![]() ![]() It can be argued that those feature aren't needed and I'll admit that a lot of features I only use once-in-a-while. are either non-existence or just starting to get introduced to the Mac world even though they've been there since the days of DOS. Features such as pretty printing, snipplets, split-screen views of files, etc. There are some native-OSX editors such as TextMate (commercial), Smultron (open source) and BBEdit/TextWranger (commercial), but while its users tout how advance they are, they are still behind what is available to Windows programmers. What I found on OSX was that the most mature editors were the result of Apple using the BSD kernel and thus able run Unix editors such as EMACS or VIM and when it came to advanced IDEs, they were ports from other platforms such as Eclipse. The competition on the Windows world is fierce which has helped to weed out the weak. ![]() On Windows, the sheer number of choices (and there are many good ones) can be overwhelming. When I started to use OSX, one of the first things I looked for is a good editor. This include programmer's editors which is a class of software that I've always been interested in. While Unix and it's variants (BSD, Linux, etc.) are the most developer friendly OS, the sheer number of users for Windows mean that there are a lot of developer that write applications for it. There's something to be said about Windows being the most used OS on the planet even if it is not the best OS out there. Ars also clearly indicated that they are mainly the provider of commentary on news in their article which so clearly shows the author's opinion in his choice of wording that I hope people realizes that we can't depend on just any person or business who can put up a site for news. If an actual news establishment did such a thing then it spells the end of journalism. OSNews pretty much had to openly admit it (or remind their readers) as such in their post which basically said that the only way they can get people to submit articles is by removing objectivity. People might mistaken them as providers of news, but honestly they are subjective editorials on news. Two recent examples highlighted this for me: OSNews and Ars Technica. Even a lot of web sites are editorial forums and not news providers, but tries to project themselves as if they are. Blogs are mainly editorials and not subject to the objectivity of journalism. While this is an unfortunate reality that I hope the industry can reverse, what really annoys me is when people say how on-line blogs are replacing newspapers in providing news. There's been a lot of talk about how the newspaper industry is failing as readership is dropping. In addition, I also like to read some people's blogs. I like reading, watching and listening to the news. ![]()
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