The problem with your statement, however, is that Communism doesn't live in a vacuum. All communism becomes some form of totalitarianism. Unless you can point to the "book answer" version of Communism thriving in the wild...
It's not the hardware, it's the OS and the UI. The things are like horse and buggies in a flying car era.
I couldn't care less about physical keys, unless they are on at least a laptop sized keyboard, because no tiny physical keyboard lets me touch type my usual 95 WMP. So, a virtual keyboard typed with thumbs and a good auto-correct suits --if the market is to be believed-- well, almost everyone.
I find it hard to believe that physical keyboards are such a necessity, given most phones don't have them.
You are going to find a lot of racists in America, period. Granted, most of them are too stupid to know how to use a computer, let alone be on slashdot...
The media is seriously over analyzing RIM's woes. It takes 5 minutes of hands-on use to see that Blackberries are woefully behind iPhones and Android devices.
Wait, what? I have several hundred shares. I can sell 100 right now and buy a nice car with the proceeds and still have hundreds of shares left. What's your beef with my sentence structure again?
No, they nearly went out of business because they lost focus, and started worrying about bottom line instead of creative, interesting products. When Jobs was not in charge, they tried to be Dell. I'm curious to know what you think was interesting from 1993-1997?
And because they've gotten their focus back, I am a victim of the fandom you cite. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.
Call it streaming if you must, but once it's done streaming, there's a physical copy on the target device, pulled down from your iCloud account. That's what's awesome about this service, not the fact you can store stuff "in the cloud". It's that you can store it and pull it down to all your devices.
Watch the keynote. iCloud scans your.mac account and keeps a list of all the songs you own from iTunes purchases. It then scans your devices (ALL your devices associated with your iTunes account) for any non-iTunes media and tells the iCloud service they exist. You then get the option to ADD those songs to your list of purchased iTunes songs associated with that iTunes account. That way they don't have upload your songs. THEN, with this manifest in place, ANY device you own that is associated with that iTunes account can access ALL the songs in your iTunes account. You can download them individually to each device, or you can automatically sync your devices from the cloud (given enough storage on the target device).
This really isn't that hard to understand, and the amount of misinformation in this thread is astonishing.
Woah, that's quite the large tin-foil hat you're wearing. Apple says "don't pirate music". They don't say "we're selling your name to the feds if you try to upload bullshit copies to our cloud".
Pirate your music, pay $25 a year to use iCloud to sync your library to all your devices. The $25 is for the convenience of syncing tunes to all your computers, your iPhones, and any other iDevice. There's the added bonus of getting good versions of the crappy pirated versions you may have in your library as well.
Not true. 4 studios have signed on. $5 for every subscriber every year to each studio is a good deal, especially if they are making $5 per user on music they never sold to them.
In defense of iCloud, you can dismiss it all you want, but you'll miss out on its greatest strength -- synching all your stuff in the iCloud to all your iDevices (assuming you have iDevices). I know my old-ass iMac will be retired as soon as iCloud comes on line. All it does is serve my wife and my iTunes libraries (consolidated into one account) wirelessly to our Apple TV. It'll be nice to pull down any song in my iTunes library to my phones and laptop without actually having to have them all on every device I own.
People WILL upload their peer-to-peer copies of music to iCloud, not to legitimize their copy, but to use iCloud to sync it to all their other devices. And by "people" I mean "me".
My take is that it's an "oh, crap! my machine isn't working and the instructions for fixing it are on the net!" feature... Boot into safari mode, browse the internet for the wisdom it contains, maybe connect to apple.com for an update, etc.
DING DING DING, we have a winner. About time somebody got the right answer.
The cheapest mac (new) is at $699.00 for only a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory and only a 320GB HDD 5400 RPM also need to add a keyboard and mouse.
Yeah, because nobody on slashdot has an extra keyboard and mouse laying around...
And I cut out all the other prices you quoted because they aren't needed. The specs you cite for the Mini above are good enough on their own merit...some of us don't need long nights of features comparisons and hand-wringing over a hundred bucks or so here and there. You know what all that other gear you cited doesn't have? OS X pre-installed (with the ability to dual boot into Windows). That's the only feature list I needed to see.
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I never claimed there was. Thanks for projecting, however.
Errrm, claims of eating babies don't quite qualify as "nitpicking", if I may so nitpick.
The problem with your statement, however, is that Communism doesn't live in a vacuum. All communism becomes some form of totalitarianism. Unless you can point to the "book answer" version of Communism thriving in the wild...
It's not the hardware, it's the OS and the UI. The things are like horse and buggies in a flying car era.
I couldn't care less about physical keys, unless they are on at least a laptop sized keyboard, because no tiny physical keyboard lets me touch type my usual 95 WMP. So, a virtual keyboard typed with thumbs and a good auto-correct suits --if the market is to be believed-- well, almost everyone.
I find it hard to believe that physical keyboards are such a necessity, given most phones don't have them.
You are going to find a lot of racists in America, period. Granted, most of them are too stupid to know how to use a computer, let alone be on slashdot...
RIM is still one of the best choices in the enterprise world and it'll be a while before that ever changes.
Or one more Blackberry outage (this week) oughta do the trick.
The media is seriously over analyzing RIM's woes. It takes 5 minutes of hands-on use to see that Blackberries are woefully behind iPhones and Android devices.
A better piece of shit camera is better than the shitty one on the iPhone. I'll give you that.
Yeah, just what the world needs--more poorly recorded bootlegs of shitty movies.
I tried that the entropy tree in Dragon Age, but didn't like it. I'm more of an elementals mage.
Wait, what? I have several hundred shares. I can sell 100 right now and buy a nice car with the proceeds and still have hundreds of shares left. What's your beef with my sentence structure again?
No, they nearly went out of business because they lost focus, and started worrying about bottom line instead of creative, interesting products. When Jobs was not in charge, they tried to be Dell. I'm curious to know what you think was interesting from 1993-1997?
And because they've gotten their focus back, I am a victim of the fandom you cite. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.
Call it streaming if you must, but once it's done streaming, there's a physical copy on the target device, pulled down from your iCloud account. That's what's awesome about this service, not the fact you can store stuff "in the cloud". It's that you can store it and pull it down to all your devices.
As far as you know, you are absolutely incorrect.
Watch the keynote. iCloud scans your .mac account and keeps a list of all the songs you own from iTunes purchases. It then scans your devices (ALL your devices associated with your iTunes account) for any non-iTunes media and tells the iCloud service they exist. You then get the option to ADD those songs to your list of purchased iTunes songs associated with that iTunes account. That way they don't have upload your songs. THEN, with this manifest in place, ANY device you own that is associated with that iTunes account can access ALL the songs in your iTunes account. You can download them individually to each device, or you can automatically sync your devices from the cloud (given enough storage on the target device).
This really isn't that hard to understand, and the amount of misinformation in this thread is astonishing.
Woah, that's quite the large tin-foil hat you're wearing. Apple says "don't pirate music". They don't say "we're selling your name to the feds if you try to upload bullshit copies to our cloud".
Pirate your music, pay $25 a year to use iCloud to sync your library to all your devices. The $25 is for the convenience of syncing tunes to all your computers, your iPhones, and any other iDevice. There's the added bonus of getting good versions of the crappy pirated versions you may have in your library as well.
Not true. 4 studios have signed on. $5 for every subscriber every year to each studio is a good deal, especially if they are making $5 per user on music they never sold to them.
In defense of iCloud, you can dismiss it all you want, but you'll miss out on its greatest strength -- synching all your stuff in the iCloud to all your iDevices (assuming you have iDevices). I know my old-ass iMac will be retired as soon as iCloud comes on line. All it does is serve my wife and my iTunes libraries (consolidated into one account) wirelessly to our Apple TV. It'll be nice to pull down any song in my iTunes library to my phones and laptop without actually having to have them all on every device I own.
More importantly, all their torrents will now be available for sync via iCloud to all their devices.
18 million songs and you don't like their selection. Good luck with other legitimate services.
People WILL upload their peer-to-peer copies of music to iCloud, not to legitimize their copy, but to use iCloud to sync it to all their other devices. And by "people" I mean "me".
I have had every flavor of Windows since Win 98SE (skipped Vista) and every version had driver problems on a regular basis.
I've had every flavor of OS X and have never had a driver issue.
I don't care about taking 10,000 random pieces of PC hardware, because I'm in control of which hardware I use. This is not a strength I care about.
Well if you can't even get the OS name correct, it is no wonder you would also make a trollish, non-factual statement in the same post.
Mac OS ended in 2002.
My take is that it's an "oh, crap! my machine isn't working and the instructions for fixing it are on the net!" feature ... Boot into safari mode, browse the internet for the wisdom it contains, maybe connect to apple.com for an update, etc.
DING DING DING, we have a winner. About time somebody got the right answer.
The cheapest mac (new) is at $699.00 for only a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB memory and only a 320GB HDD 5400 RPM also need to add a keyboard and mouse.
Yeah, because nobody on slashdot has an extra keyboard and mouse laying around...
And I cut out all the other prices you quoted because they aren't needed. The specs you cite for the Mini above are good enough on their own merit...some of us don't need long nights of features comparisons and hand-wringing over a hundred bucks or so here and there. You know what all that other gear you cited doesn't have? OS X pre-installed (with the ability to dual boot into Windows). That's the only feature list I needed to see.