Sins of Ubuntu or Accusers ?

Read:

• http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu

Empirical facts, rather than hear say fictions are critical in the age of misinformation. Good article by OSNews to dispel the much crazy criticism that we hear. It's not just criticising Ubuntu, but Linux as a whole. Indeed, Linux have it's weaknesses, but much of the misunderstanding caused by unscrupulous Marketing and PR Departments of certain twisted organisations whom only wants to restrict people and their choices and milk their money, are getting in the way.

Oilrush for Linux

Visit:

• https://store.unigine.com/products/goods/oilrush-linux/
• http://oilrush-game.com/

Looks not bad... hmmm... finally a good decent game with Linux in mind as a first class citizen unlike Blizzard and other many big game developers who can only see marketing potentials in Windows and Mac.

Linux actually has a huge potential for gaming but it has always been underdeveloped and undermined.

No Java on Mac

Read: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-SW1

Bye, bye Java for Mac. Java lost a stronghold in Mac. I think Mac may want to try and do the same to every other languages except C / C++ which they need to use and obviously HTML 5 and AppleScript stays the staple part of a Mac's 'diet'.

No more Java applets, dev, IDEs, software, jars ...etc on Mac.

How about holding a funneral for Java on Mac ?

Flashless Flash

We have all heard about Smokescreen which is a JavaScript/HTML 5 library that runs Flash videos without having a Flash player.

we have long known of the bad performance of Adobe Flash in Linux and Mac platforms and the troubles are never ending with Adobe doing a bad job with Flash. Just a note, whenever I have Youtube running Flash, my browsers (I am using Ubuntu 10.04) just crash. Regardless is it Firefox, Opera or Chrome... it took a dive and died.

It would be an interesting idea to implement a kind of method or plugin that would intercept demands to run Flash and swap it with Smokescreen (maybe by using the browser to internally edit it's downloaded HTML codes abit) and run Flash on Smokescreen. 

Although Smokescreen is still not really ready yet, it would be an interesting test implementation to behold.

Maybe Mozilla could donate a couple of developers to focus on helping those guys developing Smokescreen and greatly boost it's development process and quality ?

Another Mac vs Win OS ?

Take a look at Mircrosoft's new Mac OS X vs Win 7 homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/pc-vs-mac.aspx


Isn't this another silly debate about "oh my things are better than yours" which always gets nowhere ?


How silly of them to do so...


I doubt you are convinced and itching for some debate so below we would review through six points the MS team prides Win 7 against Mac.


Simplicity


Hmmm... I wonder how simple and intuitive it claims to be. I had a hard time navigating and finding my Downloads folder or my personal folder. I still think Win XP is far simpler than 7. For Mac, it is as esoteric as 7. I had tried my hands on Mac. At first, I didn't know that the Mac close button would simply close the window of the application but not 'destroy' the application as Windows does but it took my sometime to figure that out. Is that intuitive ?


Compatibility


Some a proprietary software now wants to claim it's power is in compatibility ? It is compatible because most of the OS in the market is Windows so what is it going to be compatible with ? Mac ? Linux ? Solaris ? or maybe Main Frames ?


If Windows were ever following compatibility, why is Windows not writing WMP for Linux and why does Novell need to develop Mono to spread .NET rather than MS doing it ? Mac is no good either. Both are selfish idiots doing things for their own goods and wishing others to fail in the silent (I guess... yes I am paranoid :P ).


Choice


Well... you can have choices if you can modify the software codes and many have done so. If it's about the choices of games and softwares, MS have more because as we all know, the market share is still on MS's side and this has nothing to be surprised about.


Having Fun


Yes, it is fun because it has a huge market share and many people have to develop for it since it has the biggest market share and most people are using MS.


Working Hard


Oh... it is hard working because it crashes all so often. Yes... MS loves to be hard working in crashing itself. Mac don't crash so often so it's not so hard working. Now things are done on the web. Heard of Web 2.0 or Cloud ? Google Doc ? That is the real hard working one.


Sharing


Sharing is easy if you use a universal standard to share things. You can get Samba on Mac, Linux or Win. You can use a website, ftp protocol, a web storage  and many other ways to share. Sharing is not exclusive. It's people.... who try to jealously guard their successes and not share the fruits of success with others and make life easier for all the other people in the world.


What joke is MS up to so shamelessly creating this shameful site. (IMHO)


Below is the screenshots taken from MS site comparing PC vs Mac... what a bad idea...