I guess that is the second major consumer electronics device which has shipped with installed viruses. I imagine if the number of infected devices is really small they probably were infected in the same way as the iPod. Yet another reminder of how shoddy some of the conditions are where all of our nice little gadgets are made.
Advancing the practice of extremely shady accounting in order to avoid paying taxes and royalties?
90% of the fucking horrible movies released worldwide.
Remaking the same movies over and over with slightly changed scripts, or even the exact same one. (Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, Poseidon, etc. The wikipedia entry of movie remakes has had to be split into 2 pages)
Honestly, I don't give a flying fuck about what the movie industry perceives to be these horrible wrongs perpetrated against them. They're making money hand over fist doling out the same tepid crap over and over again.
Does anyone in here remember when airports used to usually have free wireless internet access? In 2001, it seemed like most of the nice airports offered free wireless access as a courtesy to customers, but now the only one I see doing that is my local airport (bluegrass int'l). Now every other airport seems to have some silly $15 wireless internet access service. Even expensive hotels now are starting to charge for wireless access, though they usually still have free wired access.
That's it, I'm sick of all this mother fucking nickel and dimeing in these motherfucking airports.
When will they outlaw razor blades that only fit one razor?
Only when they can't buy safery razor blades and double edge razor blades and you have to go to a Gillette. There is a standard razor format still out there. The blades fit box cutters and paint scrapers, art tools, medical tools, as well as razors. You can buy the blades at either the grocery store, drug store, or hardware store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate blades if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
You can't find many online music stores selling a variety of formats for several brands and functions of devices. This is the issue. I can buy several brands of razor blades at any one of the stores to fit my open format razor and can shop for the best brand and price. There is no online store selling competing brands of DRM content compatible with whatever brand of music player you happen to like. There is also no price and quality choices. If you buy online for your iPod, the only choice in the USA is 99 cents a track at the only quality level of 128Kbits. If you have a Zen, you can't buy compatible content for any price. If your device plays MP3's, you are SOL at the iTunes store. It's like having a safety razor and absolutely nobody sold blades for it so you had to rip your own from tin cans. (I know e-music, but try to buy any mainstream music there..)
Here are some examples of safety razor blades to fit your any name and function device that uses safety razor blades..
There are more not listed here.. You can't mix music and players like you can razors. MP3 format works fine, but everyone wants to be the defacto DRM single vendor instead. When will they outlaw music that only be played by one player?
Only when they can't buy music in Rebook CD format and you have to go to a download. There is a standard CD Audio format still out there. The discs CD players and DVD players, computers, and can be freely ripped in iTunes for an iPod. You can buy the CDs at either the grocery store, major music retail outlet, or independent music store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate music if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
The reason the razor blade analogy fails so miserably is that to get an "open format" razor blade, you have to settle for an inferior product, while to get an "open format" digital music file you have to buy a goddamn CD and settle for a superior product. MP3 is a steaming pile of shit as far as audio quality is concerned. I do not understand why people think that the convenience of being able to buy single songs for a dollar a piece is somehow worth losing control of what you can do with media that you have purchased.
Apparently Slashdot editors have been found to have the world's densest memory cells. You can't even get them to remember what happened yesterday. That's what I call dense.
What authority do they have to set a national speed limit? Absolutely none. And currently there isn't one.
There was one for about 20 years, but it was again enforced by the Commerce Clause. It was enforced by withholding highway funds to states which didn't comply.
Fuel savings due to the national speed limit, and lowering of highway fatalities were minimal.
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No, this isn't the only bug, nor is it the most serious.
There are remote code execution and escalation of privileges bugs that are still yet to be fixed, but at least it appears that these bugs are being taken seriously and will hopefully be fixed.
There are all sorts of people trying to find bugs in Linux and Windows, but not nearly as many people are doing so for OS X. As a Mac user, I am glad someone is doing this now and finding these bugs and exposing them to the public and to Apple before there are exploits out in the wild.
This is a joke based on an old anti-Mac OS troll that used to get posted here on/. a whole lot back in the day.
This should be +funny, but I guess a lot of people don't get the joke anymore and think you're serious. Here's the Original BTW:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Corporations as they exist today are a mistake. A way of gathering investment money needs to exist, in order to fund things that need massive startup costs (for example, processor design). But the idea that it should be done by a pseudo-person with no sense of morality, whos only goal is to amass money and power, and with no accountability for its actions is horribly flawed. Well first of all, corporations are only accountable to their shareholders, not to anyone else. If a sufficient majority of shares demand that a corporation act ethically, then the corporation will have to operate as such. Most shareholders want maximum returns on their investments, and honestly do not care about ethics. This stems from the fact that corporations and investment are economically motivated decisions. Economics is incapable of accounting for such intangible things, since economic decision making is based entirely off monetary values being assigned. The environment, ethics, and other very important things cannot be assigned a monetary value, and thus can not be properly accounted for in any economic system.
Sorry, but I'm not paying a cent for Bootcamp til they make it work 100%. Okay, then I won't charge you for the Bootcamp Beta. Though if you want to post your credit card number, expiration date, name, and security code, I'll gladly take them. Also, if you only run software that works 100% do you mostly run software written in HAL/S?
For a bunch of guys that brag about how much better their product is than Windows, they certainly code their Windows-based stuff poorly. Apple doesn't have a lot of experience coding for their competitors' platforms. Strange, isn't it.
Itunes on Windows uses more juice than nearly every other application I run. Your computer runs off juice? What kind is it, Apple or Orange?
Back to Bootcamp... it took almost a solid year for them to release a build of the Windows drivers that actually made use of all of the system's hardware... until then, the two-finger trackpad drag didn't work (and it's still sub-par to the responsiveness of the OSX drivers)... Okay, and every company that sells PCs with Windows preloaded ships drivers that work well? If you're this up in arms about Apple shipping beta Windows XP drivers that don't work as well as their OS X counterparts, what do you think about the actual final version drivers that are shipped preloaded on Windows based computers?
opening the onboard camera blew the OS up... And I bet it splashed juice everywhere.
Even now, running the latest code, when you bring Windows back from hibernate on a Macbook, the trackpad doesn't work at all and a reboot is required to bring it back. It's been tolerable because it's a beta, but put a price tag on it and we have a different situation. They're going to have to put a lot more effort into making a quality product if they want us to shell out for it. So, in order to sell a piece of software, it should have less bugs than the free beta version. That should be modded: (+liek infinity, Insightful)
I see, I guess that's why I've never had font problems. I don't install many fonts other than what I need. Pretty much everything I need to do is times, or some other really generic font.
I guess that's why I don't have stability problems on my OS X or XP installs, I don't install a lot of the crap software that I see giving people problems.
So, people who pay for a movie from these guys won't be able to share it via Kazaa or bittorrent or whatever is popular right now. I don't think that many people who pay to download a movie really do so with the intent of putting it on a filesharing network. I mean, why the hell would you do that? The people I know who do the whole illegal filesharing thing, don't pay for media they can get for free, and the people I know who buy digital download media, don't use illegal filesharing sites. Buying something legally kinda defeats the purpose of using a filesharing site, amirite?
Another guy says "Windows doesn't have font issues, changing permissions on the fly". What the fuck does he mean by "changing permissions of the fly"? chmod? And what "font issues" are he talking about? I sure as hell haven't ever had any, though I've only been using Mac OS since 6.0.8.
Also, there's the guy who talks about Windows being "IT's 'Dream'" because there are a lot of people who have jobs just supporting Windows. Is the fact that Windows requires a lot of technical support supposed to be a good thing?
Most people I know who read Information Week are IT folks of the A+/MCSE variety, so I guess this giant steaming load of an article really does reflect that.
If these are the most intelligent comments that Information Week could dig up, maybe they should have thought twice about publishing them in an article.
Btw, I still think this is insane. The body should just pass any water it doesn't need straight to the bladder. Maybe you should submit a bug report or take this issue up with the dev team.
1 Switch to an ATI card. They always seem to work better with OS X. I don't know why, but the NVIDIA cards never seem to work that well for me in OS X.
2 Take out one stick of memory. 3GB is kind of excessive IMO for OS X unless you REALLY need that much memory. I used to run WoW, iTunes, Firefox, Ventrilo, and other apps just fine (when I played WoW) and never had any memory issues with 2 GB. I think the Mac Pro benefits from interleaving as well (don't quote me on that, I don't have one) and requires a specific memory configuration.
3 Play WoW under windows with bootcamp. It was always a little faster for me under XP than OS X, but my subscription ran out a little while ago.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Uh. Since when did DRM constitute "crippleware"?
I don't know. I've been using computers for oh, 18 of the 23 years I have been alive and have used shareware for a great portion of that time. Generally, "crippleware" has referred to shareware or trial software that is intentionally crippled in some way so as to remove functionality present in the fully paid for version of the software. Just because some luddite idiot uses a word incorrectly doesn't mean that the NYT should have to as well.
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I guess that is the second major consumer electronics device which has shipped with installed viruses. I imagine if the number of infected devices is really small they probably were infected in the same way as the iPod. Yet another reminder of how shoddy some of the conditions are where all of our nice little gadgets are made.
Advancing the practice of extremely shady accounting in order to avoid paying taxes and royalties?
90% of the fucking horrible movies released worldwide.
Remaking the same movies over and over with slightly changed scripts, or even the exact same one. (Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, Poseidon, etc. The wikipedia entry of movie remakes has had to be split into 2 pages)
Honestly, I don't give a flying fuck about what the movie industry perceives to be these horrible wrongs perpetrated against them. They're making money hand over fist doling out the same tepid crap over and over again.
Which I mentioned in my post. I live in Lexington.
I just looked it up and found a nice list of US airports that have free access:e t.aspx
http://www.travelpost.com/airport-wireless-intern
It also has international airports, neato.
Does anyone in here remember when airports used to usually have free wireless internet access? In 2001, it seemed like most of the nice airports offered free wireless access as a courtesy to customers, but now the only one I see doing that is my local airport (bluegrass int'l). Now every other airport seems to have some silly $15 wireless internet access service. Even expensive hotels now are starting to charge for wireless access, though they usually still have free wired access.
That's it, I'm sick of all this mother fucking nickel and dimeing in these motherfucking airports.
Only when they can't buy safery razor blades and double edge razor blades and you have to go to a Gillette. There is a standard razor format still out there. The blades fit box cutters and paint scrapers, art tools, medical tools, as well as razors. You can buy the blades at either the grocery store, drug store, or hardware store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate blades if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
You can't find many online music stores selling a variety of formats for several brands and functions of devices. This is the issue. I can buy several brands of razor blades at any one of the stores to fit my open format razor and can shop for the best brand and price. There is no online store selling competing brands of DRM content compatible with whatever brand of music player you happen to like. There is also no price and quality choices. If you buy online for your iPod, the only choice in the USA is 99 cents a track at the only quality level of 128Kbits. If you have a Zen, you can't buy compatible content for any price. If your device plays MP3's, you are SOL at the iTunes store. It's like having a safety razor and absolutely nobody sold blades for it so you had to rip your own from tin cans. (I know e-music, but try to buy any mainstream music there..)
Here are some examples of safety razor blades to fit your any name and function device that uses safety razor blades..
Mekur brand http://www.amazon.com/Merkur-Double-Safety-Blades
Auto Parts blades
http://www.parts4cars.com.au/cart.php?target=prod
Feather brand
http://www.classicshaving.com/catalog/item/522941
Excel brand
http://www.dickblick.com/itemgroups-r/razorblades
Wilkinson brand
http://www.blademail.co.uk/acatalog/Classic_Twin_
Gem brand
http://www.2spi.com/catalog/tools/smtol14.shtml
There are more not listed here.. You can't mix music and players like you can razors. MP3 format works fine, but everyone wants to be the defacto DRM single vendor instead. When will they outlaw music that only be played by one player?
Only when they can't buy music in Rebook CD format and you have to go to a download. There is a standard CD Audio format still out there. The discs CD players and DVD players, computers, and can be freely ripped in iTunes for an iPod. You can buy the CDs at either the grocery store, major music retail outlet, or independent music store. Your other option is to go the single vendor lock-in route. You don't have to pirate music if you decide not to go with a single vendor solution.
The reason the razor blade analogy fails so miserably is that to get an "open format" razor blade, you have to settle for an inferior product, while to get an "open format" digital music file you have to buy a goddamn CD and settle for a superior product. MP3 is a steaming pile of shit as far as audio quality is concerned. I do not understand why people think that the convenience of being able to buy single songs for a dollar a piece is somehow worth losing control of what you can do with media that you have purchased.
Apparently Slashdot editors have been found to have the world's densest memory cells. You can't even get them to remember what happened yesterday. That's what I call dense.
There was one for about 20 years, but it was again enforced by the Commerce Clause. It was enforced by withholding highway funds to states which didn't comply.
Fuel savings due to the national speed limit, and lowering of highway fatalities were minimal.
No, this isn't the only bug, nor is it the most serious.
There are remote code execution and escalation of privileges bugs that are still yet to be fixed, but at least it appears that these bugs are being taken seriously and will hopefully be fixed.
There are all sorts of people trying to find bugs in Linux and Windows, but not nearly as many people are doing so for OS X. As a Mac user, I am glad someone is doing this now and finding these bugs and exposing them to the public and to Apple before there are exploits out in the wild.
No, if Adam's wives fell, that would be Eves dropping.
This isn't eavesdropping either.
Jesus H. Christ people, GP is NOT A TROLL.
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This is a joke based on an old anti-Mac OS troll that used to get posted here on
This should be +funny, but I guess a lot of people don't get the joke anymore and think you're serious.
Here's the Original BTW: I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I see, I guess that's why I've never had font problems. I don't install many fonts other than what I need. Pretty much everything I need to do is times, or some other really generic font.
I guess that's why I don't have stability problems on my OS X or XP installs, I don't install a lot of the crap software that I see giving people problems.
So, people who pay for a movie from these guys won't be able to share it via Kazaa or bittorrent or whatever is popular right now. I don't think that many people who pay to download a movie really do so with the intent of putting it on a filesharing network. I mean, why the hell would you do that? The people I know who do the whole illegal filesharing thing, don't pay for media they can get for free, and the people I know who buy digital download media, don't use illegal filesharing sites. Buying something legally kinda defeats the purpose of using a filesharing site, amirite?
Whoever modded my comments as such can go suck a giant flaming cock.
Why do you thing drug companies focus on treating symptoms more often than diseases?
Another guy says "Windows doesn't have font issues, changing permissions on the fly". What the fuck does he mean by "changing permissions of the fly"? chmod? And what "font issues" are he talking about? I sure as hell haven't ever had any, though I've only been using Mac OS since 6.0.8.
Also, there's the guy who talks about Windows being "IT's 'Dream'" because there are a lot of people who have jobs just supporting Windows. Is the fact that Windows requires a lot of technical support supposed to be a good thing?
Most people I know who read Information Week are IT folks of the A+/MCSE variety, so I guess this giant steaming load of an article really does reflect that.
Wow, a non-article written by non-authors.
If these are the most intelligent comments that Information Week could dig up, maybe they should have thought twice about publishing them in an article.
1 Switch to an ATI card. They always seem to work better with OS X. I don't know why, but the NVIDIA cards never seem to work that well for me in OS X.
2 Take out one stick of memory. 3GB is kind of excessive IMO for OS X unless you REALLY need that much memory. I used to run WoW, iTunes, Firefox, Ventrilo, and other apps just fine (when I played WoW) and never had any memory issues with 2 GB. I think the Mac Pro benefits from interleaving as well (don't quote me on that, I don't have one) and requires a specific memory configuration.
3 Play WoW under windows with bootcamp. It was always a little faster for me under XP than OS X, but my subscription ran out a little while ago.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Uh. Since when did DRM constitute "crippleware"?
I don't know. I've been using computers for oh, 18 of the 23 years I have been alive and have used shareware for a great portion of that time. Generally, "crippleware" has referred to shareware or trial software that is intentionally crippled in some way so as to remove functionality present in the fully paid for version of the software. Just because some luddite idiot uses a word incorrectly doesn't mean that the NYT should have to as well.
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Tokie Warthoot not a bumble bee
William Murderface Murderface Murderface
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Nathan Explosion!