Posts by z3r0

If Apple didn't buy Sun when they had the change, I don't see them trying to buy anyone else out unless its on the cheap. Freescale and Nvidia might be good targets. Though Apple already bought a IP from Freescale, so that might rule...

QNX is a nice clean and proven microkernel minus the baggage found in darwin. QNX also has some nice distributed OS features and security to boot (EAL4 vs Mac OS X EAL3). Aqua is pretty abstracted so it wouldn't be that bad to layer...

Well I would necessarily want Apple to buy, BUT if Apple had the chance to buy some of RIM's assets I'd say got for it. QNX is a REALLY nicely design OS, all its lacking is a pretty GUI on top. Mac OS X could learn a lot from...

Ironic, especially since its coming from big brother. Privacy does NOT exist.

I can use photoshop just fine, but when it comes to compositing and 3D (houdini) nodes are very efficient and use up less screen real estate. Especially for complex scenes. Nodes also make it easier to move back and forth through...

Who said anything about buying? Assumptions are fun Quote: Originally Posted by addabox There you go. I, too, base my decisions to buy $5,000 software on a few unsubstantiated screenshots of an unreleased product.

I was hoping the new version of Motion would incorporate Nodes like Shake. Layers are cumbersome. Nuke it is then!

iCloud looks like it trumps ChromeOS.

Apple has plenty of third party cloud platforms it could choose to build on either commercial or opensource. Joyent http://www.joyent.com/ VMWare CloudFoundry http://cloudfoundry.org/ Stackato http://www.activestate.com/cloud Citrix...

Perl 6! Whenever it gets here! Quote: Originally Posted by d-range There's no such thing as a 'perfect programming language'