Nonetheless. It shows Apple's "Outstanding product quality"... whoahahahaha. Oh boy.... and then you wonder why ppl hack OSX to make it run on anything else BUT apple hardware, djeez.
> Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
That's the plan, isn't it. Make them illegal for everybody else but let the happy few (read: rich few) live in the grey zone (and allow them to use it at their will).
This used to be called "Big Brother". The problem is that Big Brother is a small bunch of corrupt rich bastards filling their pockets as much as possible as fast as possible (usually they have a 4 year plan called "Legislative Term Limit")
And apparantly the same bastards rule both in the US and in Europe. We're ALL doomed.
M$ Zune doesn't work on Vista either so who's blaming who? Or who cares anyway. Just wait a few weeks and they'll "fix" it anyway... djeez. The damn thing is only a week released and already ppl are complaining.
Secondly it took just a few weeks from RC2 to RTM. So in essence if M$ had waited a bit longer to streamline RC2 then other parties would have had time to "fix" their stuff (including their own Zune-devision)
Also why should Apple support a competitors product? WHat's the use of developing your own OS and Music software if you're forced to adopt a competing OS and competing players. In essence Apple developped the Ipod, OSX, iTunes and Mac computers. In that combination works best certainly if you use it for what it was intended (which is to play MUSIC!!!)
Apple has the right to persuade ppl to use an OSX/iTunes combo over Vista/iTunes combination.
As for not liking the Ipod and the way iTunes integrate with it. Well I don't like this either. Unfortunatly I HAD no choice if I wanted to use an external audio-player in my car (I'll spare you the details). The only way to hook up a MP3-player to my car's audio system was through an iPod-adaptor. And hence THAT only supported... you got it... an Ipod. So in essence it was my car manufacturor that indirectly forced me to buy an iPod (and YES I ONLY use it in my car as a replacement for an expensive CD-changer which was the other alternative to my audio-system).And no my car has no aux-input nor aux-adaptors (then).
Does anyone remember what ran on the Newton PDA? This was also an ARM-based device, wasn't it?
Since all the parts of both Apple's portable devices is closed source (and incompatible between each other) who cares? Formost ppl it's only data-compatibility that matters. So as long as it plays AAC and MP3 songs, who cares?
Oh well. We'll just have to wait and see? If and when Apple release it's SDK for it and who'll gets a change to play with the big boys (the hobbiest programmers definitly not)
A few ppl whom have been in the early computer age are indeed now in their fifties. But thats a very small minority, the majority is indeed very computer-illiterate.
Sure I "could" convince my dad to try OSX or Linux (in some form) but both my real mom (who's about the same age) and my stepmother (who's older than him) definitly can't. My stopmom hates computers period. My mom (whom I bought a desknote for 2 years ago) still doesn't understand the basics of file managment, she doesn't know the basic terminology and she doesn't seem to get it, no matter how many times I explain to her what e.g. a Webbrowser or a directory is. Even when I say "click on the big blue round E on the desktop" (indeed micro$oft Internet Exploder) she suddenly responds "whats the desktop?".
I dunno why I'm immidiatly into it when there's a new computer-thing and why they can't seem to grasp it (ever).
To just say: It 'is' their problem. Well that might be true. But (especially friends and family) they do keep knocking on 'MY' door. So in that case I can understand that ppl just choose the largest dominator.
---snip--- Hmmm, one poster jokes that cracked 360 games might actually help Xbox 360 marketshare in China and Taiwan. It's a just a joke now, but what if this actually turned out to be the case? ---/snip---
I think there's more to it as to why Apple won't sell OS X to the general public.
Anyway, it IS a fact that limiting hardware options DOES make a more stable system. In that respect is Apple right into limiting OS X functionality to a certain specific PC-parts. It's still more than enough choice for us end-users.
Besides... just build a PC similar to the offering from Apple and use the "available" OS X version. That'll create the same effect as Windows has been doing for years.
I think that as long as there's sufficient game-development on Windows PC's (and as long as ppl can "hire" them) Windows will sell (perhaps sell is not the right word here;-) ). But Micro$oft is skating on thin ice now that they want to split gaming from PC's into XBox. That WILL open the way for other platforms to gain market share.
As for your remark of OS X users "wanting" to see that BSOD. They pay premiun prices for both HW and OS NOT to see it so why would they bother? Again for most "professional" work the underlying platform doesn't matter since many applications are developped both for Apple and Windows PC. It's the games that shoehorns (home-)users onto PC's.
This is so full of bullshit!!!! Have we nothing more to do with our misserable lives than sue each others pants of?
Suposedly consumers against big corporations whom all want to make the big bucks. This is so ridiculous. All these patent-wars... Aren't there any more urgent matters to persue than this kind of bullshit? Like how we might predict tsunami's to save thousands of lives? How to stop all these wars raging all over the globe without hurting any more common ppl.
The same ppl that these big corporations need to feed of them (but somehow they seems to forget that)
This is pure decadence. And Decadence is the beginning of the end!
The big question(as allways) is this. Do the actual "creative people" benefit from this? Or just the "distributors"?
I don't mind paying artists for their work. In fact this happens at a very direct level when you go the a concert.
I'm confident that if Artists would deal with consumers directly (which can be done even fully automated using internet-technology, databases and other computertechnologies). Ppl wouldn't mind. Especially since prices could be lower. In that respect I think "Fair use = Fair price"!
Also. Consider this. I've said this many times before (and say it here again).
Over 20 years ago when Philips/Sony introduced CD-audio, ppl complained about the high price of the media. "They" told us that over time CD-audio media would level towards vinyl record prices. This NEVER happened! To make matters worse, recent studies proove that CD-audio-players in many cases do NOT supply the promised quality improvement originally claimed by Philips/Sony. To sum up: they deceived us!
And this are just 2 things about this. There is more! Why do these companies sell us equipment and empty media to create "illegal" backups? If that is excactly what they dont want???
DO "they" realise that this can backfire at them? Do YOU realise that YOU "whereby YOU=consumers" can use this same EUCD as a weapon to target yet the very same industries that try to oppose this law upon you?
They are counting on the stupidity of ppl and their uncommitment towards each other.
Why? "They" know that ppl don't stick together in this day and age and "They" know that individuals have no power to fight them. Isn't it Ceasar who said: "Divide and conquer!"?
How can this backfire? Very very simple. IF consumers worldwide start asking... pardon me, DEMANDING, for refunds for their electronic consumer devices like MP3-players (which all electronics gaints are dumping on the market right now), Hifi-tapedecks, Radio-cassette recorders, walkmans, TV-capturecards, computer audio(capture) cards etc...
Not only will they have to come up with large sums of cash (which they don't have anymore after closing down their EU-factories several years ago and moving to China or Korea). They will also have a massive dumpyard of the devices they initially wanted to sell to you with all the costs involved in that as well.
I'd say. Rip-out those soundcards (if build into the mainboard RIP-OUT the m/b then >:-> ) and demand for a refunds!
The only full h/w and s/w alternative to American-originated computers. And coincidentally just when a technically concurent machine arives which might pose a threat to other dominant players, ppl sit up and find something to hold them back.
I'm really disgusted by so much hypocrisy in this IT world.
When trying to access that particular page of that bootloader I came upon this.
Access denied
This homepage has exceeded the maximum amount of traffic for one day.
The page will be available again after the traffic counters have been reset at midnight local time.
WHat kind of bullshit is this!!!!
I thought that the meaning of websites and homepages was to "publish" stuff not pose restrictions to information?
If this is way the web is evolving then I dont want it.
Hi,
Besides this.It's all been done before. But just because this is an American company it's all hyped up:-(
If Sony had used ARM processors (like Acorn RISC OS users have done since 1987) then they should have low-power high performance machines (similar to crusoe) ages ago.
Hype hype hype. I hope Sony chokes in it.
This is all ridiculous. Users who are using RH longer and know their history should have seen this coming.We ALL know that distro's have bugs (perhaps not as much as the current RH) but what do you expect from an OS supplied with over 1500 application packages that has to anticipate millions of different hardware configurations using a multitude of cpu's.
Secondly if RH is so bad then why not switch over to SuSE orso. In the case of SuSE you get as much software for a lower price (unless you downloaded the whle stuff). Besides Linux is Linux.. and the face of distro is mostly the supplied additional software. Just use the proper GCC and you'r back in business (provided that is the problem)
This is getting even more out of proportion if you realise that we are complaining about a FREE operating system and contemporary FREE software applications.
Give them a break.. or help them out. But if you don't like it then DO something about it instead of complaining!
Yeah but what about OTHER platforms!!! I hate it that it's always those American originated systems that get credit. But there are other OS's e.g. like RISC OS (an European consumer OS developped by the only indepandant HW/OS-developper, Acorn Ltd..) There's more out there than Win, Mac and Linux... Not only is it sad that many of these companies develop properiarity software for Windows only but some are even member of e.g. the W3C. IMHO they should be excluded from those organisations and/or fined if they presure their own non-standard formats without giving the ENTIRE internet community access to them. Where is this so-called Net-police when you goddamn need them!
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Nonetheless. It shows Apple's "Outstanding product quality"... whoahahahaha. Oh boy. ... and then you wonder why ppl hack OSX to make it run on anything else BUT apple hardware, djeez.
This only in Vista's version of Wordpad. They probably dropped "Notepad" and downscaled "Wordpad" to accomodate. No big deal.
> Hacking tools are more like guns: make them illegal and only the criminals will have them.
That's the plan, isn't it. Make them illegal for everybody else but let the happy few (read: rich few) live in the grey zone (and allow them to use it at their will).
This used to be called "Big Brother". The problem is that Big Brother is a small bunch of corrupt rich bastards filling their pockets as much as possible as fast as possible (usually they have a 4 year plan called "Legislative Term Limit")
And apparantly the same bastards rule both in the US and in Europe. We're ALL doomed.
Cheers
M$ Zune doesn't work on Vista either so who's blaming who? Or who cares anyway. Just wait a few weeks and they'll "fix" it anyway... djeez. The damn thing is only a week released and already ppl are complaining.
Secondly it took just a few weeks from RC2 to RTM. So in essence if M$ had waited a bit longer to streamline RC2 then other parties would have had time to "fix" their stuff (including their own Zune-devision)
Also why should Apple support a competitors product? WHat's the use of developing your own OS and Music software if you're forced to adopt a competing OS and competing players. In essence Apple developped the Ipod, OSX, iTunes and Mac computers. In that combination works best certainly if you use it for what it was intended (which is to play MUSIC!!!)
Apple has the right to persuade ppl to use an OSX/iTunes combo over Vista/iTunes combination.
As for not liking the Ipod and the way iTunes integrate with it. Well I don't like this either. Unfortunatly I HAD no choice if I wanted to use an external audio-player in my car (I'll spare you the details). The only way to hook up a MP3-player to my car's audio system was through an iPod-adaptor. And hence THAT only supported... you got it... an Ipod. So in essence it was my car manufacturor that indirectly forced me to buy an iPod (and YES I ONLY use it in my car as a replacement for an expensive CD-changer which was the other alternative to my audio-system).And no my car has no aux-input nor aux-adaptors (then).
Regards
Does anyone remember what ran on the Newton PDA? This was also an ARM-based device, wasn't it?
Since all the parts of both Apple's portable devices is closed source (and incompatible between each other) who cares? Formost ppl it's only data-compatibility that matters. So as long as it plays AAC and MP3 songs, who cares?
Oh well. We'll just have to wait and see? If and when Apple release it's SDK for it and who'll gets a change to play with the big boys (the hobbiest programmers definitly not)
Regards,
EPDM
Not really.
A few ppl whom have been in the early computer age are indeed now in their fifties. But thats a very small minority, the majority is indeed very computer-illiterate.
Sure I "could" convince my dad to try OSX or Linux (in some form) but both my real mom (who's about the same age) and my stepmother (who's older than him) definitly can't. My stopmom hates computers period. My mom (whom I bought a desknote for 2 years ago) still doesn't understand the basics of file managment, she doesn't know the basic terminology and she doesn't seem to get it, no matter how many times I explain to her what e.g. a Webbrowser or a directory is. Even when I say "click on the big blue round E on the desktop" (indeed micro$oft Internet Exploder) she suddenly responds "whats the desktop?".
I dunno why I'm immidiatly into it when there's a new computer-thing and why they can't seem to grasp it (ever).
To just say: It 'is' their problem. Well that might be true. But (especially friends and family) they do keep knocking on 'MY' door. So in that case I can understand that ppl just choose the largest dominator.
---snip---
Hmmm, one poster jokes that cracked 360 games might actually help Xbox 360 marketshare in China and Taiwan. It's a just a joke now, but what if this actually turned out to be the case?
---/snip---
What made the Windows PC so popular? Guess?
I think there's more to it as to why Apple won't sell OS X to the general public.
;-) ). But Micro$oft is skating on thin ice now that they want to split gaming from PC's into XBox. That WILL open the way for other platforms to gain market share.
Anyway, it IS a fact that limiting hardware options DOES make a more stable system. In that respect is Apple right into limiting OS X functionality to a certain specific PC-parts. It's still more than enough choice for us end-users.
Besides... just build a PC similar to the offering from Apple and use the "available" OS X version. That'll create the same effect as Windows has been doing for years.
I think that as long as there's sufficient game-development on Windows PC's (and as long as ppl can "hire" them) Windows will sell (perhaps sell is not the right word here
As for your remark of OS X users "wanting" to see that BSOD. They pay premiun prices for both HW and OS NOT to see it so why would they bother? Again for most "professional" work the underlying platform doesn't matter since many applications are developped both for Apple and Windows PC. It's the games that shoehorns (home-)users onto PC's.
Regards,
EPDM
This is so full of bullshit!!!!
Have we nothing more to do with our misserable lives than sue each others pants of?
Suposedly consumers against big corporations whom all want to make the big bucks. This is so ridiculous. All these patent-wars... Aren't there any more urgent matters to persue than this kind of bullshit? Like how we might predict tsunami's to save thousands of lives? How to stop all these wars raging all over the globe without hurting any more common ppl.
The same ppl that these big corporations need to feed of them (but somehow they seems to forget that)
This is pure decadence. And Decadence is the beginning of the end!
So now Cell phones make the difference between rich and poor, heh.
You stupid asshole!
I hope you get mugged and some SOB steals your precious little P900.
The big question(as allways) is this. Do the actual "creative people" benefit from this? Or just the "distributors"?
I don't mind paying artists for their work. In fact this happens at a very direct level when you go the a concert.
I'm confident that if Artists would deal with consumers directly (which can be done even fully automated using internet-technology, databases and other computertechnologies). Ppl wouldn't mind. Especially since prices could be lower. In that respect I think "Fair use = Fair price"!
Also. Consider this. I've said this many times before (and say it here again).
Over 20 years ago when Philips/Sony introduced CD-audio, ppl complained about the high price of the media. "They" told us that over time CD-audio media would level towards vinyl record prices. This NEVER happened! To make matters worse, recent studies proove that CD-audio-players in many cases do NOT supply the promised quality improvement originally claimed by Philips/Sony. To sum up: they deceived us!
And this are just 2 things about this. There is more! Why do these companies sell us equipment and empty media to create "illegal" backups? If that is excactly what they dont want???
WHat do these guys expect?
DO "they" realise that this can backfire at them?
Do YOU realise that YOU "whereby YOU=consumers" can use this same EUCD as a weapon to target yet the very same industries that try to oppose this law upon you?
They are counting on the stupidity of ppl and their uncommitment towards each other.
Why? "They" know that ppl don't stick together in this day and age and "They" know that individuals have no power to fight them. Isn't it Ceasar who said: "Divide and conquer!"?
How can this backfire? Very very simple. IF consumers worldwide start asking... pardon me, DEMANDING, for refunds for their electronic consumer devices like MP3-players (which all electronics gaints are dumping on the market right now), Hifi-tapedecks, Radio-cassette recorders, walkmans, TV-capturecards, computer audio(capture) cards etc...
Not only will they have to come up with large sums of cash (which they don't have anymore after closing down their EU-factories several years ago and moving to China or Korea). They will also have a massive dumpyard of the devices they initially wanted to sell to you with all the costs involved in that as well.
I'd say. Rip-out those soundcards (if build into the mainboard RIP-OUT the m/b then >:-> ) and demand for a refunds!
EPDM
Yeah... and nobody threatens to sue THEM....
Stupid people.
The only full h/w and s/w alternative to American-originated computers. And coincidentally just when a technically concurent machine arives which might pose a threat to other dominant players, ppl sit up and find something to hold them back.
I'm really disgusted by so much hypocrisy in this IT world.
When trying to access that particular page of that bootloader I came upon this.
Access denied
This homepage has exceeded the maximum amount of traffic for one day.
The page will be available again after the traffic counters have been reset at midnight local time.
WHat kind of bullshit is this!!!!
I thought that the meaning of websites and homepages was to "publish" stuff not pose restrictions to information?
If this is way the web is evolving then I dont want it.
Hi, Besides this.It's all been done before. But just because this is an American company it's all hyped up :-(
If Sony had used ARM processors (like Acorn RISC OS users have done since 1987) then they should have low-power high performance machines (similar to crusoe) ages ago.
Hype hype hype. I hope Sony chokes in it.
This is all ridiculous. Users who are using RH longer and know their history should have seen this coming.We ALL know that distro's have bugs (perhaps not as much as the current RH) but what do you expect from an OS supplied with over 1500 application packages that has to anticipate millions of different hardware configurations using a multitude of cpu's. Secondly if RH is so bad then why not switch over to SuSE orso. In the case of SuSE you get as much software for a lower price (unless you downloaded the whle stuff). Besides Linux is Linux.. and the face of distro is mostly the supplied additional software. Just use the proper GCC and you'r back in business (provided that is the problem) This is getting even more out of proportion if you realise that we are complaining about a FREE operating system and contemporary FREE software applications. Give them a break.. or help them out. But if you don't like it then DO something about it instead of complaining!
Yeah but what about OTHER platforms!!! I hate it that it's always those American originated systems that get credit. But there are other OS's e.g. like RISC OS (an European consumer OS developped by the only indepandant HW/OS-developper, Acorn Ltd..) There's more out there than Win, Mac and Linux... Not only is it sad that many of these companies develop properiarity software for Windows only but some are even member of e.g. the W3C. IMHO they should be excluded from those organisations and/or fined if they presure their own non-standard formats without giving the ENTIRE internet community access to them. Where is this so-called Net-police when you goddamn need them!