> I haven't found anything I could do in Windows or in Ubuntu I can't do on a Mac.
Reliable file sharing.
Media playback. You end up falling back to "Linux tools" in order to get a reasonably complete solution.
Using the contents of a video camera after they have passed through another OS as files. This one is just sad and obliterates any rhetoric fanboys like to spew about about MacOS being Unix.
Keeping your crayon inside the lines (like office software) is not the problem.
> ITunes its much more of a plug and play solution;
Only until you want to use your own content.
iTunes is not "just fine" for random things you try to import into it. It doesn't handle this at all. What 3rd party add-ons exist are inferior as well as having the inherent problem of being cobble ware.
No. It's iTunes that looks like a "hobby" when compared to Plex.
iTunes only suits 99.9% of users needs if they are unwilling or unable to see beyond the Apple company store.
The only thing they have going for them is the fact that they have an appliance that handles the entire process.
> I dont see yours streaming to multiple rooms with bookmarking
Streaming to multiple rooms is trivial. All you need is a media server. The same goes for bookmarking.
> You have a raid 5 for high availability in case a drive dies?
A good modern operating system handles that by itself.
The fact that you are impressed about what little information is available about this grossly overpriced device says much more about you than it does the device.
Clearly you have ZERO experience in this area with either the Kaledescape or anything else for that matter.
> HUh? I can import files into iTunes that I did not buy from them. Just rip into a compatible format and import.
You lost 99.9 percent of the Apple contingent at the "rip" part.
Never mind the "compatable format" part. Then "importing" is going to be a vastly inferior thing compared to what Boxee or Plex or even MythTV gives you.
Judges did just that with the Maria Shivo case. It drove a certain neocon contingent batshit. They were upset that conservative judges that they had helped put into place were actually doign their jobs rather than just being party lapdogs.
You are a poser and an idiot. Photoshop is a professional tool. It is complex and expensive and you probably don't have the first clue about how to effectively use it. You also probably would never be willing to pay what Photoshop costs.
Bad example.
iPhoto would be a more on-point example but it does such a hopeless job at simple things like red-eye removal that it even makes Gimp look good.
Been there. Did that. Have the burnt out remains to prove it.
Apple is great at marketing. Apple is great at doing less and calling it more.
However, some people really need to do more. It's fine if Apple plays the role of "corporate IT for consumers". Corporations and power users don't really need that though.
Apple products are somewhat ok if you don't test the boundaries or use them too creatively. Otherwise all bets are off. This appears to be a manifestation of that very problem.
Modern? There is nothing particularly "modern" about Windows or MacOS when compared to Linux. There's some eye candy of dubious value but that's about it. It's really the same old stuff repackaged.
If anything, those other operating systems are jumping off the same cliff that KDE or GNOME are.
You are thinking like a Lemming and trying to treat Linux like it's WinDOS. it's not. It doesn't need to be constantly updated to protect it from the worm of the week.
They still suffer from the basic problem of search and selection. For that you still need external sources. You have to find meaningful information regarding what to install somewhere else.
There is nothing "reactionary" about dressing up your package repository. It's simply a matter of hiding things and organizing things a little different. Although it's rather dubious if it all matters really.
Apple app stores still suck at the sort of things that Linux package managers excel at. This is primarily due to the exclusionary approach of Apple and the fact that the system is a "product" rather than a set of tools.
The Apple approach is still inferior to both Linux variants as well as 3rd parties on Apple's own platform.
I switched from Mandrake when I wanted a package manager like apt-get and my attempt to retrofit it on to Mandrake failed miserably. At that point I just made the jump to Debian.
They introduced the first consumer computer with a GUI.
It was about 10 years before Microsoft and PCs offered something comparable.
The current success of Apple is mainly as a consumer electronics vendor, rather than a computer vendor.
Your "underdog story" is missing a few important elements.
Ironically enough: as far as the "mindless consumer" contingent goes, the biggest stumbling block for Linux at this point is open hostility from hardware vendors like Apple.
> Theres a reason that after 20+ years Windows has won.
Yes. The market was already dominated by MS-DOS.
All of these "helpful suggestions" are just total nonsense that tend to ignore the actual facts.
The differences between the various flavors of Linux are mostly overblown. They all use the same basic core components. Although some are better at "packaging" than others, libfoo is still libfoo whether it's Ubuntu or Mandrake.
Iran itself hasn't been a nation on it's own for awhile.
Although previously it was part of the last big Muslim empire to menace Europe. If the Iranians by the way of the Turks haven't invaded anyone for awhile it's primarily due to lack of opportunity and the sorry state of the Ottoman Empire in the end.
People like to forget why Vlad Dracula was vicious enough to inspire Bram Stoker to turn him into a vampire.
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> I haven't found anything I could do in Windows or in Ubuntu I can't do on a Mac.
Reliable file sharing.
Media playback. You end up falling back to "Linux tools" in order to get a reasonably complete solution.
Using the contents of a video camera after they have passed through another OS as files. This one is just sad and obliterates any rhetoric fanboys like to spew about about MacOS being Unix.
Keeping your crayon inside the lines (like office software) is not the problem.
> ITunes its much more of a plug and play solution;
Only until you want to use your own content.
iTunes is not "just fine" for random things you try to import into it. It doesn't handle this at all. What 3rd party add-ons exist are inferior as well as having the inherent problem of being cobble ware.
No. It's iTunes that looks like a "hobby" when compared to Plex.
iTunes only suits 99.9% of users needs if they are unwilling or unable to see beyond the Apple company store.
The only thing they have going for them is the fact that they have an appliance that handles the entire process.
> I dont see yours streaming to multiple rooms with bookmarking
Streaming to multiple rooms is trivial. All you need is a media server. The same goes for bookmarking.
> You have a raid 5 for high availability in case a drive dies?
A good modern operating system handles that by itself.
The fact that you are impressed about what little information is available about this grossly overpriced device says much more about you than it does the device.
Clearly you have ZERO experience in this area with either the Kaledescape or anything else for that matter.
> HUh? I can import files into iTunes that I did not buy from them. Just rip into a compatible format and import.
You lost 99.9 percent of the Apple contingent at the "rip" part.
Never mind the "compatable format" part. Then "importing" is going to be a vastly inferior thing compared to what Boxee or Plex or even MythTV gives you.
They can.
Judges did just that with the Maria Shivo case. It drove a certain neocon contingent batshit. They were upset that conservative judges that they had helped put into place were actually doign their jobs rather than just being party lapdogs.
> You forgot something, eventually IT shops have to do what their users want...
No they don't.
You have very strange ideas about corporate IT.
You are a poser and an idiot. Photoshop is a professional tool. It is complex and expensive and you probably don't have the first clue about how to effectively use it. You also probably would never be willing to pay what Photoshop costs.
Bad example.
iPhoto would be a more on-point example but it does such a hopeless job at simple things like red-eye removal that it even makes Gimp look good.
And Photoshop is not even an Apple product.
He may be stellar with Unix and the command line.
However, this is not Unix we're talking about here.
This is a proprietary OS built on top of Unix. Any assumptions you might be able to make about automating Solaris or Linux go straight out the Window.
Been there. Did that. Have the burnt out remains to prove it.
Apple is great at marketing. Apple is great at doing less and calling it more.
However, some people really need to do more. It's fine if Apple plays the role of "corporate IT for consumers". Corporations and power users don't really need that though.
Apple products are somewhat ok if you don't test the boundaries or use them too creatively. Otherwise all bets are off. This appears to be a manifestation of that very problem.
It does not take great genius to detect an obvious shill.
Modern? There is nothing particularly "modern" about Windows or MacOS when compared to Linux. There's some eye candy of dubious value but that's about it. It's really the same old stuff repackaged.
If anything, those other operating systems are jumping off the same cliff that KDE or GNOME are.
Why would that ever even come up?
Don't fix what isn't broken.
You are thinking like a Lemming and trying to treat Linux like it's WinDOS. it's not. It doesn't need to be constantly updated to protect it from the worm of the week.
You're an idiot.
What's to explain? IBM was a big iron vendor.
They still suffer from the basic problem of search and selection. For that you still need external sources. You have to find meaningful information regarding what to install somewhere else.
This goes for "app stores" in general.
Google and the web at large still does it better.
There is nothing "reactionary" about dressing up your package repository. It's simply a matter of hiding things and organizing things a little different. Although it's rather dubious if it all matters really.
Apple app stores still suck at the sort of things that Linux package managers excel at. This is primarily due to the exclusionary approach of Apple and the fact that the system is a "product" rather than a set of tools.
The Apple approach is still inferior to both Linux variants as well as 3rd parties on Apple's own platform.
Seems a bit stupid. If you are going to that much trouble then you can just use the Debian commandline tools.
That kind of snark goes both ways.
The GUI tools are a little harder to explain in this format. While the command line equivalents may seem "scary", they get the point across.
Stuff like that is what Apple's current success is built on. They just dress it up a little more.
I switched from Mandrake when I wanted a package manager like apt-get and my attempt to retrofit it on to Mandrake failed miserably. At that point I just made the jump to Debian.
Apple was the original home computer vendor.
They introduced the first consumer computer with a GUI.
It was about 10 years before Microsoft and PCs offered something comparable.
The current success of Apple is mainly as a consumer electronics vendor, rather than a computer vendor.
Your "underdog story" is missing a few important elements.
Ironically enough: as far as the "mindless consumer" contingent goes, the biggest stumbling block for Linux at this point is open hostility from hardware vendors like Apple.
> Theres a reason that after 20+ years Windows has won.
Yes. The market was already dominated by MS-DOS.
All of these "helpful suggestions" are just total nonsense that tend to ignore the actual facts.
The differences between the various flavors of Linux are mostly overblown. They all use the same basic core components. Although some are better at "packaging" than others, libfoo is still libfoo whether it's Ubuntu or Mandrake.
> There is really no real reason to use linux.
apt-get install xbmc
apt-get install mythtv
No dickering around with packages with names like "shark007".
Iran uses proxies.
Iran itself hasn't been a nation on it's own for awhile.
Although previously it was part of the last big Muslim empire to menace Europe. If the Iranians by the way of the Turks haven't invaded anyone for awhile it's primarily due to lack of opportunity and the sorry state of the Ottoman Empire in the end.
People like to forget why Vlad Dracula was vicious enough to inspire Bram Stoker to turn him into a vampire.
It sounds like they're trying to suck up to one of their Muslim neighbors (namely Turkey).
What? No little flag in Kuwait?
As anti-American as something like this is intended to be, it's really the Turks and the Pakistanis that should feel insulted.
They were mostly chased off after the most recent nationalistic revolt in that area but some still remained.
The monument to the crushing of this revolt still stands in Rome.
Can the "Palestinian nation" point to anything like that?