The chips IBM is making for Apple are not the same as teh ones they are puttin in their own machines. Apple is making power consumption a priority. IBM was simply not going to make a G5 chip suitable for a laptop. Intel does. Apple knows that computers are not all about raw performance.
To be fair, all the PC motherboards I have seem lately come with USB 2.0 and Firewire built in. The software alone that comes with a Mac would put a PC well over Mac in cost.
Spoken like someone who hasn't used Debian extensivly. Lots of packaging systems boast dependency resolution and tons of packages, but few integrate it into the operating environment like Debian does. Even platforms that have have "apt" available as an option just don't compare.
Of course, this comes at a price. I find that it is easy to become dependent on apt and binary packages. Things can get pretty tricky if you have an older Debian installation and want newer packages. That said, I run an 8 year old Debian system which has never once been reinstalled or upgraded from a CD. I use it continually as a workstation. It has been continually 'apt-get dist-upgrade'd over the years when a new stable (and sometimes unstable) version of Debian came out. And when the hardware got outdated, the OS got tar'd up and moved.
Also it should be mentioned that the oil industry owns stock in these American automobile companies so they have a financial incentive to create gas guzzlers.
Oh, I'm sure Americans' desire for gas guzzlers is much more motivating that whatever teh oil industry can come up with.
I care if it is built on proprietary tools. What is the advantage of it being open source if I can't check out the latest source, modify it, and compile it without spending lots of money on Microsoft's developer tools? Sure, it is free. And that is good, but in practical terms, how is it distinguishable from "Freeware."
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with "purity" (the stack being 100% open source). It just has to do with cost. What is the point of Windows open source if half the tools needed to develop have a big initial investment? I have never done Windows development myself, so I could be mistaken. Do Windows developement tools cost money for non-commercial use? I know you CAN compile things on Windows using free tools (cygwin, et al). What i am asking is: is it realistic for a native Windows application? Can any Joe Average Hacker check out a copy of the source for an open source Windows program and build it? I think this is the real issue.
Parent has a good point in asking why we would want to use Google's DVR when there are ad-free versions already available. Indeed, isn't the *point* of a DVR to get rid of ads? Am I missing something?
I think the point is to get cheap TV. For me, the big advantage to DVRs is to remove the ads, but for now my MythTV box is sitting idle because I can't (or won't) afford $70/mo. for cable anymore. The ironic thing is that I think removing the ads for 6 months is what weened me off of TV. I can't yet explain why or how yet, but I really don't miss TV much. Even though there were several shows which I enjoyed.
-matthew
And when that happens we dump google in favor of the next company willing to compete on quality, service and price rather than rest on market share alone. That is what the free market is all about.
At some point all you people who claim to appreciate relavent ads are going to get pretty sick and tired of them. It is one thing to have a single, rather unintrusive, source of relavent ads. It is quite another for ALL ads to be relavant. No matter how relavent ads are, there is only so much stuff your average person can buy.
Interestingly enough, I've heard one fundamentalist explain that the entire book of James was put in the Bible to show people what righteous sounding heresy looks like. I believe he picked up that juicy little nugget from this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Scott
As a Catholic, you give some merit to "works," do you not? Part of fundamentalism, and Protestantism in general, is the idea of "Sole Fide," or "Faith Alone." For a lot of people, it doesn't really matter what you do in this world as long as you have faith. Although it is my opinion that fundementalists have taken this to a dangerous extreme. "Ye shall know them by their fruits" seems appropriate here.
And if they did include strong encryption, all it would take is one leaked private key (or whatever they use might use to "sign" the data) to make the whole system worthless.
They had to to make it valid. Spammers run tests to make sure the spam they are sending is being delivered. If they communicate the non-delivery with other spammers, you're not going to catch many people.
I haven't used 2.0 yet. Did they go full KDE? It would certainly be welcome. I know there is a project to add optional KDE support but I wasn't aware that it was anywhere near complete.
How does a company "withdraw" from a country? Isn't it the retail outlets who decide what they sell and to whom? Couldn't someone in S. Korea simply order online overseas? That is probably what they do anyway...
Yeah, but how would you get Ford Escort Service Pack 2? Before you know it, people will be exploiting tank overflow bugs in your Escort and you will have no corporate entity to point your finger at.
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Doesn't XULRunner make standalone apps? Doesn't really compete with web apps.
-matthew
The chips IBM is making for Apple are not the same as teh ones they are puttin in their own machines. Apple is making power consumption a priority. IBM was simply not going to make a G5 chip suitable for a laptop. Intel does. Apple knows that computers are not all about raw performance.
-matthew
To be fair, all the PC motherboards I have seem lately come with USB 2.0 and Firewire built in. The software alone that comes with a Mac would put a PC well over Mac in cost.
-matthew
Why is it "natural?" Did they route the cabling through the cloths racks?
-matthew
Spoken like someone who hasn't used Debian extensivly. Lots of packaging systems boast dependency resolution and tons of packages, but few integrate it into the operating environment like Debian does. Even platforms that have have "apt" available as an option just don't compare.
Of course, this comes at a price. I find that it is easy to become dependent on apt and binary packages. Things can get pretty tricky if you have an older Debian installation and want newer packages. That said, I run an 8 year old Debian system which has never once been reinstalled or upgraded from a CD. I use it continually as a workstation. It has been continually 'apt-get dist-upgrade'd over the years when a new stable (and sometimes unstable) version of Debian came out. And when the hardware got outdated, the OS got tar'd up and moved.
-matthew
Also it should be mentioned that the oil industry owns stock in these American automobile companies so they have a financial incentive to create gas guzzlers.
Oh, I'm sure Americans' desire for gas guzzlers is much more motivating that whatever teh oil industry can come up with.
-matthew
I care if it is built on proprietary tools. What is the advantage of it being open source if I can't check out the latest source, modify it, and compile it without spending lots of money on Microsoft's developer tools? Sure, it is free. And that is good, but in practical terms, how is it distinguishable from "Freeware."
-matthew
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with "purity" (the stack being 100% open source). It just has to do with cost. What is the point of Windows open source if half the tools needed to develop have a big initial investment? I have never done Windows development myself, so I could be mistaken. Do Windows developement tools cost money for non-commercial use? I know you CAN compile things on Windows using free tools (cygwin, et al). What i am asking is: is it realistic for a native Windows application? Can any Joe Average Hacker check out a copy of the source for an open source Windows program and build it? I think this is the real issue.
-matthew
And she has agreed to see you again? Man, you much be hung like a horse.
-matthew
I think the point is to get cheap TV. For me, the big advantage to DVRs is to remove the ads, but for now my MythTV box is sitting idle because I can't (or won't) afford $70/mo. for cable anymore. The ironic thing is that I think removing the ads for 6 months is what weened me off of TV. I can't yet explain why or how yet, but I really don't miss TV much. Even though there were several shows which I enjoyed. -matthew
Quality, service, price. Pick two.
-matthew
At some point all you people who claim to appreciate relavent ads are going to get pretty sick and tired of them. It is one thing to have a single, rather unintrusive, source of relavent ads. It is quite another for ALL ads to be relavant. No matter how relavent ads are, there is only so much stuff your average person can buy.
-matthew
Interestingly enough, I've heard one fundamentalist explain that the entire book of James was put in the Bible to show people what righteous sounding heresy looks like. I believe he picked up that juicy little nugget from this man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Scott
-matthew
As a Catholic, you give some merit to "works," do you not? Part of fundamentalism, and Protestantism in general, is the idea of "Sole Fide," or "Faith Alone." For a lot of people, it doesn't really matter what you do in this world as long as you have faith. Although it is my opinion that fundementalists have taken this to a dangerous extreme. "Ye shall know them by their fruits" seems appropriate here.
-matthew
Well, if I am not mistaken, most of the US population lives in urban/suburban areas. I only wish I could say that they are enlightened though. :)
-matthew
What are you, an astronaut? Geez.
-matthew
I never was a very good capitalist.
Yeah, EMF proof. That is why i called it the Farraday Passport Sleeve. As in Michael Farraday and a Farraday cage. ;-)
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Although it isn't exactly a unique idea on my part to put a passport inside such a container when not being displayed to a customs agent.
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=21
-matthew
And if they did include strong encryption, all it would take is one leaked private key (or whatever they use might use to "sign" the data) to make the whole system worthless.
-matthew
I should patent the Farraday Passport Sleeve. My slogan would be, "The 'tin foil hat' for sane people."
Oh, damn. I need to patent stuff before I post the idea to Slashdot.
-matthew
But cars don't break down after 26 minutes because they come with a firewall.
-matthew
They had to to make it valid. Spammers run tests to make sure the spam they are sending is being delivered. If they communicate the non-delivery with other spammers, you're not going to catch many people.
-matthew
I haven't used 2.0 yet. Did they go full KDE? It would certainly be welcome. I know there is a project to add optional KDE support but I wasn't aware that it was anywhere near complete.
-matthew
How does a company "withdraw" from a country? Isn't it the retail outlets who decide what they sell and to whom? Couldn't someone in S. Korea simply order online overseas? That is probably what they do anyway...
-matthew
Yeah, but how would you get Ford Escort Service Pack 2? Before you know it, people will be exploiting tank overflow bugs in your Escort and you will have no corporate entity to point your finger at.
-matthew