> The problem is that geeks like to learn things like emacs key combinations and such.
No we don't really. That's why we keep using emacs. We learned it ONCE 20 years ago and don't have to bother with that again.
> When they are presented with an easy interface, they become both suspicious and fearful.
Except it is not in fact easy. It's mainly just bothersome.
Being forced to learn something new to do something new is fine. Being forced to learn something new to do what you've already always been doing is the exact opposite of what all of that Apple-centric UI propaganda is supposed to be about.
Clearly the notion of change control is something that is alien to you.
All you care about is changing things, consequences be damned.
These things aren't your private toys. It's not your own little hobby. People actually use this stuff. Sometimes, they use it for real productive work.
The expression "production outage" is something you should make yourself familiar with.
It's not the "number of times" that's significant.
Usually when you're at the point of bothering to mess around with what processes are running it's because YOU NEED TO and you are tired of your quad core monster acting like a 33Mhz 386. Actually knowing what's going on is of some importance because you need to know what to kill or turn off.
Sooner or later, someone needs to clean up after Microsoft.
> Why is it that recently, people seem to think the answer is in government regulation
This is a personal property and contract issue.
That's pretty much the very core of what governments are there to deal with.
Yes. UPS should be expected to not give away my parcels to some random 3rd party and yes the government should get involved if UPS doesn't do the right thing.
It is the government that usually sorts out property issues (and contract issues). There is a VERY long history of this.
Sorry to rain on your psuedo-libertarianism parade but the government is exactly the right entity to help sort this out. This is a simple property issue.
Well. Netflix streaming selection is still a fraction of what's available from their physical media catalog.
So the idea that you would "go back" to using the original Netflix service is a little silly. You're either still using it now or willfully depriving yourself of most of what Netflix has to offer.
That's a nice fantasy you've convinced yourself of there. The reality of the situation is entirely different though.
Some people are lucky enough to have good access to a suitable land line solution at home. Never mind anywhere else.
The network in general is still in a pathetic state and will likely continue to be for some time to come....some of us actually use this stuff rather than commenting about it from the peanut gallery.
...although with a good PVR you see the same old stuff. Your device chugs along like it always did. You just capture the same shows from a wider number or a different set of channels.
...you mean how the Linux variant known as Tivo doesn't have a Netflix client?
No. This whole "no kernel level DRM" nonsense is just a smoke screen. Clearly there are netflix supported platforms that don't conform to the Vista model. So obviously there are other things at work.
Just as with many similar corporate statements, they are just BS to hide the company's real intentions.
> Yep. I bought a Mac because I wanted *nix on a laptop with no finger pointing and driver issues.
I started using Ubuntu because it achieved this without any of the minimum buy in nonsense of an Apple product....although I had done that whole "trade in the desktop for a laptop" thing long before that. By the time Ubuntu came along I was pretty much bored by that idea.
Also, Apple and Sun have a number of interesting parallels in terms of "buying more to get less".
Why bother? There is already a superior free service called Pandora.
Pandora is going to spank anything that Apple has to offer. Their whole "musical DNA" stuff is far beyond what anyone else offers and is far more effective in terms of "exploration".
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> The problem is that geeks like to learn things like emacs key combinations and such.
No we don't really. That's why we keep using emacs. We learned it ONCE 20 years ago and don't have to bother with that again.
> When they are presented with an easy interface, they become both suspicious and fearful.
Except it is not in fact easy. It's mainly just bothersome.
Being forced to learn something new to do something new is fine. Being forced to learn
something new to do what you've already always been doing is the exact opposite of
what all of that Apple-centric UI propaganda is supposed to be about.
Clearly the notion of change control is something that is alien to you.
All you care about is changing things, consequences be damned.
These things aren't your private toys. It's not your own little hobby. People actually use this stuff. Sometimes, they use it for real productive work.
The expression "production outage" is something you should make yourself familiar with.
This is retarded. If someone is worried about the fact that a useful option is buried then why don't they let the user "bookmark" it or some such?
Throw in some "history" in there too for good measure.
Ultimately, this is a problem of programs becoming too large complex and monolithic.
It's not the "number of times" that's significant.
Usually when you're at the point of bothering to mess around with what processes are running it's because YOU NEED TO and you are tired of your quad core monster acting like a 33Mhz 386. Actually knowing what's going on is of some importance because you need to know what to kill or turn off.
Sooner or later, someone needs to clean up after Microsoft.
...because hunting down some log file is "user friendly".
Especially since hunting in general seems to be something that no one wants to encourage any more.
> Why is it that recently, people seem to think the answer is in government regulation
This is a personal property and contract issue.
That's pretty much the very core of what governments are there to deal with.
Yes. UPS should be expected to not give away my parcels to some random 3rd party and yes the government should get involved if UPS doesn't do the right thing.
...nice strawman there but it kind of loses some of the essential elements of the original.
A hard drive remains in my control just like a piece of paper does.
That information is my personal property.
It is the government that usually sorts out property issues (and contract issues). There is a VERY long history of this.
Sorry to rain on your psuedo-libertarianism parade but the government is exactly the right entity to help sort this out. This is a simple property issue.
Well. Netflix streaming selection is still a fraction of what's available from their physical media catalog.
So the idea that you would "go back" to using the original Netflix service is a little silly. You're either still using it now or willfully depriving yourself of most of what Netflix has to offer.
Seriously, how can people that have ever traveled outside of their basement make sweeping statements like this?
The network simply isn't there yet.
Jacking up the number of people trying to stream video is only going to make things worse, assuming you can even get good signal.
> Offline is a thing of the past.
That's a nice fantasy you've convinced yourself of there. The reality of the situation is entirely different though.
Some people are lucky enough to have good access to a suitable land line solution at home. Never mind anywhere else.
The network in general is still in a pathetic state and will likely continue to be for some time to come. ...some of us actually use this stuff rather than commenting about it from the peanut gallery.
...although with a good PVR you see the same old stuff. Your device chugs along like it always did. You just capture the same shows from a wider number or a different set of channels.
...you mean how the Linux variant known as Tivo doesn't have a Netflix client?
No. This whole "no kernel level DRM" nonsense is just a smoke screen. Clearly there are netflix supported platforms that don't conform to the Vista model. So obviously there are other things at work.
Just as with many similar corporate statements, they are just BS to hide the company's real intentions.
Apparently, there aren't enough women in high executive positions. Although there seem to be a lot more women starting their own businesses.
So it seems like a good deal of the female talent decided to skip the corporate nonsense and make their own way.
In the end, it's really not as bad as it looks but someone could sure spin it that way.
Someone might be too smart to be a sucker.
Middle class is about being in the middle of needing to work for your money and having your money work for you.
Most of the usual definitions of middle class that exist in cultural mythology are all about distracting various grades of the working class.
Usually a bigger house and a fancier car and a larger salary and a higher tax bracket just means you've got a bigger debt to work off.
You know, Law is a graduate degree. It is quite possible for someone to have an engineering degree and also be a lawyer.
You usually call those Patent attorneys.
You wouldn't. This is for bourbon that really isn't fit for human consumption anyways.
Get yourself an IR thermometer. You don't need to trust what the software is telling you.
> Yep. I bought a Mac because I wanted *nix on a laptop with no finger pointing and driver issues.
I started using Ubuntu because it achieved this without any of the minimum buy in nonsense of an Apple product. ...although I had done that whole "trade in the desktop for a laptop" thing long before that. By the time Ubuntu came along I was pretty much bored by that idea.
Also, Apple and Sun have a number of interesting parallels in terms of "buying more to get less".
> I prefer the walled-garden approach because it allows stuff to just work
No. THIS is what gives Mac users a bad name in the community.
This stupid "swimming in the cool-aid" buying into any stupid idea that comes out of Cupertino regardless of how absurd it is.
Technology that is built with "just works" in mind is what allows stuff to "just work".
That includes USB, PCI and the Debian package manager.
Nope. Not just "anybody".
People that undermine the individual in an allegedly free society.
> CPU was running at a more or less constant 212-218F
I have machines with fans either dead or completely removed that don't run that hot.
Perhaps it is that Wayland nonsense eating up more CPU cycles and using less of the GPU.
Why bother? There is already a superior free service called Pandora.
Pandora is going to spank anything that Apple has to offer. Their whole "musical DNA" stuff is far beyond what anyone else offers and is far more effective in terms of "exploration".
Yup. What you are describing is more like Ubuntu One.
What Apple seems to be releasing is more along the lines of the service that Amazon has already done.
Amazon beat both Apple and Google to the punch.