And yet when you point this out to people when they make MJ jokes, or say they hate him because he was a nonce or whatever, they come out with some variant of "no smoke without fire". Fucking hate that.
Yeah, screw her for not considering the inherent unreliability of communications media when wanting to talk to people about a major exciting life event.
Trust me, iTunes is no better on OSX than it is on Windows. Possibly worse.
Put bluntly iTunes is an appalling piece of shit. It's slow, bloated, looks like crap, works like crap, takes an age to do absolutely anything and fills your startup sequence with all kinds of shit. Having recently switched to Windows from Mac I can just marvel at how Windows Media Player takes less than a second to open whereas iTunes took a good minute or so for no good reason.
I have mod points, but rather than mod you Insightful I'd like to take the time to say fucking excellent post. Brilliantly put in so many different ways.
Secondly, Nvidia wouldn't have to free their driver (which they don't want to do, for various reasons such as keeping their business going) if Linux had such a stable ABI. Your link merely says "binaries might be incompatible between versions because we might change shit", avoiding which is the whole goddamn point of a stable ABI and a stable platform!
You can't make it as hard as possible for companies to write a driver that doesn't require constant updates and maintenance based on the whims of the kernel devs and then also want high performance drivers and games and such ported over. It doesn't work that way.
That could never happen on GNU/Linux. Once a driver's been released, it's good forever.
Is that why every new NVidia driver has to be recompiled with a stupid shim to fit your running kernel because the Linux devs can't/won't sort out a stable binary ABI for kernel modules?
Bear in mind Microsoft's last driver model, WDM, started with Windows 98, ran through Me, 2000 and XP and is still usable (if deprecated) on Windows Vista/7. They've had a reasonably stable driver ABI for 12 years. Mac OS X has similar longevity API wise. Linux's kernel ABIs change with each release. Driver releases are only good forever if you want to spend forever updating them.
I would dearly love to use Linux or something similar, but every time I hear about something happening with it there's just a general sense that everyone concerned needs to pull their heads out of their rectums and start thinking about what real people want from a PC and an OS. I say this as someone who has long experience with Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD, not just some MS shill or some shit.
In this case, it's something of a moot point. Machinarium (which I did pay for, and it's a fabulous game with a gorgeous soundtrack, and well worth what I paid for it) has very little language or writing at all, definitely nothing spoken. All expressions come in the form of thought bubbles, which sounds crap but is easily one of the most charming parts of the game.
I actually did a doubletake when I saw there was a film out called Space Chimps 3D. It's the sort of concept I'd previously only thought existed in Homer Simpson's most delirious fantasies.
Seriously, what's next a video of teenagers putting all the macbooks and iMacs on meatspin (NSFW!) ? That's what some were displaying last time I was in the London Apple store.
Actually, that's how they come straight from the factory.
Not to mention, Lady Gaga actually loses money on every show she does. Were it not for the album and single sales that many Slashdotters so readily claim are irrelevant, she'd be bankrupt. (It helps that she's ridiculously talented, even for someone whose music essentially boils down to disco.)
Free speech, fine. Got absolutely no opposition to anything they say on freedom of speech, with them 100%. It's when they link such a thing to the ability to take otherwise-sold creative works for free (i.e. commit mass copyright infringement) that I take issue. GGP did not say that the PP is "a political branch", he said "THE political branch". The only one. I object to being lumped in with them, or the whole Internet being such, as I do not agree with them, and not everybody does. Just because I use the Internet does not mean I suddenly have to believe in copyright infringement and such being good (which is not, for what it's worth, the same as me thinking free culture and such is bad).
Thankfully, the Guardian, which has far superior journalism and doesn't seek to ram politics down everyone's throats in "news" stories like News International's papers do (people often talk of the paper being liberal, which on its comments pages is largely true, but they do a good job of keeping it out of their news reporting), remains free for everyone with an extensive back archive. And of course the BBC exists too... thank God.
I can only echo the poster above who said he hopes Murdoch puts up more paywalls. Murdoch's shitty reporting and deliberately biased and bigoted publications have ruined political discourse in this country.
If you're genuinely comparing someone who offered free movies and music via his website and was smacked down for it to NELSON FUCKING MANDELA and you're not high, you need to sort your fucking priorities out.
I use Apple iWork, as it happens, although that's totally irrelevant. My comment was aimed more at the breathless reportage of market share growth as if it was a tremendous achievement, when the data is nearly always exceptionally fuzzy and where the statistic itself really, really doesn't matter. What people use doesn't matter; I don't care how many other people use iWork, it suits my needs therefore I'm happy. I don't have to cheer and be happy every time some other person buys a Mac.
I'm a troll now, though, according to the mods. So I guess that was my original intention.
I can't be the only person who doesn't really, truly care about the market share of a particular product. Really, I don't. 20% of people use the same thing I do? Whoopee doo, what do you want, a paper hat?
He lost the plot when he decided to use the things we currently use to carry hot and cold fluids, pipes, which work very efficiently for that task, and replace it with a vacuum tube system for the same items in a container at far less efficiency and far more needless expense.
Some ideas are dismissed as stupid despite being visionary. This one is dismissed as stupid because it's stupid.
It's also a joke and it flew RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD.;)
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And yet when you point this out to people when they make MJ jokes, or say they hate him because he was a nonce or whatever, they come out with some variant of "no smoke without fire". Fucking hate that.
Offtopic, sure, but it's a bugbear of mine.
Yeah, screw her for not considering the inherent unreliability of communications media when wanting to talk to people about a major exciting life event.
Idiot.
Trust me, iTunes is no better on OSX than it is on Windows. Possibly worse.
Put bluntly iTunes is an appalling piece of shit. It's slow, bloated, looks like crap, works like crap, takes an age to do absolutely anything and fills your startup sequence with all kinds of shit. Having recently switched to Windows from Mac I can just marvel at how Windows Media Player takes less than a second to open whereas iTunes took a good minute or so for no good reason.
I have mod points, but rather than mod you Insightful I'd like to take the time to say fucking excellent post. Brilliantly put in so many different ways.
No. The reason for that is that nVidia won't just free their fucking video driver.
First, you sailed past the Linux Fault Threshold with consummate ease.
Secondly, Nvidia wouldn't have to free their driver (which they don't want to do, for various reasons such as keeping their business going) if Linux had such a stable ABI. Your link merely says "binaries might be incompatible between versions because we might change shit", avoiding which is the whole goddamn point of a stable ABI and a stable platform!
You can't make it as hard as possible for companies to write a driver that doesn't require constant updates and maintenance based on the whims of the kernel devs and then also want high performance drivers and games and such ported over. It doesn't work that way.
That could never happen on GNU/Linux. Once a driver's been released, it's good forever.
Is that why every new NVidia driver has to be recompiled with a stupid shim to fit your running kernel because the Linux devs can't/won't sort out a stable binary ABI for kernel modules?
Bear in mind Microsoft's last driver model, WDM, started with Windows 98, ran through Me, 2000 and XP and is still usable (if deprecated) on Windows Vista/7. They've had a reasonably stable driver ABI for 12 years. Mac OS X has similar longevity API wise. Linux's kernel ABIs change with each release. Driver releases are only good forever if you want to spend forever updating them.
I would dearly love to use Linux or something similar, but every time I hear about something happening with it there's just a general sense that everyone concerned needs to pull their heads out of their rectums and start thinking about what real people want from a PC and an OS. I say this as someone who has long experience with Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD, not just some MS shill or some shit.
In this case, it's something of a moot point. Machinarium (which I did pay for, and it's a fabulous game with a gorgeous soundtrack, and well worth what I paid for it) has very little language or writing at all, definitely nothing spoken. All expressions come in the form of thought bubbles, which sounds crap but is easily one of the most charming parts of the game.
Am I allowed to point out I am a Mac user? (Or at least, own one but don't use as my main computer any more?)
I actually did a doubletake when I saw there was a film out called Space Chimps 3D. It's the sort of concept I'd previously only thought existed in Homer Simpson's most delirious fantasies.
Seriously, what's next a video of teenagers putting all the macbooks and iMacs on meatspin (NSFW!) ? That's what some were displaying last time I was in the London Apple store.
Actually, that's how they come straight from the factory.
Unless WikiLeaks is an Objectivist dystopia located on the seafloor I doubt it.
Thus speaks a man who has never experienced the addictive tab-craziness of TV Tropes ;)
Not to mention, Lady Gaga actually loses money on every show she does. Were it not for the album and single sales that many Slashdotters so readily claim are irrelevant, she'd be bankrupt. (It helps that she's ridiculously talented, even for someone whose music essentially boils down to disco.)
Free speech, fine. Got absolutely no opposition to anything they say on freedom of speech, with them 100%. It's when they link such a thing to the ability to take otherwise-sold creative works for free (i.e. commit mass copyright infringement) that I take issue. GGP did not say that the PP is "a political branch", he said "THE political branch". The only one. I object to being lumped in with them, or the whole Internet being such, as I do not agree with them, and not everybody does. Just because I use the Internet does not mean I suddenly have to believe in copyright infringement and such being good (which is not, for what it's worth, the same as me thinking free culture and such is bad).
Please don't in any way pretend the Pirate Party represents "The Internet" as a whole. I personally dislike their means and their motives.
I'm in Portsmouth. Everyone here is melting. Fans are useless. Send help.
The Guardian is a hate rag too and mouth-piece for man hating militant feminists.
Perhaps many years ago, but I've never read such a thing in the paper in the 6 years I've been reading it.
The idea of cocaine or heroin being advertised as a way to get the family together is absolutely fucking hilarious.
Thankfully, the Guardian, which has far superior journalism and doesn't seek to ram politics down everyone's throats in "news" stories like News International's papers do (people often talk of the paper being liberal, which on its comments pages is largely true, but they do a good job of keeping it out of their news reporting), remains free for everyone with an extensive back archive. And of course the BBC exists too... thank God.
I can only echo the poster above who said he hopes Murdoch puts up more paywalls. Murdoch's shitty reporting and deliberately biased and bigoted publications have ruined political discourse in this country.
BBC4 has Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, an unremittingly funny and at the same time informative show. Search it on YouTube if you don't believe me.
By using an image of a fingerprint? In fact, not even an image, a statistical summary of one?
Nah.
If you're genuinely comparing someone who offered free movies and music via his website and was smacked down for it to NELSON FUCKING MANDELA and you're not high, you need to sort your fucking priorities out.
I use Apple iWork, as it happens, although that's totally irrelevant. My comment was aimed more at the breathless reportage of market share growth as if it was a tremendous achievement, when the data is nearly always exceptionally fuzzy and where the statistic itself really, really doesn't matter. What people use doesn't matter; I don't care how many other people use iWork, it suits my needs therefore I'm happy. I don't have to cheer and be happy every time some other person buys a Mac.
I'm a troll now, though, according to the mods. So I guess that was my original intention.
I can't be the only person who doesn't really, truly care about the market share of a particular product. Really, I don't. 20% of people use the same thing I do? Whoopee doo, what do you want, a paper hat?
It doesn't matter. Let go.
He lost the plot when he decided to use the things we currently use to carry hot and cold fluids, pipes, which work very efficiently for that task, and replace it with a vacuum tube system for the same items in a container at far less efficiency and far more needless expense.
Some ideas are dismissed as stupid despite being visionary. This one is dismissed as stupid because it's stupid.
It's also a joke and it flew RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD. ;)