[lbo-talk] Re: world improved when you want to lick a computer

[ravi]

At around 13/12/06 12:22 pm, Tim Francis-Wright wrote:
> ravi wrote:
>> It is a matter of tragic humour to me that the winner in the OS wars is
>> neither of the two powerful poles (Apple on the one hand -- we known
>> what's best for you -- and *nix on the other -- we'll give you enough
>> rope to shoot yourself in the foot) but a strange bastard child that is
>> the worst of both worlds (Windows). But I am shifting the discussion...
> 
> Do you realize that OS X, which has been Apple's operating system for some
> years now, is built upon BSD Unix? (http://developer.apple.com/unix/)
> I think those two powerful poles are more linked than you think!
> 

Indeed, I have mentioned it and spoken about it multiple times here on
LBO. However, I was speaking from an end-user perspective. The basic
philosophy behind *nix has always been a combination of simplicity,
extensibility, and configurability. The Apple UIs are quite poor in
comparison, choosing instead, IMO, to mandate to the user what she
should be doing and further what she should not... unless you hack your
own code, drop down to the *nix underneath and use an Objective-C bridge
(or equivalent) for UI.


> P=NP, at least when N=0 or 1

I presume its a joke, but I don't get it. Explain?

	--ravi