That is why having all of your backups on a single piece of media seems so absurd to some of us. A single appliance that holds all of your backups is just asking for trouble. Although RAID or mirroring would mitigate this somewhat. Having only one non-user serviceable drive in a backup appliance is just stupid.
Although having multiple appliances cooperate could be interesting.
Any proper backup should include multiple distinct physical copies.
> That argument is pretty much dead. > > Price an Apple computer against a competitors eq. computer. They will be pretty close.
Depends...
Can you avoid a form factor that is is prone to escalate costs?
Can you tune your hardware to fit your solution rather than just being stuck with whatever Apple offers?
If either of those is yes, then Apple has no hope of matching a PC on price. Being able to put a new GPU into an ancient machine also opens up other interesting possibilities.
Time Machine can't even reliably stay connected to a directly attached device. I shudder to think what adding a network to the mix or heavy forbid a WIRELESS network into the mix would do.
Apple is highly overrated. Driven by general ignorance and mindless fanboys.
That said, you can BUY ready made solutions for the PC. You don't have to build your own solution. Plus, if you do build your own then the possibilities are endless and you can end up with something that's even better than Time Machine in some ways.
The "repository" maintained by your operating system.
This is in stark contrast to some website with a strange name and ads all over the place where you can hardly find the link to what you're actually supposed to be downloading through all the 3rd party links to who knows where. Given what some windows download sites look like, it's little wonder that some people are starting to flee to the "walled garden".
Actually, this is nonsense. All you need to repackage software is the binaries. It's probably harder to turn a proprietary binary into adware but it is certainly no more difficult to repackage proprietary software so that it comes with some sort of extra malware payload.
Just recreate the installer. You don't even have to include the real binary.
The cost of a sales tax is not such a big thing. In truth, it is not any lack of taxation that gives Amazon any great advantage. It's the centralized nature of their operation. Also, they can offer better prices than local establishments even if you were to force an extra tax burden on them. The tax itself would likely not be as costly as the overhead required to deal with at least 1000 taxation jurisdictions if not many more.
Amazon trounces my local grocer and electronics store because it's got more and better stuff.
For a smaller retailer that can't offer the free shipping that Amazon can, shipping costs actually put them at a disadvantage relative to local vendors. Mail order catalogs of all kinds only compete because they are BETTER.
Whining about sales tax is just retarded. It's a red herring.
Being charged my local sales tax rate is not going to stop me from shopping at Amazon and ignoring my local Best Buy.
Why should a Republican EVER be for getting in between a doctor and a patient.
That is the worst kind of "big government" meddling you can imagine.
It is something that has the appearance of being against everything a Republican is supposed to stand for.
Of course states violating an individual's civil liberties is an issue. That's why we had that big war awhile back. Even had a few Constitutional Amendments on the matter. We don't quite let states run amok. We don't let Utah be a theocracy and we don't let Alabama treat certain types of people as subhuman. States Rights can only go so far.
We have a problem that those that want to twist the law to suit their own agenda also want to twist the meanings of things. They choose to blatantly lie and ignore the historical context under which the law was written. ANY ONE can pick up a copy of the OED and quickly find out what "militia" meant in the context of the 2nd Amendment.
Certain people just choose to ignore it or like to lie about it.
You can certainly disagree with the idea, but completely misrepresenting it is another thing entirely.
Don't just blame the Democrats. Republicans from the deep south are equally on the hook here.
It's really rather bizzarre. They happily bend over forwards for interests in another state 2000 miles away that they will gladly eviscerate as totally immoral.
> It's great if you don't have to invest in an R&D department and just use all of the innovation from other companies!
That's actually the way it is supposed to work.
Now whether or not all of the piddly things that Apple has managed to patent is worth a monopoly that will last longer than you have been alive so far is another issue that far too few people seem interested in even asking.
"Yeah. Let's fight to make that company our feudal overlord."
...yeah, a gimmick that makes it trivial for me to make my own ring tones (or pager sound) from ANY sound file I happen to already own or manage to find on the Internet.
I always just assumed that they were terminals that tied into the main computer.
Although they could have the same bash shell, X terminal, touch terminal network transparency that Unix machines had back in the days those shows aired.
Sometimes I would sneak onto a professor's personal Sun box when all of the Sun machines in the computing labs were overloaded.
When storage is pervasively networked, it doesn't necessarily matter what's what or what's where.
Back in the days of proprietary applications that were displaced by (mostly) free web applications, you would be spending something like $20 or $50 for something like this.
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You never trust the media.
That is why having all of your backups on a single piece of media seems so absurd to some of us. A single appliance that holds all of your backups is just asking for trouble. Although RAID or mirroring would mitigate this somewhat. Having only one non-user serviceable drive in a backup appliance is just stupid.
Although having multiple appliances cooperate could be interesting.
Any proper backup should include multiple distinct physical copies.
> That argument is pretty much dead.
>
> Price an Apple computer against a competitors eq. computer. They will be pretty close.
Depends...
Can you avoid a form factor that is is prone to escalate costs?
Can you tune your hardware to fit your solution rather than just being stuck with whatever Apple offers?
If either of those is yes, then Apple has no hope of matching a PC on price.
Being able to put a new GPU into an ancient machine also opens up other interesting possibilities.
Your own response is a confirmation of what the OP just said.
If anything goes wrong, you're pretty much in a Windows style "restart and hope for the best" sort of debugging mode.
That said, using a bash shell can be really handy sometimes. It kind of defeats the entire point of having a Mac, but it's handy.
Are you kidding?
Have you ever actually used any of this crap?
Time Machine can't even reliably stay connected to a directly attached device. I shudder to think what adding a network to the mix or heavy forbid a WIRELESS network into the mix would do.
Apple is highly overrated. Driven by general ignorance and mindless fanboys.
That said, you can BUY ready made solutions for the PC. You don't have to build your own solution. Plus, if you do build your own then the possibilities are endless and you can end up with something that's even better than Time Machine in some ways.
> As a novice who wants to get VLC, why is www.videolan.org any more trusted than www.vlcmediaplayer.org?
On Google? It's simple. It's first.
The whole "Official page" thing should also be a hint.
Although the main thing is that it is first.
The project homepage.
SourceForge.
The "repository" maintained by your operating system.
This is in stark contrast to some website with a strange name and ads all over the place where you can hardly find the link to what you're actually supposed to be downloading through all the 3rd party links to who knows where. Given what some windows download sites look like, it's little wonder that some people are starting to flee to the "walled garden".
Actually, this is nonsense. All you need to repackage software is the binaries. It's probably harder to turn a proprietary binary into adware but it is certainly no more difficult to repackage proprietary software so that it comes with some sort of extra malware payload.
Just recreate the installer. You don't even have to include the real binary.
The auto manufacturers and airlines and banks that were bailed out NEEDED TO DIE.
They were diseased things that really should not have been allowed to live any longer under anything resembling a true free market economy.
Actually rebuilding some of our crumbling infastructure would have been a great idea. Too bad not much of that actually happened.
Yeah. Those grubby farmers don't deserve modern Internet any more than they deserve lights or indoor plumbing.
So it costs a ton of money to get everyone hooked up. So just suck it up and stop whining.
This is infastructure for the next century.
He probably would have gotten a lesser penalty if he just burned their house down.
Same goes for any number of equally dire violent and non-violent crimes.
The cost of a sales tax is not such a big thing. In truth, it is not any lack of taxation that gives Amazon any great advantage. It's the centralized nature of their operation. Also, they can offer better prices than local establishments even if you were to force an extra tax burden on them. The tax itself would likely not be as costly as the overhead required to deal with at least 1000 taxation jurisdictions if not many more.
Amazon trounces my local grocer and electronics store because it's got more and better stuff.
For a smaller retailer that can't offer the free shipping that Amazon can, shipping costs actually put them at a disadvantage relative to local vendors. Mail order catalogs of all kinds only compete because they are BETTER.
Whining about sales tax is just retarded. It's a red herring.
Being charged my local sales tax rate is not going to stop me from shopping at Amazon and ignoring my local Best Buy.
They had the Crown and the East India Company.
They could have grappled quite easily with this situation. I am sure the guys from Boston would have some choice words for California on this matter.
Might even have some remarks about why the Articles of Confederation didn't last.
Regulating pharmaceuticals are not one of the federal government's clearly defined powers.
Why should a Republican EVER be for getting in between a doctor and a patient.
That is the worst kind of "big government" meddling you can imagine.
It is something that has the appearance of being against everything a Republican is supposed to stand for.
Of course states violating an individual's civil liberties is an issue. That's why we had that big war awhile back. Even had a few Constitutional Amendments on the matter. We don't quite let states run amok. We don't let Utah be a theocracy and we don't let Alabama treat certain types of people as subhuman. States Rights can only go so far.
We have a problem that those that want to twist the law to suit their own agenda also want to twist the meanings of things. They choose to blatantly lie and ignore the historical context under which the law was written. ANY ONE can pick up a copy of the OED and quickly find out what "militia" meant in the context of the 2nd Amendment.
Certain people just choose to ignore it or like to lie about it.
You can certainly disagree with the idea, but completely misrepresenting it is another thing entirely.
It's not 10 years old if it was sold last year.
Yeah. XP has been shipping on new machines until very recently due to the fiasco that was Vista.
Your "age calculation" should start at when the product stopped shipping with new machines, not when it was first introduced.
Any creative act is also a form of scavenging.
Don't just blame the Democrats. Republicans from the deep south are equally on the hook here.
It's really rather bizzarre. They happily bend over forwards for interests in another state 2000 miles away that they will gladly eviscerate as totally immoral.
> It's great if you don't have to invest in an R&D department and just use all of the innovation from other companies!
That's actually the way it is supposed to work.
Now whether or not all of the piddly things that Apple has managed to patent is worth a monopoly that will last longer than you have been alive so far is another issue that far too few people seem interested in even asking.
"Yeah. Let's fight to make that company our feudal overlord."
Loser.
...yeah, a gimmick that makes it trivial for me to make my own ring tones (or pager sound) from ANY sound file I happen to already own or manage to find on the Internet.
Your loose morals really aren't the issue here.
That kind of software managed to thrive at those prices despite your unwillingness to pay anything.
$20 or $50 is really so much when you consider what dead tree references go for.
Silly hoo-man. Don't you know that a sufficient amount of gold pressed latinum will allow you to break any rule you want.
Just grease the right palm.
There's probably even a rule of acquisition about it.
I always just assumed that they were terminals that tied into the main computer.
Although they could have the same bash shell, X terminal, touch terminal network transparency that Unix machines had back in the days those shows aired.
Sometimes I would sneak onto a professor's personal Sun box when all of the Sun machines in the computing labs were overloaded.
When storage is pervasively networked, it doesn't necessarily matter what's what or what's where.
Back in the days of proprietary applications that were displaced by (mostly) free web applications, you would be spending something like $20 or $50 for something like this.
Clearly this product originates from Ferengenar.