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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin That was never really an issue because it's too vague. The issue stems from what implications you make by that assertion, which is why people question that assertion. What you are implying from the statement is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by visionary curious about mac, ...So predicting the future is hard to do. True. Quote: Originally Posted by visionary You talk about Apple taking money away from the cell phone telecoms with their iPhone pricin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iPeon I have to disagree with you on this. It is the intent that differentiates good from bad. And good from bad is defined only from the view point of the observer. Having dominance (control) over something is not a b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by giant Well, at least you finally realized what an awful job you were doing at pretending not to be a common, immature troll and gave up. Perhaps you should start a new thread catch-all thread to dump your ranting so pe…
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Are related to having spent 4 years at HP. Look at what he says here, http://hpcorp.feedroom.com/?fr_story...8ed0da7390404b Maybe Steve Jobs didn't get enough HP exposure????? Cheers!
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Quote: Originally Posted by visionary MS cannot merge more apps function into the OS without getting hauled into court for monopoly practices and they are walking on eggs now. However, Apple can do this and move to a document centered experience…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iPeon Don't you mean MS? No, I mean Apple. If it had world dominance on both HW and SW in the desktop space it would be a very difficult monster to deal with which would make MS look like an NGO. Just look at ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I think you'll agree that although the assertion that Jessica Alba is just another woman is true, the conclusion of her being somehow equal to any other woman is somewhat misleading. This is the same thing with …
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Quote: Originally Posted by curious_about_mac That has everything to do with the BSD core, which is UNIX. Then, the GUI makes an efficient use of the UNIX services (which speaks highly of the Mac OS X developers) but it's the UNIX core which make…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Whyatt Thrash Again, this isn't specifically tied into the UNIX core, but rather the Core Graphics Framework which is part of what makes OS X > Unix+ GUI. What what said originally, At work at a video game compan…
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One more thing, Quote: Originally Posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R And OS X is certainly not 'enterprise grade' as its focus is user-desktop and media creation. As a matter of fact, because of its UNIX roots, it's not that far from being enterprise …
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First, I would like to thank all those who have contributed to this thread 'cause they are increasing my knowledge on Mac OS X. I am unable to answer to each of you individually, so I 'll just answer those comments that I think try to distort realit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Whyatt Thrash I reiterate my conveniently ignored question to curious_about_mac: Knowing that OS X is based on Unix, which other answer would lead you to believe it was MORE than Unix + GUI? Since you've disregarded a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by elron I think the most amusing part of this thread is that curious considers the fact that OS X is "just" UNIX with a GUI to be a bad thing. No my dear. I consider it to be a great thing. If I want the GUI, I use it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Even if you lived in bash world, there's still loads of stuff that is unique to Mac OSX like launchd, mdutil, ditto that you need to know. Of particular relevance would be ditto if the OP wants his backups …
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To all, To me this issue is settled now: Mac OS X is essentially a UNIX + a GUI. Since I am not (and was never) interested in talking about splitting hairs (which seems to be what attracts posters like aegisdesign), I will not be answering th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Anyone who doesn't think OS X is a UNIX 03 certified operating system from the ground up with an industry leading Windowing API/WindowServer/Graphics Subsystem needs to get back on their meds. Thanks for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Berlepsch In summary, OS X contains a lot of unix code both for the kernel and the command tools. But practically all the interaction with the user is through Apple's own frameworks. So ask yourself, if for some reason…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H You know, curious_about_mac, this was quite an interesting thread before you started being incredibly rude to Aegis. He brought up several valid points, he was not rude to you and to respond in the way you did wa…