so don't use that h/w. use the various others that are available. if sony had a monopoly in game consoles, i'm sure this behavior would not have been tolerated in court.
nice! you skirted around the main issue brilliantly! esr says "don't trust any s/w unless you can see what it does at the code level." i disagree. according to esr it is impossible for me to use ANY s/w, because i'm not an expert programmer, and i won't understand how ios does its magic even if i was forced to read the code out aloud. similarly, a person who is not an automotive engineer won't ever be able to drive any car, because how the fuck is he expected to trust his car if he doesn't understand how every part of it works? our society is built on trust. if apple screws you behind your back, people will take it to court, and that is why you trust their s/w to not fuck with your privacy. there is no point in forcing normal computer users to use only open source s/w. they will still have to trust the s/w based on factors other than its actual code.
use floss when it is the better option in terms of technology, functionality. don't use inferior s/w just because the alternatives are proprietary. that you are unable to look at the code is not a good excuse for not running that s/w. a car analogy: i have no freaking idea how my car's music player works. i just plug in my flash drive and select the song i want. i don't know how it works, i don't WANT to know how it works. it simply does not matter to me. i do not need the manufacturer to give me a service manual for the thing.
yeah he also wants everyone to call linux as gnu/linux, even though all the hard work was done by linus, who named his os linux. rms is nothing but a leech.
then the user is most welcome to write his own s/w. this whole argument is shit. do you think about who's gonna spy on you when you talk on the phone, when you watch tv, when you drive your on-star car?? accept it, you can't have total control over stuff that you didn't make yourself. and you can't make everything yourself.
they cost no more than a comparable quality windows pc from dell/lenovo. seriously, compare macbook pro prices with a similar spec'd thinkpad. there's no difference in price. the only think apple does different is that it doesn't have any low-quality cheap option.
I hope MS buys RIM and we can watch both of them fail out of the phone market, meanwhile they leave Nokia alone so they can go back to making awesome Linux phones from the n900/N9 linethat nobody gives a damn about. Perfect!
nokia has been making geek phones since its inception. when iphone was launched this geek userbase betrayed nokia, and you suggest nokia to go back to try and please them? no, the best way forward is to make good consumer-oriented, mass-market phones.
yeah, i hate the double standards people have when its microsoft software. take the color issue for example. whole of macos is gray, but its a beauty imagined by the greatest artists that ever walked on this humble planet. the new visual studio is gray, microsoft is stupid, even though its probably the best ide that exists.
i think apple's 'here's what we have take it or leave it' approach will not work if hp/dell tries to pull it off. only apple can bully their customers into buying stuff without mulling over specs and value. i've seen the same thing with iphone too. if someone's gonna buy an iphone, he's gonna buy an iphone. if somebody's gonna buy an android, he's gonna compare the shit out of varios models, choosing the best mix of cpu, ram, and other specs. maybe its because apple's stuff almost always works, no matter the specs.
this is key. if you get a consumer-level laptop from dell/hp, it WILL suck, even though initially it will perform better because it will have superior specs than similarly priced business laptops. but they brought down the price because they put in low quality stuff that will break soon. otoh, buy a thinkpad, the new tiny ones without optical drives are awesome. the specs won't be spectacular (unless you are willing to pay extreme prices), but it will see you through 5-6 years easily.
Wait, what? Why must a video gamer either be a millionaire or a bedroom noodler? Why can't gamers make a decent living at their craft?
This idea that gamers should simply suffer in obscurity for their skill, that they should learn their place and not expect to earn a living doing what they love, is bullshit. That they should get a "real job", is bullshit. Of course, that's part of the American experience – as a culture, we don't value people who sit on their couch and play games; as much as the South Koreans. We value invented royalty in the United States.
Are we going to see millionaire musicians anymore? Absolutely not. Those days are done. But is music dead? Certainly not. But the record labels are no longer needed. An artists can make it on their own. Will they make the same money? No. But this is the point: yes it's less money than before, but it's either that or nothing. The old days are gone and people are going to have to accept it. But it's good because now the artists will own their own creations and can sell directly to the fans and keep all of the profits.
The problem isn't that we aren't going to see millionaire musicians anymore. The problem is that your statement that "an artist can make it on their own" is, for the most part, not true. Never mind millions -- almost no artists are making a basic living selling music anymore. I am a musician -- only an amateur, but I get around enough to know and meet lots of professional musicians, some of whom are pretty well known; and I nobody that makes enough money to eat and pay their rent/utilities from music sales. And this is pretty pervasive -- I've talked about this with lots of artists that are big enough to sell out venues that range in size between 500-3000 people and they all say the same thing: no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore. You curse the big labels and champion the independence the modern era has allowed artists to have, and those are worthy sentiments to have, and I agree with them. But it's important to remember that perversely, the practical effect of these changes has been that only a small number of artists are making money from music sales, and by and large they aren't independent artists.
and i can't make a living out of my lego hobby too, what is your point?? why don't musicians do something they can earn money with?
which was better than making a deal for pleading guilty. imo, if you think you are not guilty, you should keep saying it, and not give in to deals like this, where you are promised less jail time in return for falsely admitting guilt.
windows removes start button: "GUI lost its purpose" same thing done by ithing: genius!
for example: ->triple-tap activates voice over, dunno what deactivates it. ->type something, shake up the phone, undo button appears. ->double-tap the home button, running apps. ->put your hand on the screen and pinch it, app closed (ipad only) ->ctrl+click to right click, three finger swipe down to go to home screen in macbook.
these things are super ultra non-intuitive, and you "have to guess what to do". but everyone goes gaga over them. windows 8 removes the start button, and the first thing someone is gonna do is put your mouse to that corner and it will show up, but the GUI has lost its purpose.
most other posters have been saying that g+ is not meant to connect friends, its meant to connect people with common interest, like photography, which seems to contradict your point.
so its best used as a photo sharing site, only not as good as flickr? i see why g+ is not very popular. imo, the design aesthetic of g+ makes me want to puke. all my screen shows random useless crap. compare with facebook's highly dense layout, where even the usual wasteland on the right is totally utilized.
facebook says it has 800 million 'active' accounts. does anyone know if they count people as active if they visit websites with 'like' buttons on them?
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so don't use that h/w. use the various others that are available. if sony had a monopoly in game consoles, i'm sure this behavior would not have been tolerated in court.
nice! you skirted around the main issue brilliantly! esr says "don't trust any s/w unless you can see what it does at the code level." i disagree. according to esr it is impossible for me to use ANY s/w, because i'm not an expert programmer, and i won't understand how ios does its magic even if i was forced to read the code out aloud. similarly, a person who is not an automotive engineer won't ever be able to drive any car, because how the fuck is he expected to trust his car if he doesn't understand how every part of it works?
our society is built on trust. if apple screws you behind your back, people will take it to court, and that is why you trust their s/w to not fuck with your privacy. there is no point in forcing normal computer users to use only open source s/w. they will still have to trust the s/w based on factors other than its actual code.
use floss when it is the better option in terms of technology, functionality. don't use inferior s/w just because the alternatives are proprietary. that you are unable to look at the code is not a good excuse for not running that s/w. a car analogy: i have no freaking idea how my car's music player works. i just plug in my flash drive and select the song i want. i don't know how it works, i don't WANT to know how it works. it simply does not matter to me. i do not need the manufacturer to give me a service manual for the thing.
yeah he also wants everyone to call linux as gnu/linux, even though all the hard work was done by linus, who named his os linux. rms is nothing but a leech.
then the user is most welcome to write his own s/w. this whole argument is shit. do you think about who's gonna spy on you when you talk on the phone, when you watch tv, when you drive your on-star car?? accept it, you can't have total control over stuff that you didn't make yourself. and you can't make everything yourself.
they cost no more than a comparable quality windows pc from dell/lenovo. seriously, compare macbook pro prices with a similar spec'd thinkpad. there's no difference in price. the only think apple does different is that it doesn't have any low-quality cheap option.
I hope MS buys RIM and we can watch both of them fail out of the phone market, meanwhile they leave Nokia alone so they can go back to making awesome Linux phones from the n900/N9 linethat nobody gives a damn about. Perfect!
nokia has been making geek phones since its inception. when iphone was launched this geek userbase betrayed nokia, and you suggest nokia to go back to try and please them? no, the best way forward is to make good consumer-oriented, mass-market phones.
yeah, i hate the double standards people have when its microsoft software. take the color issue for example. whole of macos is gray, but its a beauty imagined by the greatest artists that ever walked on this humble planet. the new visual studio is gray, microsoft is stupid, even though its probably the best ide that exists.
does it scroll properly yet? smooth and non-jerky? if yes, i might go back. otherwise, meh.
one good reason: 7 is much faster than xp, if you have decent hardware.
i dont understand. what is this thing useful for? except looking stupid in public. why can't i just whip out my for for much better quality info?
i think apple's 'here's what we have take it or leave it' approach will not work if hp/dell tries to pull it off. only apple can bully their customers into buying stuff without mulling over specs and value. i've seen the same thing with iphone too. if someone's gonna buy an iphone, he's gonna buy an iphone. if somebody's gonna buy an android, he's gonna compare the shit out of varios models, choosing the best mix of cpu, ram, and other specs.
maybe its because apple's stuff almost always works, no matter the specs.
this is key. if you get a consumer-level laptop from dell/hp, it WILL suck, even though initially it will perform better because it will have superior specs than similarly priced business laptops. but they brought down the price because they put in low quality stuff that will break soon. otoh, buy a thinkpad, the new tiny ones without optical drives are awesome. the specs won't be spectacular (unless you are willing to pay extreme prices), but it will see you through 5-6 years easily.
if it were that valuable it wouldn't be available for free on the intarweb.
Wait, what? Why must a video gamer either be a millionaire or a bedroom noodler? Why can't gamers make a decent living at their craft?
This idea that gamers should simply suffer in obscurity for their skill, that they should learn their place and not expect to earn a living doing what they love, is bullshit. That they should get a "real job", is bullshit. Of course, that's part of the American experience – as a culture, we don't value people who sit on their couch and play games; as much as the South Koreans. We value invented royalty in the United States.
i trust this analogy will make it clearer.
Are we going to see millionaire musicians anymore? Absolutely not. Those days are done. But is music dead? Certainly not. But the record labels are no longer needed. An artists can make it on their own. Will they make the same money? No. But this is the point: yes it's less money than before, but it's either that or nothing. The old days are gone and people are going to have to accept it. But it's good because now the artists will own their own creations and can sell directly to the fans and keep all of the profits.
The problem isn't that we aren't going to see millionaire musicians anymore. The problem is that your statement that "an artist can make it on their own" is, for the most part, not true. Never mind millions -- almost no artists are making a basic living selling music anymore. I am a musician -- only an amateur, but I get around enough to know and meet lots of professional musicians, some of whom are pretty well known; and I nobody that makes enough money to eat and pay their rent/utilities from music sales. And this is pretty pervasive -- I've talked about this with lots of artists that are big enough to sell out venues that range in size between 500-3000 people and they all say the same thing: no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore. You curse the big labels and champion the independence the modern era has allowed artists to have, and those are worthy sentiments to have, and I agree with them. But it's important to remember that perversely, the practical effect of these changes has been that only a small number of artists are making money from music sales, and by and large they aren't independent artists.
and i can't make a living out of my lego hobby too, what is your point?? why don't musicians do something they can earn money with?
so lets punish their roommate. that's completely sensible.
which was better than making a deal for pleading guilty. imo, if you think you are not guilty, you should keep saying it, and not give in to deals like this, where you are promised less jail time in return for falsely admitting guilt.
windows removes start button: "GUI lost its purpose"
same thing done by ithing: genius!
for example:
->triple-tap activates voice over, dunno what deactivates it.
->type something, shake up the phone, undo button appears.
->double-tap the home button, running apps.
->put your hand on the screen and pinch it, app closed (ipad only)
->ctrl+click to right click, three finger swipe down to go to home screen in macbook.
these things are super ultra non-intuitive, and you "have to guess what to do". but everyone goes gaga over them. windows 8 removes the start button, and the first thing someone is gonna do is put your mouse to that corner and it will show up, but the GUI has lost its purpose.
amazing! thanks! earlier i used to click on the thin vertical edge of the sidebar, but they removed it, so i was stumped.
this. people here simply don't care about concepts such as internet censorship. most are just managing to survive.
sort of like skype?? only not that good, right?
most other posters have been saying that g+ is not meant to connect friends, its meant to connect people with common interest, like photography, which seems to contradict your point.
so its best used as a photo sharing site, only not as good as flickr? i see why g+ is not very popular.
imo, the design aesthetic of g+ makes me want to puke. all my screen shows random useless crap. compare with facebook's highly dense layout, where even the usual wasteland on the right is totally utilized.
facebook says it has 800 million 'active' accounts. does anyone know if they count people as active if they visit websites with 'like' buttons on them?