The Apple successes there are the iPod and iPad. They were the critically timed bits. The rest are just repeats of the iPod or things where you would have to be a mindless fanboy to even bring them up.
The iPhone is already getting undermined by Android and the MBA is just overhyped nonsense.
So he managed to twiddle with a BIOS. Big fat hairy deal. There's nothing "new" about that. It's just a basic systems integration issue. It's nothing that anyone that has built boxes or installed an OS hasn't already seen before.
It's not really that special and neither is the annoying twit.
Beyond this kid being obnoxious, age doesn't seem to be the issue here.
No. If the US were nuked and we traced the fuel back to the Iranian enrichment program, no one would care about the subtleties. Iran would be leveled before the cries for blood died down enough for people to start thinking clearly again.
It wouldn't matter if Iran did it or "merely allowed their nuke to get stolen".
That's stupid. The only thing lobbing a few missiles at Israel would do is to piss off the Israelis and give them a good excuse to bomb everything they can get at.
Profit motive gets you paper diapers, HFCS, and drugs that have cascading side effects. It gets you Walmart and Pringles. It optimizes for profit rather than quality.
It's directly at odds with any notion of the public good.
This is especially true when you have far too many people (like you) repeating the "Greed is Good" mantra.
Except you aren't qualified to buy the product. The law has determined that you can't be trusted to fend for yourself. So trying to advertise you is entirely inappropriate.
The best you can do is saturate the actual experts with a lot of nonsense and propaganda.
Plus Lipitor is a stupid example. You're better off making lifestyle changes and not polluting your body if "the numbers" don't look right despite.
Anything except for BSD would have been considerably more expensive, possibly prohibitively so.
Yes. Sometimes the availability of tools that don't actually break your budget is a relevant and meaningful thing. Most of us don't have drawers full of cash.
Of course Windows would have extra software costs. It MIGHT be as usable but it would certainly be considerably more expensive. That's not even accounting for needing more hardware to do the same amount of work.
Once you get outside of editing msword documents, Linux is pretty much useful to everyone, everywhere. If you think that Linux isn't useful, you're wearing your consumer blinders a little too tight.
> Thomas Jefferson was the first patent examiner and granted quite a few patents.
He also DENIED quite a few that would have been approved by the current PTO. He had a much more stringent idea about what should be allowed since in his mind the entire thing was a compromise and all inherently dangerous.
Patents should be treated like the toxic waste they are.
It's not cloud based.It's mainframe based. They were basing future tech on what was current tech at the time. Everyone used terminals connected to one big computer in engineering somewhere.
...at which point your fancy mobile device is effectively just another iteration of the Mac Mini or Zotac MAG. Nothing really changes unless that change is forced on everyone.
Mobile devices are crippled PCs pretending to be appliances.
> there just isn't a "killer app" that can stress the insane amount of power the average user has
Sure there is. There's Plex, AirPlay, and Handbrake.
These are the things you use when you have to accomodate the pisspoor performance of an ARM tablet. I am using one of these tools right now to transfer some TV recordings to a mobile device.
People don't realize just how pathetic ARM is, or they try to shout you down when you bring it up. ARM is like going back to the 90s and that's before people thought "it was good enough".
Yes. Because grownups never have to worry about performance, or precise timing, or increase costs because you are doing things in the least efficient manner possible. [/sarc]
Yes. We should all adapt to our consumer devices that are PCs in disguise rather than expecting those PCs in disguise to be flexible enough to adapt to us instead.
"...lowered expec-t-a-a-tions"
It's not a different "format". It's a different container. It's the most trivial aspect of the entire problem.
> Anything leading edge isn't guaranteed to work everywhere.
Who said anything about "leading edge"? I was merely talking about mainstream games in general.
With a real PC I don't have to make excuses. I can just get myself a suitable expansion card and laugh at you while you make excuses for your state of deprivation.
Who needs Thunderbolt? I can install a cheap USB3 or eSATA card.
Your horizons seem a lot wider once you take the blinders off.
> * after all required dependancies are hunted down from the ends of the earth and/or compiled from source and installed.
VLC is what you install on Windows or MacOS because this sort of thing is not automatically sorted out like it is on Linux.
Really. This is why I use VLC. I don't use it on Linux because none of the other Linux media player have the same annoying limitations as Quicktime or WMP.
> users who know how to put files on a memory card
Which is like what? Putting things on a floppy or CD on a Mac?
You plug it in. A nice explorer windows pops up. You drag and drop things to the window.
No advanced degree required.
Whether or not you want to watch videos on your phone or tablet is an entirely separate question. It's nice to have more than one option when it comes to software. Not everyone is an extra from an Apple SuperBowel Ad.
The main problem with this article is it is conflating two rather distinct things. It is trying to confuse founding your own successful company with running someone else's behemoth.
Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg weren't just handed the keys to IBM or AT&T. They built their own empires.
It's an entirely different thing. Minding someone else's store once it has become a monstrosity is a different skills set.
When you are your own boss and you write your own tunes, it might not matter if you can't play anyone else's.
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You're the one going full retard.
The Apple successes there are the iPod and iPad. They were the critically timed bits. The rest are just repeats of the iPod or things where you would have to be a mindless fanboy to even bring them up.
The iPhone is already getting undermined by Android and the MBA is just overhyped nonsense.
> that's just the way the system works.
A piss poor argument.
The system is not supposed to work that way. Beyond the obvious injustice of Apple getting to own my labor or yours, it's simply bad for business.
So he managed to twiddle with a BIOS. Big fat hairy deal. There's nothing "new" about that. It's just a basic systems integration issue. It's nothing that anyone that has built boxes or installed an OS hasn't already seen before.
It's not really that special and neither is the annoying twit.
Beyond this kid being obnoxious, age doesn't seem to be the issue here.
I actually do put Bush II in the same league as Iran's current president.
Troll harder next time.
No. If the US were nuked and we traced the fuel back to the Iranian enrichment program, no one would care about the subtleties. Iran would be leveled before the cries for blood died down enough for people to start thinking clearly again.
It wouldn't matter if Iran did it or "merely allowed their nuke to get stolen".
Quite. Most of the highly violent Islamic nonsense occurs in Islamic countries where the Muslims have been the ruling parties for centuries.
The equivalent would be Catholics in St. Louis starting a deadly riot over Mrs Gates statements on birth control.
While Xianity does tend to outlaw blatant suicide, it does nothing to curtail killing other people for the cause or dying for the cause.
Mutual Assured Destruction would just get them to heaven quicker.
The fact that "the other guy did it" would solve the whole "suicide being a sin" thing.
That's stupid. The only thing lobbing a few missiles at Israel would do is to piss off the Israelis and give them a good excuse to bomb everything they can get at.
Profit motive gets you paper diapers, HFCS, and drugs that have cascading side effects. It gets you Walmart and Pringles. It optimizes for profit rather than quality.
It's directly at odds with any notion of the public good.
This is especially true when you have far too many people (like you) repeating the "Greed is Good" mantra.
Except you aren't qualified to buy the product. The law has determined that you can't be trusted to fend for yourself. So trying to advertise you is entirely inappropriate.
The best you can do is saturate the actual experts with a lot of nonsense and propaganda.
Plus Lipitor is a stupid example. You're better off making lifestyle changes and not polluting your body if "the numbers" don't look right despite.
Anything except for BSD would have been considerably more expensive, possibly prohibitively so.
Yes. Sometimes the availability of tools that don't actually break your budget is a relevant and meaningful thing. Most of us don't have drawers full of cash.
Of course Windows would have extra software costs. It MIGHT be as usable but it would certainly be considerably more expensive. That's not even accounting for needing more hardware to do the same amount of work.
Once you get outside of editing msword documents, Linux is pretty much useful to everyone, everywhere. If you think that Linux isn't useful, you're wearing your consumer blinders a little too tight.
> Thomas Jefferson was the first patent examiner and granted quite a few patents.
He also DENIED quite a few that would have been approved by the current PTO. He had a much more stringent idea about what should be allowed since in his mind the entire thing was a compromise and all inherently dangerous.
Patents should be treated like the toxic waste they are.
Ah yes, the old "making it popular" argument.
People were interested in SSDs before Apple fanboys found about them. The same goes for very compact laptops and any sort of large screen laptop.
All that Apple brings to the party is an ability to RAM IT DOWN YOUR THROAT and give you no other options.
At least with something not Apple, I will be able to replace/repair my SSD with an industry standard one when it breaks or seems terribly obsolete.
It's not cloud based.It's mainframe based. They were basing future tech on what was current tech at the time. Everyone used terminals connected to one big computer in engineering somewhere.
...at which point your fancy mobile device is effectively just another iteration of the Mac Mini or Zotac MAG. Nothing really changes unless that change is forced on everyone.
Mobile devices are crippled PCs pretending to be appliances.
> there just isn't a "killer app" that can stress the insane amount of power the average user has
Sure there is. There's Plex, AirPlay, and Handbrake.
These are the things you use when you have to accomodate the pisspoor performance of an ARM tablet. I am using one of these tools right now to transfer some TV recordings to a mobile device.
People don't realize just how pathetic ARM is, or they try to shout you down when you bring it up. ARM is like going back to the 90s and that's before people thought "it was good enough".
Yes. Because grownups never have to worry about performance, or precise timing, or increase costs because you are doing things in the least efficient manner possible. [/sarc]
Yes. We should all adapt to our consumer devices that are PCs in disguise rather than expecting those PCs in disguise to be flexible enough to adapt to us instead.
"...lowered expec-t-a-a-tions"
It's not a different "format". It's a different container. It's the most trivial aspect of the entire problem.
> Anything leading edge isn't guaranteed to work everywhere.
Who said anything about "leading edge"? I was merely talking about mainstream games in general.
With a real PC I don't have to make excuses. I can just get myself a suitable expansion card and laugh at you while you make excuses for your state of deprivation.
Who needs Thunderbolt? I can install a cheap USB3 or eSATA card.
Your horizons seem a lot wider once you take the blinders off.
> * after all required dependancies are hunted down from the ends of the earth and/or compiled from source and installed.
VLC is what you install on Windows or MacOS because this sort of thing is not automatically sorted out like it is on Linux.
Really. This is why I use VLC. I don't use it on Linux because none of the other Linux media player have the same annoying limitations as Quicktime or WMP.
> users who know how to put files on a memory card
Which is like what? Putting things on a floppy or CD on a Mac?
You plug it in. A nice explorer windows pops up. You drag and drop things to the window.
No advanced degree required.
Whether or not you want to watch videos on your phone or tablet is an entirely separate question. It's nice to have more than one option when it comes to software. Not everyone is an extra from an Apple SuperBowel Ad.
Quicktime does a poor job of dealing with random audio and video formats and doesn't have a good package management system to back it up.
That's why VLC is a very popular Mac download.
It covers up both of those faults in MacOS or Windows.
The main problem with this article is it is conflating two rather distinct things. It is trying to confuse founding your own successful company with running someone else's behemoth.
Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg weren't just handed the keys to IBM or AT&T. They built their own empires.
It's an entirely different thing. Minding someone else's store once it has become a monstrosity is a different skills set.
When you are your own boss and you write your own tunes, it might not matter if you can't play anyone else's.