I've had an original Mini since they first shipped. I didn't know that the power usage was that low but it's a great little box. Totally reliable and enough power to not feel cramped.
Most importantly, the fanbois will no longer be special and will find some other shiny, overpriced toy to validate their whiny, shallow, pseudo-intellectual, metrosexual, idiotic existance. They'd probably be much happer(and less whinier) if they spent their hard-earned money at the gay disco instead.
Why is this (tired) troll marked 3, insightful? Sheesh. Is Slashdot turning into Digg?
While I'll agree that Apple isn't perfect etc., and there have been some egregious mistakes on Apple's part etc., I'm starting to get tired of all these "Apple Sucks" articles, blog postings and internet comment rants.
Why? Because most of the Apple Sucks stories, articles and whatnot are written just to get the page hits. The saying used to be "bad news sells". For the internet, computer and gadget intelligentsia, slamming Apple or pointing out a new Apple product's shortcomings sells.
The money from the cross-licensing comes back to the ARC, in other words, companies that use the ARC logo are returning profits from licensed products back to the ARC. So whats the problem?
No turn-about isn't fair in this case. The ARC *is* a non-profit after all. They don't want for-profit companies making money off the ARC reputation. When for-prodit companies make money with the ARC trademark, they are taking money away from important ARC tasks like say, helping disaster victims. You aren't against helping disaster victims are you?
As a recipient of ARC help after two bad hurricanes, I *do* care about the ARC having the money to live up to their charter.
Subversion 1.5 will have automated merge tracking. The merge tracking feature is already available on the trunk, and will be released in (probably) a couple of months. This link has more information:
With the addition of the merge tracking feature Subversion will be almost at parity (feature wise) with commercial products like P4.
Git may be a great SCM tool for some situations, but for commercial development which doesn't require a distributed architecture, IMO, SVN is preferable to Git.
Git needs to be supported on more platforms and have a better user interface to be accepted as widely as Subversion.
I must mention TortoiseSVN at this point, because until Git has a user interface like TortoiseSVN, it'll never be accepted by Windows devs. I'm not asking for trouble here (in other words, I'm not trolling Linux users), it's just that I looked at lots of alternatives for our (mainly Windows and UNIX-based) shop and nothing else came close. All of our devs use Windows, even if just to host a terminal program, and the ease of training folks on the use of TortoiseSVN was a big reason for our switch to Subversion.
So why not just use the built-in right-click functionality of your MacBook trackpad? It's under Trackpad Gestures on the Trackpad tab of the mouse prefs pane.
The iMacs support 2 monitors. It used to require a hack to make the desktop span two monitors on the iMac, but Apple finally decided to allow spanning. The difference in price isn't so much if you figure in the cost of two monitors and the Mini. A 20" iMac with a 20" second monitor is a lot of Mac desktop for the money.
>but I do see another scenario that requires DRM: subscription music services (snip) >But, you could never have a service like this without DRM.
I have no idea what you are talking about. eMusic (a subscription music service) is very successful and has no DRM. With my subscription I'm getting DRM-free tracks at about 6 cents per track.
After re-reading your post *several* times I'm assuming you mean subscription services that offer all-you-can-eat type plans like Napster. The Napster model isn't the only subscription service out there.
I'm not sure what you point is supposed to be. That MacroVision could distribute Apple's DRM since they were commercially successful with SafeDisc? Or was it irony? SafeDisc is horrible and has been cracked many times. Jobs argued that if FairPlay was released to many distributors, it would be much harder to contain breaches of Fairplay security. Given MacroVisions track record with SafeDisc, they would be a bad choice as a partner for Apple's DRM.
"First, MS is doing tons of interesting stuff. You have no idea."
Like what? I haven't heard anything vaguely interesting (other than cool FUD) coming from Redmond in years.
"My guess is you're just some random systems admin, or that whatever you are you aren't a developer. Go look around on MSDN. MS is doing very cutting edge stuff on the development front, the only industry player even close is IBM."
IBM has some interesting projects. MS has nothing close to IBM. You believe MS's stuff is "cutting edge" because they keep telling you it is.
"Nobody but the geekiest of the geeky dweebs really hates Microsoft. Many people still think they're cool"
If you think that, all I can say is that you're not a developer. I don't know anyone *at all* that thinks MS is "cool" and I've been a developer for 20 years. Frankly there's not much left in IT that is in the cool category.
"and a lot of people are actually professionals and learn the best technology for the task and don't care if they're cool."
You're correct on this one. And MS is rarely the best technology for the task.
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I've had an original Mini since they first shipped. I didn't know that the power usage was that low but it's a great little box. Totally reliable and enough power to not feel cramped.
The newest Mac Mini uses 14 watts when idle. Isn't a home server mostly going to sit around idle?
Most importantly, the fanbois will no longer be special and will find some other shiny, overpriced toy to validate their whiny, shallow, pseudo-intellectual, metrosexual, idiotic existance. They'd probably be much happer(and less whinier) if they spent their hard-earned money at the gay disco instead.
Why is this (tired) troll marked 3, insightful? Sheesh. Is Slashdot turning into Digg?
damn! I just listened to Pachuco Cadaver again, and I *do* have it wrong. Ah well, time for a new sig anyway. And damn you for pointing it out!
lol, "Cacao".
Doing the same thing here. The devices Airfoil can stream to, don't count towards the "five computer limit" either.
"By the way, what is a PHB?"
It's a Dilbert reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert
"PHB" is the short form of "Pointy Haired Boss".
While I'll agree that Apple isn't perfect etc., and there have been some egregious mistakes on Apple's part etc., I'm starting to get tired of all these "Apple Sucks" articles, blog postings and internet comment rants. Why? Because most of the Apple Sucks stories, articles and whatnot are written just to get the page hits. The saying used to be "bad news sells". For the internet, computer and gadget intelligentsia, slamming Apple or pointing out a new Apple product's shortcomings sells.
Very funny when pirates are upset when somebody tries to steal their board. Why would they think that their membership would behave honorably?
The money from the cross-licensing comes back to the ARC, in other words, companies that use the ARC logo are returning profits from licensed products back to the ARC. So whats the problem?
No turn-about isn't fair in this case. The ARC *is* a non-profit after all. They don't want for-profit companies making money off the ARC reputation. When for-prodit companies make money with the ARC trademark, they are taking money away from important ARC tasks like say, helping disaster victims. You aren't against helping disaster victims are you?
As a recipient of ARC help after two bad hurricanes, I *do* care about the ARC having the money to live up to their charter.
Subversion 1.5 will have automated merge tracking. The merge tracking feature is already available on the trunk, and will be released in (probably) a couple of months. This link has more information:
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http://subversion.tigris.org/merge-tracking/index
With the addition of the merge tracking feature Subversion will be almost at parity (feature wise) with commercial products like P4.
Git may be a great SCM tool for some situations, but for commercial development which doesn't require a distributed architecture, IMO, SVN is preferable to Git.
Git needs to be supported on more platforms and have a better user interface to be accepted as widely as Subversion.
I must mention TortoiseSVN at this point, because until Git has a user interface like TortoiseSVN, it'll never be accepted by Windows devs. I'm not asking for trouble here (in other words, I'm not trolling Linux users), it's just that I looked at lots of alternatives for our (mainly Windows and UNIX-based) shop and nothing else came close. All of our devs use Windows, even if just to host a terminal program, and the ease of training folks on the use of TortoiseSVN was a big reason for our switch to Subversion.
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
FWIW, I'm a UNIX/OS X/Linux guy myself.
Of course, but the OP said he has a macbook.
So why not just use the built-in right-click functionality of your MacBook trackpad? It's under Trackpad Gestures on the Trackpad tab of the mouse prefs pane.
HTH
Gee, I guess I should quit smoking crack!
Might have been funny if you had spelled "they're" correctly.
their != they're
The iMacs support 2 monitors. It used to require a hack to make the desktop span two monitors on the iMac, but Apple finally decided to allow spanning. The difference in price isn't so much if you figure in the cost of two monitors and the Mini. A 20" iMac with a 20" second monitor is a lot of Mac desktop for the money.
"Really, FlipStart gives you everything that your laptop does"
It doesn't have OS X. So no. It doesn't give me everything my notebook does.
OS X :)
>but I do see another scenario that requires DRM: subscription music services
(snip)
>But, you could never have a service like this without DRM.
I have no idea what you are talking about. eMusic (a subscription music service) is very successful and has no DRM. With my subscription I'm getting DRM-free tracks at about 6 cents per track.
After re-reading your post *several* times I'm assuming you mean subscription services that offer all-you-can-eat type plans like Napster. The Napster model isn't the only subscription service out there.
I'm not sure what you point is supposed to be. That MacroVision could distribute Apple's DRM since they were commercially successful with SafeDisc? Or was it irony? SafeDisc is horrible and has been cracked many times. Jobs argued that if FairPlay was released to many distributors, it would be much harder to contain breaches of Fairplay security. Given MacroVisions track record with SafeDisc, they would be a bad choice as a partner for Apple's DRM.
FTA: "The solution is to accelerate the deployment of convenient DRM-protected distribution channels--not to abandon them."
Of course they would say this. DRM is what they sell.
"First, MS is doing tons of interesting stuff. You have no idea."
Like what? I haven't heard anything vaguely interesting (other than cool FUD) coming from Redmond in years.
"My guess is you're just some random systems admin, or that whatever you are you aren't a developer. Go look around on MSDN. MS is doing very cutting edge stuff on the development front, the only industry player even close is IBM."
IBM has some interesting projects. MS has nothing close to IBM. You believe MS's stuff is "cutting edge" because they keep telling you it is.
"Nobody but the geekiest of the geeky dweebs really hates Microsoft. Many people still think they're cool"
If you think that, all I can say is that you're not a developer. I don't know anyone *at all* that thinks MS is "cool" and I've been a developer for 20 years. Frankly there's not much left in IT that is in the cool category.
"and a lot of people are actually professionals and learn the best technology for the task and don't care if they're cool."
You're correct on this one. And MS is rarely the best technology for the task.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus!
My mom was a Bozo-ette in high school.
Care to squeeze the wheeze? Many people like to!
If I had mod points I would mod you up just for the Firesign Theatre reference.
"aw heck no, I'm gonna take off my shoes, climb a tree and learn to play the flute!"