Apple is not a computer company, and hasn’t been for some time
Posted by rae in General
at 9:18 am on Thursday, 22 April 2010
at 9:18 am on Thursday, 22 April 2010
This is from Chart of the day<http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-in-case-you-had-any-doubts-about-where-apples-revenue-comes-from-2010-4>: 
Between the iPhone and iPod, the Mac doesn’t have a chance! Assuming most of the iPod $$ are from those expensive (and high-margin) iPod Touch’s – all three profit sources run Mac OS X, just with different window managers. 
So you could make the case that they’re all Macs of one form or another. Reid
Between the iPhone and iPod, the Mac doesn’t have a chance! Assuming most of the iPod $$ are from those expensive (and high-margin) iPod Touch’s – all three profit sources run Mac OS X, just with different window managers. So you could make the case that they’re all Macs of one form or another. Reid Windows Diff Tool – WinMerge
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at 10:56 am on Tuesday, 6 April 2010
When programming, it’s very useful to be able to find the differences between two text files.
On a Mac, I would use the built-in awesome diff utility, FileMerge.
It even has a nice command-line interface via the “opendiff” command.
But currently I’m stuck on Windows
(curse you, gaming industry, for preferring the Windows platform for game development!)
and need to find a diff tool there.
There are several, and I was going to go through them writing mini-reviews for each, but a clear winner emerged so quickly I won’t bother.
WinMerge quickly became the obvious choice.
It is GPL licensed, and hosted on SourceForge.
I did briefly look at FreeDiff, but it suffered from
at 10:56 am on Tuesday, 6 April 2010
- clearly being a “gateway” app to other commercial apps (ad dialog on quit)
- being written in Visual Basic
- requiring 8 clicks to cancel an install!
- trying to overwrite C:\Windows\system32\scrrun.dll!!
- looking like a Windows 95 app
- Separating line numbers from content with a period
- Not supporting mouse wheel e3vents
- Not knowing which DLLs it could remove when uninstalled (I probably have a few ancient DLLs hanging around now)