The question is, how many iTunes customers would not have bought the album otherwise, and are only buying it because it's on iTunes? In other words, is Al losing thirty cents, or gaining seventy?
I know I've spent more money in iTunes in the last two years than I've spent in record stores in the last ten. (Though the last record I bought from Al was an honest-to-Go vinyl album.)
The problem with the term 'Free Software' is it's very hard to hear the difference between a capital F and a lowercase f. And the FSF will never, ever get a trademark on 'free software' because there is absolutely no reason not to call zero-cost software 'free'--in English, anyway. If anything, they could go with a term like 'freedomware.'
BTW, you're using the RMS definition of 'Free' but your own definition of 'Open Source.' By picking and choosing which definitions I'm going to use, I could just as easily say that there's lots of free software on download.com but that Windows very much isn't open source. Intentionally adding to the confusion doesn't help.
Sure was. It was the first game I ever saw that was fifty cents a pop.
And for all those who are complaining about how random the play was, this game had patterns, same as any other game. When you're trying to get past those two spinning Q-Tips, you press the stick when he lunges. In the water, you go towards the lighter stream, etc. Remember kids, this was nineteen eighty freaking three--Dragon's Lair looked WORLDS better than what else was out there. Who cares if the gameplay was less than perfect. Besides, that princess was a piece of ass. (No surprise, I guess: reading the Wikipedia article, the studio couldn't afford a model so they just looked at Playboys. Ha.)
Gameplay suffered because there was only one laser disc in the system so there was a short blank-screen delay when the scenes switched from the 'setup' to the 'result.'. I heard that Space Ace had two and it would switch back and forth between them with no delay, but reading Wikipedia I see that there were conversion kits to make DL into SA, so who knows--I might be remembering wrong.
>> As a European I find the article rather America-centric.
> As an American I find this article to be Bay Area-centric.
As a Bay-Arean (no, NOT Aryan) I find this article to be Palo Alto-centric.;-)
Next up: a Palo Alto resident complaining about the Page Mill Road-centric tone of the article. Followed by someone complaining about the 600 block of Page Mill Road. Soon we'll have the suite number from which Paul wrote this piece.:-)
One would hope that's the case, since Hotmail's been around for a decade and GMail is only two years old. Sure, Hotmail got to 30 million users in just 3 years, but a) they were the first, and only, wembail provider at the time, and b) Gmail has spent most of its life as invite-only.
That was my first thought too. And this whole "deafening by listening to portable music players" bit is about twenty-five years too late.
The cell-phone bent neck? The blackberry thumb-puncher? Hi-fucking-larious. Please, John, stop, my sides are killing me.
Besides, I'd bet that the typical sixteen-hour-steam-iron-operator from the 1920s would trade places with the blackberry-thumb-puncher in a heartbeat. Wow, unfunny and un-insightful. Way to knock another one out of the park, John.
"Would anyone even 20 years ago have predicted that on every business card you will now find a standardized e-mail address?"
Um, I don't know. Isn't that the kind of thing a technology writer should have predicted, at least?
John C. Dvorak, ca. 2050: "Wow, I bet people from the 2000s would think we shore do look funny in our new-fangled flying cars. Who woulda thunk it?"
Am I the only one who noticed that a lot of these were covered on the "Engineering Disasters" series on Modern Marvels? The Hyatt, the DC-10, the molasses one, maybe the St. Francis Dam (they've done a few dams), and I think they also did the tires and I'm pretty sure they did the 2003 northeastern US power outage, too. And that's just from memory.
Great to know I can watch TV for a few months and then write an article for Wired. And only paragraph on each? Jeez. I think I'll quit my day job.
...and see where it leads. it might lead you to databases, or web apps, or binary apps, who knows. scratch your own itch, as the saying goes. you're right that everything leads to everything else and it's all intermingled. don't worry, just jump in somewhere and learn what you need to as you go.
Actually, you missed the point of my post entirely. (Which was probably due to its brevity, so it's my fault.) The parent said "A lot of OS X was already in Windows 2000 but it was turned off because people didn;t necessarily want or need drop shadows and genie effects." I was pointing out that the cool technologies in OS X go much further than eye-candy effects, and that most of the features in Vista that MS is making a big deal about have been in OS X since Tiger was first demoed in mid-2004. These features have already been in Tiger users' hands for over a year and it looks like it'll be almost another year before any member of the general public gets to play with them in Windows. This video says it best. (There are longer versions available elsewhere.)
You sound like a troll, but I'll bite. We're talking about a lot more than drop shadows.* Things like instant search, live thumbnails, windows as textures drawn by the GPU, etc.
Yeah, what started out as a noble crusade to keep Gary Glitter from making more albums wound up having horrible, unintended consequences, like when they brought those frogs to Australia.
Tablets are a tiny percent of the laptop market. Apple has a tiny percent of the computer market. Apple tablet = (tiny number) x (tiny number) = really tiny number. It just won't happen. Your best bet is to get a PC tablet and install OS X for Intel on it.:-)
I've got a tablet from work. Great for surfing on the couch (though 'typing' URLs and search terms sucks) and fun to play with (I highly recommend 'dots' and the make-your-own-font app), and occasionally I use it instead of pen & paper for note taking, but overall, it's not especially useful. Plus I feel conspicuous taking it out in public in all but the geekiest settings. (And even at conferences, I feel like I'm showing off.) Given the price premium, I'd never buy one with my own money.
While I agree for most people installing these drivers is easier under Windows, that is not because the install procedure is easier or faster, but simply because they are accostumed to doing things this way.
No, the install procedure on Windows really is easier and faster. - go to ati.com or nvidia.com or whatever - find and download the driver--usually an.exe - double-click the.exe - click 'next' a few times - reboot - pretty much always works
Wow. A flamebait mod for saying Apple is doing well and pointing out the FACT that there has not been one serious virus in OS X's five year history. Now I've seen everything.
I'm trying to figure out your point in the relationship to the story and why it's insightful.
a) there was a story? b) my comment is just inherently insightful, ergo the mods. (they don't RTFAs, either.)
In all seriousness, my comment was more a reply to the tone of the summary than any particular points is the articles. (Though I don't know why this guy is freaking out that Apple isn't work overtime to get patches out for undisclosed bugs overnight. All vendors often have gaps between when someone announces a potential vulnerability and when a suitable patch comes out. This is nothing new.)
Are you arguing that it's "enough" for Apple to not patch known problems? That because Apple has a good track record that they can be lax? That Apple should imitate Microsoft's policies of the late 1990s and not take "gray hats" seriously?
I'm going by the dictionary definition of "enough:" "sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate." I would say Apple's track record shows they're doing "enough" with regard to security for the most part. )I think the worst thing they've done so far wasn't even security-related--it was that buggy update that erased hard drives with spaces for the first character in their names.) That's why "enough" != "everything possible." For example: Am I eating as many vegetables as I should? Probably not. Am I eating enough to keep myself from imminent death? Since I've been eating this way for a couple decades, I'd say yes. In that sense, I'm eating "enough" vegetables.
Now, do I want Apple to become lax and sloppy? Of course not. Could they be doing more? Absolutely.* But, overall, since you could probably fit all the people who have lost data to OS X viruses in a small room, I'd say that their effort--the result of which is a handful of infections out of millions of machines--counts as 'enough.'
* While I don't think Tom Ferris should be making a big stink about Apple's turnaround time, I would very much like to see them fix whatever he found this week. I'd like to see them patch whatever holes the winner of the 'rm-my-mac' contest** used to escalate privileges. (Sure, that required a local account in the first place, but a flaw is a flaw.) Mostly, I'd like to see them have Safari's "Open 'safe' files" option UNchecked by default--I agree with others, that's an accident waiting to happen.
Considering that there has not been one real, severe, in-the-wild, massively spread, substantial, damage-causing virus in the five year history of Mac OS X, I would say yes, the boys and girls in Cupertino are doing just fine. Thank you very much for all your hard work, and all naysaying columnists and pundits can go screw.
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The question is, how many iTunes customers would not have bought the album otherwise, and are only buying it because it's on iTunes? In other words, is Al losing thirty cents, or gaining seventy?
I know I've spent more money in iTunes in the last two years than I've spent in record stores in the last ten. (Though the last record I bought from Al was an honest-to-Go vinyl album.)
The problem with the term 'Free Software' is it's very hard to hear the difference between a capital F and a lowercase f. And the FSF will never, ever get a trademark on 'free software' because there is absolutely no reason not to call zero-cost software 'free'--in English, anyway. If anything, they could go with a term like 'freedomware.'
BTW, you're using the RMS definition of 'Free' but your own definition of 'Open Source.' By picking and choosing which definitions I'm going to use, I could just as easily say that there's lots of free software on download.com but that Windows very much isn't open source. Intentionally adding to the confusion doesn't help.
They have 2 companies managing all that dark fiber for them.
That sounds like a great job, like those people that the government pays to not grow corn.
"Fiber still there?"
"Yup."
"Great."
"...in the arcade it was a quarter eater."
Sure was. It was the first game I ever saw that was fifty cents a pop.
And for all those who are complaining about how random the play was, this game had patterns, same as any other game. When you're trying to get past those two spinning Q-Tips, you press the stick when he lunges. In the water, you go towards the lighter stream, etc. Remember kids, this was nineteen eighty freaking three--Dragon's Lair looked WORLDS better than what else was out there. Who cares if the gameplay was less than perfect. Besides, that princess was a piece of ass. (No surprise, I guess: reading the Wikipedia article, the studio couldn't afford a model so they just looked at Playboys. Ha.)
Gameplay suffered because there was only one laser disc in the system so there was a short blank-screen delay when the scenes switched from the 'setup' to the 'result.'. I heard that Space Ace had two and it would switch back and forth between them with no delay, but reading Wikipedia I see that there were conversion kits to make DL into SA, so who knows--I might be remembering wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ace
>> As a European I find the article rather America-centric.
;-)
:-)
> As an American I find this article to be Bay Area-centric.
As a Bay-Arean (no, NOT Aryan) I find this article to be Palo Alto-centric.
Next up: a Palo Alto resident complaining about the Page Mill Road-centric tone of the article. Followed by someone complaining about the 600 block of Page Mill Road. Soon we'll have the suite number from which Paul wrote this piece.
You know who made money in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s? People who sold supplies to the miners.
One would hope that's the case, since Hotmail's been around for a decade and GMail is only two years old. Sure, Hotmail got to 30 million users in just 3 years, but a) they were the first, and only, wembail provider at the time, and b) Gmail has spent most of its life as invite-only.
> Because of this I think that 802.11b/a/c/n are going to be around for a long time.
:-)
Well, we can always hope for a breakthrough with 802.11d, e, i, k, l, m, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, or z.
I bet HD radio will be as much of a sensation as SACDs, with adoption rates possibly greater than MiniDisc and DAT combined!
That was my first thought too. And this whole "deafening by listening to portable music players" bit is about twenty-five years too late.
The cell-phone bent neck? The blackberry thumb-puncher? Hi-fucking-larious. Please, John, stop, my sides are killing me.
Besides, I'd bet that the typical sixteen-hour-steam-iron-operator from the 1920s would trade places with the blackberry-thumb-puncher in a heartbeat. Wow, unfunny and un-insightful. Way to knock another one out of the park, John.
"Would anyone even 20 years ago have predicted that on every business card you will now find a standardized e-mail address?"
Um, I don't know. Isn't that the kind of thing a technology writer should have predicted, at least?
John C. Dvorak, ca. 2050: "Wow, I bet people from the 2000s would think we shore do look funny in our new-fangled flying cars. Who woulda thunk it?"
Dumbass.
Am I the only one who noticed that a lot of these were covered on the "Engineering Disasters" series on Modern Marvels? The Hyatt, the DC-10, the molasses one, maybe the St. Francis Dam (they've done a few dams), and I think they also did the tires and I'm pretty sure they did the 2003 northeastern US power outage, too. And that's just from memory.
Great to know I can watch TV for a few months and then write an article for Wired. And only paragraph on each? Jeez. I think I'll quit my day job.
Both StarOffice users have been contacted and were warned to be careful.
...and see where it leads. it might lead you to databases, or web apps, or binary apps, who knows. scratch your own itch, as the saying goes. you're right that everything leads to everything else and it's all intermingled. don't worry, just jump in somewhere and learn what you need to as you go.
I downloaded the spec just so I could delete it. Take that, Micro$oft!!!!!11one ;-)
Were you at openlazlo.org (parked domain) or openlaSzlo.org/ (the site we're discussing)?
Actually, you missed the point of my post entirely. (Which was probably due to its brevity, so it's my fault.) The parent said "A lot of OS X was already in Windows 2000 but it was turned off because people didn;t necessarily want or need drop shadows and genie effects." I was pointing out that the cool technologies in OS X go much further than eye-candy effects, and that most of the features in Vista that MS is making a big deal about have been in OS X since Tiger was first demoed in mid-2004. These features have already been in Tiger users' hands for over a year and it looks like it'll be almost another year before any member of the general public gets to play with them in Windows. This video says it best. (There are longer versions available elsewhere.)
You sound like a troll, but I'll bite. We're talking about a lot more than drop shadows.* Things like instant search, live thumbnails, windows as textures drawn by the GPU, etc.
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http://www.google.com/search?&q=vista+tiger+featu
Here's one of my favorites.
* btw, the only drop shadow in W2K was on the mouse pointer.
Yeah, what started out as a noble crusade to keep Gary Glitter from making more albums wound up having horrible, unintended consequences, like when they brought those frogs to Australia.
Tablets are a tiny percent of the laptop market. Apple has a tiny percent of the computer market. Apple tablet = (tiny number) x (tiny number) = really tiny number. It just won't happen. Your best bet is to get a PC tablet and install OS X for Intel on it. :-)
I've got a tablet from work. Great for surfing on the couch (though 'typing' URLs and search terms sucks) and fun to play with (I highly recommend 'dots' and the make-your-own-font app), and occasionally I use it instead of pen & paper for note taking, but overall, it's not especially useful. Plus I feel conspicuous taking it out in public in all but the geekiest settings. (And even at conferences, I feel like I'm showing off.) Given the price premium, I'd never buy one with my own money.
"From time to time."
OK, that's one. Got any more?
Or, you can follow these directions to make your old iBook black, pink, or any color you want. I did this and made mine clear.
While I agree for most people installing these drivers is easier under Windows, that is not because the install procedure is easier or faster, but simply because they are accostumed to doing things this way.
.exe .exe
No, the install procedure on Windows really is easier and faster.
- go to ati.com or nvidia.com or whatever
- find and download the driver--usually an
- double-click the
- click 'next' a few times
- reboot
- pretty much always works
Compare that to pages like this and this.
And while it's true that very often we need to compile and/or load some modules in most linux distros for these to work, at least they will work.
Really?
Wow. A flamebait mod for saying Apple is doing well and pointing out the FACT that there has not been one serious virus in OS X's five year history. Now I've seen everything.
I'm trying to figure out your point in the relationship to the story and why it's insightful.
a) there was a story?
b) my comment is just inherently insightful, ergo the mods. (they don't RTFAs, either.)
In all seriousness, my comment was more a reply to the tone of the summary than any particular points is the articles. (Though I don't know why this guy is freaking out that Apple isn't work overtime to get patches out for undisclosed bugs overnight. All vendors often have gaps between when someone announces a potential vulnerability and when a suitable patch comes out. This is nothing new.)
Are you arguing that it's "enough" for Apple to not patch known problems? That because Apple has a good track record that they can be lax? That Apple should imitate Microsoft's policies of the late 1990s and not take "gray hats" seriously?
I'm going by the dictionary definition of "enough:" "sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate." I would say Apple's track record shows they're doing "enough" with regard to security for the most part. )I think the worst thing they've done so far wasn't even security-related--it was that buggy update that erased hard drives with spaces for the first character in their names.) That's why "enough" != "everything possible." For example: Am I eating as many vegetables as I should? Probably not. Am I eating enough to keep myself from imminent death? Since I've been eating this way for a couple decades, I'd say yes. In that sense, I'm eating "enough" vegetables.
Now, do I want Apple to become lax and sloppy? Of course not. Could they be doing more? Absolutely.* But, overall, since you could probably fit all the people who have lost data to OS X viruses in a small room, I'd say that their effort--the result of which is a handful of infections out of millions of machines--counts as 'enough.'
* While I don't think Tom Ferris should be making a big stink about Apple's turnaround time, I would very much like to see them fix whatever he found this week. I'd like to see them patch whatever holes the winner of the 'rm-my-mac' contest** used to escalate privileges. (Sure, that required a local account in the first place, but a flaw is a flaw.) Mostly, I'd like to see them have Safari's "Open 'safe' files" option UNchecked by default--I agree with others, that's an accident waiting to happen.
** nice to see he finally put up something of a postmortem. http://rm-my-mac.wideopenbsd.org/
Considering that there has not been one real, severe, in-the-wild, massively spread, substantial, damage-causing virus in the five year history of Mac OS X, I would say yes, the boys and girls in Cupertino are doing just fine. Thank you very much for all your hard work, and all naysaying columnists and pundits can go screw.