You are not a target user. Good for you, pay less for USB. Move along, nothing to see here. If, however you would like to say, hook up 10 gigabit networking to your laptop (or mac pro for that matter), a fiber channel SAN, a GPU, or all manner of other possible options, then it is relevant.
seriously? future USB spec that is years away may be faster than thunderbolt 1? No fucking shit.
Think thunderbolt is standing still? No.
Besides, they are not competitor technologies. Thunderbolt can do things that USB can not. And it actually works, pretty much 100% of the time.
Not saying there is no place for USB. It is a cost effective, fairly high speed bus. But comparing it to thunderbolt is just not legitimate. Most people don't need thunderbolt, and that's fine. But for those who do, USB 3 (and no doubt USB 4) are not and will not be competitive.
No, Linux is popular. The userland tools are incompatible with everything else. OS X is more popular than Linux and actually unix certified. Linux is non-standard.
DVDs for backup simply aren't worth my time. Burning 400GB to DVD takes days. Backing up 400 GB to disk takes hours, and requires no disk swapping. It's a no brainer. Sure, hard drives are more expensive in terms of media cost, but MUCH, MUCH cheaper in terms of my time (and hourly rate).
I've found it very much depends on the content. if you know there should be detail visible in a scene, you will notice the additional details you can actually see in high def. An example i posted earlier was a concert I have on HD-DVD which showed people in the crowd filming with their phones. You could pick out details on the screen of their device with HD-DVD. No way in hell would that be possible in standard 480p.
I don't think the dude is a dying breed, because not so long ago we dealt with VHS or at best DVD and we liked it. If your movie isn't enjoyable on some shitty old VHS from 1984 - it's not the format that's the problem. Your content sucks.
A million times yes. If i get a worse viewing experience by paying for your product (forced viewing of trailers, phsyical media to find and lose, rather than just an easily indexed bunch of files on the LAN, etc.), guess what's going to happen?
Um, i'm not sure what shitty media you have been watching, or what shitty playback equipment you've been using, but the difference in clarity is marked. An eye opener for me was watching a concert in HD. People in the crowd were filming stuff on their phones - and you could make out details on the screens of their phone.
In low def, it would have just been bright blobs of light.
See... thing is, it's not meant to be about the physical media. I buy media to get the IP. Yet when my VCR/DVD/BD is phased out, the media companies want me to pay for the license again to get new media.
Now storage is cheap enough to just rip it all and stick it on a bunch of hard drives - no more. The media industry is going to go through a major shift and actually have to figure out another way to make money other than double and triple dipping to hit people with format changes.
In terms of software quality, i agree it is not good. But it has the features that make it useful. ODBC, VB, COM, etc. Being able to build apps with office is what has made it so entrenched, its nothing to do with stability, user interface, etc. It's because Johnny from accounts can pull data in from the SQL server into his shitty little Access database, munge a whole heap of data into it, do some basic processing on it, generate some pretty sports, and export the data into an excel worksheet that the boss can crate pivot tables out of and put up on slides for the board.
Try to do that sort of thing with LibreOffice or whatever it's called this week on a Linux box and you'll run into a game-breaking bug within the first 10 minutes. I know, I've tried it.
Whilst office is a piece of shit, the alternatives are far, far worse from a "how can i get this shit done" perspective.
Exactly. And if you consider the random wierd shit you run into when attempting to use open source in a desktop situation and multiply the hours spent over a few weeks by the user's pay rate... it just doesn't make sense.
In my experience, OSS makes sense in non-user facing situations (firewalls, proxies, mail relays in my case), or for people at home. If they're on the clock, at work and need to send data to/from other people or deal with enterprise systems it's a no brainer.
Most *Nix users (and these days means kids in their early 20s mostly) look at the UI, say "that's boring, and all i can customize is a couple of colours and move the dock" and write it off as simplistic.
The true power of OS X lies in services, system-wide automation support (folder actions for example), the keyboard shortcut consistency, etc.
Sure you can (legally dubiously) get OS X on PC hardware for $29. But their hardware is actually nice. And it is nice to have a single source of support. Machine does somethign wierd, you aren't chasing down 3 different hardware vendors' or trawling the internet for driver updates. If you've got support, you take it to apple, say "it's fucked" get a new box and restore your time machine backup.
I could give my less technical relatives a tablet and they'd be perfectly happy. Being suitable for browsing the internet and maybe doing internet banking is nothing to brag about. I'm guessing you've used MacOS for a few minutes at a time with a hatred of apple from the outset. If you actually try and get things done with it, and look beyond "oh i can't customize the fuck out of this UI", there's a lot to like. It took a couple of weeks for OS X to "click" for me (and I was a Linux user between 1994 and 2006 - exclusively for personal use between 94 and 03). Going back to Linux now feels like stepping back in time 30 years.
LOL. Sendmail online documentation. Good one. As a sendmail administrator of about 15 years now, I'm just going to put this out there: Sendmail documentation is complete and utter fucking BOLLOCKS. Yes it may give a blow by blow description of every feature you can use in sendmail.cf. No examples, no best practices, etc. Look at any two sendmail boxes and they will have a variety of different hacks to try and fight spam and the majority of them will only be somewhat effective. I'm not defending exchange here by any stretch, it's a piece of shit. But sendmail... documentation.... lol.
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No in theory about it.
I think what killed USB initially was the Windows demo where Bill BSODed a machine by plugging in a scanner.
You are not a target user. Good for you, pay less for USB. Move along, nothing to see here. If, however you would like to say, hook up 10 gigabit networking to your laptop (or mac pro for that matter), a fiber channel SAN, a GPU, or all manner of other possible options, then it is relevant.
seriously? future USB spec that is years away may be faster than thunderbolt 1? No fucking shit.
Think thunderbolt is standing still? No.
Besides, they are not competitor technologies. Thunderbolt can do things that USB can not. And it actually works, pretty much 100% of the time.
Not saying there is no place for USB. It is a cost effective, fairly high speed bus. But comparing it to thunderbolt is just not legitimate. Most people don't need thunderbolt, and that's fine. But for those who do, USB 3 (and no doubt USB 4) are not and will not be competitive.
No, Linux is popular. The userland tools are incompatible with everything else. OS X is more popular than Linux and actually unix certified. Linux is non-standard.
by DVD i meant BD, of course.
DVDs for backup simply aren't worth my time. Burning 400GB to DVD takes days. Backing up 400 GB to disk takes hours, and requires no disk swapping. It's a no brainer. Sure, hard drives are more expensive in terms of media cost, but MUCH, MUCH cheaper in terms of my time (and hourly rate).
I've found it very much depends on the content. if you know there should be detail visible in a scene, you will notice the additional details you can actually see in high def. An example i posted earlier was a concert I have on HD-DVD which showed people in the crowd filming with their phones. You could pick out details on the screen of their device with HD-DVD. No way in hell would that be possible in standard 480p.
No. Show me the ad where you can get 250 gigabits per second for 100 bucks please.
I don't think the dude is a dying breed, because not so long ago we dealt with VHS or at best DVD and we liked it. If your movie isn't enjoyable on some shitty old VHS from 1984 - it's not the format that's the problem. Your content sucks.
I'll gladly trade 30-40 megabits of video bandwidth to not have to deal with the bullshit.
A million times yes. If i get a worse viewing experience by paying for your product (forced viewing of trailers, phsyical media to find and lose, rather than just an easily indexed bunch of files on the LAN, etc.), guess what's going to happen?
Um, i'm not sure what shitty media you have been watching, or what shitty playback equipment you've been using, but the difference in clarity is marked. An eye opener for me was watching a concert in HD. People in the crowd were filming stuff on their phones - and you could make out details on the screens of their phone.
In low def, it would have just been bright blobs of light.
See... thing is, it's not meant to be about the physical media. I buy media to get the IP. Yet when my VCR/DVD/BD is phased out, the media companies want me to pay for the license again to get new media.
Now storage is cheap enough to just rip it all and stick it on a bunch of hard drives - no more. The media industry is going to go through a major shift and actually have to figure out another way to make money other than double and triple dipping to hit people with format changes.
That was 30 years ago. If office was that bad, then surely it would have been replaced by now.
sports = reports. many other typos. don't care. you get the point, hopefully.
In terms of software quality, i agree it is not good. But it has the features that make it useful. ODBC, VB, COM, etc. Being able to build apps with office is what has made it so entrenched, its nothing to do with stability, user interface, etc. It's because Johnny from accounts can pull data in from the SQL server into his shitty little Access database, munge a whole heap of data into it, do some basic processing on it, generate some pretty sports, and export the data into an excel worksheet that the boss can crate pivot tables out of and put up on slides for the board.
Try to do that sort of thing with LibreOffice or whatever it's called this week on a Linux box and you'll run into a game-breaking bug within the first 10 minutes. I know, I've tried it.
Whilst office is a piece of shit, the alternatives are far, far worse from a "how can i get this shit done" perspective.
Exactly. And if you consider the random wierd shit you run into when attempting to use open source in a desktop situation and multiply the hours spent over a few weeks by the user's pay rate... it just doesn't make sense.
In my experience, OSS makes sense in non-user facing situations (firewalls, proxies, mail relays in my case), or for people at home. If they're on the clock, at work and need to send data to/from other people or deal with enterprise systems it's a no brainer.
^ my thoughts exactly. I've been using (and still do, for select tasks) open source since the early 90s.
OS X is very non-standard. Coming from a Linux proponent :D
LOL. Old unix users will get it.
Most *Nix users (and these days means kids in their early 20s mostly) look at the UI, say "that's boring, and all i can customize is a couple of colours and move the dock" and write it off as simplistic.
The true power of OS X lies in services, system-wide automation support (folder actions for example), the keyboard shortcut consistency, etc.
Sure you can (legally dubiously) get OS X on PC hardware for $29. But their hardware is actually nice. And it is nice to have a single source of support. Machine does somethign wierd, you aren't chasing down 3 different hardware vendors' or trawling the internet for driver updates. If you've got support, you take it to apple, say "it's fucked" get a new box and restore your time machine backup.
I could give my less technical relatives a tablet and they'd be perfectly happy. Being suitable for browsing the internet and maybe doing internet banking is nothing to brag about. I'm guessing you've used MacOS for a few minutes at a time with a hatred of apple from the outset. If you actually try and get things done with it, and look beyond "oh i can't customize the fuck out of this UI", there's a lot to like. It took a couple of weeks for OS X to "click" for me (and I was a Linux user between 1994 and 2006 - exclusively for personal use between 94 and 03). Going back to Linux now feels like stepping back in time 30 years.
Have you priced up redhat support? It's not cheap.
LOL. Sendmail online documentation. Good one. As a sendmail administrator of about 15 years now, I'm just going to put this out there: Sendmail documentation is complete and utter fucking BOLLOCKS. Yes it may give a blow by blow description of every feature you can use in sendmail.cf. No examples, no best practices, etc. Look at any two sendmail boxes and they will have a variety of different hacks to try and fight spam and the majority of them will only be somewhat effective. I'm not defending exchange here by any stretch, it's a piece of shit. But sendmail... documentation.... lol.
No, just mildly retarded by the looks.