...which is why it is good that someone decided to apply general purpose computing technology to the issue of finding, selecting and automatically recording content.
As far as "popularity" goes, I suspect that the most pretentious people here are actually the least informed about that and the least likely to actually check their assumptions.
That's a great problem with most of the classics. People don't realize that they were "timely" and "topical". As others have said, they weren't simply created "for some pure higher purpose". In the case of Shakesphere, he was doing it for the money.
The cost of the price of cable and metered Internet pays for a lot of "alternative entertainment". That "alternate entertainment" can even be the same shows that you used to watch on cable. Just get them on physical media and pay for them once.
This could even trigger an uptake in Netflix mail subscriptions.
Either way, now is not the best time to be rising prices.
...which just makes this seem all the more peculiar. So the guy from the state where RTP is sponsoring a bill that appears to "stick it to the guys in RTP". What's the point of that really? It doesn't seem to be even needed. The most it seems it could accomplish is to annoy the state's tech workers.
It's like that bit from King Arthur: there is no honor to be gained, so don't bother.
It seems that there are much better ways these guys could be wasting their time.
Of all of my "Mac Like" devices, my Apple ones have been the least reliable. I have had one Mini completely fail on me in contrast to several similar ION machines that are still chugging along nicely. Out of 2 other Minis of the older design, one of them has an internal component failure.
So out of 3 Macs, only 1 is still completely in one piece after just a few years.
I have a old slow Compaq that is still useful because I can easily upgrade it including the GPU. My older Minis are doorstops by comparison.
You need to stop kidding yourself. PCs aren't nearly that unreliable.
Parts are parts and both machines have the same spare parts.
If anything, the HP will last longer due to better heating and cooling design and having those features more accessable to the end user. The desire to "be pretty" or "avoid geekiness" is not an advantage.
Although I could see were certain types of people could be confused.
> people would rather pay a couple hundred dollars for windows or the premium involved with buying a mac than use linux for free. what does that tell you?
What does it tell me? You are a liar.
Very few people in fact pay for the premium for a Mac.
On the other hand, most people use Windows because "most people use Windows". It has been that way since Macs were an MC68k based platform. This leads to little things like software not being available for Macs or AIO printer devices not working on Macs.
How any of them handle any particular technical detail is largely irrelevant.
Besides, we're talking about an enterprise server vendor we are talking about here. RHEL is not some MacOS wannabe.
Monopoly drugs are what's expensive. If you remove one of the justifications for absurd monopoly prices on drugs, you will likely save much more money in the long run than you spend on drug trials.
Besides drug trials represent an obvious conflict of interest if being carried out by a company that stands to profit greatly from the ensuing monopoly. Taking them completely out of the hands of the drug companies might not be a bad idea just for that.
Except Hypercard is just the tip of the icerberg. There are any number of script or other interpreted languages that could run on iDevices if only the tyrant would allow it. When I was still using an iPhone, I used one of these to work around some basic functionality holes in SMS.app. My phone was jailbroken of course.
It was a simple fix. It was nothing pretty but it was quick and easy and did the job. Didn't need to touch Xcode or any other dedicated development environment.
> People tend to see conspiracies whenever something doesn't go the way they'd like.
That's pretty easy when you're looking at a tyrant. It doesn't take much of a "conspiracy". All it takes is the tyrant declaring that he doesn't like you.
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I am even more lazy.
I just realize that a little bit of work upfront can save me more work later or even allow me to achieve something new with minimal effort.
Unix users are no less lazy. They're just a little smarter about it.
We did. We learned that you can't fight the Pinkertons and the National Guard.
Get rid of all of the "reality TV".
It was just a cheap stopgap to deal with writers strike. It should have ended with that strike.
They did. It's much better than the Americanized version. Although it kind of jumped the shark in the last season.
This is a trend across the board: more channels with content being diluted across them.
A single channel might be good for one or two decent shows tops, with the rest being shark jumping garbage.
In the 80s, my computer "monitor" was a 19 inch color TV.
...which is why it is good that someone decided to apply general purpose computing technology to the issue of finding, selecting and automatically recording content.
As far as "popularity" goes, I suspect that the most pretentious people here are actually the least informed about that and the least likely to actually check their assumptions.
What makes you think he watches Jersey Shore?
That's the problem with bragging about your own ignorance...
You become ignorant to the point of public ridicule.
You can't really rag on Twillight until you've actually seen Twillight.
That's a great problem with most of the classics. People don't realize that they were "timely" and "topical". As others have said, they weren't simply created "for some pure higher purpose". In the case of Shakesphere, he was doing it for the money.
The Globe theatre was the boob tube of the day.
Except now they have the Nintendo DS.
Like anything else, this isn't about having the biggest bulk of crap you never wanted but having what little is out there that you actually want.
If the selection sucks, then the selection sucks and there's no getting around that.
The cost of the price of cable and metered Internet pays for a lot of "alternative entertainment". That "alternate entertainment" can even be the same shows that you used to watch on cable. Just get them on physical media and pay for them once.
This could even trigger an uptake in Netflix mail subscriptions.
Either way, now is not the best time to be rising prices.
...which just makes this seem all the more peculiar. So the guy from the state where RTP is sponsoring a bill that appears to "stick it to the guys in RTP". What's the point of that really? It doesn't seem to be even needed. The most it seems it could accomplish is to annoy the state's tech workers.
It's like that bit from King Arthur: there is no honor to be gained, so don't bother.
It seems that there are much better ways these guys could be wasting their time.
He wasn't "predicting" anything. He was merely describing what was already going on then.
Of all of my "Mac Like" devices, my Apple ones have been the least reliable. I have had one Mini completely fail on me in contrast to several similar ION machines that are still chugging along nicely. Out of 2 other Minis of the older design, one of them has an internal component failure.
So out of 3 Macs, only 1 is still completely in one piece after just a few years.
I have a old slow Compaq that is still useful because I can easily upgrade it including the GPU. My older Minis are doorstops by comparison.
You need to stop kidding yourself. PCs aren't nearly that unreliable.
Don't ask any question you aren't willing to hear an honest response to.
If you do get an honest response but one that you don't want, then you really have no one to complain to but yourself.
If the truth is too painful, then perhaps you should try to avoid it rather than courting it.
Nope.
Parts are parts and both machines have the same spare parts.
If anything, the HP will last longer due to better heating and cooling design and having those features more accessable to the end user. The desire to "be pretty" or "avoid geekiness" is not an advantage.
Although I could see were certain types of people could be confused.
> because its all tied together with a brilliant OS that people want to use
Constantly kidding yourself will not make that any more true.
People buy Macs because they are clueless idiots with no taste.
Although even those people are a very small minority.
Yes. Yes, we get it.
[Hetfield] "New stuff good, Old stuff Bad" [/Hetfield].
> people would rather pay a couple hundred dollars for windows or the premium involved with buying a mac than use linux for free. what does that tell you?
What does it tell me? You are a liar.
Very few people in fact pay for the premium for a Mac.
On the other hand, most people use Windows because "most people use Windows". It has been that way since Macs were an MC68k based platform. This leads to little things like software not being available for Macs or AIO printer devices not working on Macs.
How any of them handle any particular technical detail is largely irrelevant.
Besides, we're talking about an enterprise server vendor we are talking about here. RHEL is not some MacOS wannabe.
Necessity is the mother of invention, not avarice.
Monopoly drugs are what's expensive. If you remove one of the justifications for absurd monopoly prices on drugs, you will likely save much more money in the long run than you spend on drug trials.
Besides drug trials represent an obvious conflict of interest if being carried out by a company that stands to profit greatly from the ensuing monopoly. Taking them completely out of the hands of the drug companies might not be a bad idea just for that.
Except Hypercard is just the tip of the icerberg. There are any number of script or other interpreted languages that could run on iDevices if only the tyrant would allow it. When I was still using an iPhone, I used one of these to work around some basic functionality holes in SMS.app. My phone was jailbroken of course.
It was a simple fix. It was nothing pretty but it was quick and easy and did the job. Didn't need to touch Xcode or any other dedicated development environment.
> People tend to see conspiracies whenever something doesn't go the way they'd like.
That's pretty easy when you're looking at a tyrant. It doesn't take much of a "conspiracy". All it takes is the tyrant declaring that he doesn't like you.
That's the problem with tyrants.