It's very difficult to be smart and not lean to the left. case and point: See Ted Conferences (ted.com)
And of course that's very debatable, although you probably don't realize it. Perhaps we could also apply this: It's very difficult to be arrogant and not lean to the left.
Meh. I got karma to burn if the mods aren't in a good mood.
Likewise, a lot of people hate Apple (or any other company) irrationally. People are emotional beings. Why do we get emotionally vested in football teams, etc? Odd as it may seem, it's the same thing with companies. Good for you for being able to look more rationally at your devotions, but it doesn't make you better any more than being robot-like is better than humanness.
Probably because Apple's customers are not angry. Apple's DRM doesn't usually get in too many peoples' way. For example, most people don't have >5 devices where they want to have their music play at the same time, and if they do, they can always just burn it to CD. It's still the most liberal DRM that I know of.
That's why consumers don't have a problem with it. The only ones extremely opposed to Fairplay are the idealists who are against the very idea that they can't be trusted to obey the law. Those types of people aren't in the target market for iTMS anyway, so Apple isn't hurting at all by making profit for shareholders, appeasing media content providers, and giving (actual) costumers what they want.
Actually, I think Microsoft probably does make pretty big money on Windows alone (even with a flop like Vista), but I agree with you that Mac OS X on generic hardware wouldn't have the effect people hope for in the undermining of Microsoft's stranglehold.
Really, why should Windows be running on an X-Ray machine or an electrical power plant console?
Why not? Since we're not railing specifically against Windows, why shouldn't we start with general operating systems and build the functionality we need on top? That's what they're for.
That's why Ford and GM don't spend a lot of time building cars that tomorrows consumers might want. Their only focus is to build as many of whatever cars the consumer is buying today.
I'm sorry, but the logic doesn't follow. Ford and GM do exist to give a return on stockholder's investments, but going out of business is not in stockholder's interests. Therefore, they are short-sighted and struggling not because of their intention to be profitable now without regard for the future, but simply because they are slow and mismanaged. It's not any more complicated than that.
Normal rules of capitalism apply: generally, you will find that the interests of consumers and stockholders are actually the same. Companies create better products (consumers win) at a lower cost in order to increase revenue and income (stockholders win).
"On some Apple made apps closing the main windows does not close the app, on others (still made by apple) it does."
Right, and there is a good reason for which one is which. Your point is?
Could you please explain to me the good reasons? Mail, iTunes and iCal don't quit when you close their main window even though these are basically single-window applications. iPhoto, Disk Utility and Calculator do.
Mail, iTunes, and iCal all can reasonably be expected to run in the background. Run Mail in the background if you want it to continuously check for mail and notify you. Run iTunes in the background if you want to keep your music playing. Run iCal in the background so you can pop it open quickly when a reminder or event comes up.
The other apps you wouldn't expect to run in the background. Calculator? It's not like it has any huge computations that need to run for a long time, and it's small enough to launch quickly on demand. It's pointless to run iPhoto in the background since the point of it is to view pictures. It's also pointless to run Disk Utility in the background, so of course it quits automatically when you close the window.
I thought all of this was pretty obvious, but apparently not...
Humans are not distant cousins of monkies. God just used similar DNA for monkies and humans during creation. Being an engineer, He obviously knew perfectly the principle of reuse and not duplicating effort.
This is true if you define "success" narrowly to mean only having the "top spot." I like to think of success as a person doing their absolute best given their life circumstances. Under this definition, there are no absolutely successful people, but on the other hand, there are a great many more "mostly" successful people than there are those who occupy the "top spot."
And I want free icecream sundaes and ponies. Personally, I'm much more concerned that my government is trustworthy with me, so let's start there.
They 'won' a few bad-guys but send out a very significant signal: don't trust us.
Yeah. So? Is it bad that "bad guys" don't trust us? They already know what will happen to them if they get caught by us, so what does it matter if they trust us or not? I think it's safe to assume that most "bad guys" probably don't trust us already, or at least the smart ones.
Are you also against under-cover officers tricking drug dealers into dealing with them? This is real life, and sometimes you have to lie to catch the bad guys.
The current release isn't a release candidate. It's not a beta. It's a PRE-beta. Microsoft have about at least 10 more months until they call Windows 7 done.
Personally I'll stick with Homer Simpson's motto: "If something is hard to do, then it is not worth doing." Which is my rule regarding installing new Microsoft Operating Systems.
Actually Vista is probably the simplest OS install I've ever done. (disclaimer: I've never built a mac, don't know about that).
Your outlier experience is not welcome here. Can't you see we're busy bashing Microsoft? Please, take your rational thinking elsewhere.
If the Democrats had nominated an old guy who'd been around forever and the Republicans had nominated someone fresh and dynamic whose candidacy was historic, the coverage disparity would have been the other way around. It's a mistake to say this is evidence of media liberal bias. Obama was simply more newsworthy and interesting.
Basically. To win on the platform of change, Obama had to convince most Americans that their lives are crappy and need a change. He succeeded. He also had to convince most Americans that McCain wouldn't change anything that did actually need changing. Again, he succeeded even though both of those "realities" were fabricated by him and his clever campaigne.
Because of that campaigning success, he was made to be "sexier" to the mainstream media, but that doesn't mean that the media necessarily had to take the bait. A more balanced media outlet should cut through the hype and stick with the news and the facts, right? It's interesting to see the Obama VS McCain numbers of the big networks. I bet most people here assume that CNN, MSNBC, CBS are fair and Fox is right-leaning, but the numbers show that CNN, MSNBC, CBS are indeed left-leaning and Fox is about right in the middle. Kind of interesting...
Wow. I can't believe I didn't know about mpd until now. Since I used to have a Mac (and loved iTunes), I was really disappointed when I got more into Linux and searched far and wide, only to find that Amarok (bleh) was supposedly the best "Linux" had to offer.
Now I've got mpd, and the music keeps playing when I log out. I also found QMPDClient to be much more usable than Amarok. I even have an mpd client on my iPod touch now for a nice little remote control action. I knew there had to be something cool like this, and I'm sooo glad you mentioned it. I... I love you.
Even better, vi actually is vim on most (all?) unix I've worked with lately. Not even sure the last time I saw the real vi, but vim is way better anyway.
Is it just me, or does Amarok appear to be damn ugly?
Obviously that's subjective. However, as a Linux user listening to my music with Amarok right now, I must admit you're right. For sure it doesn't have nearly as many features as iTunes (but it does watch for new files), and it is far uglier. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything better.
What is with all these Slashdot users who "lost the driver disc"?
The first thing I do with any driver disc (or any other software, for that matter) is copy it to my install respository that sits on a RAID array and is backed up regularly. I pretty much never clean that up, so I have drivers for hardware I don't own anymore.
Or if that sounds too big a hastle for the returned benefit, you could just... you know... keep the disc.
Slashdot Mirror
Your statement was true right up until you started saying something about privacy.
1. It's hard to tell whether or not privacy is a concern at all for Google.
2. Even if it is, it certainly isn't why they're so popular.
It's very difficult to be smart and not lean to the left. case and point: See Ted Conferences (ted.com)
And of course that's very debatable, although you probably don't realize it.
Perhaps we could also apply this: It's very difficult to be arrogant and not lean to the left.
Meh. I got karma to burn if the mods aren't in a good mood.
Likewise, a lot of people hate Apple (or any other company) irrationally. People are emotional beings. Why do we get emotionally vested in football teams, etc? Odd as it may seem, it's the same thing with companies. Good for you for being able to look more rationally at your devotions, but it doesn't make you better any more than being robot-like is better than humanness.
So you think 1% of the population knows how to set up subversion or mercurial?
I think perhaps you give people too much credit.
Probably because Apple's customers are not angry. Apple's DRM doesn't usually get in too many peoples' way. For example, most people don't have >5 devices where they want to have their music play at the same time, and if they do, they can always just burn it to CD. It's still the most liberal DRM that I know of.
That's why consumers don't have a problem with it. The only ones extremely opposed to Fairplay are the idealists who are against the very idea that they can't be trusted to obey the law. Those types of people aren't in the target market for iTMS anyway, so Apple isn't hurting at all by making profit for shareholders, appeasing media content providers, and giving (actual) costumers what they want.
Sweet. Once MS put DRM in the OS layer of Vista, Apple felt the need to one-up them with DRM built right into the hardware. Take that, Microsoft.
Actually, I think Microsoft probably does make pretty big money on Windows alone (even with a flop like Vista), but I agree with you that Mac OS X on generic hardware wouldn't have the effect people hope for in the undermining of Microsoft's stranglehold.
Really, why should Windows be running on an X-Ray machine or an electrical power plant console?
Why not? Since we're not railing specifically against Windows, why shouldn't we start with general operating systems and build the functionality we need on top? That's what they're for.
That's why Ford and GM don't spend a lot of time building cars that tomorrows consumers might want. Their only focus is to build as many of whatever cars the consumer is buying today.
I'm sorry, but the logic doesn't follow. Ford and GM do exist to give a return on stockholder's investments, but going out of business is not in stockholder's interests. Therefore, they are short-sighted and struggling not because of their intention to be profitable now without regard for the future, but simply because they are slow and mismanaged. It's not any more complicated than that.
Normal rules of capitalism apply: generally, you will find that the interests of consumers and stockholders are actually the same. Companies create better products (consumers win) at a lower cost in order to increase revenue and income (stockholders win).
"On some Apple made apps closing the main windows does not close the app, on others (still made by apple) it does."
Right, and there is a good reason for which one is which. Your point is?
Could you please explain to me the good reasons? Mail, iTunes and iCal don't quit when you close their main window even though these are basically single-window applications. iPhoto, Disk Utility and Calculator do.
Mail, iTunes, and iCal all can reasonably be expected to run in the background. Run Mail in the background if you want it to continuously check for mail and notify you. Run iTunes in the background if you want to keep your music playing. Run iCal in the background so you can pop it open quickly when a reminder or event comes up.
The other apps you wouldn't expect to run in the background. Calculator? It's not like it has any huge computations that need to run for a long time, and it's small enough to launch quickly on demand. It's pointless to run iPhoto in the background since the point of it is to view pictures. It's also pointless to run Disk Utility in the background, so of course it quits automatically when you close the window.
I thought all of this was pretty obvious, but apparently not...
Hackintosh.
Actually it's pretty easy on at least one platform I know:
emerge xorg-server
Humans are not distant cousins of monkies. God just used similar DNA for monkies and humans during creation. Being an engineer, He obviously knew perfectly the principle of reuse and not duplicating effort.
This is true if you define "success" narrowly to mean only having the "top spot." I like to think of success as a person doing their absolute best given their life circumstances. Under this definition, there are no absolutely successful people, but on the other hand, there are a great many more "mostly" successful people than there are those who occupy the "top spot."
NetBSD wins.
Well Sir, I like my government to be trustworthy
And I want free icecream sundaes and ponies.
Personally, I'm much more concerned that my government is trustworthy with me, so let's start there.
They 'won' a few bad-guys but send out a very significant signal: don't trust us.
Yeah. So? Is it bad that "bad guys" don't trust us? They already know what will happen to them if they get caught by us, so what does it matter if they trust us or not? I think it's safe to assume that most "bad guys" probably don't trust us already, or at least the smart ones.
Are you also against under-cover officers tricking drug dealers into dealing with them? This is real life, and sometimes you have to lie to catch the bad guys.
The current release isn't a release candidate. It's not a beta. It's a PRE-beta. Microsoft have about at least 10 more months until they call Windows 7 done.
/quote> Give or take 5 or 6 years.
Touché.
Personally I'll stick with Homer Simpson's motto: "If something is hard to do, then it is not worth doing." Which is my rule regarding installing new Microsoft Operating Systems.
Actually Vista is probably the simplest OS install I've ever done. (disclaimer: I've never built a mac, don't know about that).
Your outlier experience is not welcome here. Can't you see we're busy bashing Microsoft? Please, take your rational thinking elsewhere.
If the Democrats had nominated an old guy who'd been around forever and the Republicans had nominated someone fresh and dynamic whose candidacy was historic, the coverage disparity would have been the other way around. It's a mistake to say this is evidence of media liberal bias. Obama was simply more newsworthy and interesting.
Basically. To win on the platform of change, Obama had to convince most Americans that their lives are crappy and need a change. He succeeded. He also had to convince most Americans that McCain wouldn't change anything that did actually need changing. Again, he succeeded even though both of those "realities" were fabricated by him and his clever campaigne.
Because of that campaigning success, he was made to be "sexier" to the mainstream media, but that doesn't mean that the media necessarily had to take the bait. A more balanced media outlet should cut through the hype and stick with the news and the facts, right? It's interesting to see the Obama VS McCain numbers of the big networks. I bet most people here assume that CNN, MSNBC, CBS are fair and Fox is right-leaning, but the numbers show that CNN, MSNBC, CBS are indeed left-leaning and Fox is about right in the middle. Kind of interesting...
Wow. I can't believe I didn't know about mpd until now. Since I used to have a Mac (and loved iTunes), I was really disappointed when I got more into Linux and searched far and wide, only to find that Amarok (bleh) was supposedly the best "Linux" had to offer.
Now I've got mpd, and the music keeps playing when I log out. I also found QMPDClient to be much more usable than Amarok. I even have an mpd client on my iPod touch now for a nice little remote control action. I knew there had to be something cool like this, and I'm sooo glad you mentioned it. I... I love you.
Even better, vi actually is vim on most (all?) unix I've worked with lately. Not even sure the last time I saw the real vi, but vim is way better anyway.
Cool. Thanks for that link. I love Audion.
Is it just me, or does Amarok appear to be damn ugly?
Obviously that's subjective. However, as a Linux user listening to my music with Amarok right now, I must admit you're right. For sure it doesn't have nearly as many features as iTunes (but it does watch for new files), and it is far uglier. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything better.
What is with all these Slashdot users who "lost the driver disc"?
The first thing I do with any driver disc (or any other software, for that matter) is copy it to my install respository that sits on a RAID array and is backed up regularly. I pretty much never clean that up, so I have drivers for hardware I don't own anymore.
Or if that sounds too big a hastle for the returned benefit, you could just... you know... keep the disc.