Well, I'm off to check the accuracy of your claims. Perhaps I misconstrued his comments as being anti-gay, and his voting record is quite different. I fully understand the idea of not agreeing with something, but supporting the right for disagreement. Even if he isn't anti-gay, I still can't support anyone who thinks States should determine civil liberties such as abortion rights. God help us all if that were the case, or, God help everyone living in the more ingorant parts of the country I should say. (Cough, slavery, cough).
Some artists live off of a hit single from 10-20 years back.
Perhaps contempt is at the heart of the debate. Some people get really angry having to work really hard every day for the past 10-20 years, whereas others can just "live off of a single hit". Then when those living off their past hit over-extend themselves and end up on Skid-Row, they make a reality tv show and expect us to sympathize.
I do professional presentation work - nothing is even close to PowerPoint in terms of robustness and look and feel.
Apple Keynote passed PowerPoint in "look and feel" the day it was released, and is at least as robust as PowerPoint now in version 2. This still doesn't solve the problems of proprietary formats, though.
The problem is with the default behavior. Who wants to muck around with registries just to access data? I'd rather have access to my data with the risk of exposing security problems, than the other way around.
Apple also did something like this (or worse) when they EOL'd Classic in Leopard. Millions of files become inaccessible overnight because the applications to read them simply cannot be run. It's thoughtless and cynical and extremely destructive.
Why not keep 10.5 on an older Mac so as to keep your Classic data? You've gotta move on eventually. Isn't 5 years or so enough time to stop supporting an old format that a very small percentage of users rely on? I'm actually going to put OS 9 back on my 8 year old G4, but only for nostalgia's sake.
I remember when Apple went from 68k to PPC, and MS FUD was "See? Do you really think any of that is going to work in 2 years? Hmmmm????" And, they were right.
Can you please explain how they were right? My 68k machines chugged along for a couple more years. They became obsolete because of the cpu speed explosions and changes in video/harddrive/networking/motherboard technologies, not because of software backwards compatibility. Apple kind of has a pretty good track record of making major changes without leaving the old users in the dust (68k --> Power PC --> OS9 --> OSX --> Motorola/IBM chips --> Intel, etc.)
The Apple transitions have not been without their glitches, but they have not sacrificed progress in the name of backwards compatibility. At some point, you have to cut your losses, dump the old and start from scratch; something Microsoft is seemingly unwilling to do.
At first, I read this as a simple mistake and this little bug would be fixed quickly. Then I read that Microsoft did this intentionally. Why am I not surprised? I'm all for security, but not at the expense of not being able to access my documents. Besides, why should accessing my document and security be mutually exclusive? I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, but at every turn, they let me down.
I was hoping the title of this story was something like "2008 is the year social networking sites died". Now we are hoping for something that lets us make them seem more legit? Please help us if this is what the Internet has come to.
The big decline has been in durangoes,expiditions, and silverados.
Thank God. It's a start! Now if we could just start making a dent into those stupid full-sized trucks that these Texas housewives use as a status symbol when they go shopping. Seriously, who uses a freakin' WORK vehicle as a status symbol??? Maybe I'll start a trend and get me a white panel van...
I have to wonder who it is that isn't reading. I'm reading the guy's point, but it I'm not agreeing with it. If you want to posit that the reason people aren't buying HD dvd players because they can't defeat the DRM, then you are just showing you are in the small minority of us on slashdot that knows what DRM even is. I, on the other hand, take note OUTSIDE of slashdot, and can say with 100% certainty that the main reason people aren't buying either format yet is because of money. They are too expensive, they don't want to throw their money away into the losing format, and they don't want to have to re-buy their media if they make the wrong choice. History is a bitch.
He wouldn't do anything to stop abortion? He's fully on record stating he'd do everything in his power to eliminate abortion. I guess voting him President would be the best thing we Texans could do then, to assure he loses his right to legislate abortion in his home state.
Well Ron Paul would push to repeal the woman's right to have an abortion. So much for being the "libertarian" Republican that the slasdot crowd seems to think he is. Oh yeah, and he's also staunchly anti-gay. I guess civil liberties aren't important to the Ron Paul crowd either.
Dude, I make less than 100,000 year combined with my wife and I don't give a damn about $3.25/gallon price either. It doesn't take someone making 500k to care. Gas in the UK is roughly $8/gallon (current exchange rate). Considering I lived there the past few years, I'll take $3.15/gallon gas every day of the week.
Your attitudes towards money ARE flippant, because most people don't want to spend money like your scenario describes, because faced with feeding a family, or buying into two over-hyped media systems, most people pick feeding the family. Look, I buy a lot of expensive computer stuff (three Macs, an iPhone, and even an overpriced Airport Extreme router), and it isn't a big deal to me. But I also have a good career and can afford to do so. What I do understand, though, is for MOST people, buying a $400 DVD player that may or may not be obsolete in 2 years is a BIG risk, let alone having to buy TWO to make sure you have the right format. Just a quick online search for Blu-ray players, and I see $400 is the LOWER end for players too.
and if HD wins in two years, I can start buying HD content. And I'll still be able to watch my bluray stuff.
And how exactly will you play your Blu-ray content when your obsolete Blu-ray player breaks? You'll just rebuy all your favorite media in HD format.
Come on man, I was posting an example and then qualified it with the fact that I'm not even sure if it is correct. How about, "no, that isn't exactly right. One never recovers from Type 2 diabetes" (if that is indeed even true).
Just a quick check and I find, "Type 2 is initially treated by adjustment in diet and exercise, and by weight loss, especially in obese patients." (source: wikipedia). So yes, I am "prejudiced" against people who bring on an illness that is caused by their own lifestyle habits. I was "uninformed" on the cure, since there is no cure, but the treatment is to lose weight and control one's diet, which makes my original example even more valid.
doesn't ripping a DVD to a computer already qualify you as a techie?
You are making my point for me. How else do you back up a dvd for "fair use", or make it in some form that an mp3 player can play? Isn't this the argument against copyright controls in the first place? My point, in otherwords, is that non-techies don't care about copy schemes, because it doesn't affect them.
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Well, I'm off to check the accuracy of your claims. Perhaps I misconstrued his comments as being anti-gay, and his voting record is quite different. I fully understand the idea of not agreeing with something, but supporting the right for disagreement. Even if he isn't anti-gay, I still can't support anyone who thinks States should determine civil liberties such as abortion rights. God help us all if that were the case, or, God help everyone living in the more ingorant parts of the country I should say. (Cough, slavery, cough).
Some guy meets a hot chick, posts to slashdot, gets moded "5, Insightful". This is a sad, sad commentary on slashdot users in general :-p
The problem is with the default behavior. Who wants to muck around with registries just to access data? I'd rather have access to my data with the risk of exposing security problems, than the other way around.
The Apple transitions have not been without their glitches, but they have not sacrificed progress in the name of backwards compatibility. At some point, you have to cut your losses, dump the old and start from scratch; something Microsoft is seemingly unwilling to do.
At first, I read this as a simple mistake and this little bug would be fixed quickly. Then I read that Microsoft did this intentionally. Why am I not surprised? I'm all for security, but not at the expense of not being able to access my documents. Besides, why should accessing my document and security be mutually exclusive? I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, but at every turn, they let me down.
I was hoping the title of this story was something like "2008 is the year social networking sites died". Now we are hoping for something that lets us make them seem more legit? Please help us if this is what the Internet has come to.
I have to wonder who it is that isn't reading. I'm reading the guy's point, but it I'm not agreeing with it. If you want to posit that the reason people aren't buying HD dvd players because they can't defeat the DRM, then you are just showing you are in the small minority of us on slashdot that knows what DRM even is. I, on the other hand, take note OUTSIDE of slashdot, and can say with 100% certainty that the main reason people aren't buying either format yet is because of money. They are too expensive, they don't want to throw their money away into the losing format, and they don't want to have to re-buy their media if they make the wrong choice. History is a bitch.
I'd probably be a lot less critical of XP if they ditched the Fischer Price theme.
He wouldn't do anything to stop abortion? He's fully on record stating he'd do everything in his power to eliminate abortion. I guess voting him President would be the best thing we Texans could do then, to assure he loses his right to legislate abortion in his home state.
In the same way politians don't need to understand history, doctors don't need to understand evolution? You've lost me.
Well Ron Paul would push to repeal the woman's right to have an abortion. So much for being the "libertarian" Republican that the slasdot crowd seems to think he is. Oh yeah, and he's also staunchly anti-gay. I guess civil liberties aren't important to the Ron Paul crowd either.
The problem with your logic is that people who buy luxury SUVs are often those who can least afford to do so.
Dude, I make less than 100,000 year combined with my wife and I don't give a damn about $3.25/gallon price either. It doesn't take someone making 500k to care. Gas in the UK is roughly $8/gallon (current exchange rate). Considering I lived there the past few years, I'll take $3.15/gallon gas every day of the week.
By the time the common man possesses the skill to back up a dvd, spinning metal disks will be obsolete ;-p
I see that now from the other posts. I feel stupid for falling for the flame bait now.
Just a quick check and I find, "Type 2 is initially treated by adjustment in diet and exercise, and by weight loss, especially in obese patients." (source: wikipedia). So yes, I am "prejudiced" against people who bring on an illness that is caused by their own lifestyle habits. I was "uninformed" on the cure, since there is no cure, but the treatment is to lose weight and control one's diet, which makes my original example even more valid.