I'm just saying that I've used OS X a lot, and I really don't like it compared to the BSDs and Linux, and I wouldn't want to be forced to use it to reliably sync to an apple product.
The thing is, if you don't use an apple approved method of syncing to an ipod, I'm not sure how you get it to work after buying it. I do not buy apple products, but that is no excuse to ignore the wrongs they do their customers. Especially if, again, it's totally unnecessary, was not around a few years ago, and was done for the sake of a 30% commission on the billions of $.99 flashlight apps.
As far as their mobile devices go, I'd love to own one, the design is quite nice. But it's simply not worth the loss of freedom to me. If you enjoy it, more power to you, but don't discount any of the major flaws their products have.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.... Of course it works well with OS X, but I can guarantee you, terrible things happen when you try to run it on any other operating system. So don't run it? Oh wait, not only is it the only apple approved method of getting files onto your iWhatever, it's also now needed to download the OS from apple when you buy it, to prevent jailbreaking (I wish I were joking)! Face it, the majority of people who use iPods/ads/hones do not use OS X, and apple forces them to use that buggy PoS known as itunes that can and will destroy data.
I do not, and will not buy some extremely overpriced wintel hardware with a sub-par *nix OS just to run some proprietary software to jump through hoops to put data on my mobile device. Especially, ESPECIALLY when those hoops didn't even exist until a couple years ago. Say, wasn't apple supposed to make the products that "just work" anyway?
It's the LHC at work again, collapsing all the probable universes. We have Debian HURD, Duke Nukem Forever, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple, and now this.
Brilliant, another one of those "It's there product, so they have the right to tell you what to do with it" posters... you do realize that a good user experience and not being locked proprietary shit aren't mutually exclusive right? And I'll tell you right now, apple's earlier iPods did not have this restriction. It is not widely advertised off tech-sites as a totally locked down platform- so a newbie to the mobile market likely will not know what they're getting into. Does this mean they should never be allowed to use their device in a non-apple approved way? If no, then your perspective is so skewed I'm not sure I'd want to continue telling you why you're wrong.
Aside- when you're not on an OS X machine, iTunes is bloated shit. You're now forced to use said shit arbitrarily by apple- it's goddamn unusable on machines with upwards of 3GB RAM. On Linux? If some good people hadn't taken the time to write 3rd party syncing programs, you'd be SoL. All of these problems are highly arbitrary and did not even exist a few years ago.
That it started as a project, hobby, whatever is totally irrelevant. I'd have to say that most people wanting GIMP to copy photoshop (though of course there are exceptions) are not the professionals, they are the newbies who are used to photoshop because they pirated it. GIMP's UI is excellent on a multi-monitor setup as has been mentioned before- and I think it's better than photoshop's even without. There's no reason to ditch one of its best features for the sake of copying photoshop to get these users- wait... yeah I think I told you the exact same thing the other day about the command line in linux.
Suffice to say, (FOSS PROJECT X) does not need to gain users from (PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE Y) by copying (Y) (especially if it means removing incredibly useful features), it needs to do it by being better than (Y). Bitching about the somewhat unconventional UI is detracting from the technical shortcomings of GIMP, which are numerous in comparison to photoshop. The learning curve is not steep, it [the UI] is rewarding, and lacking features will turn potential users away.
Trolling, but plain text messages contain (if done properly), at most, less than a kilobyte of information. Perspective: the average floppy disk could carry at least 1440 text messages. Think about how much it costs to send a megabyte and a half of data. It's gouging.
"millions of text messages each day" is a couple gigabytes. There's no excuse for lacking that capacity.
It's all just grasping for plot, I doubt the technological state of the world would change much depending on who won WWII, but if the Nazis won... well the existence of aliens hardly fits into their world view, does it? If I were the leader of an alien race, I'd rather have a species of united earth/federation hippies sedated by pot then Nazis... moot because enterprise was terrible, anyway.
Well, to be blunt, space is really fucking huge. We've only been a space-faring race for about 50 years- with our ability to detect exoplanets, plus the inevitable radio leakage from advanced civilizations, there probably aren't any races with comparable states of development to us within 50-100ly (unless they skipped radio or something). We most likely haven't been discovered yet or something like that.
I personally think that any Aliens with a technological level of development exceeding ours are locked into peace via Mutual Assured Destruction or peaceful by nature. Quite a lot of non-warlike progress can occur when your most technologically advanced nation states aren't bombing the shit out of each other, or hacking each other to death with swords. I also think that the development of 100Mt thermonuclear weapons (Tsar Bomb max yield) could possibly keep out the threat of alien invasion, by perhaps adding us to their MAD situation, or blasting the shit out of them if they ever invade. There's not much that can withstand a 100Mt blast, independence day style shields would mostly be useful for blocking projectile weapons. And for whatever could withstand the blast, there's neutron bombs, which kill via insane amounts of radiation.
Apologies for any rambling in the above post, no coffee yet.
Humans generally do not get smarter. Technology just gets better- if you could somehow take an infant human from around 10,000 years ago and raise him or her today, I doubt they'd be much different than anyone else in intelligence- perhaps even a bit above average due to evolutionary pressures at the time. And I think that humanity was easily proved capable of space travel, even with the technology of the 1960's. That it was accomplished that early in history is amazing in and of itself, and I think it shows quite a lot about humanity's exploratory nature. I think, assuming civilization doesn't collapse or anything, the next few decades will see major advancements in the field of inter-planetary spaceflight.
Have you ever actually used an SSD? The speed is quite noticeable, coming from a fresh install of arch on a 7200RPM to a SATAII SSD. The reason they cost so much is because flash is a bit harder to scale up than magnetic drives, which can come for pennies on the gigabyte. They also are far less prone to failure than mechanical drives, containing no moving parts. So SSDs are perfect for both embedded systems and smaller systems, and they should be complimented by a TB drive when more space is needed. The only mechanical drives that even come close in speed to SSDs that I know of are 15000RPMs, which are as expensive as hell.
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Ridiculous. A computer from '06 can and will run any distribution released today.
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I'm just saying that I've used OS X a lot, and I really don't like it compared to the BSDs and Linux, and I wouldn't want to be forced to use it to reliably sync to an apple product.
The thing is, if you don't use an apple approved method of syncing to an ipod, I'm not sure how you get it to work after buying it. I do not buy apple products, but that is no excuse to ignore the wrongs they do their customers. Especially if, again, it's totally unnecessary, was not around a few years ago, and was done for the sake of a 30% commission on the billions of $.99 flashlight apps.
As far as their mobile devices go, I'd love to own one, the design is quite nice. But it's simply not worth the loss of freedom to me. If you enjoy it, more power to you, but don't discount any of the major flaws their products have.
They already do. And that's just to make the game playable at all.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight....
Of course it works well with OS X, but I can guarantee you, terrible things happen when you try to run it on any other operating system. So don't run it? Oh wait, not only is it the only apple approved method of getting files onto your iWhatever, it's also now needed to download the OS from apple when you buy it, to prevent jailbreaking (I wish I were joking)! Face it, the majority of people who use iPods/ads/hones do not use OS X, and apple forces them to use that buggy PoS known as itunes that can and will destroy data.
I do not, and will not buy some extremely overpriced wintel hardware with a sub-par *nix OS just to run some proprietary software to jump through hoops to put data on my mobile device. Especially, ESPECIALLY when those hoops didn't even exist until a couple years ago. Say, wasn't apple supposed to make the products that "just work" anyway?
It's the LHC at work again, collapsing all the probable universes. We have Debian HURD, Duke Nukem Forever, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple, and now this.
WWW is over 20 years old. Scary, huh?
Have you ever used iTunes on windows? Come back when you have.
Brilliant, another one of those "It's there product, so they have the right to tell you what to do with it" posters... you do realize that a good user experience and not being locked proprietary shit aren't mutually exclusive right? And I'll tell you right now, apple's earlier iPods did not have this restriction. It is not widely advertised off tech-sites as a totally locked down platform- so a newbie to the mobile market likely will not know what they're getting into. Does this mean they should never be allowed to use their device in a non-apple approved way? If no, then your perspective is so skewed I'm not sure I'd want to continue telling you why you're wrong.
Aside- when you're not on an OS X machine, iTunes is bloated shit. You're now forced to use said shit arbitrarily by apple- it's goddamn unusable on machines with upwards of 3GB RAM. On Linux? If some good people hadn't taken the time to write 3rd party syncing programs, you'd be SoL. All of these problems are highly arbitrary and did not even exist a few years ago.
Yeah, but there's still the occupational hazard of being first against the wall when the revolution comes.
That it started as a project, hobby, whatever is totally irrelevant. I'd have to say that most people wanting GIMP to copy photoshop (though of course there are exceptions) are not the professionals, they are the newbies who are used to photoshop because they pirated it. GIMP's UI is excellent on a multi-monitor setup as has been mentioned before- and I think it's better than photoshop's even without. There's no reason to ditch one of its best features for the sake of copying photoshop to get these users- wait... yeah I think I told you the exact same thing the other day about the command line in linux.
Suffice to say, (FOSS PROJECT X) does not need to gain users from (PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE Y) by copying (Y) (especially if it means removing incredibly useful features), it needs to do it by being better than (Y). Bitching about the somewhat unconventional UI is detracting from the technical shortcomings of GIMP, which are numerous in comparison to photoshop. The learning curve is not steep, it [the UI] is rewarding, and lacking features will turn potential users away.
Hell, TOS had them in the 60's.
Trolling, but plain text messages contain (if done properly), at most, less than a kilobyte of information. Perspective: the average floppy disk could carry at least 1440 text messages. Think about how much it costs to send a megabyte and a half of data. It's gouging.
"millions of text messages each day" is a couple gigabytes. There's no excuse for lacking that capacity.
So the only threat we could face is aliens who want to exterminate us for the sheer fun of doing it.
I hope aliens don't play master of orion.
Sounds like a bad sci-fi plot.
It's all just grasping for plot, I doubt the technological state of the world would change much depending on who won WWII, but if the Nazis won... well the existence of aliens hardly fits into their world view, does it? If I were the leader of an alien race, I'd rather have a species of united earth/federation hippies sedated by pot then Nazis... moot because enterprise was terrible, anyway.
Well, to be blunt, space is really fucking huge. We've only been a space-faring race for about 50 years- with our ability to detect exoplanets, plus the inevitable radio leakage from advanced civilizations, there probably aren't any races with comparable states of development to us within 50-100ly (unless they skipped radio or something). We most likely haven't been discovered yet or something like that.
I personally think that any Aliens with a technological level of development exceeding ours are locked into peace via Mutual Assured Destruction or peaceful by nature. Quite a lot of non-warlike progress can occur when your most technologically advanced nation states aren't bombing the shit out of each other, or hacking each other to death with swords. I also think that the development of 100Mt thermonuclear weapons (Tsar Bomb max yield) could possibly keep out the threat of alien invasion, by perhaps adding us to their MAD situation, or blasting the shit out of them if they ever invade. There's not much that can withstand a 100Mt blast, independence day style shields would mostly be useful for blocking projectile weapons. And for whatever could withstand the blast, there's neutron bombs, which kill via insane amounts of radiation.
Apologies for any rambling in the above post, no coffee yet.
Slamming an asteroid into the earth at about .20c would do the job better, humanity could easily survive nuclear winter à la fallout.
Humans generally do not get smarter. Technology just gets better- if you could somehow take an infant human from around 10,000 years ago and raise him or her today, I doubt they'd be much different than anyone else in intelligence- perhaps even a bit above average due to evolutionary pressures at the time. And I think that humanity was easily proved capable of space travel, even with the technology of the 1960's. That it was accomplished that early in history is amazing in and of itself, and I think it shows quite a lot about humanity's exploratory nature. I think, assuming civilization doesn't collapse or anything, the next few decades will see major advancements in the field of inter-planetary spaceflight.
Have you ever actually used an SSD? The speed is quite noticeable, coming from a fresh install of arch on a 7200RPM to a SATAII SSD. The reason they cost so much is because flash is a bit harder to scale up than magnetic drives, which can come for pennies on the gigabyte. They also are far less prone to failure than mechanical drives, containing no moving parts. So SSDs are perfect for both embedded systems and smaller systems, and they should be complimented by a TB drive when more space is needed. The only mechanical drives that even come close in speed to SSDs that I know of are 15000RPMs, which are as expensive as hell.
Er- it was a joke...
What AC said.
What? He's for the end of the war on drugs, and legalization of more than a few. Or are you talking about abortion?
Better: pacman -Syu
*Facepalm*