That's Not what the article said. It said OS X had performance issues with solid state drives.
Also I'm kinda curious: Why would spend twice as much to buy an Intel Mac PC if they're just running linux? I'd buy a regular PC for 1/2 to 2/3rd the cost.
>>>government-granted monopoly (my gas company and my electric company have both done this). So much for saying "no thanks" and finding an alternative...
(1) Tear down your house and build a PassivHaus. It requires no heating and only moderate A/C so you can screw the gas/electric company of thousands of dollars each year. (2) Move to a state that has gas/electric choice. You can switch to a company that doesn't block lawsuits.
>>>Lol, how can you suck that bad in America? Here in Iceland we're approaching 80% of the population with 50-100mb *fiber*, despite having 1/10th the population density as the US.
How can you suck so bad in EUROPE? Over in Greece my relatives can't get anything faster than ISDN (128k). I hear it's just as bad in rural parts of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Ireland, etc. I have fiber in my American neighborhood, but these poor europeans can't get better than a few kilobits.
Sad. (I'm making a point here: The citizens of the U.S. is no worse-off than many citizens of the EU. We both have the same average broadband speed according to speedtest's published studies. Furthermore comparing an island nation to a continent-spanning nation is silly. We have people living on million-acre homesteads..... an hour from the next nearest family. So far out they can't even get TV or radio reception. Does Iceland have anything like that?)
You should compare like to like: U.S. to EU to Canada to Russia to China.....
My first easter egg was in the old Atari console game "Adventure". If you found a hidden room and carried a magic one-pixel sprite (dot) into that room, it displayed the name of the programmer.
Of course once Atari learned about it they had a fit because they wanted programmers to remain anonymous, and that's one of the reasons four programmers quit Atari and founded Activision. They wanted name credit for their artistic creations.
19 million w/o broadband. That's fewer than the "50 million without healthcare" the Democrats were quoting during the Obamacare debates. Do we really think that broadband is more important initiative than people having health insurance/coverage?
ALSO: I find it odd the FCC defines broadband as 3 Mbit/s. That means I don't have broadband in my home even though what I do have (1 Mbit/s) is enough to watch videos on the internet. Hmmm. I consider it broadband (100 megahertz wide)..... certainly better than the narrowband (3 megahertz-wide) dialup I used to have.
And finally a lot of those 19 million live in remote areas like Wyoming, Idaho, Dakota, Arizona. They *choose* to live far away from conveniences. Not only do these 19 million lack broadband but also public water & sewer. Many can't even get TV reception since they are so far out. This is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE and we should respect it, rather than demand conformity. (And if these people don't like living in isolation, they can move closer to the nearest city.)
>>>Pilots have the right to refuse ANYONE who they think is going to be a hazard to either themselves, they other passengers or the crew.
By this logic is I wear a Tshirt that says, "Vote Obama" the pilot can kick me off simply because he doesn't like the president.
I think we should ALL start wearing Tshirts to the airport and challenging the pilots authority to remove us "because he doesn't like your shirt". They are SERVANTS of the customer, not the other way around. We wouldn't stand for this shit from a bus driver or train engineer or a Walmart store manager..... neither should we tolerate it from an airplane's blue collar driver.
>>>$65k salary -is- rich. Try raising a family on $22k a year, no benefits or welfare support because 'you make too much money'.
$65000 is in the top one-third of all Americans. Being in the top 1/3 does not make you "rich" dumbass. That's still middle class you envious, jealous, desiring-to-take-other-people's money prick.
>>>As a doctoral candidate, he should be intelligent enough to hypothesize this sort of reaction, yet when that is exactly what happens, he gets all huffy. No sympathy from me, for being a dumbass and now getting whiny about it. Man up, Arijit, stop being a whiny puss.
As a doctoral candidate: He also knows we are a REPUBLIC and under the rule of Law, which includes the right of free speech. Congress many not forbid free speech (or the press which made his shirt) and neither can any other government official. The doctoral student's only mistake is that he believed government officials still follow the rule of law (something many Americans also falsely believe).
I suspect ultra-high resolution will fail like Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio failed. People have no desire to upgrade to a higher standard if they can't hear (or see) any difference. For 99% of the population an SACD or DVD-A sounds no better than a CD, or else the difference is trivial, so they ignore the new standard. I expect the same to happen with UHDTV.
Absolutely. As a seller you should get your money out of paypal immediately by transferging it to your bank. ALSO when you are a buyer, always use a credit card because sometimes a seller will rip you off, and Paypal gives you a worthless answer like, "We decided to refund your money, but were unable to recover funds." At that point you would normally be screwed, but if you paid with a credit card you can file a chargeback.
To date I have only lost money once (back in 2001) but now that I use a credit card for everything they protect me from dishonest sellers where Paypal does not. (Unfortunately I've lost hundreds due to dishonest buyers. These scam artists have all kinds of methods to pay.... and then reverse payment, to ripoff ebay sellers. THAT'S why I think buyers deserve negative feedback.)
Technically the SCOTUS doesn't have jurisdiction in the U.S. either. They rule on *individual* cases not all cases in perpetuity. Just because they made a ruling that "user contracts can block class-action suits" does not mean any of the lower-level judges have to abide by it.
For example I might sue Ebay in the state of Maryland, win a class-wide lawsuit for all state residents, and on appeal by Ebay the Supreme Court of Maryland upholds the lower court's decision..... in direct opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court prior ruling.
>>>forced to refund all the money to their customers.
P.S. Most people including me sued as "Class 3" and got back $80. Class 2 victims received $500. The smallest was Class 1 which were refunded thousands of dollars (equal to the exact-dollar amount paypal had taken from them, plus their legal fees). I'm sorry you think Paypal/ebay is so fucking wonderful that they never deserve to be sued, but their past history shows otherwise. I fully expect them to go right back to their old ways of "suspending" account and keeping all the buyer's (or seller's) money.
That sounds simple enough (opt out) until you realize that Ebay owns Paypal which was prosecuted by the U.S. DOJ for stealing customer funds.
Under "arbitration" Paypal/ebay had decided that the customers don't deserve to get their money back. Why? Because Paypal was losing money through buyer fraud (credit card chargebacks mostly) and they had a right to take, not just the money lost but ALL the buyers' money, and never return it. They also took money from sellers. (You can read the thousands of stories at paypalsucks.com)
Under the old rules Paypal/ebay was sued under a class-action lawsuit and forced to refund all the money to their customers. Under the new rules of forced arbitration & no lawsuits..... I guess you're out of luck. Paypal/ebay gets to take your money and keep it.
Yeah I tried Bearitos which has both fat-free and salt-free versions, but I couldn't stand it. Tastes like ricecakes (i.e. nothing). So now I eat the 94%-fat-free Orville Redenbacher or Act II popcorn which uses palm fruit oil (unsaturated fat). And provides glucose and fiber.
>>>You're paying $0.16/minute, and you're on a contract.
No not a contract. Personally I think $5/month is good. I've not found anything cheaper in the U.S. Sure if I paid VirginMobile $35/month then I could get my minutes for about 3 cents each, but I don't want to spend 35 a month..... that's just throwing away my money.
VirginMobile redesigned their website. They do still have the basic $15 every 3 months plan, but they are hiding it so the new customers are unaware. Scum. This is similar to how Comcast doesn't advertise their "limited" service for $10 a month..... they don't really want people to know.
VirginMobile has really gone downhill since Sprint took them over. The prices keep going up-and-up. (For example: You used to be able to get unlimited calling for $25/month.:-( Now it's $35.)
I have no preference for facebook or email or phones..... I just don't want a popup going-off every 5 minutes. I minimize my email and then forget about it. My coworkers know that I usually take half-a-day to respond, and if they need an instant response they should phone or IM. Or just (shock) come visit.
I notice you don't list any examples. I suspect for every example you could think of, I would be able to point to some other company (Atari, Commodore, Apple, Xerox) that originated the idea first. And MS just copied it.
The AC's comment was downvoted because he's an obvious Microsoft marketer (or allied company). Especially in his last sentence when he says Win8 is "slick" and he "likes where this is headed" and can't wait to get a Surface Tablet and Windows 8 Phone to "bring it all together".
Who talks like that? Bring it all together? Bring what together? The last time I heard those vague-type phrases was during a voiceover for a television ad.
>>>I don't work for MSFT, but I do have MSDN subscription.
Well there you go. You're an ally of Microsoft which means you (or your company) profits from Windows 8, plus Surface, plus WinPhone when they succeed. You are biased in favor of the products that make you money. You see:
Normal people don't slobber over every product MS makes. Normal people use a little of everything: MS Windows, Google Android phones and/or Apple iPads. Normal people are not in love with just one company as if it were their girlfriend.
>>> I was very apprehensive about loosing the start menu search function - I used it a lot - but once I figured out how to do this in Win8 - everything's great.
Win8 doesn't have a start menu which is a major drawback. I want a LIST of programs so that I can quickly scan the names, just as I want a LIST of commands in MS Office to quickly scan. Having a bunch of random icons splashed all over the place makes me think Win8 is a butt-stupid as the Office Ribbon that I can never find the damn command I want. >>>cannot wait to buy a Surface Tablet and Windows 8 phone to bring it all together.
Right. And I want to add a side-talking Nokia phone to my Yugo car next week. NOT. You sound like you are writing advertising copy for Microsoft..... you even have the dashes - between words - at random like a advertisement typically has.
>>>you still can't get most people to even think of taking Vista on a bet
Absolutely right. That's why they changed the NT version number from 6.0 to 6.1 and renamed Vista to Windows Mohave'..... ooops I mean..... Seven.
I probably would have liked Vista if Microsoft had said minimum RAM was 1 gigabyte. But no they said 512 megabyte instead, which is what my brother's computer came with by default, and so it ran horribly.
>>>Steam made it easy and cheap to buy, no different than how many of the music lovers go to iTunes and/or Amazon now instead of wasting time looking through badly labeled P2P files.
I do. Waste time looking through P2P files. Mainly because I found a torrent site that has clean iPod/AppleTV friendly files. Secondarily because if I couldn't the thing for free, I'd find some other form of entertainment.
For example if I can't find Games of Thrones or Final Fantasy 14 for free, then I'll just skip it and watch/play something else. It's a false presumption by Ubisoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc that downloaders are "lost sales". Some of us downloaders still wouldn't buy the item.
Overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic cleaners is merely creating creating superbacteria. They kill 99.9% of germs, but the 0.1% left behind proliferate and carry their immunity to the next generation. It's like evolution in action..... in your bathroom.
Slashdot Mirror
That's Not what the article said. It said OS X had performance issues with solid state drives.
Also I'm kinda curious: Why would spend twice as much to buy an Intel Mac PC if they're just running linux? I'd buy a regular PC for 1/2 to 2/3rd the cost.
>>>government-granted monopoly (my gas company and my electric company have both done this). So much for saying "no thanks" and finding an alternative...
(1) Tear down your house and build a PassivHaus. It requires no heating and only moderate A/C so you can screw the gas/electric company of thousands of dollars each year. (2) Move to a state that has gas/electric choice. You can switch to a company that doesn't block lawsuits.
>>>Lol, how can you suck that bad in America? Here in Iceland we're approaching 80% of the population with 50-100mb *fiber*, despite having 1/10th the population density as the US.
How can you suck so bad in EUROPE? Over in Greece my relatives can't get anything faster than ISDN (128k). I hear it's just as bad in rural parts of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Ireland, etc. I have fiber in my American neighborhood, but these poor europeans can't get better than a few kilobits.
Sad. (I'm making a point here: The citizens of the U.S. is no worse-off than many citizens of the EU. We both have the same average broadband speed according to speedtest's published studies. Furthermore comparing an island nation to a continent-spanning nation is silly. We have people living on million-acre homesteads..... an hour from the next nearest family. So far out they can't even get TV or radio reception. Does Iceland have anything like that?)
You should compare like to like: U.S. to EU to Canada to Russia to China.....
My first easter egg was in the old Atari console game "Adventure". If you found a hidden room and carried a magic one-pixel sprite (dot) into that room, it displayed the name of the programmer.
Of course once Atari learned about it they had a fit because they wanted programmers to remain anonymous, and that's one of the reasons four programmers quit Atari and founded Activision. They wanted name credit for their artistic creations.
19 million w/o broadband. That's fewer than the "50 million without healthcare" the Democrats were quoting during the Obamacare debates. Do we really think that broadband is more important initiative than people having health insurance/coverage?
ALSO: I find it odd the FCC defines broadband as 3 Mbit/s. That means I don't have broadband in my home even though what I do have (1 Mbit/s) is enough to watch videos on the internet. Hmmm. I consider it broadband (100 megahertz wide)..... certainly better than the narrowband (3 megahertz-wide) dialup I used to have.
And finally a lot of those 19 million live in remote areas like Wyoming, Idaho, Dakota, Arizona. They *choose* to live far away from conveniences. Not only do these 19 million lack broadband but also public water & sewer. Many can't even get TV reception since they are so far out. This is a LIFESTYLE CHOICE and we should respect it, rather than demand conformity. (And if these people don't like living in isolation, they can move closer to the nearest city.)
>>>Pilots have the right to refuse ANYONE who they think is going to be a hazard to either themselves, they other passengers or the crew.
By this logic is I wear a Tshirt that says, "Vote Obama" the pilot can kick me off simply because he doesn't like the president.
I think we should ALL start wearing Tshirts to the airport and challenging the pilots authority to remove us "because he doesn't like your shirt". They are SERVANTS of the customer, not the other way around. We wouldn't stand for this shit from a bus driver or train engineer or a Walmart store manager..... neither should we tolerate it from an airplane's blue collar driver.
>>>$65k salary -is- rich. Try raising a family on $22k a year, no benefits or welfare support because 'you make too much money'.
$65000 is in the top one-third of all Americans. Being in the top 1/3 does not make you "rich" dumbass. That's still middle class you envious, jealous, desiring-to-take-other-people's money prick.
>>>As a doctoral candidate, he should be intelligent enough to hypothesize this sort of reaction, yet when that is exactly what happens, he gets all huffy. No sympathy from me, for being a dumbass and now getting whiny about it. Man up, Arijit, stop being a whiny puss.
As a doctoral candidate:
He also knows we are a REPUBLIC and under the rule of Law, which includes the right of free speech. Congress many not forbid free speech (or the press which made his shirt) and neither can any other government official. The doctoral student's only mistake is that he believed government officials still follow the rule of law (something many Americans also falsely believe).
I suspect ultra-high resolution will fail like Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio failed. People have no desire to upgrade to a higher standard if they can't hear (or see) any difference. For 99% of the population an SACD or DVD-A sounds no better than a CD, or else the difference is trivial, so they ignore the new standard. I expect the same to happen with UHDTV.
Absolutely. As a seller you should get your money out of paypal immediately by transferging it to your bank. ALSO when you are a buyer, always use a credit card because sometimes a seller will rip you off, and Paypal gives you a worthless answer like, "We decided to refund your money, but were unable to recover funds." At that point you would normally be screwed, but if you paid with a credit card you can file a chargeback.
To date I have only lost money once (back in 2001) but now that I use a credit card for everything they protect me from dishonest sellers where Paypal does not. (Unfortunately I've lost hundreds due to dishonest buyers. These scam artists have all kinds of methods to pay.... and then reverse payment, to ripoff ebay sellers. THAT'S why I think buyers deserve negative feedback.)
Technically the SCOTUS doesn't have jurisdiction in the U.S. either. They rule on *individual* cases not all cases in perpetuity. Just because they made a ruling that "user contracts can block class-action suits" does not mean any of the lower-level judges have to abide by it.
For example I might sue Ebay in the state of Maryland, win a class-wide lawsuit for all state residents, and on appeal by Ebay the Supreme Court of Maryland upholds the lower court's decision..... in direct opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court prior ruling.
>>>forced to refund all the money to their customers.
P.S. Most people including me sued as "Class 3" and got back $80. Class 2 victims received $500. The smallest was Class 1 which were refunded thousands of dollars (equal to the exact-dollar amount paypal had taken from them, plus their legal fees). I'm sorry you think Paypal/ebay is so fucking wonderful that they never deserve to be sued, but their past history shows otherwise. I fully expect them to go right back to their old ways of "suspending" account and keeping all the buyer's (or seller's) money.
That sounds simple enough (opt out) until you realize that Ebay owns Paypal which was prosecuted by the U.S. DOJ for stealing customer funds.
Under "arbitration" Paypal/ebay had decided that the customers don't deserve to get their money back. Why? Because Paypal was losing money through buyer fraud (credit card chargebacks mostly) and they had a right to take, not just the money lost but ALL the buyers' money, and never return it. They also took money from sellers. (You can read the thousands of stories at paypalsucks.com)
Under the old rules Paypal/ebay was sued under a class-action lawsuit and forced to refund all the money to their customers. Under the new rules of forced arbitration & no lawsuits..... I guess you're out of luck. Paypal/ebay gets to take your money and keep it.
Yeah I tried Bearitos which has both fat-free and salt-free versions, but I couldn't stand it. Tastes like ricecakes (i.e. nothing). So now I eat the 94%-fat-free Orville Redenbacher or Act II popcorn which uses palm fruit oil (unsaturated fat). And provides glucose and fiber.
>>>You're paying $0.16/minute, and you're on a contract.
No not a contract. Personally I think $5/month is good. I've not found anything cheaper in the U.S. Sure if I paid VirginMobile $35/month then I could get my minutes for about 3 cents each, but I don't want to spend 35 a month..... that's just throwing away my money.
VirginMobile redesigned their website. They do still have the basic $15 every 3 months plan, but they are hiding it so the new customers are unaware. Scum. This is similar to how Comcast doesn't advertise their "limited" service for $10 a month..... they don't really want people to know.
VirginMobile has really gone downhill since Sprint took them over. The prices keep going up-and-up. (For example: You used to be able to get unlimited calling for $25/month. :-( Now it's $35.)
I have no preference for facebook or email or phones..... I just don't want a popup going-off every 5 minutes. I minimize my email and then forget about it. My coworkers know that I usually take half-a-day to respond, and if they need an instant response they should phone or IM. Or just (shock) come visit.
>>>MS has innovated plenty.
I notice you don't list any examples. I suspect for every example you could think of, I would be able to point to some other company (Atari, Commodore, Apple, Xerox) that originated the idea first. And MS just copied it.
The AC's comment was downvoted because he's an obvious Microsoft marketer (or allied company). Especially in his last sentence when he says Win8 is "slick" and he "likes where this is headed" and can't wait to get a Surface Tablet and Windows 8 Phone to "bring it all together".
Who talks like that? Bring it all together? Bring what together? The last time I heard those vague-type phrases was during a voiceover for a television ad.
>>>I don't work for MSFT, but I do have MSDN subscription.
Well there you go. You're an ally of Microsoft which means you (or your company) profits from Windows 8, plus Surface, plus WinPhone when they succeed. You are biased in favor of the products that make you money. You see:
Normal people don't slobber over every product MS makes. Normal people use a little of everything: MS Windows, Google Android phones and/or Apple iPads. Normal people are not in love with just one company as if it were their girlfriend.
>>> I was very apprehensive about loosing the start menu search function - I used it a lot - but once I figured out how to do this in Win8 - everything's great.
Win8 doesn't have a start menu which is a major drawback. I want a LIST of programs so that I can quickly scan the names, just as I want a LIST of commands in MS Office to quickly scan. Having a bunch of random icons splashed all over the place makes me think Win8 is a butt-stupid as the Office Ribbon that I can never find the damn command I want.
>>>cannot wait to buy a Surface Tablet and Windows 8 phone to bring it all together.
Right. And I want to add a side-talking Nokia phone to my Yugo car next week. NOT. You sound like you are writing advertising copy for Microsoft..... you even have the dashes - between words - at random like a advertisement typically has.
>>>you still can't get most people to even think of taking Vista on a bet
Absolutely right. That's why they changed the NT version number from 6.0 to 6.1 and renamed Vista to Windows Mohave'..... ooops I mean..... Seven.
I probably would have liked Vista if Microsoft had said minimum RAM was 1 gigabyte. But no they said 512 megabyte instead, which is what my brother's computer came with by default, and so it ran horribly.
>>>Steam made it easy and cheap to buy, no different than how many of the music lovers go to iTunes and/or Amazon now instead of wasting time looking through badly labeled P2P files.
I do.
Waste time looking through P2P files. Mainly because I found a torrent site that has clean iPod/AppleTV friendly files. Secondarily because if I couldn't the thing for free, I'd find some other form of entertainment.
For example if I can't find Games of Thrones or Final Fantasy 14 for free, then I'll just skip it and watch/play something else. It's a false presumption by Ubisoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc that downloaders are "lost sales". Some of us downloaders still wouldn't buy the item.
>>>one of the hallmarks of a company so blinded by their previous success they stop changing or innovating and work to extend and protect the cash cow
When has Microsoft EVER innovated?
I can't think of a single example.
Mostly they just copied other people (Embrace and extend).
Overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic cleaners is merely creating creating superbacteria. They kill 99.9% of germs, but the 0.1% left behind proliferate and carry their immunity to the next generation. It's like evolution in action..... in your bathroom.