Steve Jobs is a supporter of Open-source ?
Well good to know !
That's probably why so much of what makes Apple's commercial success has been open sourced ! oh wait...
I've read the same kind of review for almost any Android smartphone over the past year.
They all start by how the iPhone is so awesome and "close to perfect" (really ?? oO ) and how [insert reviewed Android phone] is so cool and it's better because it's open but for whatever classified reason over some parts of the GUI it's not as easy as the iPhone herego not goo.
All of this is narrow-minded crap and once was enough thanks.
I mean who would give credit to someone saying the iPhone is "close to perfect" ?
FOr fuck's sake !
Actually "decent" ?
VP8 kicks h.264's ass just as badly as mp3 get's kicked by any 2000's music format.
Stop worshiping mindlessly some brand you don't know anything about and realize that in this business technology just evolves a bit faster than you apparently think.
Dividing bandwidth usage by 2 while maintaining quality is not "decent". it's fucking amazing. Especially for providers.
Ogg theora is decent : it does a quite good job at low def and is a little bit better than x264 at highDef. considering it's 4 years younger it's what you call decent.
You seem both to imply that Warcraft 3 was more of a platform blizzard gave to map devs so they can create mods like Dota.
I disagree strongly.
On one hand the War3 map editor is a great tool, and for sure blizzard was planning on using the huge community of fanmod devs that had been uncovered with starcraft.
But War3 was a great game on its own. I consider it much richer and strategically interesting than Starcraft which is basically to me more about being able to manage your units in spite of the game limitation.
War3's UI is much richer, and you get more time to focus on tactics and strategy, because you spend less time fighting against stupid UI limitation.
Meanwhile you had a major strategic aspect : the heroes.
I played starcraft for 3 years then war3 and although I sometimes play SC out of nostalgia, it was a one-way ticket for me.
Well it depends on how you consider sports in general.
If it's a show you watch on TV, and you don't really understand it I guess it doesn't matter at all, but in that case just watch Catch...
If however you consider sports as it was meant to be i.e. a mach-up of honor, strength, skill, work, (team spirit) it does matter.
Sports is not a show, it just happens that the beauty of it makes it TV-lovable, but in the beginning it's just a bunch of people who decided of some rules and then compete to determined who had most skill.
It's a substitute to more brutal confrontation too.
Anyhow I guess what I'm saying is : to ask this question, you must be the kind of guy who doesn't know the difference between boxing and catch so I'm sorry... I can't teach you anything.
Most importantly Google's revenue are based on advertising only.
Problem for Apple : they cannot sell advertising to themselves. Or more accurately they could and they would if they engaged into Websearch but it's not going to pay for the investment.
One could think : "hey great idea ! Apple has big smartphone marketshare and uses more advertising than all the other companies in the world combined (that's taking into account all the money they give to engadget). They should be able to drag a fair amount of iPhone users, and they could get free advertising."
All this is correct but, why advertising about the iPhone to an iPhone user ? I mean He already bought the thing and chances are he will buy the next one anyway so...
Meanwhile you cannot reach all the other consumers.
Yeah ! because Apple's crazy market share in PC OSs proves how right you are... (what is it globally ? 5% ?)
If I sum it up your argument is the following : Apple has great products because they sell to millions. fair enough in that case I suppose MS has greatest products since they sell to hundreds of millions.
Also, I tend to disagree with you on whether OS X is easier of use than say Windows 7 or Ubuntu. I conducted several experiments (project gorilla) with my mum and grand mother that proved the generally accepted lemme "OS X is easiest" wrong. Or at least it proved that as far as usability and maintenance are concerned, OS X offered no advantages over Ubuntu or windows 7. (Nothing beats Synaptic)
yeah.. cause you don't read blogs..
None.
Engadget and such..
Slashdot is a blog for christ's sake WAKE UP ! (if someone wants to argue this PM I've got tons of argument)
the whole Web 2.0 is based on the blog paradigm, people can create instead of consume. I'm not saying everyone should write a blog, or that every blog is worth reading, far from it. I don't have a blog myself and live pretty well without one. It's just that you were almost drowning in your own condescending hypocrisy and I felt like I should save you. (or finish you..)
I tend to agree with this.
Having used Mac OS 9, and then Tiger, Leopard and Snow leopard on friends devices, I don't see what major changes occurred in the MAC desktop GUI in the last decade except the Dock and exposé (which are awesome don't get me wrong)
Now if you compare this with Windows 3.1 -> windows 7 ! I'd say it changed at least that much !
Granted the most amazing changes came with win95 and win7 alone and the other version brought almost nothing new, but those 2 changed A LOT !
I for one consider win7 GUI very innovative and "balled". Much more balled than say SnowLeopard's GUI.
The same goes for the iPhone. iPhone 1 is a total rip off from LG but let's forget this one. I give it to you mac fanboys, it's free of charge. Now just consider how the iPhone OS GUI has "evolved" over the last 3 years now.
Compare this to the changes brought by windows Phone 7 !
Compare the iPad (which brings like 0 innovation compared to the iPhone OS GUI) and the Courrier, and tell me Apple is more innovative !
You're saying bullshit.
That said, if what you say is true (which it isn't, at least given the jurisdictional decisions made over the last decade) Apple would be guilty of unfair competition. ("vente liée")
If OS X Snow Leopard is competing with Windows 7, i.e. if they were part of the same market, then for fair competition to be enforced, Apple would have to allow people to install OS X on any piece of hardware that can run it (instead of forbidding it in its EULA).
The thing is Apple sells OS X "for macs" not just OS X, and Apple sells Macs with OS X preinstalled. Microsoft doesn't sell computers, it sells Windows. you can install it on whatever you want, which doesn't mean it's gonna run but you have the RIGHT to do so while you don't have that right with OS X.
That either unfair competition (that's my point of view but..) of no competition at all (if you consider Mac and PC are to seperate markets which is less and less true with the whole OS X going x86 thing).
Now some Apple fanboys are gonna go down on me saying you actually CAN install OS X on any x86 PC.
Well, yes you can also try to rob a bank but it's not legal.
Same goes for iPhone being so "awesome" once jailbroken.
Wow slow down for a second...
Which "researchers" use OS X ?
Why every time somebody attacks Apple, apple fanboys have to bring up Unix ?
Unix isn't Mac OS X, and OS X's flaws are not in its Unix or Open source base (for instance WebKit is a great tool), it's with all the crap Apple pulls all around.
I wouldn't want to be misunderstood so I'll clarify this for the lesser minds : the economic model and the stupid restrictions, not the GUI which is most of the time good and clean.
In fact, most of the time innovations come from small startups. Most of those fail, but some happen to come across something innovative and gets bough by larger companies.
Well that's exactly it!
And the reason is simple : MS, Google or Apple cannot risk failing 9 times out of 10 (especially Apple which bases all it's marketing upon success. i.e. it's good because lot's of people buy it because it's cool)
Why ? because when you fail you loose market capitalisation => you loose money to develop and enhanced products => you loose competitiveness.
A Major multinational company cannot invest into something that has 1 chance out of 10 to succeed.
Only banks can.
In my opinion, NDE is nothing more than the lie some very scared folk tell themselves (and then their doctors) to compensate the nothingness they've just been facing (or almost facing.
This would explain why almost everyone sees the same thing and also why it's awkwardly familiar of a story for a judeo-christian.
NASA funded the space shuttle.
Using R&D results that don't belong to the manufacturers...
When Apple asks sammy to produce its NAND flas it doesn't provide them with OS X sources.
Oh and I wasn't finished....
I just read the comments which are even more excruciatingly stupid than the "review".
So the average netbook has a 1.0GHz atom that is comparable to the cortex A-8 1ghz....
yeah.. of course ! 1Ghz atom is totally mainstream ! so mainstream it doesn't even exist !
the average netbook is $300 or even less ! wake up ! I could buy a netbook AND a smartphone for the 64Gb iPad !
And for $800 you get a 12hrs, HD playback certified, 2.5 pounds, multitouch touchscreen netbook with dual core-atom@1.66Ghz. And you still got $50 for a blowjob !
Again Apple and oranges !
I wish people stop bullshitting about how blazing fast the iPad or the iPhone 3GS is. This is crap, total FUD and it's highly dishonest.
-Wtf is he talking about ?
-I'm talking about comparing a device running 1 application and others devices running several applications.
Now on your 4Gb of ram, 3GHz quad core desktop it may not seem like something important, but when you have a single core 1ghz CPU and 256Mb of RAM it changes everything. Remember your Pentium 3 ? yeah well get it out of the garage, get rid of the dust and try watching a video while browsing the web on IE unzipping shit and using word. slow ? Now try one each @ a time.
You need a pretty decent camera and a pretty decent video projector for that....
But IMO this is a stupid question anyway, if you just want to reproduce the diagram your professor has used then just ASK him for it...
Most my professor give us.pdf or.pptx of the presentation they give.
The thing is sometimes you want to MAKE your own diagram or schematic, because sometimes ideas don't come in phrases but in diagrams you've been used to use to formalize you thoughts, and at this point your camera is very very pointless..
My dream combination is :
-intelligent up to date professors with.pdf or.pptx with the diagrams and such...
-One Note
-Tablet PC + Stylus
If either one of those is missing then I rather my 4 color pen and some paper.
Then again it's only me, and since I study engineering I use a LOT of charts, diagrams, schematics..
We had Law classes last semester, and then of course I used a laptop. Anyone types faster than he writes (with the same kind of readability I mean...)
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Steve Jobs is a supporter of Open-source ? Well good to know ! That's probably why so much of what makes Apple's commercial success has been open sourced ! oh wait...
I've read the same kind of review for almost any Android smartphone over the past year. They all start by how the iPhone is so awesome and "close to perfect" (really ?? oO ) and how [insert reviewed Android phone] is so cool and it's better because it's open but for whatever classified reason over some parts of the GUI it's not as easy as the iPhone herego not goo. All of this is narrow-minded crap and once was enough thanks. I mean who would give credit to someone saying the iPhone is "close to perfect" ?
FOr fuck's sake ! Actually "decent" ? VP8 kicks h.264's ass just as badly as mp3 get's kicked by any 2000's music format. Stop worshiping mindlessly some brand you don't know anything about and realize that in this business technology just evolves a bit faster than you apparently think. Dividing bandwidth usage by 2 while maintaining quality is not "decent". it's fucking amazing. Especially for providers. Ogg theora is decent : it does a quite good job at low def and is a little bit better than x264 at highDef. considering it's 4 years younger it's what you call decent.
You seem both to imply that Warcraft 3 was more of a platform blizzard gave to map devs so they can create mods like Dota. I disagree strongly. On one hand the War3 map editor is a great tool, and for sure blizzard was planning on using the huge community of fanmod devs that had been uncovered with starcraft. But War3 was a great game on its own. I consider it much richer and strategically interesting than Starcraft which is basically to me more about being able to manage your units in spite of the game limitation. War3's UI is much richer, and you get more time to focus on tactics and strategy, because you spend less time fighting against stupid UI limitation. Meanwhile you had a major strategic aspect : the heroes. I played starcraft for 3 years then war3 and although I sometimes play SC out of nostalgia, it was a one-way ticket for me.
Well it depends on how you consider sports in general. If it's a show you watch on TV, and you don't really understand it I guess it doesn't matter at all, but in that case just watch Catch... If however you consider sports as it was meant to be i.e. a mach-up of honor, strength, skill, work, (team spirit) it does matter. Sports is not a show, it just happens that the beauty of it makes it TV-lovable, but in the beginning it's just a bunch of people who decided of some rules and then compete to determined who had most skill. It's a substitute to more brutal confrontation too. Anyhow I guess what I'm saying is : to ask this question, you must be the kind of guy who doesn't know the difference between boxing and catch so I'm sorry... I can't teach you anything.
Most importantly Google's revenue are based on advertising only. Problem for Apple : they cannot sell advertising to themselves. Or more accurately they could and they would if they engaged into Websearch but it's not going to pay for the investment. One could think : "hey great idea ! Apple has big smartphone marketshare and uses more advertising than all the other companies in the world combined (that's taking into account all the money they give to engadget). They should be able to drag a fair amount of iPhone users, and they could get free advertising." All this is correct but, why advertising about the iPhone to an iPhone user ? I mean He already bought the thing and chances are he will buy the next one anyway so... Meanwhile you cannot reach all the other consumers.
Yeah ! because Apple's crazy market share in PC OSs proves how right you are... (what is it globally ? 5% ?) If I sum it up your argument is the following : Apple has great products because they sell to millions. fair enough in that case I suppose MS has greatest products since they sell to hundreds of millions. Also, I tend to disagree with you on whether OS X is easier of use than say Windows 7 or Ubuntu. I conducted several experiments (project gorilla) with my mum and grand mother that proved the generally accepted lemme "OS X is easiest" wrong. Or at least it proved that as far as usability and maintenance are concerned, OS X offered no advantages over Ubuntu or windows 7. (Nothing beats Synaptic)
yeah.. cause you don't read blogs.. None. Engadget and such ..
Slashdot is a blog for christ's sake WAKE UP ! (if someone wants to argue this PM I've got tons of argument)
the whole Web 2.0 is based on the blog paradigm, people can create instead of consume. I'm not saying everyone should write a blog, or that every blog is worth reading, far from it. I don't have a blog myself and live pretty well without one. It's just that you were almost drowning in your own condescending hypocrisy and I felt like I should save you. (or finish you..)
I tend to agree with this. Having used Mac OS 9, and then Tiger, Leopard and Snow leopard on friends devices, I don't see what major changes occurred in the MAC desktop GUI in the last decade except the Dock and exposé (which are awesome don't get me wrong) Now if you compare this with Windows 3.1 -> windows 7 ! I'd say it changed at least that much ! Granted the most amazing changes came with win95 and win7 alone and the other version brought almost nothing new, but those 2 changed A LOT ! I for one consider win7 GUI very innovative and "balled". Much more balled than say SnowLeopard's GUI. The same goes for the iPhone. iPhone 1 is a total rip off from LG but let's forget this one. I give it to you mac fanboys, it's free of charge. Now just consider how the iPhone OS GUI has "evolved" over the last 3 years now. Compare this to the changes brought by windows Phone 7 ! Compare the iPad (which brings like 0 innovation compared to the iPhone OS GUI) and the Courrier, and tell me Apple is more innovative !
You're saying bullshit. That said, if what you say is true (which it isn't, at least given the jurisdictional decisions made over the last decade) Apple would be guilty of unfair competition. ("vente liée") If OS X Snow Leopard is competing with Windows 7, i.e. if they were part of the same market, then for fair competition to be enforced, Apple would have to allow people to install OS X on any piece of hardware that can run it (instead of forbidding it in its EULA). The thing is Apple sells OS X "for macs" not just OS X, and Apple sells Macs with OS X preinstalled. Microsoft doesn't sell computers, it sells Windows. you can install it on whatever you want, which doesn't mean it's gonna run but you have the RIGHT to do so while you don't have that right with OS X. That either unfair competition (that's my point of view but ..) of no competition at all (if you consider Mac and PC are to seperate markets which is less and less true with the whole OS X going x86 thing).
Now some Apple fanboys are gonna go down on me saying you actually CAN install OS X on any x86 PC.
Well, yes you can also try to rob a bank but it's not legal.
Same goes for iPhone being so "awesome" once jailbroken.
Wow slow down for a second... Which "researchers" use OS X ? Why every time somebody attacks Apple, apple fanboys have to bring up Unix ? Unix isn't Mac OS X, and OS X's flaws are not in its Unix or Open source base (for instance WebKit is a great tool), it's with all the crap Apple pulls all around. I wouldn't want to be misunderstood so I'll clarify this for the lesser minds : the economic model and the stupid restrictions, not the GUI which is most of the time good and clean.
In fact, most of the time innovations come from small startups. Most of those fail, but some happen to come across something innovative and gets bough by larger companies.
Well that's exactly it! And the reason is simple : MS, Google or Apple cannot risk failing 9 times out of 10 (especially Apple which bases all it's marketing upon success. i.e. it's good because lot's of people buy it because it's cool) Why ? because when you fail you loose market capitalisation => you loose money to develop and enhanced products => you loose competitiveness. A Major multinational company cannot invest into something that has 1 chance out of 10 to succeed. Only banks can.
In my opinion, NDE is nothing more than the lie some very scared folk tell themselves (and then their doctors) to compensate the nothingness they've just been facing (or almost facing. This would explain why almost everyone sees the same thing and also why it's awkwardly familiar of a story for a judeo-christian.
NASA funded the space shuttle. Using R&D results that don't belong to the manufacturers... When Apple asks sammy to produce its NAND flas it doesn't provide them with OS X sources.
you find that amazing ? Wow your government really is (was) shit...
Oh and I wasn't finished.... I just read the comments which are even more excruciatingly stupid than the "review". So the average netbook has a 1.0GHz atom that is comparable to the cortex A-8 1ghz.... yeah.. of course ! 1Ghz atom is totally mainstream ! so mainstream it doesn't even exist ! the average netbook is $300 or even less ! wake up ! I could buy a netbook AND a smartphone for the 64Gb iPad ! And for $800 you get a 12hrs, HD playback certified, 2.5 pounds, multitouch touchscreen netbook with dual core-atom@1.66Ghz. And you still got $50 for a blowjob ! Again Apple and oranges !
I wish people stop bullshitting about how blazing fast the iPad or the iPhone 3GS is.
This is crap, total FUD and it's highly dishonest.
-Wtf is he talking about ?
-I'm talking about comparing a device running 1 application and others devices running several applications.
Now on your 4Gb of ram, 3GHz quad core desktop it may not seem like something important, but when you have a single core 1ghz CPU and 256Mb of RAM it changes everything.
Remember your Pentium 3 ? yeah well get it out of the garage, get rid of the dust and try watching a video while browsing the web on IE unzipping shit and using word. slow ?
Now try one each @ a time.
Stop comparing Apples and oranges.
You need a pretty decent camera and a pretty decent video projector for that.... But IMO this is a stupid question anyway, if you just want to reproduce the diagram your professor has used then just ASK him for it... Most my professor give us .pdf or .pptx of the presentation they give.
The thing is sometimes you want to MAKE your own diagram or schematic, because sometimes ideas don't come in phrases but in diagrams you've been used to use to formalize you thoughts, and at this point your camera is very very pointless..
My dream combination is :
-intelligent up to date professors with .pdf or .pptx with the diagrams and such...
-One Note
-Tablet PC + Stylus
If either one of those is missing then I rather my 4 color pen and some paper.
Then again it's only me, and since I study engineering I use a LOT of charts, diagrams, schematics..
We had Law classes last semester, and then of course I used a laptop. Anyone types faster than he writes (with the same kind of readability I mean...)