Blah blah. I remember running the chsh command on OS X 10.3.9, to switch from the tcsh(?) that had been the default shell in 10.2 to bash, which Apple's brilliant engineers had made such a wreck of that it actually rendered the terminal.app unusable. That's a release critical bug in a central system utility, in the ninth installment of that OS version. And still, Apple fanboys will say "OS X is a real unix", as if they ever used one. Quality control simply isn't Apple's strong side, outside the UI elements that are obvious to the eye.
Not at all. The main reason why Apple failed to capture a bigger market is just that: their lock-in is so much stronger that although Mac fans believe they enjoy using their computers, they also usually dislike dealing with the outside world: Flash, Java, just about everything not specifically built for Apple is a kludge. Even simple things like internet video causes no ends of problems on the Mac platform. For a business – and even most regular home users – that needs to deal with others, that's simply not acceptable. So Apple's lock-in is strong, but has traditionally been most effective at locking users out. Cultism is built into the design.
Dictate? No. Just like it can't dictate correct spelling and grammar in SMS messages. Then again, typography doesn't concern SMS, email, or even the web, so this question doesn't actually concern the 99% you're talking about. In publishing, one space is the norm.
Sure. But hardly any of those guys have written anything for publication, and they simply don't know what they're talking about. They'll still consider that they're opinion is right, just because it's what they've been taught. It's a bug, not a feature.
You know, if the U.S. wasn't the best country by default in the minds of brainwashed morons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H loyal patriots such as yourself, it probably wouldn't suck so much.
Yes, they did. The last 3.x release was 3.5.10, released days before 4.1.1. A good, solid and mature desktop you could use for a year while contemplating whether upgrading to the then rather usable 4.3.1 or moving to a different system. Sure, Microsoft is better at maintaining old versions of the OS. Apple is worse. Gnome's latest major version was back in 2002 or so, and I'm not going to bother with digging up the release history of 1.4, the last Gnome version I used (although I've stopped complaining about Gnome 2.0 now).
Oh, shut it. OS X 10.0 was barely beta quality as well, and somehow people stopped complaining when it started becoming usable, even though the upgrade to 10.2 cost money. Same with Windows Vista (6.0) --> Win7 (6.1). With KDE4, you were even warned not to use 4.0. But you still had to run off and use it, didn't you?
No, you're not a customer. If you were, you would know that KDE falls back to no compositing when there is no HW acceleration available. You're just a whiner on an internet message board.
I don't think The Beatles' long term reputation is in any danger at all, compared to just about anyone breaking through since 2000. Neither do I think Stieg Larsson's long term reputation will be all that great. He's just another also-ran in the huge market of genre fiction. Better than Dan Brown, of course, but he, too, will be forgotten in 10 years.
Actually, that's entirely irrelevant. Stieg Larsson already was an international bestseller long before being the first past the 1M mark for ebooks, currently occupying the top 3 on Amazon's.co.uk site for paperbacks. Other best selling writers, like Dan Brown, are also available for the Kindle.
Being dead probably did help him gaining best selling status, though. "Oh, this guy had worked for so many years on his three novels, and then he died shortly after sending them to the publisher. It's so sad. Buy, buy, buy."
What the fuck are you talking about? How the hell will "some code from Wine" added to a "X11 backend" benefit anything bandwidth wise? You don't make any sense whatsoever.
Most climate scientists agree that without the sun, the earth would be much colder.
It's arrogant of you to think that people in the know don't take the obvious into consideration. So yes, you're arrogant, and you're an idiot as well. How about trying to gain some knowledge about a subject before dismissing a theory out of hand.
The millions of people lining up to buy iPhones the first few days were like the millions of people lining up for The Phantom Menace: fans of a specific brand who are more easily swayed by hype than the average person. If you think it's a sign of quality, it's just because you're one of them.
It's a nice phone, but it's not that special. The only thing that sets it apart from the rest is a gyroscope (and a screen that still doesn't work properly in sunlight). A million people don't line up for a gyroscope.
Yeah, why should you care about expressing anything verbally. In fact, when I read your comment, my eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. Kind of like when someone who doesn't care one bit about something tries to explain to people who actually do care why their interests are dull and boring just because they don't get it.
Seriously, why is this pure expression of stupidity modded "insightful"? It doesn't have anything to say, apart from "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has".
I've read a few chapters of the book, and it's pretty good.
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Blah blah. I remember running the chsh command on OS X 10.3.9, to switch from the tcsh(?) that had been the default shell in 10.2 to bash, which Apple's brilliant engineers had made such a wreck of that it actually rendered the terminal.app unusable. That's a release critical bug in a central system utility, in the ninth installment of that OS version. And still, Apple fanboys will say "OS X is a real unix", as if they ever used one. Quality control simply isn't Apple's strong side, outside the UI elements that are obvious to the eye.
Not at all. The main reason why Apple failed to capture a bigger market is just that: their lock-in is so much stronger that although Mac fans believe they enjoy using their computers, they also usually dislike dealing with the outside world: Flash, Java, just about everything not specifically built for Apple is a kludge. Even simple things like internet video causes no ends of problems on the Mac platform. For a business – and even most regular home users – that needs to deal with others, that's simply not acceptable. So Apple's lock-in is strong, but has traditionally been most effective at locking users out. Cultism is built into the design.
You Mac fags will defend just about anything Apple can come up with.
Dictate? No. Just like it can't dictate correct spelling and grammar in SMS messages. Then again, typography doesn't concern SMS, email, or even the web, so this question doesn't actually concern the 99% you're talking about. In publishing, one space is the norm.
Sure. But hardly any of those guys have written anything for publication, and they simply don't know what they're talking about. They'll still consider that they're opinion is right, just because it's what they've been taught. It's a bug, not a feature.
Mod parent up. He's right, and the rest of you are just opinionated nerds.
Yeah, but that would close the browser window.
You know, if the U.S. wasn't the best country by default in the minds of brainwashed morons^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H loyal patriots such as yourself, it probably wouldn't suck so much.
You don't need to flash your phone to root it. (How do you flash your phone without rooting it?) Here's how I did mine.
Yes, they did. The last 3.x release was 3.5.10, released days before 4.1.1. A good, solid and mature desktop you could use for a year while contemplating whether upgrading to the then rather usable 4.3.1 or moving to a different system. Sure, Microsoft is better at maintaining old versions of the OS. Apple is worse. Gnome's latest major version was back in 2002 or so, and I'm not going to bother with digging up the release history of 1.4, the last Gnome version I used (although I've stopped complaining about Gnome 2.0 now).
So, how is OpenGL 3.0 more bloated than 1.x? How is it slower?
Oh, shut it. OS X 10.0 was barely beta quality as well, and somehow people stopped complaining when it started becoming usable, even though the upgrade to 10.2 cost money. Same with Windows Vista (6.0) --> Win7 (6.1). With KDE4, you were even warned not to use 4.0. But you still had to run off and use it, didn't you?
No, you're not a customer. If you were, you would know that KDE falls back to no compositing when there is no HW acceleration available. You're just a whiner on an internet message board.
I don't think The Beatles' long term reputation is in any danger at all, compared to just about anyone breaking through since 2000. Neither do I think Stieg Larsson's long term reputation will be all that great. He's just another also-ran in the huge market of genre fiction. Better than Dan Brown, of course, but he, too, will be forgotten in 10 years.
Actually, that's entirely irrelevant. Stieg Larsson already was an international bestseller long before being the first past the 1M mark for ebooks, currently occupying the top 3 on Amazon's .co.uk site for paperbacks. Other best selling writers, like Dan Brown, are also available for the Kindle.
Being dead probably did help him gaining best selling status, though. "Oh, this guy had worked for so many years on his three novels, and then he died shortly after sending them to the publisher. It's so sad. Buy, buy, buy."
You know perfectly well that it's not the reason why it exists. And as others have pointed out, it doesn't really work all that well either.
Oh, so you "have to" tell them to buy an iphone? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Good job getting this gibberish modded "interesting".
What the fuck are you talking about? How the hell will "some code from Wine" added to a "X11 backend" benefit anything bandwidth wise? You don't make any sense whatsoever.
Correct. Except, of course, when normal channels for distributing content (i.e. Flash) also are banned.
No one has claimed AGW comes from direct heating of the atmosphere by combustion of fossil fuels.
Most climate scientists agree that without the sun, the earth would be much colder.
It's arrogant of you to think that people in the know don't take the obvious into consideration. So yes, you're arrogant, and you're an idiot as well. How about trying to gain some knowledge about a subject before dismissing a theory out of hand.
The millions of people lining up to buy iPhones the first few days were like the millions of people lining up for The Phantom Menace: fans of a specific brand who are more easily swayed by hype than the average person. If you think it's a sign of quality, it's just because you're one of them.
It's a nice phone, but it's not that special. The only thing that sets it apart from the rest is a gyroscope (and a screen that still doesn't work properly in sunlight). A million people don't line up for a gyroscope.
Yeah, why should you care about expressing anything verbally. In fact, when I read your comment, my eyes glazed over and my brain went elsewhere. Kind of like when someone who doesn't care one bit about something tries to explain to people who actually do care why their interests are dull and boring just because they don't get it.
Seriously, why is this pure expression of stupidity modded "insightful"? It doesn't have anything to say, apart from "I don't have any thoughts of my own, and I don't want any, and I don't want to listen to someone who has".
I've read a few chapters of the book, and it's pretty good.
By that definition, fraud doesn't exist, just FYI. It's a really fucking dumb meme you're spreading.