Blah blah blah retarded shitcanned "if Microsoft was doing this" which gets brought up EVERY SINGLE TIME blah blah blah.
It is a very sincere post questioning the readers of slashdot
By "sincere" you mean "kneejerk responce to a number of posts you didn't even bother to read". Try doing that and then drinking a nice, warm cup of STFU, as most of the posts fall either fall into "Jobs is an asshole" category, or at best "calling someone a Con isn't very flattering."
Most of the people posting on Slashdot these days are young, easily impressionable males, that have little sense or understanding of two sides of a discussion and generally are very one-eyed about subjects with little or no flexibilty to gauge information as valid or relevant.
Oh, don't worry, we have our share of arrogant, stuck up dicks as well. Thanks for making our quota for the day.
Nonsense. So customers can't buy these books from Apple's online or retail stores - BFD. There are a lot of books Apple does not carry; did you think they were a bookstore? You want a computer book, you can still buy one there from Oreilly or some other publisher. If you must have a Dummies book, you can buy it from B&N like the 90% of the population that does not live within driving distance of an Apple retail store.
Damned if I know. But I do know they were filtered, because the game would give my player damage if I said "competition", "earlier" or "japan", which I ran into during the course of normal (no swearing) conversations. After some experimentation, I found out that the "lier" part was what it objected to. Maybe the list came from Bill Bennet or something.
Complaining about "lazy parenting" aside, there are always problems with censorship via software. My first experience with the web was in high school, and in my comptuer class one of our assignments was to make a web page. So I started looking for links for stuff I was interested in at the time, like X-Men comics. All the sites I came up with were blocked by the schools net filter. After thinking "wtf? X-Men comics are PG!", I tried an experiment, and typed in www.playboy.com, and hit enter. Boom! Up comes the site with a nice picture of Miss October. So their filter would block comic books fit for 6 year olds, and yet the homepage for the most famous adult magazine in the country was wide open?
Yeah, this was a few years ago, but I have a more recent example: a swearing filter for the game Counter-Strike. The problem? You couldn't say "I had good competition earlier from Japan", because "tit", "lier", and "jap" were filtered. You could, however, say "I just had orgazmic intercourse with a dead baby's skull" and be just fine with the filter. I wonder which statement the server admin would find more offensive.
So now matter how advanced filtering gets, you'll always have examples of stupid things that get blocked or allowed through.
Alarmingly, the proportion of women who thought that they might major in CS has fallen to levels unseen since the early 1970s.
Wow, the job market is crappy, student interest is dropping...even among women. OMG!!! News at 11! I also like the agenda of how it will be difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level
What I find annoying is how more women are attending college than men, more women graudate than men, and yet all they can talk about are the two areas where women have yet to surpase men: math and science. Comon girls, show you actually believe in equality, not just the advancement of women. Show some concern that the average disparity in enrollment between the sexes is around 10%, or that there are very few men in nursing programs or going into the field of public education.
Dvorak is the only one who bothers pointing out that Apple is shipping $3500 hardware with a crashy OS
Um, every Mac at the time had the same memory protection-less os at the time, so Dvorak was 1) stating the obvious and 2) if he was suggesting that Apple should have released a new os just for that machine, he was a dumbass. Or more likely, as I said above, just trolling.
I think he was trying to speak for the silent majority of Apple users, many of whom did abandon the platform in that time period.
Nonsense. Yes, there was plenty of legitimate frustation and constuctive criticism of Apple in those days, but absolutely none of it came from John Dvorak. This is the guy who said no man would want to be seen with an iBook, suggested that Apple could take the PC industry away from Microsoft by giving away a port of OS X (Microsoft's cash in the bank is about twice Apple's entire market cap - who's going to win a price war?), and suggested that Apple discontine the Macintosh line and come up with something new.
You are both wrong, because among other things, copyright infringment is not stealing, its copyright infringement. So your analogy is just stupid. And while yes, what he's doing is against the law, but fat chance of Apple actually collecting any damages from him.
Dvorak is an intelligent guy, but his forte is not writing intelligent articles and it's not why magazines pay him. He's on the payroll because he makes crazy, outlandish statments that drive up the number of hits on the site. Ten years ago, he couldn't pump out Apple-bashing editorials fast enough, becuase outraged Mac users would read them and then pass around links to fellow Mac users to read his predictions of Apple's demise.
John Dvorak is by far the most sucessful troll in the computing industry, and is a gold mine for advertizer revenue.
In the first place, calling people who want Microsoft to open their formats extremists is stupid, because Microsoft is a monopoly. In fact, most of the reasoning behind this has nothing whatsoever to do with OSS idealogy, but leveling the playing field in the office suite marketplace.
You want them to instead impress people over and over again with their Black-Hatness so even the most clueless will eventually wake up and say "what the fuck?"
Except this idea does not work and has been proven to be nothing more than a fantasy. Just look at Ralph Nader; he said that even if Bush got elected, it would be okay because the country would swing away from the right. Now things are probably much worse (from Nader's POV at least) than he ever imagined, and his Green Party revolution is dead and burried.
If I recall I was playing games co-op with my friends back in the NES and SNES days.
Sure you were - with both players on the same screen in the same area. "Modern co-op" means you can be in different rooms and accomplish different tasks.
Adobe and Macromedia really, really like to sue eachother for patent infringment. One will sue, the other will countersue, and this seems to happen at least once every year. The merger will probably pay for itself by the end of the decade because the companies wont have to employ an army of lawyers with a larger population than North Dakota.
I think Dell just likes to rattle the sabre once in a while to scare a discount out of Intel, since they're probably Intel's biggest customer. Like how company managers, back in the day, would leave out coffee cups with the logo's of IBM's compeditors when the IBM rep would swing by.
Not really. You have to know where to look for the root account in Netinfo Manager, and enable it. It is HIGHLY unlikely that the average user will look through the dozens of settings there to find and enable root. From the command line you can use sudo, but if you know about sudo then you probably know not to screw around with it. Also, even once you enable the account, you can't (easily) log into the GUI as root.
I hope you get your US citizenship because I for one am glad you are gone.
Can you take guys like retired Senator Phil Grahm in exchange? He's one of those right wing asshats who bitches about "big government" despite getting over $3 million dollars from the taxpayers over the course of his life. Not to mention being a hyocrite about spending, even boasting that he was "carrying so much pork I've got trichinosis".
I don't LIKE the idea of state and city run internet.
Why. Running one should be vastly easier than maintaining roads, a police department, fire department, sewers, and water. Hundereds of thousands of municipalities do these jobs just fine every day of the week - why suddenly a problem with wi-fi?
Frankly, I'd rather pay a private company that I know is not going to limit my access to the internet, and is not going reveal my activity to other companies without my consent.
The hell are you talking about here? Most consumer level broadband services have restrictions on running services and they block some ports - and of course you are not going to have unlimited connection speed.
How many "average computer users" popped $150 for ACID (and that's the educational price) to play around with those samples from Beck? Whereas every Mac released within the last year or two has come with Garageband.
So it would seem "this is the first time such a project has been as open to the common user" would not be an unreasonable statment to make.
you were probably acting in a way that was unusual and suspicious
So watch him carefully on the cameras and in the store, you don't go and call the cops on his ass if he hasn't done anything. Do it like the cops do: do they have probable suspicion or probable cause to suspect someone of committing a crime?
The (plurality) voting system virtually guarantees a two-way race. You could think of it as a run-off system with all the initial rounds taking place in the media.
We already have run-offs: they're called primaries. So no, you are not stuck with only two choices; in each of the last couple elections there have been around a dozen serious candidates between the two parties.
Could you try and be a little more ignorant? "Digital rights management" controls what the end user can do with the content. Does the MP3 format do this in any way, shape or form? No.
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This is _not_ a troll.
Oh yes it is.
If this were a MS story of Bill Gates
Blah blah blah retarded shitcanned "if Microsoft was doing this" which gets brought up EVERY SINGLE TIME blah blah blah.
It is a very sincere post questioning the readers of slashdot
By "sincere" you mean "kneejerk responce to a number of posts you didn't even bother to read". Try doing that and then drinking a nice, warm cup of STFU, as most of the posts fall either fall into "Jobs is an asshole" category, or at best "calling someone a Con isn't very flattering."
Most of the people posting on Slashdot these days are young, easily impressionable males, that have little sense or understanding of two sides of a discussion and generally are very one-eyed about subjects with little or no flexibilty to gauge information as valid or relevant.
Oh, don't worry, we have our share of arrogant, stuck up dicks as well. Thanks for making our quota for the day.
This is bad news for Apple, its customers
Nonsense. So customers can't buy these books from Apple's online or retail stores - BFD. There are a lot of books Apple does not carry; did you think they were a bookstore? You want a computer book, you can still buy one there from Oreilly or some other publisher. If you must have a Dummies book, you can buy it from B&N like the 90% of the population that does not live within driving distance of an Apple retail store.
Honestly, what's more public than filesharing?
Um, hello? Your name and address maybe?
...specifically an NEC for $159. It's a CRT, but if you want a 17 incher, there you go.
Damned if I know. But I do know they were filtered, because the game would give my player damage if I said "competition", "earlier" or "japan", which I ran into during the course of normal (no swearing) conversations. After some experimentation, I found out that the "lier" part was what it objected to. Maybe the list came from Bill Bennet or something.
Complaining about "lazy parenting" aside, there are always problems with censorship via software. My first experience with the web was in high school, and in my comptuer class one of our assignments was to make a web page. So I started looking for links for stuff I was interested in at the time, like X-Men comics. All the sites I came up with were blocked by the schools net filter. After thinking "wtf? X-Men comics are PG!", I tried an experiment, and typed in www.playboy.com, and hit enter. Boom! Up comes the site with a nice picture of Miss October. So their filter would block comic books fit for 6 year olds, and yet the homepage for the most famous adult magazine in the country was wide open?
Yeah, this was a few years ago, but I have a more recent example: a swearing filter for the game Counter-Strike. The problem? You couldn't say "I had good competition earlier from Japan", because "tit", "lier", and "jap" were filtered. You could, however, say "I just had orgazmic intercourse with a dead baby's skull" and be just fine with the filter. I wonder which statement the server admin would find more offensive.
So now matter how advanced filtering gets, you'll always have examples of stupid things that get blocked or allowed through.
Hey, you put it in paragraphs at least. A long ramble is only bad if it's in one giant block of text.
Alarmingly, the proportion of women who thought that they might major in CS has fallen to levels unseen since the early 1970s.
Wow, the job market is crappy, student interest is dropping...even among women. OMG!!! News at 11! I also like the agenda of how it will be difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level
What I find annoying is how more women are attending college than men, more women graudate than men, and yet all they can talk about are the two areas where women have yet to surpase men: math and science. Comon girls, show you actually believe in equality, not just the advancement of women. Show some concern that the average disparity in enrollment between the sexes is around 10%, or that there are very few men in nursing programs or going into the field of public education.
Dvorak is the only one who bothers pointing out that Apple is shipping $3500 hardware with a crashy OS
Um, every Mac at the time had the same memory protection-less os at the time, so Dvorak was 1) stating the obvious and 2) if he was suggesting that Apple should have released a new os just for that machine, he was a dumbass. Or more likely, as I said above, just trolling.
Yeah, let's see you use that logic on the cops after boosting a car
What, they're going to arrest me after I make a duplicate of a car in the street, leaving the owners car untouched? Just how stupid are you?
I think he was trying to speak for the silent majority of Apple users, many of whom did abandon the platform in that time period.
Nonsense. Yes, there was plenty of legitimate frustation and constuctive criticism of Apple in those days, but absolutely none of it came from John Dvorak. This is the guy who said no man would want to be seen with an iBook, suggested that Apple could take the PC industry away from Microsoft by giving away a port of OS X (Microsoft's cash in the bank is about twice Apple's entire market cap - who's going to win a price war?), and suggested that Apple discontine the Macintosh line and come up with something new.
Your situation is equivalent
You are both wrong, because among other things, copyright infringment is not stealing, its copyright infringement. So your analogy is just stupid. And while yes, what he's doing is against the law, but fat chance of Apple actually collecting any damages from him.
Dvorak is an intelligent guy, but his forte is not writing intelligent articles and it's not why magazines pay him. He's on the payroll because he makes crazy, outlandish statments that drive up the number of hits on the site. Ten years ago, he couldn't pump out Apple-bashing editorials fast enough, becuase outraged Mac users would read them and then pass around links to fellow Mac users to read his predictions of Apple's demise.
John Dvorak is by far the most sucessful troll in the computing industry, and is a gold mine for advertizer revenue.
In the first place, calling people who want Microsoft to open their formats extremists is stupid, because Microsoft is a monopoly. In fact, most of the reasoning behind this has nothing whatsoever to do with OSS idealogy, but leveling the playing field in the office suite marketplace.
You want them to instead impress people over and over again with their Black-Hatness so even the most clueless will eventually wake up and say "what the fuck?"
Except this idea does not work and has been proven to be nothing more than a fantasy. Just look at Ralph Nader; he said that even if Bush got elected, it would be okay because the country would swing away from the right. Now things are probably much worse (from Nader's POV at least) than he ever imagined, and his Green Party revolution is dead and burried.
If I recall I was playing games co-op with my friends back in the NES and SNES days.
Sure you were - with both players on the same screen in the same area. "Modern co-op" means you can be in different rooms and accomplish different tasks.
Adobe and Macromedia really, really like to sue eachother for patent infringment. One will sue, the other will countersue, and this seems to happen at least once every year. The merger will probably pay for itself by the end of the decade because the companies wont have to employ an army of lawyers with a larger population than North Dakota.
I think Dell just likes to rattle the sabre once in a while to scare a discount out of Intel, since they're probably Intel's biggest customer. Like how company managers, back in the day, would leave out coffee cups with the logo's of IBM's compeditors when the IBM rep would swing by.
Dell doesn't make the worst laptops. That honor has to go to Crappaq.
but it's trivial for them to become root.
Not really. You have to know where to look for the root account in Netinfo Manager, and enable it. It is HIGHLY unlikely that the average user will look through the dozens of settings there to find and enable root. From the command line you can use sudo, but if you know about sudo then you probably know not to screw around with it. Also, even once you enable the account, you can't (easily) log into the GUI as root.
I hope you get your US citizenship because I for one am glad you are gone.
Can you take guys like retired Senator Phil Grahm in exchange? He's one of those right wing asshats who bitches about "big government" despite getting over $3 million dollars from the taxpayers over the course of his life. Not to mention being a hyocrite about spending, even boasting that he was "carrying so much pork I've got trichinosis".
I don't LIKE the idea of state and city run internet.
Why. Running one should be vastly easier than maintaining roads, a police department, fire department, sewers, and water. Hundereds of thousands of municipalities do these jobs just fine every day of the week - why suddenly a problem with wi-fi?
Frankly, I'd rather pay a private company that I know is not going to limit my access to the internet, and is not going reveal my activity to other companies without my consent.
The hell are you talking about here? Most consumer level broadband services have restrictions on running services and they block some ports - and of course you are not going to have unlimited connection speed.
How many "average computer users" popped $150 for ACID (and that's the educational price) to play around with those samples from Beck? Whereas every Mac released within the last year or two has come with Garageband.
So it would seem "this is the first time such a project has been as open to the common user" would not be an unreasonable statment to make.
you were probably acting in a way that was unusual and suspicious
So watch him carefully on the cameras and in the store, you don't go and call the cops on his ass if he hasn't done anything. Do it like the cops do: do they have probable suspicion or probable cause to suspect someone of committing a crime?
The (plurality) voting system virtually guarantees a two-way race. You could think of it as a run-off system with all the initial rounds taking place in the media.
We already have run-offs: they're called primaries. So no, you are not stuck with only two choices; in each of the last couple elections there have been around a dozen serious candidates between the two parties.
MP3 itself is digital rights management
Could you try and be a little more ignorant? "Digital rights management" controls what the end user can do with the content. Does the MP3 format do this in any way, shape or form? No.