>> It's normal for 2008 patents to be enforced on 80's touchscreen technology? > > Are you saying Samsung phones use 80s touchscreen technology?
In computing this sort of thing is not at all uncommon. Only clueless corporate fanboys think that something is shiny and new just because they've seen in in a consumer product for the first time.
It might not be the case but it's also not implausible.
Actually, unless your company is large enough that it works like a government bearocracy then the idea of running a gratis version of Linux is not all that shocking. It wasn't even all that shocking 10 years ago.
Redhat is mainly for people that think that they can blame their mistakes on someone else. It's an extesion of the same mentality applied to Microsoft or Sun or IBM.
"They are a big corporation. We can blame them when things go wrong."
> What world do you live in? > > All the enterprise software is Windows only.
I don't know what world you live in but I live in the real world where the big jobs are still too big for Windows.
Pehaps some of the small fry can run Windows servers but that's not "enterprise". That's more like SOHO. Windows is more for small shops that don't have any IT staff.
> Every fortune 500 company? > > Once you get away from internet and other tech companies, Windows has a *huge* back office presence.
Except any Fortune 500 company is going to have problems too big for Windows to solve. Even if they are inclined to run Windows, they will try and fail and just end up migrating to some form of Unix (probably Linux).
Windows perhaps supports desktops. Beyond that, its Unix. It's not just cheap unix or x86 servers either but the kind of beefy megabuck systems that keep the likes of IBM and HP in business.
> Bullshit, I've added ripped movies into my iTunes, and they work just fine. If it's a file format supported by iTunes
"if it's a file format supported by iTunes".
In other words, you are adapting all of your content to the limitations that Apple has imposed rather than the Apple product being good enough to deal with whatever you happen to have around.
Most grannies aren't adept at converting things.
> Or, you know, maybe those use cases are neither obvious nor common
Grannies making home movies? Sure, that's obscure.
That's the problem with the Apple approach. It forces you to distort all of reality in order to fit into the Apple vision. Your consumerism and brand fixation forces you to swim in the Kool-Aid. You adapt to the product rather than the product accomodating you.
I have a file. It "just works". THAT is easy. THAT is granny friendly. The restrictions of Apple's vision are not.
There's a reason that a certain alternative video player is one of the leading Mac downloads. There's a reason why a different alternative video player is the driving force behind the jailbreaking of AppleTVs.
The apathy of soccer moms and grannies is a double edged sword here. While they don't care about the finer things, they also don't care about the finer things.
Wireless in all forms sucks. Sometimes it sucks less but it always sucks. Wired transfer methods are universally faster, more reliable, and more secure.
Sometimes the difference is 100:1.
Wireless is one of the biggest shams ever perpetrated upon the willfully ignorant consumer.
NTFS support on Linux is just fine. You need to update your FUD playbook.
Got an NTFS USB hard drive from the warehouse store. Plugged it into the Linux boxes and it "just worked". Would reformat it if not for the lameness of Windows but it's all good anyways.
> Even something like media consumption is far easier on an iPad -- you buy the movie from iTunes (or buy the physical disk which comes with the digital copy and download it like I do), and play it. You don't even need to know anything about file formats.
That only works so long as you stay inside the walled garden and only do the things that Apple wants you to do. The moment you add one home movie into the mix it becomes a total mess.
You are conflating crippled with easy.
Your example is not terribly interesting versus a desktop video player that "just works" regardless of the kind of media you throw at it. Powerful systems don't have to be hard. In fact they are more likely to be "easy" because they don't try to ignore obvious common use cases.
A capable system is far more likely to be easy than a crippled one.
Except MacOS has no real value as a platform. It is an obscure also ran. Tying it together with iPads for business use doesn't make much sense because no one uses Macs for business.
Microsoft's strength is the fact that it's desktop OS is an entrenched legacy platform. They have the ultimate "ecosystem" that dwarfs anything Apple has. Microsoft's problem is that they failed to make their tablet a compelling part of their ecosystem.
A warmed over iPad clone doesn't work because that's already taken care of.
It is a completely Apple and Oranges comparison because Gates is retired now. When he was in the same position as the young guys running Google, he had exactly ZERO interest in philanthropy. He didn't even want to make tech better. He was just a crass monopolist.
Gates in his retirement trying to buy a better legacy versus young guys that are still in the middle of making their mark on industry.
Perhaps Google today versus Microsoft/Gates in 1990 might be a better comparison.
> Great. Now who gets to decide what's serious enough to treat?
At an ER? The triage nurse.
There is really no mystery here.
ER care is one of the most expensive options available. Abusing it and excusing the abuse of it are one of the aspects of American society that make socialized medicine and welfare in general unsustainable.
People are pigs.
The ER is no place for sniffles or anything else that doesn't fall under the description of emergency. That's what the E stands for.
I dunno. He sounds like some narcissistic opportunist trying to take credit for something obvious that other organizations have been doing for decades (if not centuries) already.
He's probably the butt of jokes when it comes to "very wealthy people".
> 960GB SSD...not quite 1TB, but close enough. And all for $600, provided you can find a place that can keep them in stock.
I can get 3 4TB spinny disks for that.
Push those 3 drives at their top speed and they might not quite keep up with with the SSD but your average users probably won't be able to tell the difference.
I own a laptop that will run circles around a MacBook and I still didn't spring for a large SSD.
$600 is an entire other tablet, the opportunity cost of being stupid about how you spend your money.
Most people need more than what a cheap SSD can provide.
The gap between SSD and spinny disk when it comes to storage capacities is beyond absurd. This leads to a 1TB spinny drive being cheaper than small SSD drives.
So if you have a non-trivial amount of music or photos, an SSD probably isn't going to cut it. The same goes for any sort of gaming to speak of. The SSD drive just won't have enough space.
Many SSD drives are still smaller than the hard drive I had in my laptop in 2002 and are more comparable to what people have on their PHONES and tablets now.
> For a home user, that might be scanning an MP3 collection or several thousand photos. Or copying something big from a thumbdrive.
None of these are interactive operations. They are what you might call "batch jobs". They are not things that anyone expects to do in real time.
The real issue is concurrency. Can a single spindle handle everything you want to do with it? We have 4 and 8 core desktop computers and our storage hasn't become any more parallel. A single disk has become a bottleneck.
Just adding a 2nd piece of spinning rust can address concurrency issues quite nicely. You don't necessarily need the most expensive solution available.
Depends on the brand really. Both performance and quality vary widely. For some use cases, the performance of an SSD might not even beat a cheap spinny disk.
So fixating on a narrow definition of typically is really extraordinarily stupid.
Seagate is just trying to be cheap and spinning this into the usual "geeks are irrelevant" kind of nonsense you usually see from Apple fanboys.
Also, the whole hybrid drive thing is a manifestation of just how terribly overpriced SSD drives are right now and how laptops typically are unable to accomodate 2 hard drives (one for speed and one for space).
The nature of the malware with Linux and Unix in general is different. Unix malware is mainly user installed trojans that depend entirely upon social engineering.
This is in stark contrast to the Windows kind that require no cooperation from the end user. One depends on users to install bad apps, while the other is simply a matter of engineering choices so bad that the rest of the industry warned them repeatedly.
Amazon Prime is a whole package deal that includes a number of things each taken individually could easily be worth $80 per year. Whether or not it's a good deal is all up to the individual.
You can't declare for someone else that it's a bad deal (or a good one).
One $4 upgrade to next day shipping can be worth $80 by itself.
> 10Mbps 1080p doesn't qualify here? Finding that kind of quality through piracy is extraordinarily difficult.
No. Not really.
The fact that you may not be able to pirate better isn't really relevant. It's an inferior product that's likely to send people to other alternatives. Some of those are legal. Others aren't.
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>> It's normal for 2008 patents to be enforced on 80's touchscreen technology?
>
> Are you saying Samsung phones use 80s touchscreen technology?
In computing this sort of thing is not at all uncommon. Only clueless corporate fanboys think that something is shiny and new just because they've seen in in a consumer product for the first time.
It might not be the case but it's also not implausible.
Its not Sour Grapes. Apple is using Ireland as a tax dodge. Meanwhile, the rest of us would get thrown in jail if we tried something like that.
Actually, unless your company is large enough that it works like a government bearocracy then the idea of running a gratis version of Linux is not all that shocking. It wasn't even all that shocking 10 years ago.
Redhat is mainly for people that think that they can blame their mistakes on someone else. It's an extesion of the same mentality applied to Microsoft or Sun or IBM.
"They are a big corporation. We can blame them when things go wrong."
This kind of thinking is by no means universal.
> What world do you live in?
>
> All the enterprise software is Windows only.
I don't know what world you live in but I live in the real world where the big jobs are still too big for Windows.
Pehaps some of the small fry can run Windows servers but that's not "enterprise". That's more like SOHO. Windows is more for small shops that don't have any IT staff.
> Every fortune 500 company?
>
> Once you get away from internet and other tech companies, Windows has a *huge* back office presence.
Except any Fortune 500 company is going to have problems too big for Windows to solve. Even if they are inclined to run Windows, they will try and fail and just end up migrating to some form of Unix (probably Linux).
Windows perhaps supports desktops. Beyond that, its Unix. It's not just cheap unix or x86 servers either but the kind of beefy megabuck systems that keep the likes of IBM and HP in business.
> Before upgrading the creative suite every year cost between $1300 and $1800,
Except you weren't forced to do that. Totally bogus comparison from a shill.
> Bullshit, I've added ripped movies into my iTunes, and they work just fine. If it's a file format supported by iTunes
"if it's a file format supported by iTunes".
In other words, you are adapting all of your content to the limitations that Apple has imposed rather than the Apple product being good enough to deal with whatever you happen to have around.
Most grannies aren't adept at converting things.
> Or, you know, maybe those use cases are neither obvious nor common
Grannies making home movies? Sure, that's obscure.
That's the problem with the Apple approach. It forces you to distort all of reality in order to fit into the Apple vision. Your consumerism and brand fixation forces you to swim in the Kool-Aid. You adapt to the product rather than the product accomodating you.
I have a file. It "just works". THAT is easy. THAT is granny friendly. The restrictions of Apple's vision are not.
There's a reason that a certain alternative video player is one of the leading Mac downloads. There's a reason why a different alternative video player is the driving force behind the jailbreaking of AppleTVs.
Eventually people get tired of crippled.
The iPhone already has slipped from dominance.
The apathy of soccer moms and grannies is a double edged sword here. While they don't care about the finer things, they also don't care about the finer things.
...at agonizingly slow speeds.
Wireless in all forms sucks. Sometimes it sucks less but it always sucks. Wired transfer methods are universally faster, more reliable, and more secure.
Sometimes the difference is 100:1.
Wireless is one of the biggest shams ever perpetrated upon the willfully ignorant consumer.
NTFS support on Linux is just fine. You need to update your FUD playbook.
Got an NTFS USB hard drive from the warehouse store. Plugged it into the Linux boxes and it "just worked". Would reformat it if not for the lameness of Windows but it's all good anyways.
It's Macs that don't have NTFS support.
16GB doesn't even cover a metric ton of any of those things, never mind all of those things.
You know what offers offline viewing? Those obsolete bits of spinning plastic that everyone likes to disparage so much.
Mobile devices have very restrictive bandwidth limits. Your monthly quota might not even cover a single movie.
Sometimes I wonder if the shills actually use any of the products or services they like to whine about.
> My brother the non-nerd who would be in love with his roku if it had a browser and is actively looking for a replacement that does.
A $200 ION nettop with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo sounds like just the thing.
I'm not sure that I would want to use a web browser with the kind of inputs that come with a Roku.
> Even something like media consumption is far easier on an iPad -- you buy the movie from iTunes (or buy the physical disk which comes with the digital copy and download it like I do), and play it. You don't even need to know anything about file formats.
That only works so long as you stay inside the walled garden and only do the things that Apple wants you to do. The moment you add one home movie into the mix it becomes a total mess.
You are conflating crippled with easy.
Your example is not terribly interesting versus a desktop video player that "just works" regardless of the kind of media you throw at it. Powerful systems don't have to be hard. In fact they are more likely to be "easy" because they don't try to ignore obvious common use cases.
A capable system is far more likely to be easy than a crippled one.
Except MacOS has no real value as a platform. It is an obscure also ran. Tying it together with iPads for business use doesn't make much sense because no one uses Macs for business.
Microsoft's strength is the fact that it's desktop OS is an entrenched legacy platform. They have the ultimate "ecosystem" that dwarfs anything Apple has. Microsoft's problem is that they failed to make their tablet a compelling part of their ecosystem.
A warmed over iPad clone doesn't work because that's already taken care of.
It is a completely Apple and Oranges comparison because Gates is retired now. When he was in the same position as the young guys running Google, he had exactly ZERO interest in philanthropy. He didn't even want to make tech better. He was just a crass monopolist.
Gates in his retirement trying to buy a better legacy versus young guys that are still in the middle of making their mark on industry.
Perhaps Google today versus Microsoft/Gates in 1990 might be a better comparison.
> Great. Now who gets to decide what's serious enough to treat?
At an ER? The triage nurse.
There is really no mystery here.
ER care is one of the most expensive options available. Abusing it and excusing the abuse of it are one of the aspects of American society that make socialized medicine and welfare in general unsustainable.
People are pigs.
The ER is no place for sniffles or anything else that doesn't fall under the description of emergency. That's what the E stands for.
I dunno. He sounds like some narcissistic opportunist trying to take credit for something obvious that other organizations have been doing for decades (if not centuries) already.
He's probably the butt of jokes when it comes to "very wealthy people".
> 960GB SSD...not quite 1TB, but close enough. And all for $600, provided you can find a place that can keep them in stock.
I can get 3 4TB spinny disks for that.
Push those 3 drives at their top speed and they might not quite keep up with with the SSD but your average users probably won't be able to tell the difference.
I own a laptop that will run circles around a MacBook and I still didn't spring for a large SSD.
$600 is an entire other tablet, the opportunity cost of being stupid about how you spend your money.
Most people need more than what a cheap SSD can provide.
The gap between SSD and spinny disk when it comes to storage capacities is beyond absurd. This leads to a 1TB spinny drive being cheaper than small SSD drives.
So if you have a non-trivial amount of music or photos, an SSD probably isn't going to cut it. The same goes for any sort of gaming to speak of. The SSD drive just won't have enough space.
Many SSD drives are still smaller than the hard drive I had in my laptop in 2002 and are more comparable to what people have on their PHONES and tablets now.
> For a home user, that might be scanning an MP3 collection or several thousand photos. Or copying something big from a thumbdrive.
None of these are interactive operations. They are what you might call "batch jobs". They are not things that anyone expects to do in real time.
The real issue is concurrency. Can a single spindle handle everything you want to do with it? We have 4 and 8 core desktop computers and our storage hasn't become any more parallel. A single disk has become a bottleneck.
Just adding a 2nd piece of spinning rust can address concurrency issues quite nicely. You don't necessarily need the most expensive solution available.
> SSDs really are the bee's knees.
Depends on the brand really. Both performance and quality vary widely. For some use cases, the performance of an SSD might not even beat a cheap spinny disk.
So fixating on a narrow definition of typically is really extraordinarily stupid.
Seagate is just trying to be cheap and spinning this into the usual "geeks are irrelevant" kind of nonsense you usually see from Apple fanboys.
Also, the whole hybrid drive thing is a manifestation of just how terribly overpriced SSD drives are right now and how laptops typically are unable to accomodate 2 hard drives (one for speed and one for space).
The nature of the malware with Linux and Unix in general is different. Unix malware is mainly user installed trojans that depend entirely upon social engineering.
This is in stark contrast to the Windows kind that require no cooperation from the end user. One depends on users to install bad apps, while the other is simply a matter of engineering choices so bad that the rest of the industry warned them repeatedly.
Nope. Windows grew out of MS-DOS.
At best it is MS-DOS bolted on top of VMS.
Amazon Prime is a whole package deal that includes a number of things each taken individually could easily be worth $80 per year. Whether or not it's a good deal is all up to the individual.
You can't declare for someone else that it's a bad deal (or a good one).
One $4 upgrade to next day shipping can be worth $80 by itself.
> 10Mbps 1080p doesn't qualify here? Finding that kind of quality through piracy is extraordinarily difficult.
No. Not really.
The fact that you may not be able to pirate better isn't really relevant. It's an inferior product that's likely to send people to other alternatives. Some of those are legal. Others aren't.