Or it could be you are so John Birch right, that the moderate center looks pinko.
I mean, c'mon, that sounds like a "fair and balanced" argument. "Balanced" doesn't mean your measure of equanimity is presenting every opposing view as equal, or even valid, for that matter. Setting up strawman arguments is a no no as well (note to readers - the following analogy is merely for illustrative purposes)
"OK, we've heard from the abused wife and kids, and the doctor who treated them, but we also hear from reliable sources that the father has been under a great deal of stress, and we have no information yet on the mental stability of the wife and kids..."
As if these perspectives are both equally newsworthy and somehow come out a wash, so you've been "fair and balanced."
"Ted 'Chappaquiddick' Kennedy falls asleep during security briefing" should not be presented as a foil to "Bush criticized for his Iraq reconstruction plan" but that tends to be the setup of most talk radio, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al.
...but isn't this the same author that gives every single Apple product a favorable review? It would be nice to see reviews from an unbiased source.
Actually, Walt Mossberg used to regularly marginalize the mac, as did Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Herald. I don't think it was malicious; they just didn't see any stemming of the MS tide, and any mention of the mac was kind of meh. Now that FOSS and OS X have been steadily gaining traction, and MS is getting a bad rap *and it actually matters to people making the purchasing decisions* it's a different story.
I think Mossberg and Bray started coming around when 10.1 and the new PowerBooks came out.
Besides, if something is good and getting better all the time (Apple really hasn't stepped on its d**k much at all wrt OSX), why not say that? I consider myself a pretty realistic person, but I can't think of significant drawbacks of Apple hardware or software for their target audiences that haven't been already addressed for the most part.
iTunes uses IE as its browser no matter what browser you choose. Maybe it's because the functionality of iTMS requires IE or Safari, as other browsers are not supported.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. iTunes is a standalone app, and the iTunes Music Store is integrated into iTunes and does not use any external browser code, but some sort of custom XML.
Are you referring to some other functionality of iTunes other than music browsing/purchasing?
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If you've seen OS X Panther's new search capabilities, you'll know how fast things can be: live recursive searching. It's pretty sweet. Works in the finder, as well as Preview for PDFs.
You taste the nectar of the fruit of the plugin, yet you do not respect the plugin. You think it naturally follows! I tell you! Those who dismiss the plugin as a natural extension of Allah's munificence and joyful bounty do not know the hardships of a thousand lives dashed against the rocks of the petty squabbling of IETF and his brother, the soul-crushing IEEE! Listen to me those who will hear! Spare yourselves the eternal damnation that accompanies such hubris, and accept the plugin with the appropriate and holy praise and reverence that gave you foosball, and neverending ramen, and fountains of jolt! Listen to me, those who will hear!
I also wonder if this has implications for hiring Indian programmers at MS. If the initial liberal licensing results in the code finding its way into all sorts of GPL'd code, how attractive/detrimental is that to MS that a goodly portion of Indian programmers would have GPL'd code rolling around in their heads.
Apple squandered an insane amount of positive free press and a killer lead by initially releasing a "Mac Only" service.
Right. We all know how pissed off the record companies were that Apple was holding off on the Windows version of iTunes.
"Dammit, Jobs! You're telling me you won't roll out a version for all these billion people at the same time? How can we know how well it works if we don't have a large sample size!"
I think that was a negotiating plus for getting the blessing of the record companies, not some petty decision.
You, slashdot editor, member of the press, are actually encouraging and suggesting that false and misleading information be interpolated from a small number of facts.
That's a pretty ghey statement. Are you ghey? Probably.
Lemme help joo with your history. It's not like Acorn was alone in its intent, or that Apple was just some opportunist:
ARM was established in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., a UK-based joint venture between Apple Computer, Acorn Computer Group and VLSI Technology. Apple and VLSI both provided funding, while Acorn supplied the technology and ARM's 12 founding engineers. Acorn, developer of the world's first commercial single-chip RISC processor, and Apple, intent on advancing the use of RISC technology in its own systems, chartered ARM with creating a new microprocessor standard. ARM immediately differentiated itself in the market by creating the first low-cost RISC architecture. Conversely, competing architectures, which were more commonly focused on maximizing performance, were first used in high-end workstations.
http://www.mobileimperative.com/documents.asp?d_ ID =1793
Not only that, but AppleMusic could easily be confused with Apple Corp's music business
Really? By whom, and at what expense?
"Apple suing Apple for infringement? Those greedy mac bastards, and their team of lawyers! I'm not buying another mac until they stop suing people!"
Who would possibly be confused, and if they are, are they in a position to do business with AppleCorp, yet try to contact Apple Computer? Who the f*ck is that stupid?
The question is, for those so confused: thorazine, dilaudid, or do I need to call Nurse Ratched?
As this article just came out. Pretty interesting.
Basically, it says patching and patch management has gotten out of control, but 99% of the verbiage in the article seems to be referring to Windows (ha, I typed Sindows by accident. Or maybe it wasn't an accident? Bum bum bum BUUUUUUUUM!)
I think one of the general enthusiasms regardless of the fact that it will still require fossil fuels, is that with a generation plant using fossil fuels, the effluent is restricted to one location. With proper scrubbers and whatnot, even with the same discharge, it beats the distributed polluting scheme of gas-burning cars.
*In light of the ability of some email viruses (eg SoBig.F) to spoof this address regardless of whether my machine is infected or not (for instance, pulling my address from a Windows user address book to use as a fake return address), if this statement is not included, consider a message from me to be a virus*
I figure that will be good, going out a few dozen times a day. I urge everyone to pen something similar. Cause, ya know, MS can never have too much bad press... erm, room to innovate.
Maybe we could *all* be antennae! Running around like Rolie Polie Olie, satisfied in the knowledge that you have enabled your neighbor to frag someone at blazing speeds.
Haddad said: "Hear what Art Rainwater, superintendent of the Madison (Wis) school district, told the local Capital Times. He conceded that Macs outperform PCs, but he didn't care. "We want a single platform," he said. "We're trying to get there using the carrot, or blackmail, or rewards, or whatever you call it."
Not quite. Here's what the Capital Times printed:
Superintendent Art Rainwater acknowledged that in some cases, Macintosh computers outperform their competitors.
Now the NYT may make stuff up, but I suspect Business Week's Haddad, rather than re-releasing a newspaper article, may have actually been required to get his own quotes from the primary sources.
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Or it could be you are so John Birch right, that the moderate center looks pinko.
I mean, c'mon, that sounds like a "fair and balanced" argument. "Balanced" doesn't mean your measure of equanimity is presenting every opposing view as equal, or even valid, for that matter. Setting up strawman arguments is a no no as well (note to readers - the following analogy is merely for illustrative purposes)
"OK, we've heard from the abused wife and kids, and the doctor who treated them, but we also hear from reliable sources that the father has been under a great deal of stress, and we have no information yet on the mental stability of the wife and kids..."
As if these perspectives are both equally newsworthy and somehow come out a wash, so you've been "fair and balanced."
"Ted 'Chappaquiddick' Kennedy falls asleep during security briefing" should not be presented as a foil to "Bush criticized for his Iraq reconstruction plan" but that tends to be the setup of most talk radio, Hannity, O'Reilly, et al.
A bank? Really? Geez, and I thought money laundering involved American Express Travelers Cheques.
No, real men submit a story to /. that the new stable kernel release of their hand coded OS is available from their home server.
...but isn't this the same author that gives every single Apple product a favorable review? It would be nice to see reviews from an unbiased source.
:)
Actually, Walt Mossberg used to regularly marginalize the mac, as did Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Herald. I don't think it was malicious; they just didn't see any stemming of the MS tide, and any mention of the mac was kind of meh. Now that FOSS and OS X have been steadily gaining traction, and MS is getting a bad rap *and it actually matters to people making the purchasing decisions* it's a different story.
I think Mossberg and Bray started coming around when 10.1 and the new PowerBooks came out.
Besides, if something is good and getting better all the time (Apple really hasn't stepped on its d**k much at all wrt OSX), why not say that? I consider myself a pretty realistic person, but I can't think of significant drawbacks of Apple hardware or software for their target audiences that haven't been already addressed for the most part.
Parse those weasel words, why dontcha?
iTunes uses IE as its browser no matter what browser you choose. Maybe it's because the functionality of iTMS requires IE or Safari, as other browsers are not supported.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. iTunes is a standalone app, and the iTunes Music Store is integrated into iTunes and does not use any external browser code, but some sort of custom XML.
Are you referring to some other functionality of iTunes other than music browsing/purchasing?
If you've seen OS X Panther's new search capabilities, you'll know how fast things can be: live recursive searching. It's pretty sweet. Works in the finder, as well as Preview for PDFs.
You taste the nectar of the fruit of the plugin, yet you do not respect the plugin. You think it naturally follows! I tell you! Those who dismiss the plugin as a natural extension of Allah's munificence and joyful bounty do not know the hardships of a thousand lives dashed against the rocks of the petty squabbling of IETF and his brother, the soul-crushing IEEE! Listen to me those who will hear! Spare yourselves the eternal damnation that accompanies such hubris, and accept the plugin with the appropriate and holy praise and reverence that gave you foosball, and neverending ramen, and fountains of jolt! Listen to me, those who will hear!
just push it downhill, press the power button, and pop the clutch.
I also wonder if this has implications for hiring Indian programmers at MS. If the initial liberal licensing results in the code finding its way into all sorts of GPL'd code, how attractive/detrimental is that to MS that a goodly portion of Indian programmers would have GPL'd code rolling around in their heads.
Just a thought.
Apple squandered an insane amount of positive free press and a killer lead by initially releasing a "Mac Only" service.
Right. We all know how pissed off the record companies were that Apple was holding off on the Windows version of iTunes.
"Dammit, Jobs! You're telling me you won't roll out a version for all these billion people at the same time? How can we know how well it works if we don't have a large sample size!"
I think that was a negotiating plus for getting the blessing of the record companies, not some petty decision.
You, slashdot editor, member of the press, are actually encouraging and suggesting that false and misleading information be interpolated from a small number of facts.
That's a pretty ghey statement. Are you ghey? Probably.
Linky link.
For a second there, I thought they had channelled Steve Jobs' reality distortion field.
"Use it for fun, or profit! Amaze your friends! Make women succumb to your power!"
Throw in some sea monkeys and a pair of x-ray specs, and you'd have my credit card number.
Yikes! That gorilla must be having a slimfast for breakfast, a slimfast for lunch, and a healthy dinner, just like Tommy Lasorda!
Go back to the donuts and McDonalds, and maybe he can get back to his fighting weight of 800 lbs.
Maybe there's a geek scale of gorillas (excluding UNIX silverbacks who easily can sit on and smother a 200 lb gorilla).
"After years of jolt cola and pop rocks, he's 96 lbs soaking wet" = 83 lb bonobo
"Too many late night pizza and mountain dew coding sessions" = 120 lb chimp
"Exercise limited to resistance from haptic input devices" = 200 lb gorilla juvenile
"Modified the blaster worm just for kicks" = 800 lb gorilla.
OK. That last one was uncalled for.
Lemme help joo with your history. It's not like Acorn was alone in its intent, or that Apple was just some opportunist:
_ ID =1793
ARM was established in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., a UK-based joint venture between Apple Computer, Acorn Computer Group and VLSI Technology. Apple and VLSI both provided funding, while Acorn supplied the technology and ARM's 12 founding engineers. Acorn, developer of the world's first commercial single-chip RISC processor, and Apple, intent on advancing the use of RISC technology in its own systems, chartered ARM with creating a new microprocessor standard. ARM immediately differentiated itself in the market by creating the first low-cost RISC architecture. Conversely, competing architectures, which were more commonly focused on maximizing performance, were first used in high-end workstations.
http://www.mobileimperative.com/documents.asp?d
Not only that, but AppleMusic could easily be confused with Apple Corp's music business
Really? By whom, and at what expense?
"Apple suing Apple for infringement? Those greedy mac bastards, and their team of lawyers! I'm not buying another mac until they stop suing people!"
Who would possibly be confused, and if they are, are they in a position to do business with AppleCorp, yet try to contact Apple Computer? Who the f*ck is that stupid?
The question is, for those so confused: thorazine, dilaudid, or do I need to call Nurse Ratched?
Sounds like what you are looking for is SUS [microsoft.com]. This will allow you to push security updates to your clients centrally.
Ahh, but what happens the day MS releases a critical patch for SUS? Huh? Huh Mr. SmartyPants?
(said in a joking tone, followed immediately with a rush of fear...)
I'm too lazy, but can someone post a link to how much SCO stock is shorted right now? And maybe how much those put contracts cost?
And maybe as a funny little comparison, see how much call contracts are going for.
As this article just came out. Pretty interesting.
Basically, it says patching and patch management has gotten out of control, but 99% of the verbiage in the article seems to be referring to Windows (ha, I typed Sindows by accident. Or maybe it wasn't an accident? Bum bum bum BUUUUUUUUM!)
I can see the anachronism now: "We now have the technology to fit the computer equivalent of a walnut sized brain into a small room!"
Ha ha, you say, we already have the oval office!
I think one of the general enthusiasms regardless of the fact that it will still require fossil fuels, is that with a generation plant using fossil fuels, the effluent is restricted to one location. With proper scrubbers and whatnot, even with the same discharge, it beats the distributed polluting scheme of gas-burning cars.
I now have a new signature on my emails:
*In light of the ability of some email viruses (eg SoBig.F) to spoof this address regardless of whether my machine is infected or not (for instance, pulling my address from a Windows user address book to use as a fake return address), if this statement is not included, consider a message from me to be a virus*
I figure that will be good, going out a few dozen times a day. I urge everyone to pen something similar. Cause, ya know, MS can never have too much bad press... erm, room to innovate.
Maybe we could *all* be antennae! Running around like Rolie Polie Olie, satisfied in the knowledge that you have enabled your neighbor to frag someone at blazing speeds.
Haddad said: "Hear what Art Rainwater, superintendent of the Madison (Wis) school district, told the local Capital Times. He conceded that Macs outperform PCs, but he didn't care. "We want a single platform," he said. "We're trying to get there using the carrot, or blackmail, or rewards, or whatever you call it."
Not quite. Here's what the Capital Times printed:
Superintendent Art Rainwater acknowledged that in some cases, Macintosh computers outperform their competitors.
Now the NYT may make stuff up, but I suspect Business Week's Haddad, rather than re-releasing a newspaper article, may have actually been required to get his own quotes from the primary sources.
But maybe not.
OK. I'm on the edge of my seat. I keep typing http://() but I can't find it.