Comment Re:Why so glum?! (Score 1) 133
Right On Mocha Man!
Why indeed?
Being a very WYSYG, GUI guy yet strangely, quite a happy user of the alledgedly "dead" platform, I've never understood the vitirol directed towards Apple by many who like to think of themselves as "intelligent". Generally speaking, if we learn anything at all from history, isn't it that conformity and dogmatic indoctrination only promotes ignorance, fear, hatred and mediocraty if not outright suffering? Conversely, isn't it diversity and tolerance which ultimately is the basis for the success of egalitarian notions like Open Source?
In other words, connect the dots ye nerdy curmudgeons!
IBM releasing PPC motherboard specs, Darwin and QuickTime, multiple core G4 and Altivec, Firewire, the Mach kernal with Free BSD, OpenStep(Cocoa/YellowBox) API's for easy and powerful cross platfrom development and the icing on the cake, Quartz the new imaging engine with system wide alpha channel compositing, native HTML, vector imaging and PDF built in!
If this is not "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" then what is?
Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for "hacking" on any level, though only a theoretical interest for myself, but let's face it, the low level coding and higher level GUI approaches are symbiotic and need to be to ultimately succeed. And besides, great engineering is all about leveraging strengths and making practical tradeoffs isn't it?
There is no end all be all.
The point of the journey is not to arrive...
cheers!
mArtin
Why indeed?
Being a very WYSYG, GUI guy yet strangely, quite a happy user of the alledgedly "dead" platform, I've never understood the vitirol directed towards Apple by many who like to think of themselves as "intelligent". Generally speaking, if we learn anything at all from history, isn't it that conformity and dogmatic indoctrination only promotes ignorance, fear, hatred and mediocraty if not outright suffering? Conversely, isn't it diversity and tolerance which ultimately is the basis for the success of egalitarian notions like Open Source?
In other words, connect the dots ye nerdy curmudgeons!
IBM releasing PPC motherboard specs, Darwin and QuickTime, multiple core G4 and Altivec, Firewire, the Mach kernal with Free BSD, OpenStep(Cocoa/YellowBox) API's for easy and powerful cross platfrom development and the icing on the cake, Quartz the new imaging engine with system wide alpha channel compositing, native HTML, vector imaging and PDF built in!
If this is not "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters" then what is?
Don't get me wrong, I have immense respect for "hacking" on any level, though only a theoretical interest for myself, but let's face it, the low level coding and higher level GUI approaches are symbiotic and need to be to ultimately succeed. And besides, great engineering is all about leveraging strengths and making practical tradeoffs isn't it?
There is no end all be all.
The point of the journey is not to arrive...
cheers!
mArtin
