..on Web Hosting Talk for a few weeks and it becomes obvious who the good ones are. It takes a little work, but I can think of 5 hosts right off the top of my head that have sterling reputations and aren't hard to locate.
That's great, but I think the main objection is that the machine that would really replace my home box isn't at the appropraite price point. I want something more like a PowerPC but at a more reasonable price. The Mac mini is cute and neat and wonderful, but it's woefully underpowered. If they used more mainstream, desktop-sized componentry with a real processor, they could deliver something in between the Mac mini and the PowerPC at an in-between price.
is they don't know how to design a good-looking and easy to use website. Netflix's site is nearly perfect, but Amazon's pages are too complicated, tie in to too many things, and finding your way around can be too circuitious.
I'll admit they've improved a lot recently (their new book pages are great), but I think they've got too much historical cruft in the mix to be truly committed to good, simple interface design.
The only thing I'm really dying for in GNOME is that Evolution be compiled with the plug-in that allows for the creation of tasks from email messsages dragged to the icon. That would improve my life tremendously. As it is, I'll stick with Thunderbird (I don't want to re-compile Evolution every-time I upgrade my GNOME).
Companies are out to make a profit not a political statement.
Yeah.. a baseline of human morality has no place in the world of business, which is, you know, conducted by humans. Establishing a minimum context for the behavior of humans just sucks. Money is pure, the pursuit of it is pure.
There are some technologies that reach a level of maturity and at that point should probably be OSS. Infrastructure pieces like email and web servers can really address most of the market as OSS offerings.
Features over and above what most of the market needs leaves a niche that can be addressed by commercial software. Commercial software will always be beholden to marketing forces that don't necessarily dictate elegance or proper form. That's why MS gets such a bad rap -- they keep trying to satisfy competing forces and usually end up screwing the end user.
"Flavor of the month" software is usually commercial -- there's an inherent pressure to produce a specific kind of solution that doesn't make it into the "infrastructure" that can be accelerated by commercial traffic. Delicious Library comes to mind -- will they really be around forever? Probably not. But $40 gets it for you right now.. and it's not a big deal when something bigger and better comes along (if it does).
The other nice thing about OSS is that it usually enforces "the right way" over time. Command line options etc. It's not really surprising that MS finally saw the light on this, though I doubt their implementation will really satisfy the unix-y small tools mentality.
I think you're profile name is apt.. as everyone here has already pointed out, you don't understand the definition or nature of the word "monopoly".
Furthermore, what you seem to be missing is that, by and large, people bang on Microsoft not just because they have a monopoly but they also put out shitty products.
People don't bang on Apple because their products (or at least starting with OS X) don't suck.
So, MS gets hit a little harder because their products suck, Apple gets a little bit of a pass because their products don't suck. There's a committment to elegance in the Apple universe, perhaps compromised a bit by their commercial fanatacism.
The general sloppiness here drives me crazy. I'd be happy for a decent/. alternative, but it is unique in it's category.
It's not like the stories are expedited from submission to posting.. the editors here get paid money, and for that they should strive towards something better and more respectable. How hard would it be to spell-check submissions? Not hard at all.
And there's fundamentally a difference between fat-fingering "the" (which should get caught) and not knowing enough to spot "yin-yang". Perhaps it's time they hired an online copy-editor. It wouldn't cost them much, and maybe the volume of postings dedicated to "slashdot sucks" could be alleviated. Their advertisers alone should complain, because the valid "slashdot sucks" posts constitute a kind of click-fraud.
..who wants to be a programmer? When it takes MS 6 years to produce new versions of their OS, how does that serve as a good-sell opportunity?
Next time the bubble grows, let's leave the investment bankers by the side of the road. Maybe rationality in the process would help preserve the integrity of the industry.
Personally, if there was a way to use the original install discs to get OS X on to my machine, I'd still consider paying for it.
I'd still happily pay for iLife updates.
And I'd probably join their developer's connection.
I may happily pay for an Intel OS X laptop, but honestly, unless they find a bit more parity in the price range, I doubt I'd buy a workstation from them right off. Apple's going to have to update their machines much more frequently to keep up with the pace of Intel hardware price drops.
..is that I'd probably switch from Thunderbird to Evolution *IF* Evolution shipping with the plug-in that let you copy an email to a task. I'm not about to embark on re-compiling the whole damned thing everytime I upgrade versions just to get this very basic, should-be-included-automatically feature.
Are we so sure, actually? What if Apple has decided to see what happens with that and adjust accordingly?
If hackers get OS X running on regular Intel machines and it's just a software hack, everyone and their brother will be able to download the torrent and run it. This might be an experiment on their part that pays off in 2-4 years with a new strategy. I'm not sure they'll revisit the clone days again, but Microsoft does pretty well just selling the licenses.
I think you're seriously missing the point. Steve chose Intel so that nobody could ever bang him for his choice of CPU again.
Cell isn't proven.
The CPU complaints are over.. he's now on the most mainstream, high-volume chip on the planet. There will be no more sourcing issues, there are no "special" problems preventing Apple from producing a very marketable machine.
..if they hadn't committed to the PowerPC platform and taken on the additional burden of 1) chasing the PPC up the performance ladder, and 2) maintaining dual code bases. How much internal management distraction has this occupied?
It's impressive that they'll be able to support both platforms as easily as they say, but hardware sales are not going to be pretty this year.
the special effects were mostly great but there were aggregious lapses, like the platform that falls on obi-wan kenobi (looks really fake) which knocks him over but then leaves him fine
the opening was really boring. there, i said it
so if the samuel jackson character didn't suddenly act very anti-jedi-like with palpatine, anakin probably wouldn't have attacked him, which probably wouldn't have led to his switch to the darkside.. right?
no one noticed when anakin stopped wearing brown and started wearing black. isn't that weird?
...of cheap, commercial solutions/services out there for this, but I do think some organizations would want to have this in-house, on their own servers, branded with their look and feel.
I did a lot of ticket solution searching for a non-profit arts organization and never ran across this. Some higher visibility search engine and code repository (hotscripts, etc) entries would help visibility. Visibility will increase the chances of financial assistance.
...hasn't been paying attention to what's happened to Star Trek through all its iterations.
Can't he develop an interest in anything else? It's a huge, wide world out there, and he has the money to do anything he wants. And he's still flogging this dead, dusty horse?
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..technology branding is hard, but .. sheesh, isn't it time Intel fired their marketing division?
VIIV? Viiv? It's like a new STD.
..on Web Hosting Talk for a few weeks and it becomes obvious who the good ones are. It takes a little work, but I can think of 5 hosts right off the top of my head that have sterling reputations and aren't hard to locate.
That's great, but I think the main objection is that the machine that would really replace my home box isn't at the appropraite price point. I want something more like a PowerPC but at a more reasonable price. The Mac mini is cute and neat and wonderful, but it's woefully underpowered. If they used more mainstream, desktop-sized componentry with a real processor, they could deliver something in between the Mac mini and the PowerPC at an in-between price.
Maybe, just maybe, he likes using a mail client to deal with text that.. you know, let's him do it excusively with keyboard commands.
I often wish I could go back to Pine. Really.
is they don't know how to design a good-looking and easy to use website. Netflix's site is nearly perfect, but Amazon's pages are too complicated, tie in to too many things, and finding your way around can be too circuitious.
I'll admit they've improved a lot recently (their new book pages are great), but I think they've got too much historical cruft in the mix to be truly committed to good, simple interface design.
The only thing I'm really dying for in GNOME is that Evolution be compiled with the plug-in that allows for the creation of tasks from email messsages dragged to the icon. That would improve my life tremendously. As it is, I'll stick with Thunderbird (I don't want to re-compile Evolution every-time I upgrade my GNOME).
Companies are out to make a profit not a political statement.
Yeah.. a baseline of human morality has no place in the world of business, which is, you know, conducted by humans. Establishing a minimum context for the behavior of humans just sucks. Money is pure, the pursuit of it is pure.
There are some technologies that reach a level of maturity and at that point should probably be OSS. Infrastructure pieces like email and web servers can really address most of the market as OSS offerings.
Features over and above what most of the market needs leaves a niche that can be addressed by commercial software. Commercial software will always be beholden to marketing forces that don't necessarily dictate elegance or proper form. That's why MS gets such a bad rap -- they keep trying to satisfy competing forces and usually end up screwing the end user.
"Flavor of the month" software is usually commercial -- there's an inherent pressure to produce a specific kind of solution that doesn't make it into the "infrastructure" that can be accelerated by commercial traffic. Delicious Library comes to mind -- will they really be around forever? Probably not. But $40 gets it for you right now.. and it's not a big deal when something bigger and better comes along (if it does).
The other nice thing about OSS is that it usually enforces "the right way" over time. Command line options etc. It's not really surprising that MS finally saw the light on this, though I doubt their implementation will really satisfy the unix-y small tools mentality.
I think you're profile name is apt.. as everyone here has already pointed out, you don't understand the definition or nature of the word "monopoly".
Furthermore, what you seem to be missing is that, by and large, people bang on Microsoft not just because they have a monopoly but they also put out shitty products.
People don't bang on Apple because their products (or at least starting with OS X) don't suck.
So, MS gets hit a little harder because their products suck, Apple gets a little bit of a pass because their products don't suck. There's a committment to elegance in the Apple universe, perhaps compromised a bit by their commercial fanatacism.
The general sloppiness here drives me crazy. I'd be happy for a decent /. alternative, but it is unique in it's category.
It's not like the stories are expedited from submission to posting.. the editors here get paid money, and for that they should strive towards something better and more respectable. How hard would it be to spell-check submissions? Not hard at all.
And there's fundamentally a difference between fat-fingering "the" (which should get caught) and not knowing enough to spot "yin-yang". Perhaps it's time they hired an online copy-editor. It wouldn't cost them much, and maybe the volume of postings dedicated to "slashdot sucks" could be alleviated. Their advertisers alone should complain, because the valid "slashdot sucks" posts constitute a kind of click-fraud.
Yeah, a little much, but...
Doesn't mean they can't correct it.. right?
It's "yin or yang". Good going, Slashdot.
..who wants to be a programmer? When it takes MS 6 years to produce new versions of their OS, how does that serve as a good-sell opportunity?
Next time the bubble grows, let's leave the investment bankers by the side of the road. Maybe rationality in the process would help preserve the integrity of the industry.
Anyone interested in AIDS science, who wonders why HIV is so misunderstood, would do well to start here and read a bit:
http://aliveandwell.org/
Personally, if there was a way to use the original install discs to get OS X on to my machine, I'd still consider paying for it.
I'd still happily pay for iLife updates.
And I'd probably join their developer's connection.
I may happily pay for an Intel OS X laptop, but honestly, unless they find a bit more parity in the price range, I doubt I'd buy a workstation from them right off. Apple's going to have to update their machines much more frequently to keep up with the pace of Intel hardware price drops.
..is that I'd probably switch from Thunderbird to Evolution *IF* Evolution shipping with the plug-in that let you copy an email to a task. I'm not about to embark on re-compiling the whole damned thing everytime I upgrade versions just to get this very basic, should-be-included-automatically feature.
Are we so sure, actually? What if Apple has decided to see what happens with that and adjust accordingly?
If hackers get OS X running on regular Intel machines and it's just a software hack, everyone and their brother will be able to download the torrent and run it. This might be an experiment on their part that pays off in 2-4 years with a new strategy. I'm not sure they'll revisit the clone days again, but Microsoft does pretty well just selling the licenses.
I think you're seriously missing the point. Steve chose Intel so that nobody could ever bang him for his choice of CPU again.
Cell isn't proven.
The CPU complaints are over.. he's now on the most mainstream, high-volume chip on the planet. There will be no more sourcing issues, there are no "special" problems preventing Apple from producing a very marketable machine.
You'd likely feel different if you had a child. Mine's 16 mos, and the cameraphon gets used all the time.
..if they hadn't committed to the PowerPC platform and taken on the additional burden of 1) chasing the PPC up the performance ladder, and 2) maintaining dual code bases. How much internal management distraction has this occupied?
It's impressive that they'll be able to support both platforms as easily as they say, but hardware sales are not going to be pretty this year.
the special effects were mostly great but there were aggregious lapses, like the platform that falls on obi-wan kenobi (looks really fake) which knocks him over but then leaves him fine
the opening was really boring. there, i said it
so if the samuel jackson character didn't suddenly act very anti-jedi-like with palpatine, anakin probably wouldn't have attacked him, which probably wouldn't have led to his switch to the darkside .. right?
no one noticed when anakin stopped wearing brown and started wearing black. isn't that weird?
I've been wishing for this for a while. I spend a lot of time in urban areas and am pretty happy with my streaming options.
...of cheap, commercial solutions/services out there for this, but I do think some organizations would want to have this in-house, on their own servers, branded with their look and feel.
I did a lot of ticket solution searching for a non-profit arts organization and never ran across this. Some higher visibility search engine and code repository (hotscripts, etc) entries would help visibility. Visibility will increase the chances of financial assistance.
adultdvdempire.com is netflix for porn, and you don't even need a subscription.
...hasn't been paying attention to what's happened to Star Trek through all its iterations.
Can't he develop an interest in anything else? It's a huge, wide world out there, and he has the money to do anything he wants. And he's still flogging this dead, dusty horse?