198

Must be :)

In any case, this guys seems a bit disconnected from reality:

1) He comes from a country (the US) with some of the most strict rules on security at airports and whatnot... I think I hardly ever visited a country is more paranoid (and this is not intended as a slur) and then he goes off and bolts something to his skull that makes him look like the terminator of a Navy seal on a covert op. And you Sir, hold a phD? :)

2) He takes his kids to go and learn "true Parisian French"? Lol...

Looks like a bad case of attention whoaring to me...

Comment Re:+1000. Goodbye Moto, Hello HTC (Score 1) 757

I do not know if you are aware but did you check how "easy" it was to mod more recent models such as the HTC Legend and HTC Desire??

Well, let me tell you it is _not_ easy. HTC also implements protections:

http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-legend-legend-modaco-com/305927/htc-legend-root-update/

and so does any other phone manufacturer for that matter.

So to say that HTC "might be passively encouraging modding" might be a bit overboard...

Comment Re:Reminds me... (Score 1) 402

Lol...

Are the checks really that bad at that border??? I would be surprised. Back here they show us NatGeo documentaries about how brutally efficient US border patrols are at keeping out Mexicans, using all sorts of new fangled equipment :)

It would be especially absurd since I know for a fact that Mexicans cannot even do a transit flight through the US. (for example fly from Brussels to NY to get a connection to Mexico. Even if the Airport transit zone is supposed to be just that, a transit zone, not part of actual US territory... absurd...

Comment Re:Reminds me... (Score 1) 402

Your point being??

I do not care what others do.

My experience is just that I have to provide my CC numbers and be charged without even as much as an explanation (why, are my CC data safe, why is the fee as high as it is...) before I can even talk to someone.

In that respect the US are behaving no better than dirty Mexican border patrolmen that want you to give them some money (because I guess that is what you are implying)

Comment Re:Reminds me... (Score 1) 402

But not all organizations pretend to be the ultimate defenders of the FREE world.

Freedom and justice for all and all hat stuff...

Should be "Freedom and Justice for all... IF and WHEN it suits US"

(pun intended with those caps ;)

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