Apple is not just trying to become Microsoft- they're shooting for something more. They're trying to impose a massive monopoly over the software AND hardware industries. They're using OS X as a way to lock consumers into their hardware, which only they offer. Isn't it obvious?
If Microsoft started building whole systems, and the next version of Windows only worked on a Microsoft-branded box, what do you think would happen? They'd be slammed with a massive anti-trust lawsuit. Apple gets away with it, though, because their market share isn't large enough... yet. In other words, Apple's current business model is doomed. If they do get a dominant market share, they're gonna get nailed, and if they don't, well, they don't. Mac users lose either way.
Of course, the Apple fanboys are too busy circle-jerking to figure any of that out.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but hey, at least M$ generally stays away from hardware, and PCs are cheap. Dealing with Windows still beats paying a ton of money for Apple's Kool-Aid. In my eyes, Apple is already more evil than Microsoft.
Symantec is a pile of shit, frankly. I was actually hoping that Microsoft's AV would at least force Symantec and McAffee to get their shit together and make an antivirus that doesn't suck.
AV that's as much as a system hog as the notorious Norton is a pain in the ass, especially on Windows Vista.:|
They can't be serious. Maybe, instead of "CDs should cost more" it should be "Record execs should cost less".
After all, it's not like manufacturing cost should be an issue. Hell, my great-uncle used to work at a post office... When someone mail-ordered a CD and the address was wrong, the sender of the CD would not pay to have the package forwarded. Instead, they'd just ship another package, because this was apparently cheaper. The post office was told to throw away the CDs and wait for the subsequent re-delivery. Of course, then people began stealing the discs from the garbage, so the post office had to start DESTROYING them (by incineration, iirc) every week instead.
Long story short, when you order a CD online, the finished product cost more to ship than it did to make. The price is still totally unjustified, especially considering that the artist's cut is almost nothing.
People who exploit others for profit are the scum of the earth, and record companies scam pretty much everyone else in the music biz, from the artist all the way down to the consumer. It's disgusting.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that high-school level CS courses are a total joke. Hell, the College Board has changed the official AP computer science language to Java. Where the hell am I going to use that? Once I got to college, though, the CS was very interesting and useful.
"could Apple succeed and continue to innovative without Jobs at the helm?"
Continue to innovate? Last I checked, they don't really innovate now. Or does adding "i" before the word "phone" pass for innovation these days? Or is it enough just to have a lot of fanboys? (like Nintendo? *cough*)
Face it, all they've got is a pretty OS and a bunch of expensive, pretty hardware that's not much different from the rest of any given market, aside from the fact that they try to enslave you with it.
Retraining employees isn't cheap, especially with regards to the time cost.
Unfortunately, OO.org is not anywhere near on par with M$ Word, especially under Linux. It's bloated as hell. When a word processor is so slow that it's annoying, something has gone horribly wrong. Hopefully later versions of OO (or some other office suite) will improve on this... but until then, I can't see Linux/OSS making significant progress into the office/business market without a good word processor.
Yeah, a few months back some punk-ass kid stole my dad's surboard out of his yard. My dad called the police, but they just ran him around to a voice mail box.
Fortunately, though, the other kids in the neighborhood knew who did it... they walked me to his house and after speaking with his mother, we got it back. The kid cooperated, too, but I suspect it was only because his mother was there- his story reeked of BS anyway. But, seeing as how I got the board back for my dad, I didn't want to call him on it (or beat his punk ass, for that matter).
Back in high school, we had a very cool digital animation class. It was specially commissioned, and ten Mac G5s were ordered just for that classroom.
Some time later, they were all stolen. The people who had set up the program were understandably pissed- what kind of scumbag steals equipment from a public school FFS? Well, the teacher was smart enough to check ebay, and sure enough, there they were. The thief was a student... not a minor, either. Turns out he had stolen other computers from the school previously, also. Long story short, he got pwned... no college will ever take the poor bastard now, hahaha.
This is ridiculous. I am already fed up with UCLA's handling of pretty much everything IT.
The school posts the email address of every resident in a public directory on its website. Lo and behold- once I moved in here, I started getting spammed to hell. As if that wasn't enough, last year there was a massive phishing scam that was performed by sending spoofed emails from the University Credit Union. Guess where they harvested the emails from?
UCLA took a week to respond to this attack, and by then many accounts had been compromised. It was a joke. And, on top of that, it still wasn't enough to make anyone realize that posting students' emails publically was a bad idea. I mean, it would not be a hard thing to move the directory into one of the many "login required" website services that the school provides.
I'm hoping that some heads roll over this, and something FINALLY gets done about the fucking monkeys that seem to run IT department.
Perhaps Apple has decided to give it a new name because they're actually rewriting it- as in, making some backend changes instead of the normal visual tweaks. After all, OS X is a bit of a pig when it comes to resources
I realize that the idea of Apple not putting form over function for once is hard to grasp, but I'm sure it could happen...
Not allowed. The library itself is closed entirely to non-students after 11PM. Hell, you can't even bring non-student guests into your dorm with you after 9PM unless you sign them in as a guest. There are people waiting in the lobby that check in anyone who passes through.
Yes, the student was carded randomly, around 11:30 PM, in a library that is only for students, at least after hours. And not just in the library, from what I understand, but in the computer lab, where (iirc) there is a posted policy that you must have your BruinCard if you're using the lab.
This town has a lot of homeless people and the campus has a lot of younger kids running around, also. For security, it is necessary to do these random checks at night and remove people who are not supposed to be there.
And besides, how is one's privacy invaded if they're asked to prove that they're a student in an area that requires ID anyway? It's not any more of an invasion of privacy to have to swipe that same card to open the door to a dorm building, call the elevator, let yourself into a dining hall, or even enter your res hall after hours. The UCLA BruinCard is critical to access just about anything on campus, including said computer lab. I'm sure most campuses are the same way...
Cancer cells typically mutate in such a way that they reproduce uncontrollably. Often, this coincides with the original cancer cell "de-differentiating" (integrating?:) ) into a sort of stem cell, which allows them to reproduce infinitely.
So yes, it would be understandable that a stem cell would have stem cells at its core.
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but this sounds like redundant information to me, at least to some extent. What took them so long to figure this out? And, aren't all tumor cells pretty much the same (you know, that whole infinite replication thing)?
UCPD officers were not the ones that carded him, so profiling is not the issue. The student was originally carded by a Community Service Officer (CSO), basically a student security guard working in the library. The UCPD was called when the student refused to leave.
While the bystanders were not physically doing anything to stop the officers, they were yelling in protest and requesting the officers' ID numbers. The officers threatened to tase the students who were asking for badge numbers. (...And what do you expect? these are college students here. They hardly ever actually do anything; they just protest and make a lot of noise.)
I am a current UCLA student, and honestly I don't see why this story is so huge, especially when the officers in question will probably be punished appropriately. Again, this is UCPD, not LAPD, and so does not really affect anyone outside of campus. I think YouTube was probably the main reason this story is as big as it is.
Regardless, it is definitely abuse on the part of the officers. Enough people die from being tased just twice... five times is completely unnecessary. if they had used the taser only once, no one would have had an issue with it, especially considering how much of a jackass the student was being (judging from the video). Tasing an already-incapacitated suspect is unacceptable, though.
While I imagine that the increased cost of Vista will not make a huge impact on OEM computer sales, it's still an impact. And right now, any loss in the Windows marketshare is a bad thing.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious- and I'm no windows fanboy either. Sadly, Linux still isn't quite ready for Joe Desktop. It's come a long way, and is certainly getting there, but it's just not ready yet. I'm a Linux user myself, and it is definitely poised to hit the (non-enthusiast) desktop scene in a big way, but not just yet. Be patient.
So, if Microsoft drives anyone away from Windows, where do you think the displaced users would go? Apple. And frankly, the thought scares the shit out of me. If they get a hold on the market, Apple will enslave the industry more than Microsoft ever has or ever will. M$ at least knows their place, and generally sticks to software.
So please... just hope that M$ does not shoot themselves in the foot, for a few more months at least! If a Microsoft backlash were to happen now, it would only benefit Apple!
I still buy CDs. Now, let me say, what would attract me to purchase more of them would be a more justified price on them. I'd buy a hell of a lot more CDs if they were $5. I like album art. I like having a physical copy of my music... and I like albums, not just songs. My biggest worry about the explosion of downloadable music is that it will forsake the album in favor of mass-produced, repetitive singles.
The record labels keep trying to add shit to CD packages (dualDisc? yuck) and cut costs by using crappy cardboard cases, when they could just stea-- I mean, charge less money. I mean, how much do you think it costs to stamp a CD? It's not like a lot of that money gets passed on to the artist anyway...
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I see this as resulting in increased salaries and job security for those of us who have to work down in the trenches. um, w00t?
25 million years old?! That's preposterous! Come now, we all know the earth is only 6,000 years old.
...And we're worried about the state of the Internet. Welcome to Slashdot.
Apple is not just trying to become Microsoft- they're shooting for something more. They're trying to impose a massive monopoly over the software AND hardware industries. They're using OS X as a way to lock consumers into their hardware, which only they offer. Isn't it obvious?
If Microsoft started building whole systems, and the next version of Windows only worked on a Microsoft-branded box, what do you think would happen? They'd be slammed with a massive anti-trust lawsuit. Apple gets away with it, though, because their market share isn't large enough... yet. In other words, Apple's current business model is doomed. If they do get a dominant market share, they're gonna get nailed, and if they don't, well, they don't. Mac users lose either way.
Of course, the Apple fanboys are too busy circle-jerking to figure any of that out.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but hey, at least M$ generally stays away from hardware, and PCs are cheap. Dealing with Windows still beats paying a ton of money for Apple's Kool-Aid. In my eyes, Apple is already more evil than Microsoft.
That's exactly what I'm afraid of.
Symantec is a pile of shit, frankly. I was actually hoping that Microsoft's AV would at least force Symantec and McAffee to get their shit together and make an antivirus that doesn't suck.
AV that's as much as a system hog as the notorious Norton is a pain in the ass, especially on Windows Vista. :|
They can't be serious. Maybe, instead of "CDs should cost more" it should be "Record execs should cost less".
After all, it's not like manufacturing cost should be an issue. Hell, my great-uncle used to work at a post office... When someone mail-ordered a CD and the address was wrong, the sender of the CD would not pay to have the package forwarded. Instead, they'd just ship another package, because this was apparently cheaper. The post office was told to throw away the CDs and wait for the subsequent re-delivery. Of course, then people began stealing the discs from the garbage, so the post office had to start DESTROYING them (by incineration, iirc) every week instead.
Long story short, when you order a CD online, the finished product cost more to ship than it did to make. The price is still totally unjustified, especially considering that the artist's cut is almost nothing.
People who exploit others for profit are the scum of the earth, and record companies scam pretty much everyone else in the music biz, from the artist all the way down to the consumer. It's disgusting.
Hey now, it's not all bad. If we get enough of this crap floating around up there, it'll screen the sunlight and stop global warming! w00t!
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that high-school level CS courses are a total joke. Hell, the College Board has changed the official AP computer science language to Java. Where the hell am I going to use that? Once I got to college, though, the CS was very interesting and useful.
I don't think the "expensive doorstop" project is covered by the book...
Give me a goddamn x64 build, you bastards! >:(
"could Apple succeed and continue to innovative without Jobs at the helm?"
Continue to innovate? Last I checked, they don't really innovate now. Or does adding "i" before the word "phone" pass for innovation these days? Or is it enough just to have a lot of fanboys? (like Nintendo? *cough*)
Face it, all they've got is a pretty OS and a bunch of expensive, pretty hardware that's not much different from the rest of any given market, aside from the fact that they try to enslave you with it.
Now, excuse me while I kiss my karma goodbye...
Retraining employees isn't cheap, especially with regards to the time cost.
Unfortunately, OO.org is not anywhere near on par with M$ Word, especially under Linux. It's bloated as hell. When a word processor is so slow that it's annoying, something has gone horribly wrong. Hopefully later versions of OO (or some other office suite) will improve on this... but until then, I can't see Linux/OSS making significant progress into the office/business market without a good word processor.
Yeah, a few months back some punk-ass kid stole my dad's surboard out of his yard. My dad called the police, but they just ran him around to a voice mail box.
Fortunately, though, the other kids in the neighborhood knew who did it... they walked me to his house and after speaking with his mother, we got it back. The kid cooperated, too, but I suspect it was only because his mother was there- his story reeked of BS anyway. But, seeing as how I got the board back for my dad, I didn't want to call him on it (or beat his punk ass, for that matter).
Back in high school, we had a very cool digital animation class. It was specially commissioned, and ten Mac G5s were ordered just for that classroom.
Some time later, they were all stolen. The people who had set up the program were understandably pissed- what kind of scumbag steals equipment from a public school FFS? Well, the teacher was smart enough to check ebay, and sure enough, there they were. The thief was a student... not a minor, either. Turns out he had stolen other computers from the school previously, also. Long story short, he got pwned... no college will ever take the poor bastard now, hahaha.
This is ridiculous. I am already fed up with UCLA's handling of pretty much everything IT.
The school posts the email address of every resident in a public directory on its website. Lo and behold- once I moved in here, I started getting spammed to hell. As if that wasn't enough, last year there was a massive phishing scam that was performed by sending spoofed emails from the University Credit Union. Guess where they harvested the emails from?
UCLA took a week to respond to this attack, and by then many accounts had been compromised. It was a joke. And, on top of that, it still wasn't enough to make anyone realize that posting students' emails publically was a bad idea. I mean, it would not be a hard thing to move the directory into one of the many "login required" website services that the school provides.
I'm hoping that some heads roll over this, and something FINALLY gets done about the fucking monkeys that seem to run IT department.
Perhaps Apple has decided to give it a new name because they're actually rewriting it- as in, making some backend changes instead of the normal visual tweaks. After all, OS X is a bit of a pig when it comes to resources I realize that the idea of Apple not putting form over function for once is hard to grasp, but I'm sure it could happen...
...they can make the fine print that much smaller!
Not allowed. The library itself is closed entirely to non-students after 11PM. Hell, you can't even bring non-student guests into your dorm with you after 9PM unless you sign them in as a guest. There are people waiting in the lobby that check in anyone who passes through.
They take student security very seriously here.
Whoa, slow down there.
Yes, the student was carded randomly, around 11:30 PM, in a library that is only for students, at least after hours. And not just in the library, from what I understand, but in the computer lab, where (iirc) there is a posted policy that you must have your BruinCard if you're using the lab.
This town has a lot of homeless people and the campus has a lot of younger kids running around, also. For security, it is necessary to do these random checks at night and remove people who are not supposed to be there.
And besides, how is one's privacy invaded if they're asked to prove that they're a student in an area that requires ID anyway? It's not any more of an invasion of privacy to have to swipe that same card to open the door to a dorm building, call the elevator, let yourself into a dining hall, or even enter your res hall after hours. The UCLA BruinCard is critical to access just about anything on campus, including said computer lab. I'm sure most campuses are the same way...
Cancer cells typically mutate in such a way that they reproduce uncontrollably. Often, this coincides with the original cancer cell "de-differentiating" (integrating? :) ) into a sort of stem cell, which allows them to reproduce infinitely.
So yes, it would be understandable that a stem cell would have stem cells at its core.
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but this sounds like redundant information to me, at least to some extent. What took them so long to figure this out? And, aren't all tumor cells pretty much the same (you know, that whole infinite replication thing)?
First of all, this was UCPD, not LAPD.
UCPD officers were not the ones that carded him, so profiling is not the issue. The student was originally carded by a Community Service Officer (CSO), basically a student security guard working in the library. The UCPD was called when the student refused to leave.
While the bystanders were not physically doing anything to stop the officers, they were yelling in protest and requesting the officers' ID numbers. The officers threatened to tase the students who were asking for badge numbers. (...And what do you expect? these are college students here. They hardly ever actually do anything; they just protest and make a lot of noise.)
I am a current UCLA student, and honestly I don't see why this story is so huge, especially when the officers in question will probably be punished appropriately. Again, this is UCPD, not LAPD, and so does not really affect anyone outside of campus. I think YouTube was probably the main reason this story is as big as it is.
Regardless, it is definitely abuse on the part of the officers. Enough people die from being tased just twice... five times is completely unnecessary. if they had used the taser only once, no one would have had an issue with it, especially considering how much of a jackass the student was being (judging from the video). Tasing an already-incapacitated suspect is unacceptable, though.
While I imagine that the increased cost of Vista will not make a huge impact on OEM computer sales, it's still an impact. And right now, any loss in the Windows marketshare is a bad thing.
I'm not trolling, I'm dead serious- and I'm no windows fanboy either. Sadly, Linux still isn't quite ready for Joe Desktop. It's come a long way, and is certainly getting there, but it's just not ready yet. I'm a Linux user myself, and it is definitely poised to hit the (non-enthusiast) desktop scene in a big way, but not just yet. Be patient.
So, if Microsoft drives anyone away from Windows, where do you think the displaced users would go? Apple. And frankly, the thought scares the shit out of me. If they get a hold on the market, Apple will enslave the industry more than Microsoft ever has or ever will. M$ at least knows their place, and generally sticks to software.
So please... just hope that M$ does not shoot themselves in the foot, for a few more months at least! If a Microsoft backlash were to happen now, it would only benefit Apple!
I still buy CDs. Now, let me say, what would attract me to purchase more of them would be a more justified price on them. I'd buy a hell of a lot more CDs if they were $5. I like album art. I like having a physical copy of my music... and I like albums, not just songs. My biggest worry about the explosion of downloadable music is that it will forsake the album in favor of mass-produced, repetitive singles.
The record labels keep trying to add shit to CD packages (dualDisc? yuck) and cut costs by using crappy cardboard cases, when they could just stea-- I mean, charge less money. I mean, how much do you think it costs to stamp a CD? It's not like a lot of that money gets passed on to the artist anyway...