Ease of use always boils down to what you're used to, and that's it.
Wow. With a ridiculous statement like that I can't tell whether you're a Windows user or a Linux user. Let me spell it out for you though: there are interfaces that are naturally easier to use than others. This does not mean that there are not strong components that must be learned anyway, but once you get over that, the software has to match up well with our own internal cognitive models of what we're doing, or else it will not be easy at all.
(Disclaimer: this is not a comment on iTunes for Windows, which I have not used.)
uh, you're comparing an old computer off of fleaBay with a new one from the manufacturer? Talk about an unfair comparison, especially since you don't get a warranty with that unit.
You can find prices on older iBooks here, including both used and refurbished. Still not the same price as that Dell - macs just don't depreciate the same way.
I honestly don't care about the problems that most of humanity faces, so I'm not all that unhappy about the resumption of experimental manned spaceflight, even if it is by China. Only a certain group of people actually possess the ambition and desire to get off this rock, and the rest of you can happily stay behind - after we leave.
The lack of knowledge of basic physics around here simply astounds me.
If you put a processor into a large box, it does not output any more heat than if you put it into a small box. If anything, the large box will have a more efficient means of heat exchange. Of course, this also means that the building will need the same cooling requirements too - since the same amount of heat is generated, the same amount of cooling is required.
It might be more space efficient, yes, but space mostly means money, and obviously VT did alright on that.
There are other free journals out there as well - the one I'm most familiar with is the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, which is probably one of the most respected AI research volumes and has been published online since 1993.
No, it's not. Yellow Dog is/not/ shipping a G5 Linux, and as far as I know there's no distro out there that does. (The earlier report of Gentoo booting was a hoax.)
This runs into the issue I described before - getting hw manufacturers to maintain drivers themselves is going to be less than successful so long as maintaining drivers independently of the kernel is so painful.
Since when is freezing an API a "kludge"? I call it good software engineering.
I've been wanting this for a while - it's time for most of the drivers in the kernel to be split out. There's no reason why the kernel sources need to be as large as they are, and there's absolutely no reason why eg sound drivers and network cards can't be maintained independently with their own build process. Tying them to kernel releases means waiting until the next release for driver improvements, can bottleneck development, and leads to the 41M(!) tarball that is 2.6test7.
This would require setting up a decent build process for modules outside the kernel, but that's a good thing anyway. Have you tried to compile the nVidia drivers lately? It can be a pain if your kernel headers aren't quite right. If there were a decent external API and good support for building third party modules, this would also make it easier for manufacturers to supply independent drivers.
Any other product could certainly play the files; they're MPEG 4 AAC. The DRM part of it is voluntarily observed by iTunes (and by the iPod, I guess), but AIUI not necessary.
MPEG 4 is an ISO standard. If other player manufacturers don't want to use standard formats and instead use WMA, that's not Apple's fault.
Answer: not much, at least not the first day/week. Sure, it just might come out ahead on the first day of the Macintosh launch, but nothing by proportion. The reason is that there are hordes of Mac users who download every new thing that Apple puts out, but it will take a while before iTMS for Windows can reach the same market percentage saturation.
It's not about authoritarianism, you blasted postmodernist. It's about whether or not gifted people actually have an attention deficit, which they clearly do not. They just think faster. See this paper for more serious information about misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis for gifted (in particular ADHD, ODD, and OCD), and why it happens.
No, I mean Jaguar, the 88k project at Apple. You might be interested in reading the BeOS Bible for more clarification of the history than I can do from memory.
Yes, but Sakoman's Newton had very little to do with the Newton that eventually shipped. It was a much different project, more along the lines of the Jaguar, than what became the PDA.
Please, for your own sake, read the terms of use before you make such a claim:
You agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless VeriSign, and any of our contractors, subcontractors, members, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, affiliates and assigns from all liabilities...relating to or arising out of (c) any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person or entity
In other words, you just gave up your right to defend your copyrights against VeriSign and anyone related to them! Congratulations!
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Wow. With a ridiculous statement like that I can't tell whether you're a Windows user or a Linux user. Let me spell it out for you though: there are interfaces that are naturally easier to use than others. This does not mean that there are not strong components that must be learned anyway, but once you get over that, the software has to match up well with our own internal cognitive models of what we're doing, or else it will not be easy at all.
(Disclaimer: this is not a comment on iTunes for Windows, which I have not used.)
You can find prices on older iBooks here, including both used and refurbished. Still not the same price as that Dell - macs just don't depreciate the same way.
I think your sense of humor is underappreciated.
So, can I say that to NASA when they start flying again?
I honestly don't care about the problems that most of humanity faces, so I'm not all that unhappy about the resumption of experimental manned spaceflight, even if it is by China. Only a certain group of people actually possess the ambition and desire to get off this rock, and the rest of you can happily stay behind - after we leave.
Your mice has keys? And to think that all this time I've been using one with buttons!
The lack of knowledge of basic physics around here simply astounds me.
If you put a processor into a large box, it does not output any more heat than if you put it into a small box. If anything, the large box will have a more efficient means of heat exchange. Of course, this also means that the building will need the same cooling requirements too - since the same amount of heat is generated, the same amount of cooling is required.
It might be more space efficient, yes, but space mostly means money, and obviously VT did alright on that.
There are other free journals out there as well - the one I'm most familiar with is the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, which is probably one of the most respected AI research volumes and has been published online since 1993.
No, it's not. Yellow Dog is /not/ shipping a G5 Linux, and as far as I know there's no distro out there that does. (The earlier report of Gentoo booting was a hoax.)
This runs into the issue I described before - getting hw manufacturers to maintain drivers themselves is going to be less than successful so long as maintaining drivers independently of the kernel is so painful.
Since when is freezing an API a "kludge"? I call it good software engineering.
I've been wanting this for a while - it's time for most of the drivers in the kernel to be split out. There's no reason why the kernel sources need to be as large as they are, and there's absolutely no reason why eg sound drivers and network cards can't be maintained independently with their own build process. Tying them to kernel releases means waiting until the next release for driver improvements, can bottleneck development, and leads to the 41M(!) tarball that is 2.6test7.
This would require setting up a decent build process for modules outside the kernel, but that's a good thing anyway. Have you tried to compile the nVidia drivers lately? It can be a pain if your kernel headers aren't quite right. If there were a decent external API and good support for building third party modules, this would also make it easier for manufacturers to supply independent drivers.
i don't know about you, but i am in total compliance with the dmca in this case
Any other product could certainly play the files; they're MPEG 4 AAC. The DRM part of it is voluntarily observed by iTunes (and by the iPod, I guess), but AIUI not necessary.
MPEG 4 is an ISO standard. If other player manufacturers don't want to use standard formats and instead use WMA, that's not Apple's fault.
Answer: not much, at least not the first day/week. Sure, it just might come out ahead on the first day of the Macintosh launch, but nothing by proportion. The reason is that there are hordes of Mac users who download every new thing that Apple puts out, but it will take a while before iTMS for Windows can reach the same market percentage saturation.
Vectors cause errors? Next finite sets will introduce inaccuracies!
It's not about authoritarianism, you blasted postmodernist. It's about whether or not gifted people actually have an attention deficit, which they clearly do not. They just think faster. See this paper for more serious information about misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis for gifted (in particular ADHD, ODD, and OCD), and why it happens.
I suggest that everyone read You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If... and count the number of relevant items. I stopped counting after a few.
Running GTA3 and MAME qualifies as doing something? And to think that years ago people called Macs toy computers.
No, I mean Jaguar, the 88k project at Apple. You might be interested in reading the BeOS Bible for more clarification of the history than I can do from memory.
Yes, but Sakoman's Newton had very little to do with the Newton that eventually shipped. It was a much different project, more along the lines of the Jaguar, than what became the PDA.
A couple of G5s and iSight cameras. They really are quite fun to play with.
In other words, you just gave up your right to defend your copyrights against VeriSign and anyone related to them! Congratulations!
Can I see the footprints?
Please go back and watch TNG. They had better jargon than Voyager.
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