Which is why it is growing faster than the market in general, and has been for the past couple of years. To 90% of users, computers are a tool to get shit done. They will take the path of least resistance. If that is apple (where generally "shit just works") then don't be surprised that apple grabs the market. Apple being bigger than both Intel and Microsoft (according to market cap) is nothing to sneeze at.
some people don't get it. steve was talking about demoting it to "just a device" in terms of content sync. NOT from being a general purpose machine to something else. i swear, some people have no fucking idea, no comprehension skills or are just trolling, and poorly.
There are different problems to be solved, and they require different approaches. The IT manager needs to work on justifying purchases, dealing with people (both staff, and user facing stuff - complaints/requests from the rest of the management team, etc).
Technical people very often are no good at that stuff.
The IT manager is a buffer between the technical guy(s) and the end user. If your manager has no idea what you're talking about half the time, you'd have no hope dealing with the users/management he/she is dealing with.
spend time automating the day to day crap so you have basically nothing to do, then you can be promoted to management. if you're busy fixing broken day to day shit, then you can be too valuable doing that, to promote.
You need to be "driven" to make as little work for yourself as possible. Which means figuring out how to do it a limited number of times before automating the process. If it can be automated, time you spend doing a particular task is dead, wasted time that could be spent being more productive doing something else.
Because they didn't hack to the extent of getting their hands on source code. This was a simple SQL table dump via SQL injection exploit. The only way to prove it was to post the info they shouldn't have had access to - or simply post instructions for anyone else to do it themselves.
At the end of the day, sony was leaving unencrypted customer info on a system connected to the internet via web front end exploitable via simple SQL injection attack (that most of the internet secured against many years ago). Are the hackers ass-hats for disclosing the info in an uncensured form? Maybe, but that doesn't mean sony are any less guilty of GROSS NEGLIGENCE when it comes to the security of their customer information.
If sony themselves can't be arsed protecting this information by following BASIC WEB SECURITY PRACTICE, why should the hacker bother to?
Also with 3.1 - trumpet was only a 16 bit tcp stack which couldn't even reach high ports. Ie for win 3.1 included a good easy to configure dial up tcp/ip stack. I agree with the parent - that killed Netscape. I too worked at an ISP and for windows users (like 99% of your userbase) ie was far far easier to deal with. Netscape should have been focusing on how to get their foot in the door with ISPs far more.
Trolling the internet (with broken wifi) to figure out ndiswrapper and hack it into life does not qualify as "working" for most people. The alternatives (windows, mac), "just work".
Yes, I've made wireless work under linux (and FreeBSD too, this isn't a linux exclusive) when i had to as well, but it shouldn't have to be fucking around with that shit.
And yes I'm aware of the reasons. End users don't care, they just know their shit doesn't work.
Windows 7 is a good product, but its not going to save the company. Its not enough to be good, to stem the bleeding. You need to be revolutionary, to do stuff that no one else does (this used to be an entire office suite for cheap - which then sold copies of Windows / PCs).
For example: Fact is, for a home user, if you line up a Mac with iLife vs a PC with Windows for the general day to day stuff a home user wants (internet, email, media, home movies, basic content creation): the PC gets slaughtered (to buy apps to replace iLife you're easily blowing the budget, the mac is easier to maintain, and the hardware is nicer than the cheaper end of PC junk in any case). MS need to ship a worthy competitor to iLife, for one.
But even if they do that, its simply following what Apple have already done. They need fresh ideas. I don't know what they are, but then its not my job to find them and save the company.
Sure, Windows wins on games, but games are going mobile/console based anyway.
Hmm... whether or not it is Bill or not, microsoft need to do something.
Apple are currently pushing things. Steve Jobs (like him or hate him) at least has his own clear vision of where he wants computing to go (you may or may not agree, but at least it is consistent - and plenty do appreciate jobs' vision). Steve Ballmer doesn't; microsoft are aimlessly following, copying and (generally missing the point of) other people's ideas.
They need some clear, coherent leadership and direction. At the moment they're just jumping on whatever bandwagon is currently doing the rounds, and often way too late and half-arsed.
How were the Chinese able to develop the J-20 stealth fighter without stealing U.S. classified data?
perhaps by, you know, research. Stealth has been around since the 80s or earlier - hitler had a rudimentary stealth flying wing design in ww2. China has a few billion people - if even 1% of them are gifted, that is a he'll of a lot of scientific brain power.
Actually in my experience i get more segfaults from shitty code on BSD than anywhere else. The OS is rock solid, and if told to run shit doesn't put up with it.
Congrats. I made the move in 2008 and haven't looked back. You get the best of both worlds really - a nice UI and actually useful apps for your home stuff (iLife), ability to play with shell stuff if you need it, and a built in X server for remote display from your headless linux box in the corner.
When you consider that iLife is free and actually pretty useful for basic stuff, and the fact that your hardware just works out of the box, the cost of a mac isn't too bad at all.
I'd they they're worse than they are on windows. At least all applications in windows have the one menu bar per app thing - mac apps don't. Trying to run X11 only on an OS X install would be pretty pointless - all your funky OS X apps won't work, you may as well just run darwin (or hell, Linux/BSD these days) and be done with it.
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Or you could just buy a macbook pro for half that with a decent processor and full-fat xcode way faster. Today. As things stand.
Which is why it is growing faster than the market in general, and has been for the past couple of years. To 90% of users, computers are a tool to get shit done. They will take the path of least resistance. If that is apple (where generally "shit just works") then don't be surprised that apple grabs the market. Apple being bigger than both Intel and Microsoft (according to market cap) is nothing to sneeze at.
some people don't get it. steve was talking about demoting it to "just a device" in terms of content sync. NOT from being a general purpose machine to something else. i swear, some people have no fucking idea, no comprehension skills or are just trolling, and poorly.
There are different problems to be solved, and they require different approaches. The IT manager needs to work on justifying purchases, dealing with people (both staff, and user facing stuff - complaints/requests from the rest of the management team, etc).
Technical people very often are no good at that stuff.
The IT manager is a buffer between the technical guy(s) and the end user. If your manager has no idea what you're talking about half the time, you'd have no hope dealing with the users/management he/she is dealing with.
spend time automating the day to day crap so you have basically nothing to do, then you can be promoted to management. if you're busy fixing broken day to day shit, then you can be too valuable doing that, to promote.
You need to be "driven" to make as little work for yourself as possible. Which means figuring out how to do it a limited number of times before automating the process. If it can be automated, time you spend doing a particular task is dead, wasted time that could be spent being more productive doing something else.
Because they didn't hack to the extent of getting their hands on source code. This was a simple SQL table dump via SQL injection exploit. The only way to prove it was to post the info they shouldn't have had access to - or simply post instructions for anyone else to do it themselves.
At the end of the day, sony was leaving unencrypted customer info on a system connected to the internet via web front end exploitable via simple SQL injection attack (that most of the internet secured against many years ago). Are the hackers ass-hats for disclosing the info in an uncensured form? Maybe, but that doesn't mean sony are any less guilty of GROSS NEGLIGENCE when it comes to the security of their customer information.
If sony themselves can't be arsed protecting this information by following BASIC WEB SECURITY PRACTICE, why should the hacker bother to?
the content proves that the hack took place. without that evidence, sony would just deny, cover up and continue on with their insecure ways.
If you can't see them, who cares?
Pretty sure dos 6.x included av. Not sure why win95 didn't...can't remember.
Also with 3.1 - trumpet was only a 16 bit tcp stack which couldn't even reach high ports. Ie for win 3.1 included a good easy to configure dial up tcp/ip stack. I agree with the parent - that killed Netscape. I too worked at an ISP and for windows users (like 99% of your userbase) ie was far far easier to deal with. Netscape should have been focusing on how to get their foot in the door with ISPs far more.
Trolling the internet (with broken wifi) to figure out ndiswrapper and hack it into life does not qualify as "working" for most people. The alternatives (windows, mac), "just work".
Yes, I've made wireless work under linux (and FreeBSD too, this isn't a linux exclusive) when i had to as well, but it shouldn't have to be fucking around with that shit.
And yes I'm aware of the reasons. End users don't care, they just know their shit doesn't work.
spotlight is pretty bloody good, actually.
Windows 7 is a good product, but its not going to save the company. Its not enough to be good, to stem the bleeding. You need to be revolutionary, to do stuff that no one else does (this used to be an entire office suite for cheap - which then sold copies of Windows / PCs).
For example: Fact is, for a home user, if you line up a Mac with iLife vs a PC with Windows for the general day to day stuff a home user wants (internet, email, media, home movies, basic content creation): the PC gets slaughtered (to buy apps to replace iLife you're easily blowing the budget, the mac is easier to maintain, and the hardware is nicer than the cheaper end of PC junk in any case). MS need to ship a worthy competitor to iLife, for one.
But even if they do that, its simply following what Apple have already done. They need fresh ideas. I don't know what they are, but then its not my job to find them and save the company.
Sure, Windows wins on games, but games are going mobile/console based anyway.
Hmm... whether or not it is Bill or not, microsoft need to do something.
Apple are currently pushing things. Steve Jobs (like him or hate him) at least has his own clear vision of where he wants computing to go (you may or may not agree, but at least it is consistent - and plenty do appreciate jobs' vision). Steve Ballmer doesn't; microsoft are aimlessly following, copying and (generally missing the point of) other people's ideas.
They need some clear, coherent leadership and direction. At the moment they're just jumping on whatever bandwagon is currently doing the rounds, and often way too late and half-arsed.
Yeah, but non-working wifi and Linux have gone hand in hand for a long time. Its a lot better now, but...
unfortunately, 5ghz doesn't go through walls or floors very well.
So anyone know if it will run on the pentium 3 700 I built for it?
perhaps by, you know, research. Stealth has been around since the 80s or earlier - hitler had a rudimentary stealth flying wing design in ww2. China has a few billion people - if even 1% of them are gifted, that is a he'll of a lot of scientific brain power.
Or just a chair in flight
But the point of facebook, and all social networking sites is to stay in contact with peope you know.
If you can't find them, and they can't find you then the whole point of using the site at all breaks down.
Actually in my experience i get more segfaults from shitty code on BSD than anywhere else. The OS is rock solid, and if told to run shit doesn't put up with it.
The stuff apple invent/fund and release is actually good. See: bonjour, launchd, clang, etc
Congrats. I made the move in 2008 and haven't looked back. You get the best of both worlds really - a nice UI and actually useful apps for your home stuff (iLife), ability to play with shell stuff if you need it, and a built in X server for remote display from your headless linux box in the corner.
When you consider that iLife is free and actually pretty useful for basic stuff, and the fact that your hardware just works out of the box, the cost of a mac isn't too bad at all.
I'd they they're worse than they are on windows. At least all applications in windows have the one menu bar per app thing - mac apps don't. Trying to run X11 only on an OS X install would be pretty pointless - all your funky OS X apps won't work, you may as well just run darwin (or hell, Linux/BSD these days) and be done with it.