No. C# and Db really are the same note. just like Cb and B, E# and F, D# and Eb, et cetera. And when the same note can be referred to by different names, it usually doesn't matter which you call it, except if you're classically trained... in that case it depends on the key of the song or the mode of the scale.
In the same octave, C# and Db are the same key on the piano, the same fingering on a saxophone, and the same fretting on a guitar. C# and Db will be equally out-of-tune.:) Okay, caveat: since the same note can often be played in 3-4 places on a guitar, this really doesn't apply. But the thought is the same.
That "perfect pitch" crap you refer to is the ability to name notes when heard out of context. Damn, is that guy still selling those "perfect pitch" tapes in the back of music magazines?:)
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...but employees are the heart of Apple. I'm sure it's not just upper-management that gets pissed when shite that that gets leaked. If I spent a year engineering an Apple product and was proud of what I had helped create, I'd be of angry if a fellow employee (a peer, who Apple hired, and I trusted, who was supposed to be a member of the team) was doing such things behind our backs. It would make me suspect co-workers. It would make an open development environment difficult. What ever happened to company loyalty?
Hmmmm, this is intriguing. I suppose even the most loyal Apple employee could be enticed to leak information, because while he's an Apple employee, he's most likely also an Apple user/lover/fanboy/cult-member. The employee side of him says, "I'm going to keep this awesome new product top-secret until it's absolutely perfect, and when it is released, it will take the world by storm." The fanboy side says, "My fellow Apple weenies and I crave news of upcoming Apple products! One little leak won't hurt."
Okay, so nothing's simple. But I think Apple is doing the right thing.
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So if I make a musician's recorded, copyrighted work available to others at no charge by playing my new CD for a room of my friends, that's theft?
No, because you aren't distributing the recorded media (or a reasonable facimille). There are regulations on public performances, but since you're not charging any money, it's fine.
Or if I make a musician's recorded, copyrighted work available to others at no charge by making a mix tape (or mix CD-R) out of CD's I own, that's theft?
Yes, it is. The artist receives no payment for that copy of his music.
Well no, it's not.
Yes, it is illegal. That's what I've always been told. When did it change? Haven't you ever read the back of a CD? I have one right here -- "(C)opyright 2000 [artist's name]. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws in the USA." So when you distribute copies of that music, whether on CD-R or on Napster, you're committing an illegal activity. Everybody does it, but that does not change the fact that you're breaking the law. And if you're telling me that these "applicable laws" provide no such protection, we need harsher laws. Fucking selfish American consumers.
As for the rest of your rantings, I'll try not to be too offended. I still would like to believe that copyright provides some sort of protection for my art. I damn well better have a way of making sure that I'm not losing CD sales to kids on fucking Napster. You may care less if the artists whose work you steal starve, but ask any professional musician what they think of the idea, and they won't like it. If Joe Cool and his Hep Cats want to put their music online for free, with no restrictions on distribution, that's their deal, but when you do it without my permission, and my CD explicitly states that you cannot distibute without authorization, you're just a lowly pickpocket. To anyone who makes a living from the music industry, Napster is the digital equivalent of the LA riots.
I think your hostility is rather unwarranted, and no matter how many holes you try to poke in my arguments, the fact remains that distribution of someone's art without their permission is wrong. If you believe otherwise, you truly belong in Stallman's academic socialist cults.
I'm sorry that you think me to be such an ignorant person. I guess not everyone has such an expert understanding of copyright laws. If only everyone could be as perfect as you, TuLu, what a wonderful place the world would be! In the meantime, I'm going to go investigate the validity of your statements, and if what you say is true, today is a grim day for The_Messenger. I hope you and your band of theives are proud of yourselves.
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Well, I don't think there's anything really wrong with it, but I'm the type that enjoys spends hours fooling with AfterStep configurations, so I get bored with pretty fast.:) I think I spent more time fooling around with my AfterStep config than anything else on the box... custom menus, wharf buttons, keymaps, pager, titlebars... I love it! I actually see eye-to-eye with Taco in that department.
And I didn't mean that OpenWindows looks "worse" than FVWM; I meant that it's the only thing I've seen that has FVWM beat in the default config's sparseness.
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Well, if you think about my sig for a minute, you'll realize that it too is a generalization!! Every time I post, someone interprets my sig literally. I swear, I'm never going to try to think of a clever sig again.
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Goddammit, I never said Napster invented MP3's. Napster has just made it easier for the "average" person to find MP3s, and presents a newbie-friendly interface, and consequently has been the cause of exponential growth in the number of MP3-addicts. I am well aware of MP3 history and was quite the FTP troll, in a time before quota sites became the norm, and chuckle when I hear "reputable" news sources ranting about this new, revolutionary technology (grin) which has been a common part of the WWW for almost ten years (even if it never really picked up speed until ~1998). Bah...
And, btw, before someone brands me a hypocrite after reading my anti-music-theft rant in this thread: some bands willingly make MP3s of their music available, and so downloading this music is not illegal. The problem is when copyrights are blatantly ignored.
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True, there is technically no such thing as SMTP packets (although some might argue that packets carrying SMTP data could be called that). I apologise. Perhaps I was in a hurry to post.:)
I think the difference between the Napster debacle and something like alcohol prohibition is that prohibtion took a legal product (alcohol) and made it illegal. The Napster problem focusses on the fact that Napster is accessory to an activity already established to be illegal: unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. To a musician, making their recorded, copyrighted work available to others at no charge is tanamount to theft of their livlihood and art. And yes, it's illegal. Whether you go out and buy the CD the next day is completely irrelevant if you were never given permission to copy the work in the first place. Think of it this way: if you steal $50 from someone, and send them a check for $500 the next day, you're still guilty of theft. The law doesn't care if the victim is better off in the end. The law is the law. If you don't like the law, stop whining and do something about it. Organize, demonstrate, and vote.
Napster could have been a very useful tool for music lovers, musicians, and the recording industry, but I think it's gotten out of hand. I agree with Lars wholeheartedly, and I think it is the duty of mega-bands to take a stand, because while Metallica won't feel the pinch of lost CD revenue, less successful musicians will. In the end, Napster users are just whining because they want something for nothing, at the expense of artists. Which, as a musician, I find absolutely disgusting.
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Even if Napster were shut down, someone would code a copy that hides itself in SMTP packets or something. I've met too many frightening MP3 addicts to believe that we can ever go back to a pre-Napster world. Pay for music? Yeah, right...
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Goddammit, it seems like with every day that passes, we have less of an excuse not to encrypt interpersonal communictions. I'm surprised that businesses don't require employees to encrypt any mail that leaves the intranet.
Fucking government assholes... if you weren't such snooping bastards, maybe I wouldn't feel it was necessary to ensure my privacy. My problem is that not-so-savvy friends and business associates require me to use cleartext e-mail. Ah, life is depressing...
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Yet another game I watched others play under Windows and wished I could participate in.
Okay, I'm sure this has been said a hundred times in this story by now, but: cut the crap, Rob. We all know that you have a Windows box, and if it can run Diablo II, it can run Alpha Centauri. As I've said before, these comments that are meant to insinuate that you never use any Microsoft products are childish and are not doing anything postive for the perception of GNU/Linux, OSS, or yourself. They also do nothing to harm the "evil empire". The immature tone in some of your recent stories has led me to believe that your UID really has been cracked. Honestly, what was your motivation for saying that? Did you think it was "interesting" or "insightful"? Or, like so many moronic teenagers on this site, did you feel a need to say something, anything, but didn't have anything meaningful to contribute? Even a solemn "Schweet." would have been better. There's no need to push it down our throats that you prefer GNU/Linux to Windows, and making comments like that is silly because, once again, we all know you play other Windows games. Diablo II, Everquest, older Quakes... cut the crap.
HTH!
(Tip to moderators: reasonable moderation for this comment would be either "Flamebait" or "Troll". HTH too!!)
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Damn straight.:) OpenWindows is the most minimalist WM possible. It makes FVWM look like Enlightment. You get a root menu, and the ability to minimize apps (to icons, with a cheesy "speed line" effect), and not much else. But for the user who claims he uses a WM "just to run xterms", it's all you need.
It's still available in newer Solaris releases, but it's pretty obvious that Sun is pushing people toward dtwm.
I've always liked AfterStep on Sun boxen... and yes, it is configurable to work with CDE. I even have cute customised login graphics.:)
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I hate to feed a troll, but that quote is hilarious. To argue that Gates single-handedly created the commercial software industry is pretty funny, don't you think?
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I took about a four-month break from Art, only to come back and discover he's been replaced with a total luser. He tries to be a Linux-nut, but only comes off sounding like one of those dumb 13-year olds l337-speaking on USENET about having "escaped the evil empire". No one that says stupid things like, "Unix types should check out the rcp utility!" (you dumbfuck, what UNIX user doesn't already know that standard commands? get a life.) is to be trusted with my radio time.
I haven't actually heard the show since Art left, but after going to his website to check the program listings, I saw the new host's bio, and vowed not to even attempt to stomach listening to that luser.
It'd be cool to have a GNU/Linux hacker hosting Art's show, but this guy ain't it. He's one of the new breed of Windows converts that think using a UNIX-copy plus a pretty Windows-copy GUI makes them intelligent. It's fairly digusting.
Hey, that reminds me -- why did Art leave? I remember him mentioning some mysterious family troubles, and some vague rumours about his kids being molested, but what really happened?
PS - The reason I stopped listening for a few months was because all he ever talked about anymore was Y2K. Every fucking night -- what was wrong with you, Art? It was incredibly droll, redundant, and boring, which was out of character for that show. Maybe that's why he left; out of shame when nothing happened.:)
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My biggest problem I have with GNU/Linux culture is that 90% of its devotees have absolutely no knowledge of pre-1995 UNIX. "OpenWindows" is the name of one of the GUIs available standard on Sun boxen. These days it has been superceded by CDE/dtwm, but it's all you'll see on older Solaris (for instance, 2.4) installations. Get a clue, you l337 bastards.
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Yet there are cases where C or C++ should be used:
Task is low-level and any other language would be missing the needed speed/power/freedom/whatever.
The task is part of an existing project, which is written in C or C++.
Company already has too much invested in third-party C/C++ libraries.
Company already has too much invested in C/C++ programmers. Retraining involves money, time, and some not-so-optimal code being produced while the programmer masters the new langauge
No Java environment available for your platform
Having said that, I think that all C++ programmers should seriously look into learning at least the fundamentals of Java (most of which, as C++ guys, you already know). I also think that if you're choosing a language in which to implement a new project, think twice before just jumping into C++. Yes, I'm a Java zealot.
And I hate to nit-pick, but C is not really low-level. I instead think of it as the only "medium-level" language, and this is part of why it's so useful. You can't write a device driver in VB, and you can't (reasonably) write an office suite in x86 assembly, but you can do both in C. Yes, Java does place more restrictions on you (although if you're an OOP nut like me, you don't really mind). This is why Java is the ideal language to teach OOP, because even if you think in strutured or procedural programming terms, you are forced to implement them in OOP constructs. C++ allows you to go with either way, and some people enjoy that freedom.
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Regarding #2: Programmers are often at the mercy of the compiler author and OS code. Not all buffer-overflow expoits are the fault of the programmer.
Regarding #3: Wow, thanks for giving thousands of/. script kiddies a weekend project
Regarding #4: To the contary, I think that it's valuable protection against unskilled (but malicious) users and lazy sysadmins.
Regarding #5: Most crackers lack either the knowledge or dedication to bother with anything like that. They'll have to wait until someone codes a tool for them.:)
Regarding #6: Well, I agree in principle. This story was both Overrated and Flamebait. At least it's not another crappy anime story, eh Taco? Don't get me wrong; I love a few anime series, but I prefer computer-oriented stories. (Yeah yeah, Lain, we know.) And while I could block the topic in my user preferences, I'm not always logged in. But now I'm just whining.
My own offtopic note: anyone else notice that Slashdot recently aquired the "slashdot.com" domian? Wow, Rob has really dumbed this place down since that Washington Post article.
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As for the G4 cubes not being marketed at Qube customers, where do you get that? Apple has already said they'll be dropping OS 9 in favor of OS X. They're trying to push OS X onto the open source community and it is Unix.
True, they'll soon both run UNIX-like OS's, but the similarity stops there. Qubes are cheap, headless servers which you access and configure via a web interface (on a another machine, obviously). Yes, you could possibly do they same thing with a G4 Cube running OSX, but you could also get a Yeong-Yang cube case, set up a GNU/Linux system, and save a few thousand bucks.;) And the Qube's hardware can't compare to the G4's. I'll have to agree with MonkeyBoy that these two machines have *very* different markets; Qubes are for people who want a Linux server but don't have the skills to set one up, and G4 cubes are tiny workstations, which, because OS X is based on a Unix system, have the capability of a small server.
But, I also agree with MonkeyBoy that regardless of the market argument, NeXT was doing this long before Cobalt, so there are issues of "prior use". Cobalt is just trying to get some easy, cheap publicity, which will just as easily backfire in their face.
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MHz *is* important, and it's often a deciding factor. People go into a store, see an iBook for $1600 with a 350MHz G3 or a Pentium III 500/600 for about the same price. They're going to choose which they think gives them more for their money.
Once again, I think is completely untrue. The first reason someone with that level of knowledge will shy away from the Mac is because it doesn't run Windows, of course.
You can spout technical terms at them, but they'll either not get it, or they'll yawn, walk away, and go get the Pentium notebook. The ones that do get it are very intelligent people, though:-)
Hardly; they could just be Mac weenies. The average buyer's decision is between Intel and AMD, not Intel and Motorola. I hope I don't overestimate the average business user by presuming that they're savvy enough no to accidentally buy an iBook.
There's only one level of user that actually has to make the choice between Mac and PC: the first-time PC user. And for most first-time users, CPU technologies and speeds aren't important.
The three things that are:
Will it do what I need it to?
How much will it cost?
Will it further my marketable skills?
And, not suprisingly, those are also the three things that push most first-time users to PCs.
PCs have better and/or broader hardware and software support.
x86 hardware is dirt-cheap.
PC/Windows skills are at least 1000% times more valuable than Mac skills on a resume in today's business world.
I'm not saying it's right, but it's true. Ther are exceptions, of course; Apple's valued "little kids and granmas" market are less affected by two of those reasons, and so Apple does well there.
This can all change, of course. Because while I think NT5 is a decent product, how much longer will MS be producing operating systems? They've blown their load. Because of their sheer size and resources, they might throw out a couple more before they burn out, but who will take their place when that eventually happens? MacOS is the only current viable alterative (begone penguin fuckers), and OSX might not be that bad after all.
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Correct. So what Apple should have really done is made up some marketing mumbo-jumbo about "ultra-multiplying clocks" and labelled the CPUs with MHz of an equivelant P3, right?
But I don't think it has much of an effect on Apple's sales in any case. Your average PC user isn't going to buy a Mac because he doesn't know the OS and because of a [partially] irrational aversion to Macs, not because of the CPU. It only really affects Mac-weenies that get hazed by their PC-using friends. My little brother is one of these annoying gamer types, and one of his friends is a Mac weenie. And the rest of his friends were all dissing the Mac user (who just bought a G4), making fun of the Apple "supercomputer" ads, talking out their asses about how a G4 doesn't really cream a P3. I started laughing out loud. It's sad the kind of misinformation the MHz wars put out. I butted in, of course, and they weren't laughing five minutes later. I'll bet the Mac kid was surprised to have someone rush to his defense for once.:)
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In the same octave, C# and Db are the same key on the piano, the same fingering on a saxophone, and the same fretting on a guitar. C# and Db will be equally out-of-tune. :) Okay, caveat: since the same note can often be played in 3-4 places on a guitar, this really doesn't apply. But the thought is the same.
That "perfect pitch" crap you refer to is the ability to name notes when heard out of context. Damn, is that guy still selling those "perfect pitch" tapes in the back of music magazines? :)
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Hmmmm, this is intriguing. I suppose even the most loyal Apple employee could be enticed to leak information, because while he's an Apple employee, he's most likely also an Apple user/lover/fanboy/cult-member. The employee side of him says, "I'm going to keep this awesome new product top-secret until it's absolutely perfect, and when it is released, it will take the world by storm." The fanboy side says, "My fellow Apple weenies and I crave news of upcoming Apple products! One little leak won't hurt."
Okay, so nothing's simple. But I think Apple is doing the right thing.
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No, because you aren't distributing the recorded media (or a reasonable facimille). There are regulations on public performances, but since you're not charging any money, it's fine.
Yes, it is. The artist receives no payment for that copy of his music. Yes, it is illegal. That's what I've always been told. When did it change? Haven't you ever read the back of a CD? I have one right here -- "(C)opyright 2000 [artist's name]. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws in the USA." So when you distribute copies of that music, whether on CD-R or on Napster, you're committing an illegal activity. Everybody does it, but that does not change the fact that you're breaking the law. And if you're telling me that these "applicable laws" provide no such protection, we need harsher laws. Fucking selfish American consumers.As for the rest of your rantings, I'll try not to be too offended. I still would like to believe that copyright provides some sort of protection for my art. I damn well better have a way of making sure that I'm not losing CD sales to kids on fucking Napster. You may care less if the artists whose work you steal starve, but ask any professional musician what they think of the idea, and they won't like it. If Joe Cool and his Hep Cats want to put their music online for free, with no restrictions on distribution, that's their deal, but when you do it without my permission, and my CD explicitly states that you cannot distibute without authorization, you're just a lowly pickpocket. To anyone who makes a living from the music industry, Napster is the digital equivalent of the LA riots.
I think your hostility is rather unwarranted, and no matter how many holes you try to poke in my arguments, the fact remains that distribution of someone's art without their permission is wrong. If you believe otherwise, you truly belong in Stallman's academic socialist cults.
I'm sorry that you think me to be such an ignorant person. I guess not everyone has such an expert understanding of copyright laws. If only everyone could be as perfect as you, TuLu, what a wonderful place the world would be! In the meantime, I'm going to go investigate the validity of your statements, and if what you say is true, today is a grim day for The_Messenger. I hope you and your band of theives are proud of yourselves.
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And I didn't mean that OpenWindows looks "worse" than FVWM; I meant that it's the only thing I've seen that has FVWM beat in the default config's sparseness.
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And, btw, before someone brands me a hypocrite after reading my anti-music-theft rant in this thread: some bands willingly make MP3s of their music available, and so downloading this music is not illegal. The problem is when copyrights are blatantly ignored.
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I think the difference between the Napster debacle and something like alcohol prohibition is that prohibtion took a legal product (alcohol) and made it illegal. The Napster problem focusses on the fact that Napster is accessory to an activity already established to be illegal: unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material. To a musician, making their recorded, copyrighted work available to others at no charge is tanamount to theft of their livlihood and art. And yes, it's illegal. Whether you go out and buy the CD the next day is completely irrelevant if you were never given permission to copy the work in the first place. Think of it this way: if you steal $50 from someone, and send them a check for $500 the next day, you're still guilty of theft. The law doesn't care if the victim is better off in the end. The law is the law. If you don't like the law, stop whining and do something about it. Organize, demonstrate, and vote.
Napster could have been a very useful tool for music lovers, musicians, and the recording industry, but I think it's gotten out of hand. I agree with Lars wholeheartedly, and I think it is the duty of mega-bands to take a stand, because while Metallica won't feel the pinch of lost CD revenue, less successful musicians will. In the end, Napster users are just whining because they want something for nothing, at the expense of artists. Which, as a musician, I find absolutely disgusting.
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Even if Napster were shut down, someone would code a copy that hides itself in SMTP packets or something. I've met too many frightening MP3 addicts to believe that we can ever go back to a pre-Napster world. Pay for music? Yeah, right...
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Fucking government assholes... if you weren't such snooping bastards, maybe I wouldn't feel it was necessary to ensure my privacy. My problem is that not-so-savvy friends and business associates require me to use cleartext e-mail. Ah, life is depressing...
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Okay, I'm sure this has been said a hundred times in this story by now, but: cut the crap, Rob. We all know that you have a Windows box, and if it can run Diablo II, it can run Alpha Centauri. As I've said before, these comments that are meant to insinuate that you never use any Microsoft products are childish and are not doing anything postive for the perception of GNU/Linux, OSS, or yourself. They also do nothing to harm the "evil empire". The immature tone in some of your recent stories has led me to believe that your UID really has been cracked. Honestly, what was your motivation for saying that? Did you think it was "interesting" or "insightful"? Or, like so many moronic teenagers on this site, did you feel a need to say something, anything, but didn't have anything meaningful to contribute? Even a solemn "Schweet." would have been better. There's no need to push it down our throats that you prefer GNU/Linux to Windows, and making comments like that is silly because, once again, we all know you play other Windows games. Diablo II, Everquest, older Quakes... cut the crap.
HTH!
(Tip to moderators: reasonable moderation for this comment would be either "Flamebait" or "Troll". HTH too!!)
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It's still available in newer Solaris releases, but it's pretty obvious that Sun is pushing people toward dtwm.
I've always liked AfterStep on Sun boxen... and yes, it is configurable to work with CDE. I even have cute customised login graphics. :)
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I haven't actually heard the show since Art left, but after going to his website to check the program listings, I saw the new host's bio, and vowed not to even attempt to stomach listening to that luser.
It'd be cool to have a GNU/Linux hacker hosting Art's show, but this guy ain't it. He's one of the new breed of Windows converts that think using a UNIX-copy plus a pretty Windows-copy GUI makes them intelligent. It's fairly digusting.
Hey, that reminds me -- why did Art leave? I remember him mentioning some mysterious family troubles, and some vague rumours about his kids being molested, but what really happened?
PS - The reason I stopped listening for a few months was because all he ever talked about anymore was Y2K. Every fucking night -- what was wrong with you, Art? It was incredibly droll, redundant, and boring, which was out of character for that show. Maybe that's why he left; out of shame when nothing happened. :)
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Yet there are cases where C or C++ should be used:
Having said that, I think that all C++ programmers should seriously look into learning at least the fundamentals of Java (most of which, as C++ guys, you already know). I also think that if you're choosing a language in which to implement a new project, think twice before just jumping into C++. Yes, I'm a Java zealot.
And I hate to nit-pick, but C is not really low-level. I instead think of it as the only "medium-level" language, and this is part of why it's so useful. You can't write a device driver in VB, and you can't (reasonably) write an office suite in x86 assembly, but you can do both in C. Yes, Java does place more restrictions on you (although if you're an OOP nut like me, you don't really mind). This is why Java is the ideal language to teach OOP, because even if you think in strutured or procedural programming terms, you are forced to implement them in OOP constructs. C++ allows you to go with either way, and some people enjoy that freedom.
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Regarding #1: Ha ha ha.
Regarding #2: Programmers are often at the mercy of the compiler author and OS code. Not all buffer-overflow expoits are the fault of the programmer.
Regarding #3: Wow, thanks for giving thousands of /. script kiddies a weekend project
Regarding #4: To the contary, I think that it's valuable protection against unskilled (but malicious) users and lazy sysadmins.
Regarding #5: Most crackers lack either the knowledge or dedication to bother with anything like that. They'll have to wait until someone codes a tool for them. :)
Regarding #6: Well, I agree in principle. This story was both Overrated and Flamebait. At least it's not another crappy anime story, eh Taco? Don't get me wrong; I love a few anime series, but I prefer computer-oriented stories. (Yeah yeah, Lain, we know.) And while I could block the topic in my user preferences, I'm not always logged in. But now I'm just whining.
My own offtopic note: anyone else notice that Slashdot recently aquired the "slashdot.com" domian? Wow, Rob has really dumbed this place down since that Washington Post article.
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Don't push it, friend. You don't want to incur the wrath of the Java Defenders' Flame Brigade, now would you? :)
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True, they'll soon both run UNIX-like OS's, but the similarity stops there. Qubes are cheap, headless servers which you access and configure via a web interface (on a another machine, obviously). Yes, you could possibly do they same thing with a G4 Cube running OSX, but you could also get a Yeong-Yang cube case, set up a GNU/Linux system, and save a few thousand bucks. ;) And the Qube's hardware can't compare to the G4's. I'll have to agree with MonkeyBoy that these two machines have *very* different markets; Qubes are for people who want a Linux server but don't have the skills to set one up, and G4 cubes are tiny workstations, which, because OS X is based on a Unix system, have the capability of a small server.
But, I also agree with MonkeyBoy that regardless of the market argument, NeXT was doing this long before Cobalt, so there are issues of "prior use". Cobalt is just trying to get some easy, cheap publicity, which will just as easily backfire in their face.
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www.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on MS-DOS 3.3
That's the power of Open-Source. :)
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Once again, I think is completely untrue. The first reason someone with that level of knowledge will shy away from the Mac is because it doesn't run Windows, of course.
Hardly; they could just be Mac weenies. The average buyer's decision is between Intel and AMD, not Intel and Motorola. I hope I don't overestimate the average business user by presuming that they're savvy enough no to accidentally buy an iBook.
There's only one level of user that actually has to make the choice between Mac and PC: the first-time PC user. And for most first-time users, CPU technologies and speeds aren't important.
The three things that are:
And, not suprisingly, those are also the three things that push most first-time users to PCs.
I'm not saying it's right, but it's true. Ther are exceptions, of course; Apple's valued "little kids and granmas" market are less affected by two of those reasons, and so Apple does well there.
This can all change, of course. Because while I think NT5 is a decent product, how much longer will MS be producing operating systems? They've blown their load. Because of their sheer size and resources, they might throw out a couple more before they burn out, but who will take their place when that eventually happens? MacOS is the only current viable alterative (begone penguin fuckers), and OSX might not be that bad after all.
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But I don't think it has much of an effect on Apple's sales in any case. Your average PC user isn't going to buy a Mac because he doesn't know the OS and because of a [partially] irrational aversion to Macs, not because of the CPU. It only really affects Mac-weenies that get hazed by their PC-using friends. My little brother is one of these annoying gamer types, and one of his friends is a Mac weenie. And the rest of his friends were all dissing the Mac user (who just bought a G4), making fun of the Apple "supercomputer" ads, talking out their asses about how a G4 doesn't really cream a P3. I started laughing out loud. It's sad the kind of misinformation the MHz wars put out. I butted in, of course, and they weren't laughing five minutes later. I'll bet the Mac kid was surprised to have someone rush to his defense for once. :)
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