The long and short of it was, Apple and Sun couldn't come to terms on the licensing. Sun wanted a lot of money...
That doesn't make any sense. I fail to see why Apple should agree licensing terms for a CDDL licensed open source project or how Sun could demand money for the privilege. Sun were positively overflowing with love towards Apple (as they usually are) when they heard that anyone would actually be interested in their uber new filesystem.
Scuttlebutt on the web seems to be that Sun wanted Apple to stand on its own if it was sued over ZFS, and Apple wanted Sun to pay its costs if it was sued over ZFS.
- Video. The PAL standard is better quality than NTSC (Never The Same Color), so why did the Americas adopt an inferior option?
That's sort of like asking why we adopted the clearly inferior analog STDV standard instead of digital HDTV. NTSC was standardized in 1953, PAL was not standardized until 1963. Naturally, PAL was the superior standard...it was based around technology that was ten years more advanced.
Do you really think hospitals would get away with charging $40 for dressings (the line item from my recent visit to the ER) if people actually saw that bill and had to pay it?
Are they dying of blood loss? If so, they'll pay $40,000 if they have it.
If you believe the free market has any role in the health care system, you might want to learn something about how it works.
I know plenty about how the health care system works and it isn't anything remotely close to a free market.
I'm sorry, I was unclear. I meant that you should try to gain a basic understanding of free market economics, not the healthcare system. And really, you should.
Go read this article in The Atlantic and educate yourself. I think you'll find it informative.
I find it very interesting and fairly informative. However, it lacks a sense of global perspective. Thank you for your contribution, though.
Take a look at health care procedures that aren't covered by Uncle Sam and/or private insurance. LASIK surgery, cosmetic surgery, etc all exist in a competitive marketplace and have all come down in price since being introduced. Why is it that I can now have someone operate on my eyes for less cost than my last round of blood work?
Because demand for vital services like blood work is inelastic. You need it to live, therefore providers can charge pretty much whatever they'd like. And they do. Whereas demand for cosmetic surgery and LASIC is much more elastic. You don't need them to live, therefore providers must price them attractively to attract customers. And they do.
If you believe the free market has any role in the health care system, you might want to learn something about how it works.
Interesting that inmates have access to computers and TV.
Imagine a group of people with little respect for authority, and, in many cases, a history of violence.
Now take away their TV.
Do you really think that putting down prison riots is cheaper than just letting them vegetate in front of the idiot box? Are you, a normal citizen, volunteering for that job? I'm sure there's an opening there.
How many MB will be wiped out by a pathetically small scratch on the disk? Remember the promises made of audio CD's?
With well-designed error correction, nothing. Enough error correcting data would be distributed all around the disc to recover from localized scratches.
It's just another loop hole insurance companies will use to not pay out claims.
I have no problem with this. Lower premiums for people who are not idiots. This is the way things should work.
Fault will be immediately assigned to the driver who was texting, there insurance won't pay, everybody is screwed...well except the insurance companies.
Explain how I will be screwed, since I'm not the driver who was texting.
Just like if their is an accident and a vehical has a broken bottle of liquor fault is assigned to that vehicle EVEN IF THE DRIVER WASN'T DRINKING, and it's damn hard to get anyone to review and change the fault even with a toxicology report.
So put it in the trunk. What is liquor doing in the passenger compartment anyway, if nobody was drinking it?
If someone is driving recklessly, give them a ticket. You can not pass laws to specifically name every way someone could drive dangerously.
No, you can't. Nor is it easy to convict someone of being "reckeless" or "dangerous" since those are subjective terms. On the other hand, "drunk" (defined by BAC) and "texting" are things that can be proven.
Best Buy's sales staff are not paid on commission, as far as I'm aware.
True. Most stores do not have commissioned sales staff these days, including Best Buy.
However, I believe that Best Buy people (and Circuit City people to an even greater degree, before CC imploded) are required to meet certain performance targets. I believe one of them is the number of extended warranties they sell. They may also be expected (and even trained) to up-sell from the low-end advertised models. If they don't meet their targets, they may be denied raises or promotions.
Sears, Roebuck salespeople are on commission, at least in the appliances and electronics departments. If anything, I think you get better service from them, but they definitely try to steer you to their highest-margin stuff.
They also have context-aware ribbons, such as picture and table editing which appear and hide themselves only when you are working on that specific object.
This is a horrible idea, because users frequently do not understand the different context modes. Wheras with menus, the commands are consistent in both placement and appearance, but can still be context-sensitive. Inactive commands do not disappear, but are dimmed. Users can see that the command is still there, but not available, and are not left hunting madly through tabs for a command that they swore was right there a minute ago....
Imagine if, back in the day, the "Well, they should just write their own iTunes-like application" had been applied to Compaq and the IBM-compatible clone kiddies.
It was. Plenty of IBM clones were sued into oblivion when they dumped IBM's BIOS code and burned it verbatim onto their own ROMs.
Compaq survived because it wrote its own BIOS instead of copying IBMs. Phoenix Technologies made millions licensing its BIOS as a replacement for IBM's. IBM's copyright on its BIOS code did not stifle innovation in the market; it only tripped up a few cheap imitators that were trying to make a quick buck.
Palm Desktop used to have a pretty decent sync engine. It used to have lots of connectors for lots of third-party applications. Why Palm didn't just add an iTunes connector and clean up the interface is beyond me. It certainly would have required less effort than fighting Apple to use Apple's sync software.
If that's your argument, I'd suggest you re-examine your view of the arts. To be fair, though, I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
By that standard, every grade school student should also get mandatory vocal education, mandatory landscape painting, mandatory musical instrument lessons, mandatory charcoal drawing, mandatory clay sculpting....heck, why bother with practical skills at all! Lets just force kids to take nothing but arts all day.
Face it, some people have the potential artistic talent. Some don't. But everyone needs basic education, and there's precious little time in the schoolday for that.
A car with flashing brake lights (you're already seeing this on many Mercedes and European cars) will flash its brake lights rapidly under heavy braking so that the driver in the car behind knows to do the same.
Uhh, no, I've only seen them on pimped-out little with huge-ass wing spoilers and loads of decals & ground effect lighting who think that flashy=cool. (And they just flash anytime the brakes are tapped, not during panic braking.)
I'd support such lights if and when it's proven that they help to reduce crashes and not just be distracting, and only if the police start enforcing vehicle lighting regulations to make sure that they're meaningful
Storing sessions in memory cached in a single server, with a router to get you to the right server, backed by a clustered database seems like a good solution
No, it doesn't. It sounds like a mediocre solution.
You really don't get this, do you? The guy had a few files that'd been created in QuickTime. He wanted all such files to open in VLC, regardless of what program had created them. Whenever he'd double-click a file to open it, OS X had been cheerfully ignoring his settings of "use VLC for this filetype" and opening them with QuickTime because that's what created them.
That scenario is extremely unlikely, since QuickTime is not generally used to create AVIs. You have to actually go out and buy QuickTime Pro to even do that. And if you're the kind of person who's willing to pay $30 for an enhanced media player, you probably aren't then going to want to open it using a free/OSS player like VLC by default.
The other possible scenario (that he just happened to get an AVI file--not a native MOV file, but an AVI-- from another Mac user who was a QT Pro fan) is also unlikely, since creator codes don't usually survive downloads across the Internet. You download an AVI off the web, or through LimeWire, it picks up your preferred file associations. No creator codes involved.
Your average VLC-using Mac owner might come across a QuickTime Pro-created AVI file once in a blue moon. Nowhere near enough to cause confusion.
The simplest, most likely explanation is that he manually changed the association himself. And no amount of dumbing-down the OS is going to fix that.
Fail. The GP was saying that he'd set all AVI files to open in VLC. In spite of that, some would open in QuickTime anyway because that's what the creator code indicated, which confused the GP greatly because he didn't know that such a mechanism existed.
Epic fail. How did those creator codes get set? He had to have changed them himself. There's no magic creator code fairy that sprinkles creator codes around.
... to maintain a website with more sub-domains and more information. It seems obvious to me that the Microsoft site in general is just gi-normous... therefore they have trouble epsecially with consistency. Apple just doesn't have as many things on their sites, and rightfully so considering Microsoft is a global giant, therefore the Apple employees have more time to sit around and play with the look and feel and user friendliness of a website. imho
True, Apple's site does have fewer things, but it's not because Apple has fewer products. Apple's site has three decades worth of hardware and software documentation on it. The Apple site still has manuals and system software for Apple II series machines, if you go looking for it.
The illusion that the MS site has "more stuff" is partly a result of poor organization, and partly a result of Microsoft's tendency to release a half dozen different "editions" of a product when one would do fine.
Go to your local GNC, buy a bottle of Colloidal Silver. Drink it over the next few days. One bottle won't turn you blue (and it is really hard to do with lots of silver).
Colloidal Silver kills Bacteria, Viruses, and Molds by interfering with their oxygen processing enzymes. It effectively suffocates them to death.
IMarv
Geez, where do you get this shit? Viruses (like the Flu) don't have "oxygen processing enzymes." They don't have cells, and don't need oxygen. They use your cells to reproduce.
The only thing that colloidal silver might do is turn you skin blue and make you feel weird. Probably not even that.
Yeah, no one has Samba servers or firewalls running variants of Linux. No one out there runs Apache.
Any IT department that doesn't at least have some familiarity with Linux is rather like having a garage that doesn't know how to fix Jeeps.
Most universities have totally separate organizations for desktop support and server administration. The desktop support people are unlikely to know anything about Linux, and the linux admins are unlikely to be interested in supporting n00bs.
No, they were opening in QuickTime just because they were originally saved by QuickTime.
No one ever did Get Info.
It sounds like this previous behavior seems odd to you (since you misunderstood what happened), which supports the perspective that for most users, the behavior was odd and the change amounts to a bug fix.
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That doesn't make any sense. I fail to see why Apple should agree licensing terms for a CDDL licensed open source project or how Sun could demand money for the privilege. Sun were positively overflowing with love towards Apple (as they usually are) when they heard that anyone would actually be interested in their uber new filesystem.
Scuttlebutt on the web seems to be that Sun wanted Apple to stand on its own if it was sued over ZFS, and Apple wanted Sun to pay its costs if it was sued over ZFS.
Prostitution is one of the few crimes that make a person a criminal if he/she sells something that is normally "free".
Sometimes you can barter for it, but it's never free.
Indeed. The poster should have put "free" in quotation marks or something.
- Video. The PAL standard is better quality than NTSC (Never The Same Color), so why did the Americas adopt an inferior option?
That's sort of like asking why we adopted the clearly inferior analog STDV standard instead of digital HDTV. NTSC was standardized in 1953, PAL was not standardized until 1963. Naturally, PAL was the superior standard...it was based around technology that was ten years more advanced.
People who hate on gays...
How does one hate on something?
Do you really think hospitals would get away with charging $40 for dressings (the line item from my recent visit to the ER) if people actually saw that bill and had to pay it?
Are they dying of blood loss? If so, they'll pay $40,000 if they have it.
If you believe the free market has any role in the health care system, you might want to learn something about how it works.
I know plenty about how the health care system works and it isn't anything remotely close to a free market.
I'm sorry, I was unclear. I meant that you should try to gain a basic understanding of free market economics, not the healthcare system. And really, you should.
Go read this article in The Atlantic and educate yourself. I think you'll find it informative.
I find it very interesting and fairly informative. However, it lacks a sense of global perspective. Thank you for your contribution, though.
Take a look at health care procedures that aren't covered by Uncle Sam and/or private insurance. LASIK surgery, cosmetic surgery, etc all exist in a competitive marketplace and have all come down in price since being introduced. Why is it that I can now have someone operate on my eyes for less cost than my last round of blood work?
Because demand for vital services like blood work is inelastic. You need it to live, therefore providers can charge pretty much whatever they'd like. And they do. Whereas demand for cosmetic surgery and LASIC is much more elastic. You don't need them to live, therefore providers must price them attractively to attract customers. And they do.
If you believe the free market has any role in the health care system, you might want to learn something about how it works.
Interesting that inmates have access to computers and TV.
Imagine a group of people with little respect for authority, and, in many cases, a history of violence.
Now take away their TV.
Do you really think that putting down prison riots is cheaper than just letting them vegetate in front of the idiot box? Are you, a normal citizen, volunteering for that job? I'm sure there's an opening there.
It's sickening.
Yeah, but if you stop trying to focus on those tiny, flickering CRT pixels for a while, the queasiness will pass.
How many MB will be wiped out by a pathetically small scratch on the disk? Remember the promises made of audio CD's?
With well-designed error correction, nothing. Enough error correcting data would be distributed all around the disc to recover from localized scratches.
It's just another loop hole insurance companies will use to not pay out claims.
I have no problem with this. Lower premiums for people who are not idiots. This is the way things should work.
Fault will be immediately assigned to the driver who was texting, there insurance won't pay, everybody is screwed...well except the insurance companies.
Explain how I will be screwed, since I'm not the driver who was texting.
Just like if their is an accident and a vehical has a broken bottle of liquor fault is assigned to that vehicle EVEN IF THE DRIVER WASN'T DRINKING, and it's damn hard to get anyone to review and change the fault even with a toxicology report.
So put it in the trunk. What is liquor doing in the passenger compartment anyway, if nobody was drinking it?
If someone is driving recklessly, give them a ticket. You can not pass laws to specifically name every way someone could drive dangerously.
No, you can't. Nor is it easy to convict someone of being "reckeless" or "dangerous" since those are subjective terms. On the other hand, "drunk" (defined by BAC) and "texting" are things that can be proven.
Best Buy's sales staff are not paid on commission, as far as I'm aware.
True. Most stores do not have commissioned sales staff these days, including Best Buy.
However, I believe that Best Buy people (and Circuit City people to an even greater degree, before CC imploded) are required to meet certain performance targets. I believe one of them is the number of extended warranties they sell. They may also be expected (and even trained) to up-sell from the low-end advertised models. If they don't meet their targets, they may be denied raises or promotions.
Sears, Roebuck salespeople are on commission, at least in the appliances and electronics departments. If anything, I think you get better service from them, but they definitely try to steer you to their highest-margin stuff.
"replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector" = multitudinous connector types + 1;
This is Apple talking. Since when has Apple bothered with legacy connector support?
They also have context-aware ribbons, such as picture and table editing which appear and hide themselves only when you are working on that specific object.
This is a horrible idea, because users frequently do not understand the different context modes. Wheras with menus, the commands are consistent in both placement and appearance, but can still be context-sensitive. Inactive commands do not disappear, but are dimmed. Users can see that the command is still there, but not available, and are not left hunting madly through tabs for a command that they swore was right there a minute ago....
Imagine if, back in the day, the "Well, they should just write their own iTunes-like application" had been applied to Compaq and the IBM-compatible clone kiddies.
It was. Plenty of IBM clones were sued into oblivion when they dumped IBM's BIOS code and burned it verbatim onto their own ROMs.
Compaq survived because it wrote its own BIOS instead of copying IBMs. Phoenix Technologies made millions licensing its BIOS as a replacement for IBM's. IBM's copyright on its BIOS code did not stifle innovation in the market; it only tripped up a few cheap imitators that were trying to make a quick buck.
Palm Desktop used to have a pretty decent sync engine. It used to have lots of connectors for lots of third-party applications. Why Palm didn't just add an iTunes connector and clean up the interface is beyond me. It certainly would have required less effort than fighting Apple to use Apple's sync software.
If I don't like the way a company is routing their traffic I can at least switch companies.
Consider yourself lucky.
The worst case for a business blocking/routing traffic is that someone else creates a competing ISP.
Only if there are a) enough potential customers in the geographic area, and b) enough potential customers that care.
If that's your argument, I'd suggest you re-examine your view of the arts. To be fair, though, I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
By that standard, every grade school student should also get mandatory vocal education, mandatory landscape painting, mandatory musical instrument lessons, mandatory charcoal drawing, mandatory clay sculpting....heck, why bother with practical skills at all! Lets just force kids to take nothing but arts all day.
Face it, some people have the potential artistic talent. Some don't. But everyone needs basic education, and there's precious little time in the schoolday for that.
A car with flashing brake lights (you're already seeing this on many Mercedes and European cars) will flash its brake lights rapidly under heavy braking so that the driver in the car behind knows to do the same.
Uhh, no, I've only seen them on pimped-out little with huge-ass wing spoilers and loads of decals & ground effect lighting who think that flashy=cool. (And they just flash anytime the brakes are tapped, not during panic braking.)
I'd support such lights if and when it's proven that they help to reduce crashes and not just be distracting, and only if the police start enforcing vehicle lighting regulations to make sure that they're meaningful
...as well as annoying the crap out of any driver with a radar detector you happen to be driving behind ;-)
Reason enough right there. Everyone I know with a radar detector is a prick behind the wheel.
Storing sessions in memory cached in a single server, with a router to get you to the right server, backed by a clustered database seems like a good solution
No, it doesn't. It sounds like a mediocre solution.
The proper solution is to replicate sessions across servers.
You really don't get this, do you? The guy had a few files that'd been created in QuickTime. He wanted all such files to open in VLC, regardless of what program had created them. Whenever he'd double-click a file to open it, OS X had been cheerfully ignoring his settings of "use VLC for this filetype" and opening them with QuickTime because that's what created them.
That scenario is extremely unlikely, since QuickTime is not generally used to create AVIs. You have to actually go out and buy QuickTime Pro to even do that. And if you're the kind of person who's willing to pay $30 for an enhanced media player, you probably aren't then going to want to open it using a free/OSS player like VLC by default.
The other possible scenario (that he just happened to get an AVI file--not a native MOV file, but an AVI-- from another Mac user who was a QT Pro fan) is also unlikely, since creator codes don't usually survive downloads across the Internet. You download an AVI off the web, or through LimeWire, it picks up your preferred file associations. No creator codes involved.
Your average VLC-using Mac owner might come across a QuickTime Pro-created AVI file once in a blue moon. Nowhere near enough to cause confusion.
The simplest, most likely explanation is that he manually changed the association himself. And no amount of dumbing-down the OS is going to fix that.
So let me get this straight.
Fail. The GP was saying that he'd set all AVI files to open in VLC. In spite of that, some would open in QuickTime anyway because that's what the creator code indicated, which confused the GP greatly because he didn't know that such a mechanism existed.
Epic fail. How did those creator codes get set? He had to have changed them himself. There's no magic creator code fairy that sprinkles creator codes around.
... to maintain a website with more sub-domains and more information. It seems obvious to me that the Microsoft site in general is just gi-normous ... therefore they have trouble epsecially with consistency. Apple just doesn't have as many things on their sites, and rightfully so considering Microsoft is a global giant, therefore the Apple employees have more time to sit around and play with the look and feel and user friendliness of a website. imho
True, Apple's site does have fewer things, but it's not because Apple has fewer products. Apple's site has three decades worth of hardware and software documentation on it. The Apple site still has manuals and system software for Apple II series machines, if you go looking for it.
The illusion that the MS site has "more stuff" is partly a result of poor organization, and partly a result of Microsoft's tendency to release a half dozen different "editions" of a product when one would do fine.
Go to your local GNC, buy a bottle of Colloidal Silver. Drink it over the next few days. One bottle won't turn you blue (and it is really hard to do with lots of silver).
Colloidal Silver kills Bacteria, Viruses, and Molds by interfering with their oxygen processing enzymes. It effectively suffocates them to death.
IMarv
Geez, where do you get this shit? Viruses (like the Flu) don't have "oxygen processing enzymes." They don't have cells, and don't need oxygen. They use your cells to reproduce.
The only thing that colloidal silver might do is turn you skin blue and make you feel weird. Probably not even that.
Yeah, no one has Samba servers or firewalls running variants of Linux. No one out there runs Apache.
Any IT department that doesn't at least have some familiarity with Linux is rather like having a garage that doesn't know how to fix Jeeps.
Most universities have totally separate organizations for desktop support and server administration. The desktop support people are unlikely to know anything about Linux, and the linux admins are unlikely to be interested in supporting n00bs.
No, they were opening in QuickTime just because they were originally saved by QuickTime.
No one ever did Get Info.
It sounds like this previous behavior seems odd to you (since you misunderstood what happened), which supports the perspective that for most users, the behavior was odd and the change amounts to a bug fix.
Since when does QuickTime save AVI files?