[OT] Shareware (was: Re: What up with the mac)

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On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 14:47, zampino wrote:

 
 Wow, I've never seen a more negative comment on shareware.  In fact, I've
 rarely seen anyone criticize shareware... it was the shareware authors who
 made it possible for me to switch to OSX 10.0, as they quickly provided
 support for things like the application menu, windowshade, tinkertool's
 options...  Most of these pieces of software were $15 or less, far less than
 if a well-known developer had introduced them.
 
 Egomaniacs?  I'd say useful opportunists at worst, but I for one have
 payed for each of the shareware titles I use HAPPILY.  How can there ever be
 too much inexpensive software?...
 
 philz

Sorry.
For most of the shareware programs I've seen for the mac,
I cannot really see any difference between shareware and software demos.
I'll refer to them as annoyware in the rest of my flames :)

It's sad to come from a free software environment
and find that the things you rely on come as dozens of small
programs you don't know the reliability of for $20 each.

Now if there were a console mode I could use that instead
of a virtual desktop for programming.

The terminal is still painfully slow, or maybe it doesn't
support people that write faster than the refresh rate :)

  
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Re: What up with the mac

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Quoting Brigham Mecham [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hello
 
 Perhaps someone can fill me in on this one.  I am comparing the run time 
 of a perl program I wrote.  Using my Mac G4 which has a 1.5 ghz 
 processor and a 1.3 ghz PC computer (processor chip type I don't know 
 but could find out) I am seeing that the Mac takes 14 seconds to 
 complete what the PC does in 6!  What's up with that?
 

That could be hard to guess without the detailt of your
program.

Remember There could be other things than the CPU slowing it down.

o The operating system (differences in implementation of systemcalls etc)
o The amount of memory, the bus speed of the memory.
o The file system (if the program finds files i.e)

Without knowing anything about the program, it's
impossible to tell.

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