2012-09-11 is ISO-8601 and makes sense since it goes from most significant to least significant (millennium, century, decade, year, month, day), makes for easy sorting. Oh, and it's unambiguous (or rather, if anyone out there interprets it as anything other than yyyy-MM-dd most people would consider them to be wrong, and anyone trying to switch it up and write yyyy-dd-MM would be looked at in the same way).
I absolutely detest finding comments, filenames and such in other formats, how is anyone supposed to know what 120911, 110912, 9/11-12, 11/9-12, 12/09/11, 12/11/09 et cetera mean? And yes, those are all different ways of writing the same date that are used by various people.
Just because you managed to get the year, the month and the day in there doesn't mean it's parsable.
I'm the one who registered the domain. I have no intent on profiting from it, just thought of all the old "Free Kevin" websites when I heard about the arrest and registered the domain. I'm currently gathering URLs to different reports on the arrest and putting them on the site.
I belive the message was more that people who scream about "overpriced" Macs aren't thinking clearly, that Macs aren't really as expensive as some people think (for some reason there are a lot of people out there who have never used a Mac, never even bothered to look up the actual price of a Mac and who will still tell everyone how Macs cost "three times as much as a better PC").
Not to mention that if you do what some people do and move services like sshd to another port you may actually create a security problem.
If you've got sshd running on any port > 1024 then an attacker who can gain regular unprivileged user access to the system and is able to crash your sshd can replace it with his own sshd. If it's running on port 22 (since you should never "steal" a port under 1024) then the attacker needs root access to accomplish the same trick.
Besides, it's not particularly hard for an attacker to scan a system from multiple hosts, there's a finite number of ports for you to "hide" your services on and all it takes is a bit of patience to find your "hidden" services.
Don't forget the younger generation of gamers who came to love Microsoft thanks to the Xbox and the fact that most PC gaming takes place in the Windows world.
I've met a few guys like this and they are definitely fans of Microsoft and often seem to be ignorant or in denial of any wrongdoings on Microsoft's part, ever. As far as they're concerned MS is the best company in the world and is solely responsible for all sorts of things, including email (really, I once had a very long argument with one of these guys who was certain that MS invented email and that Internet Explorer was the first GUI web browser. Trying to counter that by pointing out that MS pretty much ignored the internet until it was forced down their throats in the mid-90's or that email existed before MS was even founded did little to help, it just made him label me a Mac fanboy (because clearly anyone who doubts the greatness of MS is a Mac fanboy, at least in his eyes)).
I think Misagon might be talking about the antialiasing used for text. I've heard a lot of Windows users complain about how text on OS X looks "blurry" since they're used to ClearType and fonts being crammed forcefully into the pixel grid with little regard for how the fonts are actually supposed to look.
And yes, I'm a bit biased here, when I first started using a Mac one of the things I loved about it visually was that it managed to not have the kerning problems I'd seen way too often on Linux and at the same time didn't make fonts look absolutely horrible the way Windows does.
Fail. Linux does "just work" and it supports every perepheral and USB device I've plugged into it.
Ever try plugging in a Wacom tablet? Hint: It won't work. Or rather, it will probably sort of work but not in any way the way you want it to (might get stuck in mouse mode only, or pen mode only with a whole bunch of things just slightly off making it completely unusable). Sure, if you plug it into a Mac and don't install the drivers it will default to mouse mode but at least that just requires a very quick driver install, on Linux every time I've set up a Wacom tablet it has involved quite a lot of work (including downloading and compiling 3rd party drivers and further 3rd party patches to to those, a lot of Xorg/XFree86 config tweaking and even with this there have always seemed to be some minor glitch I couldn't get rid of).
And it's not just Wacom tablets, I've had similar issues with other gear as well. Sure, it's nowhere near as bad as it was back in say, 1998, but it's still an issue that pops up fairly frequently (I'm still amazed that when installing Debian on a laptop recently I only had to install a new graphics driver and do some light configuration to make the wifi NIC work properly. Of course, that still took 30 minutes or so in total and had I been completely new to Linux it would probably have taken me days).
It's definitely not perfect but generally you just have to remove the.App bundle and any associated files in ~/Library and/Library.
Of course, there are always exceptions, just like how Linux package management systems aren't always perfect either. Since I first started using Linux in the mid-90's I've seen plenty of "interesting" package management malfunctions, a fairly recent one which would probably have left a novice user completely stuck was when Ubuntu told me I already had the latest version of Xorg installed and that it wouldn't be upgraded, then it uninstalled my X server and told me to reboot so I had to do a console login and reinstall the package (not exactly hard if you know what's going on but for the average user that would've been a horrible situation, no web browser, no email client, no GUI, just a login prompt and a CLI).
Well, in production environments you might very well want to keep your entire database in RAM for performance reasons, and thus you might want to do the same thing on your development machine.
By the same logic the vast majority of humans have hurt themselves using video games, newspapers, books, TV shows, movies, socializing with friends, working and just about anything they might give priority over something else for a limited time.
I know I've held off on going to the grocery store countless times because I would rather read another chapter, finish writing some code or just talk to a friend on the phone.
Clearly you are superior to us lowly humans, Mr Borg.
Oh I have no doubt that there would still be plenty of teenagers smoking pot. But at least they'd be getting it from their older brother/sister, a friend's older brother/sister, their parents or someone else in their regular social circle. And most likely the cannabis they'd be buying would still be taxed and subject to some degree of quality control (so no "grit weed" sprayed with silica or whatever it was they were spraying it with a few years ago to make it heavier).
Still, there is the possibility of the lower IQ measured in those who started smoking marijuana at an early age being the result of a combination of lifestyle choices which includes cannabis use at an early age to a greater degree than the lifestyle choices of the population at large.
So we should change things to that it's no longer legal to sell marijuana to minors?
Currently those who sell it don't care about how old those they sell to are as they have no business/cannabis retailer license to lose, if they get busted they're busted.
How often do your local liquor stores sell to minors? (You might live in some horrible backwater where they don't give a crap but where I live they card 30-year-olds "just to be safe")
In my experience most of those in favor of cannabis legalization aren't blind to the adverse effects, it's just that they're sick to death of seeing time and time again how some study proclaims "Teenagers who are genetically predisposed to end up with severe mental illness may have slightly earlier onset of their condition if they smoke marijuana on a daily basis" and how the media and those who fervently hate cannabis turn that into "POT MAKES YOU CRAZY!".
Actually no, the argument put forth by NeoMorphy is a classic fallacious argument that doesn't hold up well to scrutiny. It's used for pretty much anything that should be a personal choice that certain people have moral or ideological objections to. It can be summed up as "If you say something isn't harming you or that it isn't addictive then that is in itself a sign of harm or addiction and thus you voicing your opinion "proves" that it is harmful and addictive and any further protest from you merely demonstrates how hopelessly addicted you are". This argument is quite familiar to me as the rabid anti-drug crowd here in Sweden have been using it every chance they get for decades...
I can't help but think that a large part of this is because when you're 20 you look around you and realize on some level that you're young and have your entire life ahead of you (well not your entire life, but a lot of years).
When you're 60 you "know" that the best years of your life have already passed, it's all downhill from there. It's easy to be nostalgic, to long for what used to be.
Now imagine being 80 with the body of a healthy 30-year-old, looking at the world around you and knowing that barring a serious accident you have another 200 years to live, don't you think that would change your perspective? What about another 500 years?
Can't answer for Seumas but my own answer is "No". A Sunday afternoon? It happens, but that's mostly because there are things I want to do that I can't do because I need to get up early the next morning so I have to settle for something slightly less fun and I end up feeling like I'm wasting the precious little time I've got. If I knew I had not just a few thousand more sundays (statistically speaking) but rather something like 50,000 more Sundays then it wouldn't feel like as much of a waste...
I've always said I'd like to live at least 500 years. Of course, it would be interesting to be able to stay relatively "young" more or less indefinitely.
Might not be something everyone is interested in but I would love to never feel any pressure to hurry up and do all those things I want to do. I could spend 50 years just reading interesting books. Maybe spend ten years building a house. And thinking more long-term, how about a few hundred years in deep space? You'd have the time...
Here in Sweden it's not just a matter of pricing but also with delayed releases since manufacturers want to sell localized products.
What this means is that even if I'm fine with an English-language version of a product (or in many cases, Swedish-language version with a quickstart pamphlet in English) no one is selling the product because they hold off on introducing it to the Swedish market until the initial rush for the product in English-language markets is over.
Case in point, the Nexus 7 tablet. No company in the US will sell it directly to Swedish customers, Asus has announced they're going to start selling it in october(!) and the only way to get one right now is through some grey import channel (have it shipped via some address in the US/UK or from some small fly-by-night company that caters to early adopters).
It used to be that even software suffered from this, many older Swedish gamers will remember having to wait for months while games were translated to German, French and Spanish before being released to the Swedish market (with most Swedish gamers playing games with the language set to English with a handful using Swedish if its available).
I'm all in favor telling corporations they can have their precious "free" trade only if the same freedoms are given to everyone, no "We own the trademark so you can't import our product from a market we give a fuck about and sell it on a market we don't care about" crap, if you're selling it anywhere then anyone should be free to ship it to somewhere else and sell it there as well.
BTW slightly OT but has anyone else noticed that Apple users just don't seem to be happy unless they can convince you "the Apple way" is the RIGHT way? They just don't seem to be able to be happy with a product unless they can somehow get others to think they were "right" and the other way is "wrong". My personal theory is there is a doubt sitting there on their shoulder going "You paid too much" and the only way they can soothe that doubt is to get others to agree with their purchase. Personally I like Asus and Samsung laptops, Asrock and Gigabyte boards, and HTC phones, but I don't really need anyone to like or dislike the brands I use because they are a personal preference no different than the pizza i eat or the shoes I wear. I'll just never understand this "need' for want of a better term of Apple users to try to justify their selections. If it makes you happy? Then please use it, I wish you nothing but good luck. but please don't try to make this a black and white issue because its really not, its personal preference, that's all.
IRL/AFK I am by no means a person who tries to convince others to use a Mac (even though, as you should be able to infer, I own one) but I do get constantly dragged kicking and screaming into arguments about how good/bad Macs are compared to Wintel machines. The people who do this dragging? All sorts of Wintel users, from the guy who has a six year old machine that cost him $350 new and who just can't understand why anyone would need anything more powerful than his computer because he's convinced no one really does anything beyond checking Facebook anyway through the guys who happily spend close to a thousand dollars on a couple of new graphics cards while refusing to upgrade their 19" TN panel monitor because they think a new monitor is "too expensive" to people who are convinced that despite me having been a computer geek since childhood, hardware and electronics geek since I got my first soldering iron as a kid and a professional software developer for quite some time that somehow if they just tell me how stupid I am for buying a computer that can't do anything* then I'll change my mind.
Really, on friday nights there are friends of mine I avoid because I know after just a couple of beers they won't shut up about how I clearly made a bad choice in buying a Mac (even though at the time the machine I bought was actually extremely competitively priced compared even to a DIY rig).
So don't think it's just a matter of Mac users going on about how everyone else should use a Mac, there are ten times as many Windows users out there and a lot of them are just as opinionated. It's sort of like vegetarianism, a lot of people will complain about "preachy" vegetarians but did you ever ask a vegetarian how often people who eat meat publicly mock them or question their eating habits? (Answer: All the time, and do keep in mind that most people who do this know pretty much nothing about vegetarianism, they just see someone eating Not Meat and feel the need to preach)
* In the minds of a lot of people it seems Macs are basically oversized iPhones and I've had people assume I was trying to TRICK them when I showed them that OS X ships with a terminal emulator, they're so convinced it's locked down in every conceivable way that they haven't even bothered checking if their assumption is correct.
Actually, one of the main reasons I've absolutely refused to use a laptop as my main workstation is because of the low resolutions.
Of course, I hate low-res monitors. At home I currently have a 27" 2560x1440 monitor with a 22" 1920x1080 monitor next to it (the smaller monitor being good for random text docs and other stuff that doesn't have to be on my main workspace but which I still like keeping visible) and I'd hate to go down to something like 1680x1050...
Except you're full of shit. Most people don't want "no-frills transportation", it's just that the options tend to be "Cattle class: $200", "Business class: $4000" and "First class: You can't afford it".
And a lot of times there simply isn't an option for "premium economy". Sometimes there is but a lot of times, no.
As someone who's 193 cm tall (6'4") I hate flying. There is no leg room to speak of and the seats themselves aren't exactly perfect for someone taller than average either. For me and others who are the least bit taller than average it's not about being a little more comfortable, it's about actually having enough room that we don't have to force ourselves into extremely uncomfortable positions just to be able to sit down (unless I'm lucky enough to grab a seat near an emergency exit most economy/coach/whatever you want to call it class seats have less leg room than the average bus which means I can only sit if I force at least one of my knees into the space in front of a neighboring seat, and even then I'm going to be uncomfortable for the entire flight since I can't really move, I'm forced to sit in the same uncomfortable position in a seat designed for a much shorter person for several hours).
While I will agree that the initial FCPX release wasn't really good enough I think it should be kept in mind that a big part of the changes with FCPX was bringing the workflow into the 21st century, there were a lot of modernizations and with those Apple also threw out a whole bunch of legacy bits.
And if you look at those who screamed the loudest about how horrible FCPX was they all tended to have some legacy bits in their workflow which they claimed "everyone" used. Yes, for those who are still doing their edits directly onto tape like it's 1992 it sucks if that feature is removed but honestly, it might be time to update your workflow...
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2012-09-11 is ISO-8601 and makes sense since it goes from most significant to least significant (millennium, century, decade, year, month, day), makes for easy sorting. Oh, and it's unambiguous (or rather, if anyone out there interprets it as anything other than yyyy-MM-dd most people would consider them to be wrong, and anyone trying to switch it up and write yyyy-dd-MM would be looked at in the same way).
I absolutely detest finding comments, filenames and such in other formats, how is anyone supposed to know what 120911, 110912, 9/11-12, 11/9-12, 12/09/11, 12/11/09 et cetera mean? And yes, those are all different ways of writing the same date that are used by various people.
Just because you managed to get the year, the month and the day in there doesn't mean it's parsable.
Seldon's predictions weren't nearly as accurate as advertised...
I'm the one who registered the domain. I have no intent on profiting from it, just thought of all the old "Free Kevin" websites when I heard about the arrest and registered the domain. I'm currently gathering URLs to different reports on the arrest and putting them on the site.
I belive the message was more that people who scream about "overpriced" Macs aren't thinking clearly, that Macs aren't really as expensive as some people think (for some reason there are a lot of people out there who have never used a Mac, never even bothered to look up the actual price of a Mac and who will still tell everyone how Macs cost "three times as much as a better PC").
Not to mention that if you do what some people do and move services like sshd to another port you may actually create a security problem.
If you've got sshd running on any port > 1024 then an attacker who can gain regular unprivileged user access to the system and is able to crash your sshd can replace it with his own sshd. If it's running on port 22 (since you should never "steal" a port under 1024) then the attacker needs root access to accomplish the same trick.
Besides, it's not particularly hard for an attacker to scan a system from multiple hosts, there's a finite number of ports for you to "hide" your services on and all it takes is a bit of patience to find your "hidden" services.
Don't forget the younger generation of gamers who came to love Microsoft thanks to the Xbox and the fact that most PC gaming takes place in the Windows world.
I've met a few guys like this and they are definitely fans of Microsoft and often seem to be ignorant or in denial of any wrongdoings on Microsoft's part, ever. As far as they're concerned MS is the best company in the world and is solely responsible for all sorts of things, including email (really, I once had a very long argument with one of these guys who was certain that MS invented email and that Internet Explorer was the first GUI web browser. Trying to counter that by pointing out that MS pretty much ignored the internet until it was forced down their throats in the mid-90's or that email existed before MS was even founded did little to help, it just made him label me a Mac fanboy (because clearly anyone who doubts the greatness of MS is a Mac fanboy, at least in his eyes)).
So now your argument is that networks are evil?
I think Misagon might be talking about the antialiasing used for text. I've heard a lot of Windows users complain about how text on OS X looks "blurry" since they're used to ClearType and fonts being crammed forcefully into the pixel grid with little regard for how the fonts are actually supposed to look.
And yes, I'm a bit biased here, when I first started using a Mac one of the things I loved about it visually was that it managed to not have the kerning problems I'd seen way too often on Linux and at the same time didn't make fonts look absolutely horrible the way Windows does.
Fail. Linux does "just work" and it supports every perepheral and USB device I've plugged into it.
Ever try plugging in a Wacom tablet? Hint: It won't work. Or rather, it will probably sort of work but not in any way the way you want it to (might get stuck in mouse mode only, or pen mode only with a whole bunch of things just slightly off making it completely unusable). Sure, if you plug it into a Mac and don't install the drivers it will default to mouse mode but at least that just requires a very quick driver install, on Linux every time I've set up a Wacom tablet it has involved quite a lot of work (including downloading and compiling 3rd party drivers and further 3rd party patches to to those, a lot of Xorg/XFree86 config tweaking and even with this there have always seemed to be some minor glitch I couldn't get rid of).
And it's not just Wacom tablets, I've had similar issues with other gear as well. Sure, it's nowhere near as bad as it was back in say, 1998, but it's still an issue that pops up fairly frequently (I'm still amazed that when installing Debian on a laptop recently I only had to install a new graphics driver and do some light configuration to make the wifi NIC work properly. Of course, that still took 30 minutes or so in total and had I been completely new to Linux it would probably have taken me days).
It's definitely not perfect but generally you just have to remove the .App bundle and any associated files in ~/Library and /Library.
Of course, there are always exceptions, just like how Linux package management systems aren't always perfect either. Since I first started using Linux in the mid-90's I've seen plenty of "interesting" package management malfunctions, a fairly recent one which would probably have left a novice user completely stuck was when Ubuntu told me I already had the latest version of Xorg installed and that it wouldn't be upgraded, then it uninstalled my X server and told me to reboot so I had to do a console login and reinstall the package (not exactly hard if you know what's going on but for the average user that would've been a horrible situation, no web browser, no email client, no GUI, just a login prompt and a CLI).
Well, in production environments you might very well want to keep your entire database in RAM for performance reasons, and thus you might want to do the same thing on your development machine.
By the same logic the vast majority of humans have hurt themselves using video games, newspapers, books, TV shows, movies, socializing with friends, working and just about anything they might give priority over something else for a limited time.
I know I've held off on going to the grocery store countless times because I would rather read another chapter, finish writing some code or just talk to a friend on the phone.
Clearly you are superior to us lowly humans, Mr Borg.
Oh I have no doubt that there would still be plenty of teenagers smoking pot. But at least they'd be getting it from their older brother/sister, a friend's older brother/sister, their parents or someone else in their regular social circle. And most likely the cannabis they'd be buying would still be taxed and subject to some degree of quality control (so no "grit weed" sprayed with silica or whatever it was they were spraying it with a few years ago to make it heavier).
Still, there is the possibility of the lower IQ measured in those who started smoking marijuana at an early age being the result of a combination of lifestyle choices which includes cannabis use at an early age to a greater degree than the lifestyle choices of the population at large.
So we should change things to that it's no longer legal to sell marijuana to minors?
Currently those who sell it don't care about how old those they sell to are as they have no business/cannabis retailer license to lose, if they get busted they're busted.
How often do your local liquor stores sell to minors? (You might live in some horrible backwater where they don't give a crap but where I live they card 30-year-olds "just to be safe")
In my experience most of those in favor of cannabis legalization aren't blind to the adverse effects, it's just that they're sick to death of seeing time and time again how some study proclaims "Teenagers who are genetically predisposed to end up with severe mental illness may have slightly earlier onset of their condition if they smoke marijuana on a daily basis" and how the media and those who fervently hate cannabis turn that into "POT MAKES YOU CRAZY!".
Actually no, the argument put forth by NeoMorphy is a classic fallacious argument that doesn't hold up well to scrutiny. It's used for pretty much anything that should be a personal choice that certain people have moral or ideological objections to. It can be summed up as "If you say something isn't harming you or that it isn't addictive then that is in itself a sign of harm or addiction and thus you voicing your opinion "proves" that it is harmful and addictive and any further protest from you merely demonstrates how hopelessly addicted you are". This argument is quite familiar to me as the rabid anti-drug crowd here in Sweden have been using it every chance they get for decades...
I can't help but think that a large part of this is because when you're 20 you look around you and realize on some level that you're young and have your entire life ahead of you (well not your entire life, but a lot of years).
When you're 60 you "know" that the best years of your life have already passed, it's all downhill from there. It's easy to be nostalgic, to long for what used to be.
Now imagine being 80 with the body of a healthy 30-year-old, looking at the world around you and knowing that barring a serious accident you have another 200 years to live, don't you think that would change your perspective? What about another 500 years?
Can't answer for Seumas but my own answer is "No". A Sunday afternoon? It happens, but that's mostly because there are things I want to do that I can't do because I need to get up early the next morning so I have to settle for something slightly less fun and I end up feeling like I'm wasting the precious little time I've got. If I knew I had not just a few thousand more sundays (statistically speaking) but rather something like 50,000 more Sundays then it wouldn't feel like as much of a waste...
I've always said I'd like to live at least 500 years. Of course, it would be interesting to be able to stay relatively "young" more or less indefinitely.
Might not be something everyone is interested in but I would love to never feel any pressure to hurry up and do all those things I want to do. I could spend 50 years just reading interesting books. Maybe spend ten years building a house. And thinking more long-term, how about a few hundred years in deep space? You'd have the time...
Here in Sweden it's not just a matter of pricing but also with delayed releases since manufacturers want to sell localized products.
What this means is that even if I'm fine with an English-language version of a product (or in many cases, Swedish-language version with a quickstart pamphlet in English) no one is selling the product because they hold off on introducing it to the Swedish market until the initial rush for the product in English-language markets is over.
Case in point, the Nexus 7 tablet. No company in the US will sell it directly to Swedish customers, Asus has announced they're going to start selling it in october(!) and the only way to get one right now is through some grey import channel (have it shipped via some address in the US/UK or from some small fly-by-night company that caters to early adopters).
It used to be that even software suffered from this, many older Swedish gamers will remember having to wait for months while games were translated to German, French and Spanish before being released to the Swedish market (with most Swedish gamers playing games with the language set to English with a handful using Swedish if its available).
I'm all in favor telling corporations they can have their precious "free" trade only if the same freedoms are given to everyone, no "We own the trademark so you can't import our product from a market we give a fuck about and sell it on a market we don't care about" crap, if you're selling it anywhere then anyone should be free to ship it to somewhere else and sell it there as well.
BTW slightly OT but has anyone else noticed that Apple users just don't seem to be happy unless they can convince you "the Apple way" is the RIGHT way? They just don't seem to be able to be happy with a product unless they can somehow get others to think they were "right" and the other way is "wrong". My personal theory is there is a doubt sitting there on their shoulder going "You paid too much" and the only way they can soothe that doubt is to get others to agree with their purchase. Personally I like Asus and Samsung laptops, Asrock and Gigabyte boards, and HTC phones, but I don't really need anyone to like or dislike the brands I use because they are a personal preference no different than the pizza i eat or the shoes I wear. I'll just never understand this "need' for want of a better term of Apple users to try to justify their selections. If it makes you happy? Then please use it, I wish you nothing but good luck. but please don't try to make this a black and white issue because its really not, its personal preference, that's all.
IRL/AFK I am by no means a person who tries to convince others to use a Mac (even though, as you should be able to infer, I own one) but I do get constantly dragged kicking and screaming into arguments about how good/bad Macs are compared to Wintel machines. The people who do this dragging? All sorts of Wintel users, from the guy who has a six year old machine that cost him $350 new and who just can't understand why anyone would need anything more powerful than his computer because he's convinced no one really does anything beyond checking Facebook anyway through the guys who happily spend close to a thousand dollars on a couple of new graphics cards while refusing to upgrade their 19" TN panel monitor because they think a new monitor is "too expensive" to people who are convinced that despite me having been a computer geek since childhood, hardware and electronics geek since I got my first soldering iron as a kid and a professional software developer for quite some time that somehow if they just tell me how stupid I am for buying a computer that can't do anything* then I'll change my mind.
Really, on friday nights there are friends of mine I avoid because I know after just a couple of beers they won't shut up about how I clearly made a bad choice in buying a Mac (even though at the time the machine I bought was actually extremely competitively priced compared even to a DIY rig).
So don't think it's just a matter of Mac users going on about how everyone else should use a Mac, there are ten times as many Windows users out there and a lot of them are just as opinionated. It's sort of like vegetarianism, a lot of people will complain about "preachy" vegetarians but did you ever ask a vegetarian how often people who eat meat publicly mock them or question their eating habits? (Answer: All the time, and do keep in mind that most people who do this know pretty much nothing about vegetarianism, they just see someone eating Not Meat and feel the need to preach)
* In the minds of a lot of people it seems Macs are basically oversized iPhones and I've had people assume I was trying to TRICK them when I showed them that OS X ships with a terminal emulator, they're so convinced it's locked down in every conceivable way that they haven't even bothered checking if their assumption is correct.
Actually, one of the main reasons I've absolutely refused to use a laptop as my main workstation is because of the low resolutions.
Of course, I hate low-res monitors. At home I currently have a 27" 2560x1440 monitor with a 22" 1920x1080 monitor next to it (the smaller monitor being good for random text docs and other stuff that doesn't have to be on my main workspace but which I still like keeping visible) and I'd hate to go down to something like 1680x1050...
Except you're full of shit. Most people don't want "no-frills transportation", it's just that the options tend to be "Cattle class: $200", "Business class: $4000" and "First class: You can't afford it".
And a lot of times there simply isn't an option for "premium economy". Sometimes there is but a lot of times, no.
As someone who's 193 cm tall (6'4") I hate flying. There is no leg room to speak of and the seats themselves aren't exactly perfect for someone taller than average either. For me and others who are the least bit taller than average it's not about being a little more comfortable, it's about actually having enough room that we don't have to force ourselves into extremely uncomfortable positions just to be able to sit down (unless I'm lucky enough to grab a seat near an emergency exit most economy/coach/whatever you want to call it class seats have less leg room than the average bus which means I can only sit if I force at least one of my knees into the space in front of a neighboring seat, and even then I'm going to be uncomfortable for the entire flight since I can't really move, I'm forced to sit in the same uncomfortable position in a seat designed for a much shorter person for several hours).
While I will agree that the initial FCPX release wasn't really good enough I think it should be kept in mind that a big part of the changes with FCPX was bringing the workflow into the 21st century, there were a lot of modernizations and with those Apple also threw out a whole bunch of legacy bits.
And if you look at those who screamed the loudest about how horrible FCPX was they all tended to have some legacy bits in their workflow which they claimed "everyone" used. Yes, for those who are still doing their edits directly onto tape like it's 1992 it sucks if that feature is removed but honestly, it might be time to update your workflow...