From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 3:46:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from web13602.mail.yahoo.com (web13602.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A0E37B43C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 03:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzdik@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010529104636.31597.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.16.193.228] by web13602.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 29 May 2001 03:46:36 PDT Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 03:46:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bzdik BSD Subject: Re: Acknowledgement by Jobs To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Brad Knowles wrote: > Moreover, since modern beer was invented/discovered by a Belgian > monk, I can safely say that it is not spelled "bear". At least, I > have to assume that you meant a fermented alcoholic beverage, as > opposed to a large member of the Ursine family of mostly vegetarian > quadrupeds. > the ones that love salmon ...you could call this a vegetarian pastime :) I was trying to give our gentleman-profiler a few more hints, don't spoil the process as for beer invention, talk to monks from {Monken on Isar}Munchen :)you'll end up fighting the best beer is made by friends of Joseph Schweik anyway...no matter what you say... they also are the best hockey players...Belgian chocolate is undisputedly superior to anything else {watch this line}in its product cathegory. Besides, why power of Unix on desktop? Haven't they failed this with NeXT, the biggest flop of Jobz's? My neighbourhood restaurant has already QNX installed, so does NASA...you still dreaming? I spent 9 hours today doing my regular gigs in mac OS 8.6, and believe me: I tried them all. For what I do, the *productivity* is still on a Mac Classic desktop. Black Holes suck, so does Mac OSX dock. Big time. As a toy, it's elegant enough and "ugly as Unix" is still true, just take a gander at Solaris desktop. But power to serve is here, no way of denying it. like power to create for ten+ years without reading a single manual is still in MacLand. No unixoid genius could come up with this for the three decades. None. That simple. Not even the one who was reading while[still] being potty trained. Unix on every desktop, is it like chicken in every pot? just for the hack of it? dead end and waste of time/money. by the time you'll come up with some usable draft, the desktop abstraction will be irrelevant. While servers may still be needed...and who's going to pay money for every stinkin app? you? you can live with gnumatics, kblowers, etc. Any pro designer working with GIMP? You giving me fits, Moysha... it's like serving Internet app with MS DOS. Not yet. AOL and Adobe, Global Village and Broderbund, Cassady & Green, etc. They started as Apple shops. Where are they now, in NeXT land? How about Power Computing? That was very opensourcy of Apple to cut its own branches... 'Uhu' said the vegetarian bear tearing two fishies at once and sipping Pilsner with carbonated caviar while Apple/BSD folk is still experimenting with acid. I will buy into this pipe dream, if you succeed first thing tomorrow. Yet today I have to store my files on FreeBSD, while making my living on Macs. For tomorrow's gig I have (among others) to reconstruct a Vietnamese doc that another believer ruined after trying to save it from Quark straight into pdf in 7 billion Windows 2000 Professional environment. Still doesn't do PostScript properly after all those years. Talk about real assignments and real deadlines set by someone who doesn't need to know about all joys of manipulating millions of Schmitt triggers inside that boxy. my point: in production environment focus on what you do best, if you have luxury to chose. As a businessman, Jobs is a loser, not a comeback kid. And the last quarter earnings filings are rifle with creative acounting , btw. After all Apple did to cloners, any talk about open source "community" marching with Apple into 41 degree proof StrawberryFieldLandia is an act of infantilesque intellectual prostitution. are you guys that desperate? or you just stuck in your MSFT passion? nothing new, but still stranno at times even after all those years under the Moon.la vida. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message