As a result there is no need to ship a separate downloadable version going forward. Except in order to support the millions of people who still will be using their previous versions of their OS in 2009.
I'd say that distributions like Ubuntu is exactly as user-friendly as OS X. If you use supported hardware and don't want to customize the OS in non-supported ways, everything just works.
Trying to use OS X on badly supported hardware? Needs system-file tinkering and thorough knowledge of how the system works. Trying to use Ubuntu on badly supported hardware? Needs system-file tinkering and thorough knowledge of how the system works.
The biggest difference is that Ubuntu usually isn't bundled together with 100% compatible hardware like OS X and, most of the time, Windows are.
To get a "apple to apple" comparison between operating systems you'd have to compare how easy they are to install and run on hardware that is 100% supported by the OS out of the box. Or the other way around, compare them on hardware that isn't supported out of the box. =)
Well, that's easy then. Simply don't support non-apple hardware per default (Like today) so that those who don't want to jeopardize OSX monoculture greatness can't do that without manually downloading drivers, but let those who are willing to risk third party drivers be able to expand their machines to that they can have a great machine too.
This depends. When I use OSX, I tend to remove stuff I don't use or need, just like I would do in any other OS. So developers can not depend on me having useless stuff installed, even on OSX.
Memory is a big deal, especially memoryleaks. For people who throw out their fully functional systems and buy new hardware all the time, it isn't a problem. My system is a 5 year old laptop. It max out at 1GB memory, of DDR1 type which by the way is starting go become rather expensive, and regularly, firefox use a whole lot of that. If I want to use a few other memorybloated hogs at the same time, like outlook, word or maybe some java-app, this starts to become a problem. I totally agree that it shouldn't use less memory at the cost of significantly more disk-io or cpu-usage, but I would much rather see a contest on reducing resource-usage rather than a contest on adding useless features and acid-3 compliance.
As a side-point, I think that use of the word "Defense" is used really wrong in a lot of cases. Offensive forces and actions should never be labeled with defense. For one example, nuclear weapons isn't a defensive weapon, it's purely an offensive one. A force that mainly operate in military (non-peacekeeping) operations outside their own nations borders is an offensive force, not a defensive force. Money that goes into those operations should be labeled "offense budged", not "defense budget", so that the public can different between how much their government pour into defending themselves vs attacking others.
But, to be fair, not 64-color total shit. Depends. If you make a gradient from 000000 to ff0000 youll get a red gradient with a total of 64 different colours on a 6 bit/channel display without dithering.
In their point of view, it isn't dumb. They want to sell new hardware. If someone modifies their drivers so that already sold creative-hardware work in the latest version of windows, they will sell less new hardware.
Of course, in most users point of view, it is creatives obligation to make windows-compatible drivers for their hardware.
This move isn't dumb as such. It's just consumer-hostile.
maps, and flashlights are all obsolete themselves. That's just silly. Maps in paper or electronic form is no longer needed? And no one needs portable, wireless light-devices either?:-)
From my point of view, which in truth seem to differ from that of the majority in may areas, it definitively is an upgrade. It adds two basic but very essential features that no mobile media-device should be without.
1. It makes adding media a task of simply copying the files to the device. 2. It makes playing media a task of simply selecting the file from a directory-tree.
I dislike any UI that is built around ID3-tags or anything like it.
One could of course call it a "feature change"-firmware or something like that instead...
What if there is Hawking radiation? Then they will radiate more energy than they absorb and evaporate, instead of getting denser and denser.
What reason is there to suspect there won't be? It hasn't been experimentally observed. Stephen Hawking's predictions might be incorrect.
Also, if you do choose to buy an ipod, you don't have to use itunes. You don't even have to use apple-firmware in your ipod. There's an upgrade-firmware that makes itunes totally obsolete. It's not available for all ipod-models yet though...
All in all, though, an installer that offers the option of installing irrelevant software (like installers that offer "google toolbar" or "Safari" or "superduper spywareinstaller") should have that option unselected as default.
If we're going to run at 250MPH, the roads will need a major overhaul. While doing this, it would be trivial to put some kind of magnetic markers in the road to mark the lanes. These could also store information about what speed to keep in that lane, etc...
1) Do not drive faster than the vehicle in front of you 2) Do not change lanes if there is a vehicle beside you I'd rather say: 1) Keep the lane-specified speed 2) Keep the lane-specified distance to the vehicle in front 3) Follow the marker buried in the lane
The better question is: Why do the Iphone-customers buy a phone that they know is crippled if what they want is an uncrippled phone? Go buy a better phone instead.
I would call it war But the US government wouldn't. There are international treaties that regulate how you can or can't treat prisoners of war that the US government would rather not adhere to. If there isn't a war, just a bunch of "terrorist", you can simply ignore those treaties.
You did catch that I also said "as far as we can ascertain" regarding the correctness and that religious and political agendas should be banned, right?
With this I mean that information, in English Literature this might be information about who wrote a certain play or the actual text of a certain book, should be correct. Regarding religion, the school should teach the information about different religions, such as what is believed in a certain religion, where in the world it is mostly practiced, how they correlate or differ with known historical and archaeological fact and theories, etc, with as little bias as possible towards any certain religion. Subjects that are mostly built around hypothesis and social or statistical observation, like Social science, are the hardest ones. In these subject, all we can do is to at least not teach things that are known to be faulty, and to always make sure that the students are critical of what they are being tought.
The religious and the political masters at the school board should be banned from having anything to do with education. Lock them in a room and let them squabble all they want. Just as long as no one have to listen to them.
Also remember that we're talking about basic education here, not college or university education. When at that level, the students can usually make up their own mind about what to believe in or not, and usually they can also differ between what a theory and an hypothesis is.
The only reason for education is to develop the critical thinking skills necessary to function in society as an adult. Teaching kids to conform to the party line without critical thought is useful only when training them to flip burgers. Diversity in basic education to not equal dynamic and critical thinking. The most important aspect of basic education is that the information is correct, as far as we can ascertain, and that as little religious or political agendas as possible are involved. A teacher can't go around teaching that the democrats are much better than the republicans just because that happens to be his/hers very sincere belief.
it still can't support everything 100% without tons of excess effort. This is exactly how I feel bout OSX. =) Of course, I see Apple-systems in an network-administrators point of view.
There's plenty of situations where having internet-applications like a browser or a map-tool or a SSH-terminal is really useful. It's dumb to use a mobile phone for leisure-browsing, that doesn't make it useless to have access to a "real" web browser in the phone. Wouldn't buy one of those "smart"-phones though... They don't offer much useful functionality over a regular one. With my mainstream, non-3G, Sony-Ericsson I can access the web, search maps, listen to music, use SSH, have a calendar, adressbook, read mail, do instant messaging, use a bluetooth gps, play games, etc, etc.
Most of this is not something I do often, but having the ability there saves the day when you encounter a situation where you do need it.
ID-cards have photos on them. You'd have to either look a lot like your identity theft victim, go through plastic operations or make a fake ID-card with your photo but the other persons informations on it in order to use it anywhere where people actually *look* at the ID.
I've actually had trouble with this once. I had a rather large sum to collect after a company I worked for had gone bankrupt. My ID was rather old so both my signature and face had changed a lot, which made the bank-teller think that it wasn't my ID-card and so I had trouble collecting my money. =)
Well, devices that are outright unhealthy to use might get by with a warning. But if we start putting warning signs about potential addiction on stuff people get to, the list is ridiculously long. I mean, the list includes stuff like: Shoes, shopping, sex, pain, fear, books, etc, etc. It is simply not feasible to put signs on everything. I get irritated every time I see something stupid like a sign saying "Warning: Risk of injury" on car-doors and such. Hell, even keyboards have warning signs these days!
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I'd say that distributions like Ubuntu is exactly as user-friendly as OS X.
If you use supported hardware and don't want to customize the OS in non-supported ways, everything just works.
Trying to use OS X on badly supported hardware? Needs system-file tinkering and thorough knowledge of how the system works.
Trying to use Ubuntu on badly supported hardware? Needs system-file tinkering and thorough knowledge of how the system works.
The biggest difference is that Ubuntu usually isn't bundled together with 100% compatible hardware like OS X and, most of the time, Windows are.
To get a "apple to apple" comparison between operating systems you'd have to compare how easy they are to install and run on hardware that is 100% supported by the OS out of the box.
Or the other way around, compare them on hardware that isn't supported out of the box. =)
Well, that's easy then.
Simply don't support non-apple hardware per default (Like today) so that those who don't want to jeopardize OSX monoculture greatness can't do that without manually downloading drivers, but let those who are willing to risk third party drivers be able to expand their machines to that they can have a great machine too.
This depends. When I use OSX, I tend to remove stuff I don't use or need, just like I would do in any other OS.
So developers can not depend on me having useless stuff installed, even on OSX.
Of the top of my head:
CME
TC-electronic
M-Audio
and at the more average sound quality level
Behringer
Memory is a big deal, especially memoryleaks.
For people who throw out their fully functional systems and buy new hardware all the time, it isn't a problem.
My system is a 5 year old laptop. It max out at 1GB memory, of DDR1 type which by the way is starting go become rather expensive, and regularly, firefox use a whole lot of that.
If I want to use a few other memorybloated hogs at the same time, like outlook, word or maybe some java-app, this starts to become a problem.
I totally agree that it shouldn't use less memory at the cost of significantly more disk-io or cpu-usage, but I would much rather see a contest on reducing resource-usage rather than a contest on adding useless features and acid-3 compliance.
As a side-point, I think that use of the word "Defense" is used really wrong in a lot of cases.
Offensive forces and actions should never be labeled with defense.
For one example, nuclear weapons isn't a defensive weapon, it's purely an offensive one.
A force that mainly operate in military (non-peacekeeping) operations outside their own nations borders is an offensive force, not a defensive force.
Money that goes into those operations should be labeled "offense budged", not "defense budget", so that the public can different between how much their government pour into defending themselves vs attacking others.
In their point of view, it isn't dumb.
They want to sell new hardware.
If someone modifies their drivers so that already sold creative-hardware work in the latest version of windows, they will sell less new hardware.
Of course, in most users point of view, it is creatives obligation to make windows-compatible drivers for their hardware.
This move isn't dumb as such. It's just consumer-hostile.
Maps in paper or electronic form is no longer needed?
And no one needs portable, wireless light-devices either?
Ah... So the correct term would be that it gets more massive. Or simply that it gains energy instead of loosing it.
From my point of view, which in truth seem to differ from that of the majority in may areas, it definitively is an upgrade.
It adds two basic but very essential features that no mobile media-device should be without.
1. It makes adding media a task of simply copying the files to the device.
2. It makes playing media a task of simply selecting the file from a directory-tree.
I dislike any UI that is built around ID3-tags or anything like it.
One could of course call it a "feature change"-firmware or something like that instead...
Also, if you do choose to buy an ipod, you don't have to use itunes.
You don't even have to use apple-firmware in your ipod. There's an upgrade-firmware that makes itunes totally obsolete.
It's not available for all ipod-models yet though...
All in all, though, an installer that offers the option of installing irrelevant software (like installers that offer "google toolbar" or "Safari" or "superduper spywareinstaller") should have that option unselected as default.
While doing this, it would be trivial to put some kind of magnetic markers in the road to mark the lanes.
These could also store information about what speed to keep in that lane, etc... 1) Do not drive faster than the vehicle in front of you
2) Do not change lanes if there is a vehicle beside you I'd rather say:
1) Keep the lane-specified speed
2) Keep the lane-specified distance to the vehicle in front
3) Follow the marker buried in the lane
The better question is: Why do the Iphone-customers buy a phone that they know is crippled if what they want is an uncrippled phone?
Go buy a better phone instead.
Also, they wanted a 10 - 15% increase, not a measly 5%. ;-)
There are international treaties that regulate how you can or can't treat prisoners of war that the US government would rather not adhere to.
If there isn't a war, just a bunch of "terrorist", you can simply ignore those treaties.
You did catch that I also said "as far as we can ascertain" regarding the correctness and that religious and political agendas should be banned, right?
With this I mean that information, in English Literature this might be information about who wrote a certain play or the actual text of a certain book, should be correct.
Regarding religion, the school should teach the information about different religions, such as what is believed in a certain religion, where in the world it is mostly practiced, how they correlate or differ with known historical and archaeological fact and theories, etc, with as little bias as possible towards any certain religion.
Subjects that are mostly built around hypothesis and social or statistical observation, like Social science, are the hardest ones.
In these subject, all we can do is to at least not teach things that are known to be faulty, and to always make sure that the students are critical of what they are being tought.
The religious and the political masters at the school board should be banned from having anything to do with education.
Lock them in a room and let them squabble all they want. Just as long as no one have to listen to them.
Also remember that we're talking about basic education here, not college or university education.
When at that level, the students can usually make up their own mind about what to believe in or not, and usually they can also differ between what a theory and an hypothesis is.
The most important aspect of basic education is that the information is correct, as far as we can ascertain, and that as little religious or political agendas as possible are involved.
A teacher can't go around teaching that the democrats are much better than the republicans just because that happens to be his/hers very sincere belief.
I use Wayfinder Earth.
There's a free version that can't connect to a GPS and a pay-version that supports GPS-tracking.
Of course, I see Apple-systems in an network-administrators point of view.
There's plenty of situations where having internet-applications like a browser or a map-tool or a SSH-terminal is really useful.
It's dumb to use a mobile phone for leisure-browsing, that doesn't make it useless to have access to a "real" web browser in the phone.
Wouldn't buy one of those "smart"-phones though... They don't offer much useful functionality over a regular one. With my mainstream, non-3G, Sony-Ericsson I can access the web, search maps, listen to music, use SSH, have a calendar, adressbook, read mail, do instant messaging, use a bluetooth gps, play games, etc, etc.
Most of this is not something I do often, but having the ability there saves the day when you encounter a situation where you do need it.
ID-cards have photos on them.
You'd have to either look a lot like your identity theft victim, go through plastic operations or make a fake ID-card with your photo but the other persons informations on it in order to use it anywhere where people actually *look* at the ID.
I've actually had trouble with this once.
I had a rather large sum to collect after a company I worked for had gone bankrupt.
My ID was rather old so both my signature and face had changed a lot, which made the bank-teller think that it wasn't my ID-card and so I had trouble collecting my money. =)
Well, devices that are outright unhealthy to use might get by with a warning.
But if we start putting warning signs about potential addiction on stuff people get to, the list is ridiculously long.
I mean, the list includes stuff like: Shoes, shopping, sex, pain, fear, books, etc, etc.
It is simply not feasible to put signs on everything.
I get irritated every time I see something stupid like a sign saying "Warning: Risk of injury" on car-doors and such.
Hell, even keyboards have warning signs these days!