I am forced to agree I am afraid. This is worse than just a few social misfits or mental defectives.
My own elder brother, who works for a defense contractor, was dumped 14 years ago by his fiancee. He took it hard, but went through grad school, did some top notch work, worked for 2 years at NASA before deciding to make more money. Maybe he decided to drown his sorrows in his work initially, but then work sort of became his joy. I know because I tried to double date a few times.
Now, he is 39, and has been looking at it more seriously. He has spent a lot of money on eHarmony and match.com. However, most women his age are either happily married, or have heavy baggage from failed marriages and not worth marrying, or worse, are gold diggers.
Not saying that he is not carrying baggage as well, but he is now fighting time. In a few years, it will be too late for him to marry someone his age and have kids.
I pray his luck will change, but he is now such an extreme nerd that no one normal wants him. My own gf does not like him too much, even though she is the forgiving type.
I will pass this advice on to him. However, if you lose all settings by doing this, its unlikely to be of much use to him. This is why I am waiting for the second Google phone to be released (first release of any new type of hardware always has bugs and I would rather have others spend their money and get frustrated fixing the bugs:) ).
Good lord, just like an Apple hater to be unable to comprehend such an easy concept - that the supposedly "Open Source Unfriendly" Apple both makes heavy use of, and is also a heavy contributor to, open source projects.
They tolerate gcc on Apple because they cannot very well stop people from running any software they want on BSD, which is the underlying core of the OS. Short of crippling themselves, there is no way for them to stop it. However, they would if they had a motive, and the means.
Pray tell us which open source projects does Apple heavily contribute to ? They own CUPS, but they bought it long after it became standard on Linux, and closing it now would be impossible for them as Linux folks would just fork the last free (as in beer) release. Plus, it would take far too much money to maintain it in a closed source form.
Are you trying to say that Apple invented / developed BSD ? And gcc ??? And apache ???? Next you will be claiming that Apple invented unix (some of your guys' commercials already sound that way).
Don't know which brand of koolaid you are drinking, but try googling sometime.
I'm not an Apple user or customer in any sense of the word, and I don't particularly like the company or its proponents, but even I'm capable of recognizing the enormity of the technological leap they made from MacOS to OS X,...
So, freeloading off an open source OS (Mach BSD) counts as a technological leap to you ? It was a corporate thinking leap, but a technological leap ??
If that is a tech leap, Linux users have been making leaps for 10 years then, with better justification too.
I will correct myself a bit and say that there was a profit motive for Apple making it impossible to mount newer ipods in Linux because the ipod was initially conceived as a drugged candy to pull people to their OS/hardware. They supply itunes for windows because they cannot afford to ignore the 90% of the marketplace where nearly all of the new converts to Apple come from. However, that does not mean that itunes on windows is feature equal of itunes on a mac. One of my friends who has an ipod touch often finds that if he upgrades his firmware on his windows machine, it bricks his touch. Things get back to normal on the mac his girlfriend has.
So, yes, Apple had a profit motive (of a sort) to destroy interoperability with the ipod, because a person not suffering from the itunes performance differential or not otherwise beholden to the idea of using Apple apps for using the ipod would not as easily get pulled into the Apple/OSX world.
There are good technical legitimate reasons for people choosing Apple over Windows. However, there are almost no good technical legitimate reasons for people choosing Apple over BSDs/Linux (unless they are movie makers, given the success of crossover). Hence the kill switch.
Apple and open source are like oil and water. They do not mix, and oil comes to settle on top of water. Perhaps even more so than Microsoft, Apple is fundamentally unfriendly to open source (it goes back to their control freak ideas about hardware and software). They have no problems freeloading off BSD, but have generally found it hard to work their platform with open source. Further, they have a history of changing ipod/iphone (database hash keys anyone ?) to break the capability of its unfortunate owners to mount it in linux. A wanton act for which there was no profit motive since itunes is free, and mounting the ipod as a disk does not harm the ipod.
And ending up like a more evil version of Microsoft might be precisely where Steve Jobs wants to take Apple. Speaking from a pure shareholder perspective, its not such a nasty place to be in.
Apple is infinitely more likely to make sure that use of Android bricks the iphone than the dreamland scenario you are suggesting. In any case, why would you want to depend on iphone now that Google phone (soon G2 ?) is here ?
Most "teachers" I had in high school were first class morons (with one honorable exception). I have seen nothing in the intervening years to suggest that things have gotten better.
Apple freeloads off BSD developers' work. There have not been any viruses on BSD (or Linux) in the wild (active, harmful and self-propagating) to date.
I guess they figure that people dumb enough to pay their high prices are dumb enough to not see this through for what it is - a push tactic to sell software for a new Apple software partner.
That is Macworld for you - smart executives, smart psychologists, smarter marketing staff, adequate engineers married to dumb status conscious users while freeloading off extremely smart open source software developers (not employed by Apple) using a license written by some idealistic people without any rudimentary understanding of human nature.
Contempt for its users. Unless they are movie / music makers, Apple knows that its customers are dumb enough to pay 1.5 times for the same hardware. Why would their privacy matter to them ?
The distributions (especially Ubuntu) should refuse to carry this (let medibuntu do it if they want). By definition, Linux support for silverlight will remain one cycle behind Windows support.
This is Microsoft's way to "push" Linux into the slot of an inferior OS on the desktop. Adobe flash is the way forward. Its ubiquitous. Its well specified. Its fairly well supported.
Of course, Adobe is a commercial vendor as well, which has been tardy in releasing Linux support in the past. But it has no vested interest per se in retarding the growth of Linux.
Apple's products are vastly superior to Microsoft's.
The OS. No doubt. But no one buys a computer for an OS. They buy it for apps. In that area, Windows beats the crap out of Mac. Disclaimer : I am a longtime Linux user who uses crossover for the few apps that have no Linux replacements.
Microsoft has been convicted of anti-trust violations in federal court. Apple has not.
Yet. Size for size, I am not sure that Apple's actions less intrusive and deliberately open-source unfriendly (unfriendly by design) than Microsoft's. If you roll back time to when Microsoft was as big a player on the desktop as Apple is now, I think they were significantly less intrusive (I will readily grant that they were in their drug dealer mode then).
It is my opinion that if Apple ever grows to be the size of Microsoft in terms of market share on the desktop, they will be far far more unfriendly to third party apps or even other platforms than Microsoft ever were. Its the Apple mentality which contains being a control freak in a rather large measure in addition to their other "virtues" (which involve robbing customers etc.).
Apple's monopoly power is in the portable music market. Microsoft's is in the desktop operating system market.
True and it is instructive to compare how they are handling the challengers to their dominance. Apple today (and yesterday and probably tomorrow) is like Gates + Ballmer circa 2003 on steroids.
Its not enough for them to charge the suckers an arm and a leg for their products. They also need to control what you paid good money for and what you own.
Control freaks.
is there a corelation between the current status of a first-generation US citizen's native country (whether it is rising and inducing certain kinds of pride related emotions) and the loyalty of some of those citizens. It might be interesting to look at German-Americans in 1930s as they watched Germany rise from its ashes (on the back of some horrible policies) and Chinese-Americans now.
I do not mean to impugn the patriotism of any fellow American, but I think this kind of study would be interesting.
When Spears began to doubt the scam, she got letters from the President of Nigeria, FBI Director Mueller, and President Bush. Terrorists could get the money if she did not help, Bush's letter said. Spears continued to send funds. All the letters were fake, of course.
Finally, we know why we are running a huge deficit. What are odds that this dimwit is a Republican and one of those that approves of the job that Bush is (still !) doing ?
And how many years has it been in Iraq and do you see any daily public protests all over the US for getting out of Iraq ? Obama was not elected on a get out of Iraq platform. Iraq mattered to about 10% of the people. If there was a draft right now and ordinary middle class kids were dying in Iraq daily, that number would have been something like 50% and McCain would have been dead on arrival in September. Not a 47% finish like he got.
Most of the OSX userland is BSD or next derived. I use Darwinports rather than fink when a native package isn't available (which it very frequently is). What software is "outdated"?
Last time I needed to check, the gcc version was two minor version releases behind. gfortran had not yet been ported properly. There was a bunch of other software also that was outdated in fink repos and the fellow I was helping had to compile the newer versions by hand.
This has been debunked so many times, I don't even know what the point is. Yes, apple hardware is more expensive. Is it 1.5 times more expensive as you claim? absolutely not. I just specced a Dell notebook to compare to the Macbook Pro smallest edition. The dell does not have Firewire, infrared controller, backlit keyboard, multitouch mousepad, optical audio, and it has an inferior video card. It is also heavier, bulkier, and plastic. It came out to $1700, versus $2000 for the Apple.
This is utter nonsense. I did two types of comparisons (6 months ago). Same hard disk space, same RAM, same processor, same spec video card, same stated lifetime for battery, added in the other stuff (bluetooth etc.) that Apple macbook had. The Dell came to $720 (or whereabouts, including the Microsoft tax) while the apple was $1099. By my math, that is more that 1.5 times. Did a similar comparison for a heavy duty server. The differential was even bigger there.
And what if I do not want an IR controller, multitouch mousepad, and the backlit keyboard ? Nice to have, but a total waste of money (not to mention, battery power if you have a portable) if you do not use the features. Apple does not allow you to remove these features. With dell (or HP), I can go to a lower model, and then beef it up on the other specs to get a lower price point.
I work in a publishing office which has G4 macs still in use. Sometimes they even run OS9 still. Apple is known for hardware that lasts a long time. I wish we had been as lucky with our dells--they don't tend to last more than 4-5 years on average. (bad mobo caps and horrible power supplies seems the most frequent problem)
As I mentioned. I still have decade old Dells and IBMs doing lower level tasks quite happily. I use a 8 year old Dell at home as my mythTV box.
Complete red herring and just...doesn't make any sense again! ALmost all the software I can run on FreeBSD/Linux, I can run on OSX. If you don't like mail.app (I do) run Thunderbird--no problem. Don't like Safari (I do!)--run Firefox, no problem. How can you possibly make an argument for "inferior software"?
Maybe because some of us use computers for a living, and not just checking email ? Try finding Ansys, mentor graphics, synopsys, etc. for a Mac. Add that to the outdated GNU software and you have a pretty barren offering for Mac. Its apps that make or break OS'es, not how pretty their toolbars are. This is also the reason why Windows still owns the office / enterprise desktop space.
No, that's not what I meant. Check out pictures from any Bofs/cons/lugs whatever. You will see a lot of apple laptops. End of story.
Sounds more like product placement to me. Do you seriously take us to be idiots ?
That's sad that she had to waste all that money. What is her real work that can't be done on a mac? Why can't she run ubuntu on her Mac? That would seem to be ideal.
Ideal for Steve Jobs no doubt, not for her. She is a geologist who often needs to run simulations (written for Linux) along with commercial software (see above) not available on a Mac. As I said, some of us actually need to use our machines for work, not ooh and aah at them or make fashion statements to friends.
Might not want to give up on learning a new kind of programming language and platform just yet (see article below)! Cocoa/Objc are fairly different from what you are used to, b
Are you trying to tell us that the Draft (which existed in fits and starts from WW2 to Vietnam) was unconstitutional ? It may have been a good idea or a bad idea, but I do not think it was unlawful. Why ? Because involuntary national service in wartime does not count (at least to my legally untrained ears) as involuntary servitude or slavery.
And if the draft had been in place, I think this nonsense of a war in Iraq would have never started, and if it did, it would not have lasted this long. The only reason it has lasted this long is that most of the poor stiffs dying for you and me in the sands of Iraq have no career options back home (I am not talking about genuine volunteers, just the poor kids who use military service as a way to get out of the hell hole their otherwise gang and poverty infested lives are.).
In that sense, given how much we are going to need the military (Bush has after all started so many wildfires around the globe), it might not be a very bad idea to re-institute the draft - it will give us the manpower we need, and will keep future chicken hawk oil-thirsty traitors like Cheney from driving this country into wars it does not need to be involved in. It will make participation in our government also that much more personal as a matter. And boost voting percentages even more, making the government even more representative of the people than simply a few shrill interest groups (if you have done any stats, you know what I am talking about).
And yes, I could also be drafted.
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You might want to back that up by identifying what unix codebase that Linux uses ? SCO tried. And failed. Maybe you will have better luck.
I am forced to agree I am afraid. This is worse than just a few social misfits or mental defectives.
My own elder brother, who works for a defense contractor, was dumped 14 years ago by his fiancee. He took it hard, but went through grad school, did some top notch work, worked for 2 years at NASA before deciding to make more money. Maybe he decided to drown his sorrows in his work initially, but then work sort of became his joy. I know because I tried to double date a few times.
Now, he is 39, and has been looking at it more seriously. He has spent a lot of money on eHarmony and match.com. However, most women his age are either happily married, or have heavy baggage from failed marriages and not worth marrying, or worse, are gold diggers.
Not saying that he is not carrying baggage as well, but he is now fighting time. In a few years, it will be too late for him to marry someone his age and have kids.
I pray his luck will change, but he is now such an extreme nerd that no one normal wants him. My own gf does not like him too much, even though she is the forgiving type.
I will pass this advice on to him. However, if you lose all settings by doing this, its unlikely to be of much use to him. This is why I am waiting for the second Google phone to be released (first release of any new type of hardware always has bugs and I would rather have others spend their money and get frustrated fixing the bugs :) ).
Good lord, just like an Apple hater to be unable to comprehend such an easy concept - that the supposedly "Open Source Unfriendly" Apple both makes heavy use of, and is also a heavy contributor to, open source projects.
They tolerate gcc on Apple because they cannot very well stop people from running any software they want on BSD, which is the underlying core of the OS. Short of crippling themselves, there is no way for them to stop it. However, they would if they had a motive, and the means.
Pray tell us which open source projects does Apple heavily contribute to ? They own CUPS, but they bought it long after it became standard on Linux, and closing it now would be impossible for them as Linux folks would just fork the last free (as in beer) release. Plus, it would take far too much money to maintain it in a closed source form.
Are you trying to say that Apple invented / developed BSD ? And gcc ??? And apache ???? Next you will be claiming that Apple invented unix (some of your guys' commercials already sound that way).
Don't know which brand of koolaid you are drinking, but try googling sometime.
I'm not an Apple user or customer in any sense of the word, and I don't particularly like the company or its proponents, but even I'm capable of recognizing the enormity of the technological leap they made from MacOS to OS X, ...
So, freeloading off an open source OS (Mach BSD) counts as a technological leap to you ? It was a corporate thinking leap, but a technological leap ??
If that is a tech leap, Linux users have been making leaps for 10 years then, with better justification too.
I will correct myself a bit and say that there was a profit motive for Apple making it impossible to mount newer ipods in Linux because the ipod was initially conceived as a drugged candy to pull people to their OS/hardware. They supply itunes for windows because they cannot afford to ignore the 90% of the marketplace where nearly all of the new converts to Apple come from. However, that does not mean that itunes on windows is feature equal of itunes on a mac. One of my friends who has an ipod touch often finds that if he upgrades his firmware on his windows machine, it bricks his touch. Things get back to normal on the mac his girlfriend has.
So, yes, Apple had a profit motive (of a sort) to destroy interoperability with the ipod, because a person not suffering from the itunes performance differential or not otherwise beholden to the idea of using Apple apps for using the ipod would not as easily get pulled into the Apple/OSX world.
There are good technical legitimate reasons for people choosing Apple over Windows. However, there are almost no good technical legitimate reasons for people choosing Apple over BSDs/Linux (unless they are movie makers, given the success of crossover). Hence the kill switch.
Apple and open source are like oil and water. They do not mix, and oil comes to settle on top of water. Perhaps even more so than Microsoft, Apple is fundamentally unfriendly to open source (it goes back to their control freak ideas about hardware and software). They have no problems freeloading off BSD, but have generally found it hard to work their platform with open source. Further, they have a history of changing ipod/iphone (database hash keys anyone ?) to break the capability of its unfortunate owners to mount it in linux. A wanton act for which there was no profit motive since itunes is free, and mounting the ipod as a disk does not harm the ipod.
And ending up like a more evil version of Microsoft might be precisely where Steve Jobs wants to take Apple. Speaking from a pure shareholder perspective, its not such a nasty place to be in.
Apple is infinitely more likely to make sure that use of Android bricks the iphone than the dreamland scenario you are suggesting. In any case, why would you want to depend on iphone now that Google phone (soon G2 ?) is here ?
Most "teachers" I had in high school were first class morons (with one honorable exception). I have seen nothing in the intervening years to suggest that things have gotten better.
Apple freeloads off BSD developers' work. There have not been any viruses on BSD (or Linux) in the wild (active, harmful and self-propagating) to date.
I guess they figure that people dumb enough to pay their high prices are dumb enough to not see this through for what it is - a push tactic to sell software for a new Apple software partner.
That is Macworld for you - smart executives, smart psychologists, smarter marketing staff, adequate engineers married to dumb status conscious users while freeloading off extremely smart open source software developers (not employed by Apple) using a license written by some idealistic people without any rudimentary understanding of human nature.
Contempt for its users. Unless they are movie / music makers, Apple knows that its customers are dumb enough to pay 1.5 times for the same hardware. Why would their privacy matter to them ?
No.
They have an energy dependent signal.
The distributions (especially Ubuntu) should refuse to carry this (let medibuntu do it if they want). By definition, Linux support for silverlight will remain one cycle behind Windows support.
This is Microsoft's way to "push" Linux into the slot of an inferior OS on the desktop. Adobe flash is the way forward. Its ubiquitous. Its well specified. Its fairly well supported.
Of course, Adobe is a commercial vendor as well, which has been tardy in releasing Linux support in the past. But it has no vested interest per se in retarding the growth of Linux.
Apple's products are vastly superior to Microsoft's.
The OS. No doubt. But no one buys a computer for an OS. They buy it for apps. In that area, Windows beats the crap out of Mac. Disclaimer : I am a longtime Linux user who uses crossover for the few apps that have no Linux replacements.
Microsoft has been convicted of anti-trust violations in federal court. Apple has not.
Yet. Size for size, I am not sure that Apple's actions less intrusive and deliberately open-source unfriendly (unfriendly by design) than Microsoft's. If you roll back time to when Microsoft was as big a player on the desktop as Apple is now, I think they were significantly less intrusive (I will readily grant that they were in their drug dealer mode then).
It is my opinion that if Apple ever grows to be the size of Microsoft in terms of market share on the desktop, they will be far far more unfriendly to third party apps or even other platforms than Microsoft ever were. Its the Apple mentality which contains being a control freak in a rather large measure in addition to their other "virtues" (which involve robbing customers etc.).
Apple's monopoly power is in the portable music market. Microsoft's is in the desktop operating system market.
True and it is instructive to compare how they are handling the challengers to their dominance. Apple today (and yesterday and probably tomorrow) is like Gates + Ballmer circa 2003 on steroids.
Its not enough for them to charge the suckers an arm and a leg for their products. They also need to control what you paid good money for and what you own.
Control freaks.
who let them back up ? Contracts be damned.
is there a corelation between the current status of a first-generation US citizen's native country (whether it is rising and inducing certain kinds of pride related emotions) and the loyalty of some of those citizens. It might be interesting to look at German-Americans in 1930s as they watched Germany rise from its ashes (on the back of some horrible policies) and Chinese-Americans now.
I do not mean to impugn the patriotism of any fellow American, but I think this kind of study would be interesting.
Is it just me, or does the dark region on the left side of the first image look like a footprint (albeit a colossal one) ?
When Spears began to doubt the scam, she got letters from the President of Nigeria, FBI Director Mueller, and President Bush. Terrorists could get the money if she did not help, Bush's letter said. Spears continued to send funds. All the letters were fake, of course.
Finally, we know why we are running a huge deficit. What are odds that this dimwit is a Republican and one of those that approves of the job that Bush is (still !) doing ?
Lay off the poor woman, will you ?
She just needed some shoes. Is she going to get them for free from Carrie Bradshaw ?
And how many years has it been in Iraq and do you see any daily public protests all over the US for getting out of Iraq ? Obama was not elected on a get out of Iraq platform. Iraq mattered to about 10% of the people. If there was a draft right now and ordinary middle class kids were dying in Iraq daily, that number would have been something like 50% and McCain would have been dead on arrival in September. Not a 47% finish like he got.
Most of the OSX userland is BSD or next derived. I use Darwinports rather than fink when a native package isn't available (which it very frequently is). What software is "outdated"?
Last time I needed to check, the gcc version was two minor version releases behind. gfortran had not yet been ported properly. There was a bunch of other software also that was outdated in fink repos and the fellow I was helping had to compile the newer versions by hand.
This has been debunked so many times, I don't even know what the point is. Yes, apple hardware is more expensive. Is it 1.5 times more expensive as you claim? absolutely not. I just specced a Dell notebook to compare to the Macbook Pro smallest edition. The dell does not have Firewire, infrared controller, backlit keyboard, multitouch mousepad, optical audio, and it has an inferior video card. It is also heavier, bulkier, and plastic. It came out to $1700, versus $2000 for the Apple.
This is utter nonsense. I did two types of comparisons (6 months ago). Same hard disk space, same RAM, same processor, same spec video card, same stated lifetime for battery, added in the other stuff (bluetooth etc.) that Apple macbook had. The Dell came to $720 (or whereabouts, including the Microsoft tax) while the apple was $1099. By my math, that is more that 1.5 times. Did a similar comparison for a heavy duty server. The differential was even bigger there. And what if I do not want an IR controller, multitouch mousepad, and the backlit keyboard ? Nice to have, but a total waste of money (not to mention, battery power if you have a portable) if you do not use the features. Apple does not allow you to remove these features. With dell (or HP), I can go to a lower model, and then beef it up on the other specs to get a lower price point.
I work in a publishing office which has G4 macs still in use. Sometimes they even run OS9 still. Apple is known for hardware that lasts a long time. I wish we had been as lucky with our dells--they don't tend to last more than 4-5 years on average. (bad mobo caps and horrible power supplies seems the most frequent problem)
As I mentioned. I still have decade old Dells and IBMs doing lower level tasks quite happily. I use a 8 year old Dell at home as my mythTV box.
Complete red herring and just...doesn't make any sense again! ALmost all the software I can run on FreeBSD/Linux, I can run on OSX. If you don't like mail.app (I do) run Thunderbird--no problem. Don't like Safari (I do!)--run Firefox, no problem. How can you possibly make an argument for "inferior software"?
Maybe because some of us use computers for a living, and not just checking email ? Try finding Ansys, mentor graphics, synopsys, etc. for a Mac. Add that to the outdated GNU software and you have a pretty barren offering for Mac. Its apps that make or break OS'es, not how pretty their toolbars are. This is also the reason why Windows still owns the office / enterprise desktop space.
No, that's not what I meant. Check out pictures from any Bofs/cons/lugs whatever. You will see a lot of apple laptops. End of story.
Sounds more like product placement to me. Do you seriously take us to be idiots ?
That's sad that she had to waste all that money. What is her real work that can't be done on a mac? Why can't she run ubuntu on her Mac? That would seem to be ideal.
Ideal for Steve Jobs no doubt, not for her. She is a geologist who often needs to run simulations (written for Linux) along with commercial software (see above) not available on a Mac. As I said, some of us actually need to use our machines for work, not ooh and aah at them or make fashion statements to friends.
Might not want to give up on learning a new kind of programming language and platform just yet (see article below)! Cocoa/Objc are fairly different from what you are used to, b
It got us out of there when people started refusing to serve.
Ask Stephen King.
Are you trying to tell us that the Draft (which existed in fits and starts from WW2 to Vietnam) was unconstitutional ? It may have been a good idea or a bad idea, but I do not think it was unlawful. Why ? Because involuntary national service in wartime does not count (at least to my legally untrained ears) as involuntary servitude or slavery.
And if the draft had been in place, I think this nonsense of a war in Iraq would have never started, and if it did, it would not have lasted this long. The only reason it has lasted this long is that most of the poor stiffs dying for you and me in the sands of Iraq have no career options back home (I am not talking about genuine volunteers, just the poor kids who use military service as a way to get out of the hell hole their otherwise gang and poverty infested lives are.).
In that sense, given how much we are going to need the military (Bush has after all started so many wildfires around the globe), it might not be a very bad idea to re-institute the draft - it will give us the manpower we need, and will keep future chicken hawk oil-thirsty traitors like Cheney from driving this country into wars it does not need to be involved in. It will make participation in our government also that much more personal as a matter. And boost voting percentages even more, making the government even more representative of the people than simply a few shrill interest groups (if you have done any stats, you know what I am talking about).
And yes, I could also be drafted.