Safety is boring. The fact that life today is safe and cushy is why we use the world's largest electronic library to watch a cat playing a piano.
I hate injustice, am cynical of the future, and bash my health care system at every turn, but I will never complain that life sucks. It's easy to forget how easy we have it these days, so long as some rich asshole isn't trying to ruin it.
People didn't like Windows95 because it was buggy, not because the design was crap. I used to use an Amiga and even I thought Win95 was brilliant when it worked properly.
Somewhat off topic: I never did understand why Amigans preferred a dock to a taskbar. Maybe for the same reason Apple fans do -- no matter what it did or how it looked, it couldn't resemble Windows in the slightest.
Over the years, I've noticed that manufacturers release WindowsXP drivers that are totally broken. Even when XP was officially still supported, that didn't mean everything would work.
Needless to say, the problem is getting worse. Every time I update my ATI/AMD graphics drivers, I get a BSOD or some other massive problem. The old drivers work just fine with XP, and the new drivers work fine with Win7. Just because XP is still widely used doesn't mean manufacturers will give a damn about it.
But, hey, it could be worse. I could still be using my Mac.
Steve Jobs did not hate fans. Steve Jobs hated loud and obtrusive fans.
Then why does my Mini sound like a vacuum cleaner when the CPU does more than just idle? It is literally the loudest computer I've ever owned.
Seriously, the first time the blower kicked in, I was shocked at how loud it is (not to mention the fact that the cooler is either at idle or full blast. There is no grey area).
Remember: Mars is in orbit, so you have to calculate where your landing pad will be after 9 months, taking into consideration planetary rotation and relativistic effects.
Like trying to land a glider on an airborne helicopter pad -- and doing it gently.
I think this is the big problem. Most Apple fans I know don't even bother to look at what the competition has to offer. It's one thing to be loyal. It's something else to be oblivious.
I used to work in a small camera store. I noticed very quickly that every person who came into our store felt they were really smart for paying a premium and getting their supplies from us rather than Wal-Mart. However, every one of them was rock stupid and did no research whatsoever, and just bought what we sold them (or what my boss told me to sell them). I think it's quite sad how our entire existence was owed to people who were just too lazy to do research.
They've fixed a lot of things over the years, but the problem with regular pauses is the only thing I hate that they won't fix... or even acknowledge as a problem. Hey, it's just your plug-ins, so... not our problem.
6 years of this nonsense, and they focus on UI changes nobody wants. Yeah, they'll fix stuff... that isn't broken. That's what lost them 50% of their market share within 2 years.
Firefox is plenty able to lock up on its own. I have way, way more problems with Firefox locking up Flash than the other way around!
Seriously, these pauses every 10 seconds have been going on for around 6 years and nobody seems to even acknowledge the problem even exists because it's all the fault of some plug-in like that evil thing called "Flash." Um, no, it's not. It's because Firefox's memory manager sucks ass.
I blame all those people who spent $600 on a video card, but insisted on getting a 27" monitor for $150... but only after it went on sale.
I think I'm the only one in my entire family who spent more on my monitor than on my video card. e-IPS is beautiful, and it's a crime that it took so long to get to market when the technology was ready many years ago.
So for me it's worth it to upgrade but I suppose your mileage may vary and as benchmarks come out we can see more about how the kernel performs on different systems.
It's all nice and well to talk about performance, and the related, trendy talking point of efficiency and battery life, but this reeks of the tweaker community that spazzes out over 200 FPS in their favorite game despite the fact that their monitor updates at 60 Hz.
The truth is that the kernel is invisible. You don't use a kernel. You can't see it. You don't interact with it. Even hardcore geeks don't care about it, so long as it's there and does all that nasty hardware management automatically so they can focus on actually doing stuff. Ordinary people certainly don't care about it. Yeah, it's faster and that's nice, but it can't make up for the heaping bucket of stupid that comes with it.
I used to visit a number of gaming web sites, until some made SSO mandatory. I had choices between a few different login systems, but none where I had an account.
Adblock drives up the real cost of having that content and accessibility.
I wont' argue with that, but there's a reason why ads end up on EasyList. It's not to block ads, it's to block the shit that pisses us all off, including mal-ware exploits.
AdBlock is one of those things that actually makes the Internet more valuable, and if you do your ads right, it's possible that your site won't end up on EasyList in the first place.
I'm part of a social network focused on art that has local ads, where members of the network -- and ONLY members -- are allowed to buy ads for their commission services. No animated banners, no JavaScript, no intrusion. I click on those ads all the time, and have bought quite a bit of stuff. It's the only site on the Internet where I have specifically and intentionally disabled AdBlock. I actually like the ads.
Shove ads in my face, and I won't click. Show me sponsored links based on my search results, I might click out of curiosity. Show me ads from other members of the same community, and you'll have my attention.
Look at a political map of a state, such as the overwhelmingly liberal Massachusetts. In the west, where there's a huge expanse of rural area, it's almost exclusively conservative. In the east where all the coastal cities are, there's nothing but liberals.
Hmm... maybe it's just cooler close to the coast, but my money is on lifestyle.
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This is America we're talking about. Land of Not Invented Here.
I love what apple is doing, it means I will get a lot more free stuff as the uneducated throw it away or believe it has no value.
Hey, I can play that game, too...
"My PC is really slow and crashes all the time. I must have a virus! Guess I should throw it out!"
Of course, if I want to fix non-Apple stuff, I don't need a special screwdriver and a heat gun.
Safety is boring. The fact that life today is safe and cushy is why we use the world's largest electronic library to watch a cat playing a piano.
I hate injustice, am cynical of the future, and bash my health care system at every turn, but I will never complain that life sucks. It's easy to forget how easy we have it these days, so long as some rich asshole isn't trying to ruin it.
People didn't like Windows95 because it was buggy, not because the design was crap. I used to use an Amiga and even I thought Win95 was brilliant when it worked properly.
Somewhat off topic: I never did understand why Amigans preferred a dock to a taskbar. Maybe for the same reason Apple fans do -- no matter what it did or how it looked, it couldn't resemble Windows in the slightest.
Right, and I'm betting that "8.1 tweak" will be to remove that interface-formerly-known-as-metro crap and slapping the start button back on it.
It must be nice to be so optimistic. I think some people would rather let the world burn than admit they were wrong.
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Over the years, I've noticed that manufacturers release WindowsXP drivers that are totally broken. Even when XP was officially still supported, that didn't mean everything would work.
Needless to say, the problem is getting worse. Every time I update my ATI/AMD graphics drivers, I get a BSOD or some other massive problem. The old drivers work just fine with XP, and the new drivers work fine with Win7. Just because XP is still widely used doesn't mean manufacturers will give a damn about it.
But, hey, it could be worse. I could still be using my Mac.
Steve Jobs did not hate fans. Steve Jobs hated loud and obtrusive fans.
Then why does my Mini sound like a vacuum cleaner when the CPU does more than just idle? It is literally the loudest computer I've ever owned.
Seriously, the first time the blower kicked in, I was shocked at how loud it is (not to mention the fact that the cooler is either at idle or full blast. There is no grey area).
Remember: Mars is in orbit, so you have to calculate where your landing pad will be after 9 months, taking into consideration planetary rotation and relativistic effects.
Like trying to land a glider on an airborne helicopter pad -- and doing it gently.
That's the hallmark of innovation. Refining other peoples' products, but getting your fan base to claim you actually invented it.
These days, I think "fan base" and "mass media" are interchangeable.
I think this is the big problem. Most Apple fans I know don't even bother to look at what the competition has to offer. It's one thing to be loyal. It's something else to be oblivious.
I used to work in a small camera store. I noticed very quickly that every person who came into our store felt they were really smart for paying a premium and getting their supplies from us rather than Wal-Mart. However, every one of them was rock stupid and did no research whatsoever, and just bought what we sold them (or what my boss told me to sell them). I think it's quite sad how our entire existence was owed to people who were just too lazy to do research.
Calling Firefox an OS is insulting. Most OSes are actually good at thread and memory management, and can use more than one CPU core.
Stuff like this is why support for HTML5 and virtual machines is dying, and native code is coming back.
They've fixed a lot of things over the years, but the problem with regular pauses is the only thing I hate that they won't fix... or even acknowledge as a problem. Hey, it's just your plug-ins, so... not our problem.
6 years of this nonsense, and they focus on UI changes nobody wants. Yeah, they'll fix stuff... that isn't broken. That's what lost them 50% of their market share within 2 years.
Firefox is plenty able to lock up on its own. I have way, way more problems with Firefox locking up Flash than the other way around!
Seriously, these pauses every 10 seconds have been going on for around 6 years and nobody seems to even acknowledge the problem even exists because it's all the fault of some plug-in like that evil thing called "Flash." Um, no, it's not. It's because Firefox's memory manager sucks ass.
I propose "Trainwreck".
The theme is still consistent with the original name, but with... a twist. YEEEEEEAAAHHH
I blame all those people who spent $600 on a video card, but insisted on getting a 27" monitor for $150... but only after it went on sale.
I think I'm the only one in my entire family who spent more on my monitor than on my video card. e-IPS is beautiful, and it's a crime that it took so long to get to market when the technology was ready many years ago.
So for me it's worth it to upgrade but I suppose your mileage may vary and as benchmarks come out we can see more about how the kernel performs on different systems.
It's all nice and well to talk about performance, and the related, trendy talking point of efficiency and battery life, but this reeks of the tweaker community that spazzes out over 200 FPS in their favorite game despite the fact that their monitor updates at 60 Hz.
The truth is that the kernel is invisible. You don't use a kernel. You can't see it. You don't interact with it. Even hardcore geeks don't care about it, so long as it's there and does all that nasty hardware management automatically so they can focus on actually doing stuff. Ordinary people certainly don't care about it. Yeah, it's faster and that's nice, but it can't make up for the heaping bucket of stupid that comes with it.
get your hardware fixed.
This is a Mac we're talking about.
I used to visit a number of gaming web sites, until some made SSO mandatory. I had choices between a few different login systems, but none where I had an account.
Guess which gaming sites I no longer visit?
Adblock drives up the real cost of having that content and accessibility.
I wont' argue with that, but there's a reason why ads end up on EasyList. It's not to block ads, it's to block the shit that pisses us all off, including mal-ware exploits.
AdBlock is one of those things that actually makes the Internet more valuable, and if you do your ads right, it's possible that your site won't end up on EasyList in the first place.
I'm part of a social network focused on art that has local ads, where members of the network -- and ONLY members -- are allowed to buy ads for their commission services. No animated banners, no JavaScript, no intrusion. I click on those ads all the time, and have bought quite a bit of stuff. It's the only site on the Internet where I have specifically and intentionally disabled AdBlock. I actually like the ads.
Shove ads in my face, and I won't click. Show me sponsored links based on my search results, I might click out of curiosity. Show me ads from other members of the same community, and you'll have my attention.
Why is everyone so obsessed with unifying interfaces?
For the same reason people want to use their personal phones/tablets at work.
Not that I agree with it, of course.
You mean HTML4?
Look at a political map of a state, such as the overwhelmingly liberal Massachusetts. In the west, where there's a huge expanse of rural area, it's almost exclusively conservative. In the east where all the coastal cities are, there's nothing but liberals.
Hmm... maybe it's just cooler close to the coast, but my money is on lifestyle.
Nah. Demonizing them is just too much fun.